N2Africa works to develop public-private partnerships in Africa to promote sustainable agriculture. The document describes N2Africa's partnership process, which involves mapping value chain actors, defining roles, designing frameworks, and implementing agreements. As an example, N2Africa has partnerships in four regions of Ethiopia that involve farmers' cooperatives and unions working with private companies on input supply, production, and market access for over 120,000 smallholders. The goal is to ensure the long-term transfer of knowledge about and adoption of nitrogen-fixing legume technologies.

1. N2Africa - Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
Public-Private Partnerships - An N2Africa Initiative
to Ensure Sustainability - Ethiopian example
Tamiru Amanu, Endalkachew Woldemeskel and Edward Baars
The process of partnership development involves a number of steps:
Map legume value chain actors
Consult priority actors and support institutions
Define interests, roles and responsibilities
Design and develop strategic partnership frameworks (models)
Sign partnership agreements
Implement the Partnership Planning document through sub-grants
Coordinate and govern the partnership
Enrich the partnership with additional value chain partners & fundraising
Joint learning and project Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
Partnership Process
Introduction
N2Africa designs and develops public-private partnerships to
ensure long-term sustainability of
 Knowledge transfer
 Legume technology dissemination
 Efficient input supply chains
 Access to markets.
Capacity
Building &
Dissemination
I nput supply
Market Access
Hunde Chewaqa Farmers
Coop, Union Uta Wayu Union
Tsehay Farmers Coop.
Union
Becho Woliso Union
Sidama Elto Union
Awash Melka
Union
Production –
I nput &
Market Links
Overview of Public-Private Partnerships in Ethiopia
Model for input and service delivery and marketing
Sustainable scaling
N2Africa’s Public-Private Partnerships in four regions of Ethiopia
will reach more than 120,000 smallholders by 2018
N2Africa works in eleven countries of sub-Saharan Africa
Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through a grant
to Wageningen University, N2Africa supports more than 500,000
smallholders in DR Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi,
Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda and
Zimbabwe to enhance food & nutrition security, household
incomes through sustainable intensification and diversification
with nitrogen fixing grain legumes