Status and Future of EFARD’s Contribution & Strengthening EFARD’s visibility in PAEPARD. Update on PAEPARD’ activities

1. Presentation by Francois Stepman – 28 August 2013
European Co-manager PAEPARD

2.  Capitalisation workshop" 28 October - 1 November, Nairobi,
Kenya.This workshop :
 will conclude the present phase (17/12/2009 – 16/12/2013) and
 will discuss the 4 years extension (17/12/2013 – 16/12/2017).
 will discuss management of EFARD allocation: ICRA, AGRINATURA or
CIRAD?
 FARA submitted the global budget to EC for the 4 years
extension:
 Total cost of the action : 6.85/ M€
 Amount requested from the EC: 5.5M€
 After the EC approval theWPs will break their budget into the
individual partners
 Additional Competitive research fund
 Total cost: EUR 2,223,000, EC contribution: EUR 2,000,000 (90%)

4. Presentation by Francois Stepman – 28 August 2013
European Co-manager PAEPARD

5.  The regional farmer organisations and the private sector
(mediated by ColeACP) have selected following themes
around which they will form the multi-stakeholder
partnerships:
 EAFF: Extensive livestock value chains in Eastern Africa with specific
focus on Kenya and Uganda
 PROPAC: Garden vegetable crops value chains in urban areas with
specific focus in Congo Brazzaville, DR Congo and Cameroon
 ROPPA: Rice value chain inWest-Africa with special focus on Benin,
Burkina Faso and Mali
 FARNPAN/SACAU: Groundnut value chains in Zambia and Malawi
 COLEACP: Adding value to mango non-food uses inWest Africa
(Burkina-Faso, Ivory-cost, Senegal).

6.  The 5 platforms have completed their desk review studies,
inducted the Agricultural Innovation Facilitators and held a
multi-stakeholder research question workshops.
 Two platforms have drafted the priority research concept
notes: COLEACP and EAFF.
 These generic concept note are to be translated in research
proposal according to future funding opportunities.

7.  PAEPARD will assign funds on a case-by-case approach, after
the evaluation of the consortia's proposals. A Competitive
Research Fund (CRF) will be provided to:
 finance the implementation of projects designed by PAEPARD II
consortia through the set-up of a Competitive Research Fund (CRF)
whereby at least 3 or 4 of the ARD projects designed by the consortia
formed with PAEPARD II support are financed, the envelope being
100 000 euros to 300 000 euros per project (estimate).
 The consortia concerned by the CRF are the 19 consortia from the two
PAEPARD II calls as well as those resulting from the implementation of
the “users led approach”.

8.  An Incentive Fund (IF) will be set up whereby all consortia
formed through the support of PAEPARD II
 are able to finance activities to develop and refine their research
proposals (better user need analysis, improved definition of the
research question, adaptation of their proposal to requirements of
specific calls, setup of common understanding and rules of
collaboration, etc.).
 Activities that are eligible under this fund include -among others-
studies, workshops, meetings, write-shops, exchange travels.

9.  A strong recommendation from the was to first tap on
national funding opportunities and complement those with
international funding opportunities.
 National funding opportunities may have smaller budgets but are
closer to the development activities of the PAEPARD supported
consortia.
 During an inception phase – when trust is to be created among the
value chain actors – small budgets can help the actors to refine their
innovative research proposal and identify business and market
opportunities.

10.  Swiss programme for Research on Global Issues for
Development
r4d programme
 Topic 1: Sustainability of agricultural and food systems, natural
resources and resilience
 Topic 2: Agricultural innovation, extension and research into use
 Topic 3: Governance and policies for the future world food system
 The deadline for submission of Pre‐proposals is 13 September 2013.

11.  Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Food and Business Applied Research Fund (ARF)
 This Call for proposals invites consortia composed of private and public
practitioners organisations and research organisations, from the 15
Dutch development partner countries and from the Netherlands, to
submit project proposals for applied research for innovation.
 Of the 15 partner countries for Dutch international cooperation,
following countries are from Africa: Benin, Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana,
Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, South Sudan, Uganda.
 A grant amounts to a minimum of 50,000 euro (for six months) to a
maximum of 300,000 euro (for 36 months).
 Proposals can be submitted continuously during the course of this first
Call for proposals.
 This Call closes at 15 April 2014. Proposals received will be collected
and assessed in three different rounds

12.  The Cultivate Africa’s Future (CultiAF) Fund
▪ Support innovative and complementary applied research on post‐harvest systems,
nutrition and sustainable water use.
▪ Identify innovations and mechanisms for scaling‐up in use of the most promising
research results.
▪ Support and underpin national and regional agriculture and food security policies
and programmes.
 Deadline for submission of concept notes: September 20,
2013
▪ Mid‐January, 2014: Successful applicants invited to develop full proposals
▪ March 28, 2014: Deadline for submission of full proposals
▪ June, 2014: Applicants informed of full proposals recommended forfunding
▪ September 15, 2014: Projects begin
▪ Eligible countries: Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda,
Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe