The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and the European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD) through The European Alliance on Agricultural Knowledge for Development (AGRINATURA), joined forces in the implementation of the Platform for African-European Partnership on Agricultural Development (PAEPARD), established with funding from the European Union. Among the problems addressed by PAEPARD are: insufficient capacities of African agricultural knowledge organisations, at regional and national levels, on multi-stakeholder partnership for innovation systems; lack of effective linkages between research, extension and rural development.
Visit the conference site for more information: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
Le Forum pour le Recherche Agricole en Afrique (FARA) et le Forum Européen sur le Recherche Agricole pour le Développement (EFARD) à travers l’Alliance Européenne sur la Connaissance Agricole pour le Développement (AGRINATURA) ont joint leurs efforts dans la mise en place de la Plate forme pour le partenariat Afrique-Europe sur le Développement Agricole (PAEPARD), élaborée avec le financement de l’Union Européenne. Parmi les problèmes abordés par la PAERPARD on peut citer : la faible capacité des Organisations Africaines de Connaissance Agricole, aux niveaux régional et national, et sur le partenariat multi-acteurs pour les systèmes d’innovation ; le manque de relations effective entre la recherche, la vulgarisation et le développement rural.
Visitez le site web de la GCARD2 pour plus d'informations: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
The Initiative: “Linking smallholder farmers to commercialization practices: the case of Farmers Organizations in the Kenyan dairy sector” is a joint learning initiative promoted by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) and Procasur developed under the Large Regional IFAD-Procasur Grant Programme "Strengthening Capacities and tools to scale up and disseminate Innovations" (2016-2018). This topic was selected resting on the consolidated results of the (i) online survey lunched by PROCASUR in April 2016 in the ESA region, (ii) in depth interviews to project managers of IFAD funded projects in the ESA region, and (iii) experts’ consultation undertaken among specialists in the area of Farmers Organizations.
OER Africa: Maximising the Potential of OER for Sustainable Higher Education...PiLNAfrica
This presentation provides an overview of OERAfrica, their aims and understanding of the role of OERs in Africa, with particular reference to higher education on the content.
The Initiative: “Linking smallholder farmers to commercialization practices: the case of Farmers Organizations in the Kenyan dairy sector” is a joint learning initiative promoted by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) and Procasur developed under the Large Regional IFAD-Procasur Grant Programme "Strengthening Capacities and tools to scale up and disseminate Innovations" (2016-2018). This topic was selected resting on the consolidated results of the (i) online survey lunched by PROCASUR in April 2016 in the ESA region, (ii) in depth interviews to project managers of IFAD funded projects in the ESA region, and (iii) experts’ consultation undertaken among specialists in the area of Farmers Organizations.
OER Africa: Maximising the Potential of OER for Sustainable Higher Education...PiLNAfrica
This presentation provides an overview of OERAfrica, their aims and understanding of the role of OERs in Africa, with particular reference to higher education on the content.
APAARI Webinar with Universities on Capacity Development for Agricultural Inn...apaari
APAARI Webinar with Universities on Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems - Bringing system-wide change in Asia-Pacific - 16 November 2017
APAARI Webinar with Universities on Capacity Development for Agricultural Inn...apaari
APAARI Webinar with Universities on Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems - Bringing system-wide change in Asia-Pacific - 30 November 2018
A flagship CTO event, this has grown into a platform for knowledge-sharing among peer groups steering ICT projects in e-delivery of health care, education and governance. This Forum echoes the Commonwealth's 2013 theme: The Road Ahead for Africa.
Advisory Group Meeting Fairview Hotel, Nairobi 21 & 22nd May, 2009PiLNAfrica
This presentation to the Advisory Group discusses key problems experienced in higher education in Africa. It further highlights how OER's can assist in alleviating some of the problems as well as OER Africa's proposed activities in this regard.
Presentation conducted at 2016 Biodiversity Information Management and Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme Forum. Detailing the Biodiversity Information Management at SANBI, GBIF and Biodiversity for Development components
APAARI Webinar with Universities on Capacity Development for Agricultural Inn...apaari
APAARI Webinar with Universities on Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems - Bringing system-wide change in Asia-Pacific - 16 November 2017
APAARI Webinar with Universities on Capacity Development for Agricultural Inn...apaari
APAARI Webinar with Universities on Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems - Bringing system-wide change in Asia-Pacific - 30 November 2018
A flagship CTO event, this has grown into a platform for knowledge-sharing among peer groups steering ICT projects in e-delivery of health care, education and governance. This Forum echoes the Commonwealth's 2013 theme: The Road Ahead for Africa.
Advisory Group Meeting Fairview Hotel, Nairobi 21 & 22nd May, 2009PiLNAfrica
This presentation to the Advisory Group discusses key problems experienced in higher education in Africa. It further highlights how OER's can assist in alleviating some of the problems as well as OER Africa's proposed activities in this regard.
Presentation conducted at 2016 Biodiversity Information Management and Foundational Biodiversity Information Programme Forum. Detailing the Biodiversity Information Management at SANBI, GBIF and Biodiversity for Development components
При разработке цифрового следа, iWowWe сделает больше миллионеров, чем любая другая компания, изменив способ мировых коммуникаций. iWowWe является следующая эволюция Skype, Apple и Microsoft в одном лице. http://customernation2.iwowwe.com/compensation-plan.html
Leadership is Broken: DDI's Survey finds that few people think business leadership is adequate. Now it's time to fix it.
To see more infographics by DDI, visit: http://www.ddiworld.com/tbn
26 November 2018. The Platform for Africa-Europe Partnership on Agricultural Research for Development (PAEPARD) supports since 2009 research collaboration between a wide range of organizations in Africa and Europe.
Lessons learned from building Africa-EU research and innovation partnerships ...Francois Stepman
Increasing the quantity and quality of the cooperation in research and innovation (R&I) between the EU and Africa will require concerted effort by actors from across sectors, disciplines and regions. In this Policy Brief CAAST-Net Plus shares its proposals
for building enduring partnerships that address global challenges.
CAAST-Net Plus is a network of 26 partner organisations from all over Europe and sub-Saharan Africa working together to support bi-regional cooperation in research and innovation.
Several partners of this project support the Research Fairness Initiative.
Breakout session north-south and south-south collaborative actionsGCARD Conferences
This session brief provides a discussion around the collaborative efforts of countries around the world conducting agricultural research. The brief also provides suggestion for improvement of these interactions and how they can support the research on a global basis.
For more information check out the GCARD2 website: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
This session brief provides a discussion around the collaborative efforts of countries around the world conducting agricultural research. The brief also provides suggestion for improvement of these interactions and how they can support the research on a global basis.
For more information check out the GCARD2 website: http://www.egfar.org/gcard-2012
14/09 + 15/09 LEAP4FNSSA Final writeshop, General Assembly and IRC Launch – towards an AU-EU International Research Consortium on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture https://paepard.blogspot.com/2022/09/science-and-partnerships-for_15.html
The Users’ Led Process: Instrument to develop and sustain research and innova...Francois Stepman
14-15 September 2017. Uganda. Muyonyo Speke Resort Hotel. The EAFF/East African Farmer Federation Congress organized its 4th conference on Small holder farmers to harness new investments; partnerships and innovations to enhance value chain ownership, productivity and market integration
A side event was held related to PAEPARD: Linking research to application within the extensive livestock value chain.
S&T Partnerships in Africa - Program OverviewHillary Hanson
Science and Technical Partnership in Africa: Technologies, Platforms and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
High-level policy dialogue presentation by Hans-Jörg Lutzeyer at the "Effective and Efficient Research and Innovation Partnerships" seminar on March 14, 2017, AUC Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
GFAR / GODAN / CTA webinar #2 "Key data for farmers" - Stephen Kalyesubula - ...GCARD Conferences
[Webinar recording in last slide or at https://youtu.be/taHHp3UbRZI, 28/2/2018]
As part of its work on farmers’ data rights and following up on the face-to-face course on Farmers’ Access to Data organized in Centurion in November 2017, GFAR collaborates with the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative (GODAN) and the Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperarion (CTA) on a series of webinars on data-driven agriculture, its opportunities and its challenges.
Overview of webinar #2
Data becomes significant if it can be linked to information, knowledge and wisdom. Once processed it can be used to generate detailed insights into farm operations and the environment. It assists big and small holder farmers in making data-based operational decisions to optimize yield and boost revenue while minimizing expenses, the chances of crop failure, and environmental impact.
For data driven agriculture to happen we have to distinguish the data streams in the food chain from pre-planting to consumption, for example: data collected and managed from the farm by farmers which can be either static or dynamic; data coming from external sources like market prices and data that is exported for aggregation by other farm service providers. However, farmers may not be in a position to realize those streams and possibly what data and information is required to answer the food chain questions, for example: What produce can I grow where I live? When should I sow/plant/harvest/market it? How should I sow/plant/harvest/market it? All these questions can be answered if the factual data or information is used or made available to the farmers.
Webinar Goals
Make the participants understand the different key data streams, flow and sources that are vital to agricultural value chains. Participants will be in position to identify the data they own or collect on their farms and its usefulness, understand the difference between human and machine farm data, identify the part in the agricultural value chain where data, and which data, is needed most.
About the presenter
Stephen Kalyesubula is a Computer Engineering and an agri-preneur from Makerere University. He is a graduate researcher at iLabs@Mak Project – Makerere University and his key technological interests include: Data science, robotics, Internet of things, AI and design thinking. He is among the directors of Youths In Technology and Development Uganda whose mission is to create tech communities of practice where appropriate use of technology promotes sustainable development in agriculture, health and education.
[Webinar recording in last slide or at https://youtu.be/DMg9UI7Ur0M, 26/3/2018]
As part of its work on farmers’ data rights and following up on the face-to-face course on Farmers’ Access to Data organized in Centurion in November 2017, GFAR collaborates with the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative (GODAN) and the Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperarion (CTA) on a series of webinars on data-driven agriculture, its opportunities and its challenges.
Overview of webinar #3
This webinar is a continuation of exploring digital agriculture for smallholder farmers. The first webinar provided an overview of digital agriculture, the trends impacting it, and it advantages and challenges for smallholder farmers. The second identified specific data needed by farmers, as well as potential sources.
“Crossing the Donga” will provide smallholder farmers, and those who support them, specific methods for ensuring farmer-centric solutions. The webinar will examine some of the key challenges that are blocking adoption of digital architecture by smallholder farmers. Attendees will learn a process for mapping their data needs, based on their goals and key tasks. Attendees will learn the foundational market model, and how to create value for success.
About the presenter
Dan Berne is a highly regarded professional business growth strategist with over 30 years’ experience. Dan led the effort to create an Ag Irrigation market strategy for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA). He also conducted grower experience studies to help identify barriers to grower adoption of energy saving practices. Dan wrote or co-wrote many of the NEEA Ag Irrigation reports. Dan serves as the Project Manager on AgGateway’s Precision Ag Irrigation Language data standards project. He is an affiliate of the Chasm Institute, and a certified practitioner of Innovation Games.
Dan started the “Lagom Ag Initiative” within his company to help accelerate the adoption of precision farming practices and improve the use of digital agricultural methodologies. Lagom is a Swedish word that means “just enough.” It is also used to mean “simply perfect.” It fits our philosophy of helping farmers use just enough water, just enough fertilizers, just enough energy to be profitable while increasing or maintaining yield.
GFAR / GODAN / CTA webinar #1 "Data-driven agriculture. An overview" - Dan Be...GCARD Conferences
[Webinar recording in last slide or at https://youtu.be/bsicKqHZIz4, 22/2/2018]
As part of its work on farmers’ data rights and following up on the face-to-face course on Farmers’ Access to Data organized in Centurion in November 2017, GFAR collaborates with the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative (GODAN) and the Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperarion (CTA) on a series of webinars on data-driven agriculture, its opportunities and its challenges.
Overview of webinar #1
Precision agriculture is a promising set of technologies that is data intensive, but which has limited adoption by small holder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa. Concurrently, current trends in sustainability, traceability, and compliance reporting demand that an ever-increasing amount of data be gathered as part of everyday operations in modern production agriculture.
The use of farm management information systems (FMIS) for decision support has shown great promise for improving farm yields and profitability. However, growers are often unsure of the value of the data that they are providing and/or receiving. How does this data help them make the right decisions to improve their yield and profitability? How do growers and service providers work together to simplify the design and use of farm data? How can smallholder farmers take advantage of data in a mutually valuable relationship with data providers?
Webinar Goals
Provide attendees a foundation for understanding the use of data for farming and across the agricultural value chain. Attendees should be able to apply the core concepts of using data for field operations, as well as how data is used across the value chain. Attendees will be introduced to the opportunities and challenges of using data, especially for smallholder farmers.
About the presenter
Dan Berne is a highly regarded professional business growth strategist with over 30 years’ experience. Dan led the effort to create an Ag Irrigation market strategy for the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA). He also conducted grower experience studies to help identify barriers to grower adoption of energy saving practices. Dan wrote or co-wrote many of the NEEA Ag Irrigation reports. Dan serves as the Project Manager on AgGateway’s Precision Ag Irrigation Language data standards project. He is an affiliate of the Chasm Institute, and a certified practitioner of Innovation Games.
Dan started the “Lagom Ag Initiative” within his company to help accelerate the adoption of precision farming practices and improve the use of digital agricultural methodologies. Lagom is a Swedish word that means “just enough.” It is also used to mean “simply perfect.” It fits our philosophy of helping farmers use just enough water, just enough fertilizers, just enough energy to be profitable while increasing or maintaining yield.
GFAR webinar "The future of online media" - webdesign trendsGCARD Conferences
This presentation was used during our GFAR webinar on "The future of online media", announced here: https://blog.gfar.net/2016/10/09/upcoming-webinar-predicting-future-online-media/
Check out the live webinar recording here: https://youtu.be/N8UkwOoI9hQ
GFAR webinar "building a bridge between scientists and communicators"GCARD Conferences
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Building a bridge between scientists and communicators"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/01/03/webinar-scientists-and-communicators-friends-or-foes/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/HK8Q0JgAaGQ
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Email newsletters"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/02/05/upcoming-comms-webinar-email-based-newsletters-not-a-thing-of-the-past/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/2NPpCxcJJUc
GFAR Webinar "Finding and using pictures for your website or blog"GCARD Conferences
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Website Revamps"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2016/06/13/webinar-alert-is-a-picture-worth-a-thousand-words/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/mJ-q1CxK_rQ
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Basic SEO"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2016/08/30/gfar-webinars-on-search-engine-optimization-and-website-revamps/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/kcty662Hcss
GFAR webinar on "Measuring social media performance"GCARD Conferences
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Innovative Annual Reports"
This webinar was co-organised by GFAR and CGIAR.
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2016/01/18/flash-two-more-gfar-social-media-webinars/
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Innovative Annual Reports"
This webinar was co-organised by GFAR and CGIAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2015/11/30/free-induction-webinar-social-media-for-professionals/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/WO1zUOOy1nA
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Innovative Annual Reports"
This webinar was organised by GFAR
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/11/26/webinar-innovating-annual-reports/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/BAsPhl0H4Ec
GFAR-TAP webinar on "Sharing Knowledge on Capacity Development for Agricultur...GCARD Conferences
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Sharing Knowledge on Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation through TAPipedia"
This webinar was co-organised by GFAR and TAP.
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/10/24/gfartap-webinar-sharing-knowledge-on-capacity-development-for-agricultural-innovation-through-tapipedia/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/_cHK5QK2rPk
GFAR COSA GLF webinar on "Effective Tools for Understanding, Managing and Acc...GCARD Conferences
These is the slide deck of presentations used during the webinar "Effective Tools for Understanding, Managing and Accelerating Impact"
This webinar was co-organised by GFAR, COSA and GLF and is part of a wider series on agricultural research & innovation,eco-systems management and sustainable development.
It was introduced in this blogpost: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/10/13/join-cosa-gfar-impact-webinar/
The video recording of the actual webinar can be found on our Youtube channel: Effective https://youtu.be/RtYlWo_Ok5o
With thanks to our co-hosts in this webinar: (COSA) Global Landscapes forum (GLF) and Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA) -
https://thecosa.org/
http://landscapes.org
GFAR webinar: "The art and science of webcasting and webstreaming"GCARD Conferences
This presentation was used in the GFAR webinar on "The art and science of webcasting and webstreaming"
The announcement blogpost was published here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/10/05/gfar-webinar-web-casting/
You can find the full recording of this webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs7IsZQi5zg
GFAR webinar: "Farmers’ Rights: Complementarity between Researchers and Farmers"GCARD Conferences
This presentation was used in the GFAR webinar on "Farmers’ Rights: How Complementarity between Researchers and Farmers Impact the Conservation of Genetic Diversity, Food Security and Livelihoods of the Poor”
The announcement blogpost was published here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/08/31/gfar-webinar-communications-success-stories/
You can find the full recording of this webinar here: https://youtu.be/N16hHmL8xNM
This presentation was used in the GFAR webinar on "Beyond decision making: Foresight as a process for improving attitude towards change" --
The announcement blogpost was published here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/08/25/join-our-gfar-webinar-farmers-rights/
You can find the full recording of this webinar here: https://youtu.be/RxuLR2FWYYI
Beyond decision making: Foresight as a process for improving attitude towards...GCARD Conferences
This presentation was used in the GFAR webinar on "Beyond decision making: Foresight as a process for improving attitude towards change" --
The announcement blogpost was published here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/06/07/gfar-webinar-beyond-decision-making-foresight-as-a-process-for-improving-attitude-towards-change/
You can find the full recording of this webinar here: https://youtu.be/8tzz5vNEhZ4
Farmers’ Rights: Achieving Complementarity Between the Informal and Formal Se...GCARD Conferences
This presentation was used in the GFAR webinar on "Farmers’ Rights: Achieving Complementarity Between the Informal and Formal Seed Systems". -- Announcement blogpost was here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/05/10/gfar-webinar-farmers-rights-achieving-complementarity-between-the-informal-and-formal-seed-systems/
...and the actual webinar recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ9c2_nbtBc
GFAR webinar on farm radio, community radio and participatory radioGCARD Conferences
This presentation was used in the GFAR webinar on "farm radio, community radio and participatory radio" . -- Announcement here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/05/31/join-gfar-webinar-on-farm-radio/
...and the actual webinar recording can be found here: https://youtu.be/TEiC1Zo3KQ0
This presentation was used in the GFAR webinar on Participatory Video. -- Announcement here: https://blog.gfar.net/2017/04/24/join-our-next-webinar-on-participatory-video/
...and the actual webinar recording can be found here:
GCARD2: Briefing paper North-South and South-South Collaborative Actions
1. DRAFT
Breakout session C1.3 North-South and South-South Collaborative Actions – Speaker
Brief
The Platform for African-European Partnership on Agricultural Development
(PAEPARD)
Paolo Sarfatti (EFARD/AGRINATURA)
Context – the problems being addressed
Europe has considerable experience and technical expertise in applying Agricultural Research for
Development (ARD) to address development challenges. These are not limited to technical
innovations, but also include the pioneering of new approaches such as innovation systems to improve
research response to farmer demands, capacity strengthening initiatives and knowledge transfer to
developing countries’ institutions and individuals. In addition, Europe is the largest regional donor, as
European countries and the European Commission collectively contribute around 60 percent of official
Oversees Development Assistance (ODA). This includes around €1.2 billion annually to support
agriculture and rural development. Europe is also the largest contributor to publicly funded ARD,
including to the CGIAR.
The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and the European Forum on Agricultural
Research for Development (EFARD) through The European Alliance on Agricultural Knowledge for
Development (AGRINATURA), joined forces in the implementation of the Platform for African-
European Partnership on Agricultural Development (PAEPARD), established with funding from the
European Union.
Problems addressed by PAEPARD:
1. Insufficient capacities of African agricultural knowledge organisations, at regional and
national levels, on multi-stakeholder partnership for innovation systems;
2. Lack of effective linkages between research, extension and rural development;
3. Insufficient cross-sectoral linkages, between agriculture, environment and social sectors;
4. Agricultural research not enough driven by demand and opportunities, leading to lack of
impact on development;
5. African and European agricultural knowledge organisations do not exploit the potential of
working together for the mutual benefit of the two regions on agricultural innovation for
development.
Current activities presented and discussed in the Session
PAEPARD is a collaborative project between FARA and EFARD (through AGRINATURA), financed
by the EU. Phase I was implemented from 2007 to 2008 and assessed EU-African agricultural research
and/for development (ARD) partnerships and concluded that they were:
1. EU dominated, and;
2. Dominated by research organizations.
Phase 2 started in 2009 and will run until December 2012. A one-year no -cost extension is currently
awaiting approval by the EC. The project seeks to build “enhanced, more equitable, more demand-
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2. driven and mutually beneficial collaboration of Africa and Europe on ARD with the aim of attaining
the MDGs”. PAEPARD II is led by FARA, co-coordinated by AGRINATURA (through three
members of its network of universities and research organisations, CIRAD, IAO, and NRI), and
implemented in partnership with Pan African Association of Farmer Organizations (PAFO and its
constituent SRFOs: EAFF, ROPPA, PROPAC and SACAU), African University Network
(RUFORUM ), African Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), three of AGRINATURA’s
constituents - CIRAD, IAO and NRI; COLEACP (Import association, EU), European CSO network
(CSA), European Capacity Strengthening Organization(ICRA) and other associate partners in Africa
and Europe.
PAEPARD activities include mobilization of networks in Europe (including support to EFARD) and
Africa, development of communication tools between these, capacity strengthening and partnership
development, and advocacy. Through the different activities the following outputs, outcomes and
impact have been achieved:
1. Consultations among European and African stakeholder networks/groups to create awareness
of opportunities and identify common interests, information needs and capacity-strengthening
needs;
2. Three regional partnership inception workshops involving nine consortia were organized in
Nairobi, Lomé and Pretoria for consortia belonging to the three sub-regions;
3. Information/communication (website, mapping, blog, information disseminated, etc.),
including monitoring and two - monthly overviews of ARD funding opportunities related to
Africa;
4. Two regional write-shops in Entebbe for Central and East Africa and Cotonou for West-
Africa;
5. Nineteen African/European and research/research-user consortia established through open
call, support for partnership and research proposal development, including 11 initiated/led by
organizations representing the research “demand side”. A total of 14 research proposals
submitted to outside funding agencies (African Union, ASARECA, CORAF, and Edulink),
one funded (to date);
6. Five “sub-regional” partnerships established around agreed “federating themes” identified by
African sub-regional farmer organizations (and COLEACP, in one case);
7. A total of 24 “Agricultural Innovation Facilitators” mobilized and financed to support
research partnerships (“consortia”); and,
8. Capacities of partnerships and partnership facilitators improved.
Outcomes
1. Strengthening of EFARD management, development of action plan; mobilization of European
stakeholders;
2. Working relationships/communication between African/European networks and key
constituent organizations (including African sub-regional farmer organizations) established;
3. A total of 24 partnerships established around shared and agreed priority themes mostly
identified by research-user groups (but finance to implement resulting research priorities not
yet achieved).
Impacts/Potential Impacts
Too early to assess!
Lessons learned
1. There is strong interest among different types of organization to work together and, in many
cases, to contribute some of their own resources.
2. Research funding instruments are not always conducive to balanced partnerships (i.e. research
proposals including or led by “research user” partner organizations)
3. Partnerships funded as projects can be dominated by the project’s lead organization. Balanced
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3. partnerships – and participation are more likely if each organization has its own resources –
but partnership building will take longer and require “brokerage”/”facilitation” which is
currently largely absent in innovation systems.
4. The role of “neutral” partnership facilitators is generally appreciated by most partners, and
seems to lead to more balanced inputs. But this role is not easily filled, and can be easily
confused with that of “team/project leaders”.
5. Both European and African national research organizations are slow to engage in more in-
depth and broader ARD initiatives in the absence of incentives/rewards systems that offer
immediate and obvious benefits.
6. The time required for, and the costs of communication and establishing mutual understanding
– i.e. planning or “transaction” costs - can be substantially greater than expected at the project
outset.
Intended outcomes
1. European and African agricultural research and development actors are increasingly engaged
in ARD initiatives targeting African-European priorities of mutual interest and benefit;
2. African-European partnerships on agricultural research for development are increasingly
driven by users demand;
3. European and African funding mechanisms support more effectively the integrated research
and non-research actions necessary for development-oriented agricultural innovation
supporting achievement of the MDGs.
Commitments to collective actions in 2012-2014 (national, regional or international)
i. With existing resources
If approval of the one year extension is given, financial resources available until the end of 2013 will
be approximately € 2 million. With these resources the following activities will be carried out:
1. Mobilize European stakeholders, including African Diaspora associations, and African
stakeholders, in the demand-led process;
2. Document and share information and knowledge from the project;
3. Document and monitor knowledge exchange among partners. Such activity is crucial to allow
smooth flow of information and knowledge of available opportunities to submit proposals
developed by various partnerships facilitated by the project;
4. Strengthen and improve the set-up of the PAEPARD e-platform. Updates of information and
communication system will make its access friendlier and will organize continued training on
content management and on platform uses by partners and stakeholders;
5. Involvement of partners in building the capacity of the end users led process, organizing
inception and write-shops for them to respond to calls launched by developing proposals. The
capacity building intervention may also concern some of the 19 current consortia to respond to
a specific call for proposals;
6. Mentoring the existing 19 consortia by revising concept notes and full proposals to fit to
specific calls. At the same time support consortia created through the users-led process until
development of full proposals. Drawing lessons learned and sharing them with all
stakeholders;
7. Develop advocacy materials based on the 19 consortia supported by PAEPARD and case
studies to lobby for the reform of traditional research funding mechanisms. Search for funding
at bilateral level for funding of the full proposals developed by the consortia;
8. Participation at high level meetings of decision-makers and presentation of the innovation
ARD approach for it to be funded.
These activities aim at contributing to the implementation of the GCARD Road Map, in ensuring
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4. equitable partnership and accountability among all stakeholders of agricultural innovation and
developmental change, experimenting and documenting for out-scaling and generalization new models
and approaches to multi-stakeholder partnership which are effective in terms of results (outcomes and
impact) while keeping transaction costs to the lowest realistic level.
ii. With additional support
Additional support from other funding sources (e.g. bi-lateral, private sector, etc.) is crucial to support
the partnerships/consortia which have been facilitated and supported so far. PAEPARD is monitoring
the calls/opportunity and providing support to consortia to present proposals to on-going calls.
iii. With specific large scale programme investment
The PAEPARD Mid-Term Review (MTR) was launched in January 2012 and was completed in April
2012. The review recommended the formulation of a third phase of PAEPARD, which would
capitalise on the investment in capacity and partnerships in PAEPARD II, but also explore better
matching of research proposals to sources of funding. This phase is envisaged for a 5-year period.
Many lessons have been learned from the PAEPARD experience and these have been included in
considering the need, interest and feasibility of similar platforms in Asia and Latin America. If and
when building up platforms between these regions and Europe, lessons from PAEPARD should be
carefully taken into account for the bi-region collaboration.
Some of the partnerships facilitated by PAEPARD involve two or more countries in Africa and the
benefits of this type of within-region collaboration are potentially high. If the bilateral platforms with
Asia and Latin America are established these should be likely to involve 3-way interactions, especially
in sharing information and lessons.
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