BecA-ILRI Hub:
Building bioscience technology platforms for
Africa’s development
Ethel Makila
World Bank Africa Agriculture Science Week World Bank Pre-Event
July 16, 2013, Accra Ghana
e.makila@cgiar.org

BecA-ILRI Hub core activities
 Capacity building
 Research
 Technologies platforms and
research services
 Product incubation and delivery
 Networking and strategic
partnership development
2002-2007
Establishment phase
2007-2012
Implementation phase
2013-2018
Innovation phase

Connecting CGIAR and CAADP agenda
 African NARS
priorities
 CGIAR alignment to
CAADP
 CRPs regional
engagements with
SROs and NARS
 AU/NEPAD African
Biosciences Initiative
(ABI)

Platforms at the Hub
 Genomics
 Bioinformatics
 Mycology & Nutrition
analysis
 Diagnostics platform (soon)

Technologies at the Hub
 African Swine Fever:
diagnostics, surveillance,
epidemiology and control
(ASF) – pen side rapid
diagnostics
FUNDING
 Capacity and Action for
Aflatoxin Reduction in
Eastern Africa (CAAREA) -
regional mycotoxin
analytical platform &
hand-held diagnostic tools

Technologies at the Hub
 Molecular diagnostics of crops and
livestock diseases
Development, validation and
technology transfer of lower-tech
diagnostics tools
FUNDING
 Tissue culture and plant
transformation methods
Tissue culture protocols being
developed with a potential of
scaling up

Contact for additional information
Ethel Makila
Communications Officer
BecA-ILRI Hub
http://hub.africabiosciences.org
e.makila@cgiar.org