FANRPAN High Level Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue Presentation by Dr Remi Kahane, CIRAD (French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development)

1. 2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue
Durban, South Africa 🁢🁢 15-17 August 2017
#Dialogue2017
Demand driven and user-led research
partnerships: PAEPARD context and
lessons from end-term review
Session I: Transformative Change Through Partnerships for Agricultural
Research for Development (AR4D)

2. 2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue
Durban, South Africa 🁢🁢 15-17 August 2017
Specific objectives of PAEPARD
“Enhanced, more equitable, more demand-driven and
mutually beneficial collaboration of Africa and Europe on
agricultural research for development (AR4D) with the aim of
attaining the MDG”
 Set up guidelines for demand-driven agricultural research
 Enhance collaboration between Africa and Europe
 Attain the MDG >>> SDG

3. 2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue
Durban, South Africa 🁢🁢 15-17 August 2017
The four instruments of PAEPARD
• The Users-Led Process (ULP) as a (flexible) principle
applied to multi-stakeholder partnership in AR4D
• Incentive fund
• Competitive research fund
• Communication and advocacy strategy
for managing knowledge and
strengthening capacities

4. 2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue
Durban, South Africa 🁢🁢 15-17 August 2017
Three main achievements of PAEPARD
1- Users-Led Process as a model providing valuable lessons
learnt and a good basis for future inter-continental
collaboration
Ex: Aflatoxin contamination in food and feed
• Federating theme in EAFF- and FANRPAN-ULPs + 1 CRF
• Information trans-continental (specific Dgroup)
• Lobbying Africa (AU) and Europe (EC)

5. 2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue
Durban, South Africa 🁢🁢 15-17 August 2017
Three main achievements of PAEPARD
2- Capacities to develop multi-stakeholder partnerships and
develop proposals in response to various calls have been
strengthened
Ex: Write-shops (9) to prepare calls for proposals
+ 300 participants trained,
+ 50 proposals submitted,
+ 20 funded till now
Last one (April 2017): Sojagnon (Benin), WOTRO-ARF (NL)
300 K€

6. 2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue
Durban, South Africa 🁢🁢 15-17 August 2017
Three main achievements of PAEPARD
3- Brokerage activity as the engine of any innovation platform,
based on information and changing it into knowledge and
opportunities
Intranet and Internet sites
Dgroups and blogposts with
over 8,000 followers
Funding opportunities
Partners & Visibility

7. 2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue
Durban, South Africa 🁢🁢 15-17 August 2017
Lessons learned from PAEPARD
 Implementing Users-Led Processes resulting in multi-stakeholder
partnerships in ARD linking two continents takes a lot of time
⁻ to change the mind-set of all stakeholders (capacity
development)
⁻ to allow sufficient trust to be built between partners
 Recognition that facilitation remains a key factor for
success in AR4D
 Communication plays a catalytic role in MSH partnership

8. 2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue
Durban, South Africa 🁢🁢 15-17 August 2017
Recommendations from the review
• Closing phase of the current project period
• A possible no extra-cost extension
• A new era of PAEPARD

9. 2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue
Durban, South Africa 🁢🁢 15-17 August 2017
Recommendations from the review
• The closing phase of the current project period:
• Complete the CRF projects with appropriate publications and dissemination,
plan further developments
• Support and encourage the projects to complete their work and documenting
of their work
• Capitalise on the processes, achievements and lessons learned
• Draft a request with solid justification for a no extra-cost extension
• A possible no extra-cost extension
• A new era of PAEPARD

10. 2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue
Durban, South Africa 🁢🁢 15-17 August 2017
Recommendations from the review
• The closing phase of the current project period
• A possible no extra-cost extension:
• Document processes and disseminate the products to funders, policy-makers and
other stakeholders both nationally and internationally
• Complete the projects and sustain the regional dialogues FO-Research
• Capitalise on the experience and assess some impacts
• Address some training in the context of stronger Public-Private Partnership
• Design a new era through relevant analyses and a smooth transition strategy
• A new era of PAEPARD

11. 2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue
Durban, South Africa 🁢🁢 15-17 August 2017
Recommendations from the review
• The closing phase of the current project period
• A possible no extra-cost extension
• A new era of PAEPARD:
• Positioning PAEPARD as broker or integrator putting together co-learning, co-
innovation and commercialisation of ARD related processes and products
• Continuous capacity strengthening in synergy with sub-regional organizations
• Refining and improving the implementation strategy of the ULP (scaling up)
• Transforming an information system to a knowledge management system
• Targeting policy changes through institutional and policy issues addressed
internationally

12. 2017 FANRPAN Regional Food and Nutrition Security Policy Dialogue
Durban, South Africa 🁢🁢 15-17 August 2017
Conclusion
PAEPARD needs a termination and a renewal
PAEPARD showed some successes and ways to make positive impacts
Sustainability is in the hands of PAEPARD partners
In parallel to PAEPARD, a new proposal will be elaborated
gathering more initiatives (scaling up) and based on PAEPARD
principles:
- multi-stakeholder
- users-led
- focused on knowledge and capacity development