TAAT AARP presentation by Irene Annor Frempong at the "Effective and Efficient Research and Innovation Partnerships" seminar on March 14, 2017, AUC Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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.
LEAP-Agri ERA-NET cofund presentation by Maurice Héral at the "Effective and Efficient Research and Innovation Partnerships" seminar on March 14, 2017, AUC Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
PROIntensAfrica project presentation by Oluwole Fatunbi at the "Effective and Efficient Research and Innovation Partnerships" seminar on March 14, 2017, AUC Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
PROIntensAfrica pathways concept and research agenda by Philippe Petithuguenin at the "Effective and Efficient Research and Innovation Partnerships" seminar on March 14, 2017, AUC Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
PROIntensAfrica partnership proposal by Carolyn Glynn at the "Effective and Efficient Research and Innovation Partnerships" seminar on March 14, 2017, AUC Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
TAAT AARP presentation by Irene Annor Frempong at the "Effective and Efficient Research and Innovation Partnerships" seminar on March 14, 2017, AUC Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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.
LEAP-Agri ERA-NET cofund presentation by Maurice Héral at the "Effective and Efficient Research and Innovation Partnerships" seminar on March 14, 2017, AUC Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
PROIntensAfrica project presentation by Oluwole Fatunbi at the "Effective and Efficient Research and Innovation Partnerships" seminar on March 14, 2017, AUC Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
PROIntensAfrica pathways concept and research agenda by Philippe Petithuguenin at the "Effective and Efficient Research and Innovation Partnerships" seminar on March 14, 2017, AUC Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
PROIntensAfrica partnership proposal by Carolyn Glynn at the "Effective and Efficient Research and Innovation Partnerships" seminar on March 14, 2017, AUC Commission, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
CCAFS East Africa CANA Training PresentationCANAAFRICA
This a presentation by CCAFS East Africa during the CANA partners training.
The presentation highlights the different areas the program works in across East Africa.
Rolling out the Science Agenda for Agriculture in Africa (S3A) at country levelHillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
CAADP and CGIAR alignment efforts - expanding the role of Institutional and t...Hillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
Workstream 1: Technology Platform: Case StudiesHillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
A Scoping study of the evolving institutional structures for the delivery of ...Hillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
Bridging the Gap: the application of agricultural innovation and technologyHillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
Comprehensive Overview of Investment and Human Capacities in African Agricult...Hillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
A Scoping study of the evolving institutional structures for the delivery of ...Hillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
Political economy of agricultural policy processes in Africa with a focus on ...futureagricultures
Presentation by Colin Poulton at the event "The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy Processes in Africa", September 2014.
http://www.future-agricultures.org/events/the-political-economy-of-agricultural-policy-processes-in-africa
Overview - Political economy of agricultural policy processes in Africafutureagricultures
Introduction by John Thompson at the event "The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy Processes in Africa", September 2014.
http://www.future-agricultures.org/events/the-political-economy-of-agricultural-policy-processes-in-africa
Advances of the AU-EU FNSSA Partnership towards Food Systems TransformationFrancois Stepman
23-25 January 2024. Joint SCAR workshop: “Research needs and priorities for the transformation to Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) at European and global level”
https://paepard.blogspot.com/2024/01/research-needs-and-priorities-for.html
CCAFS East Africa CANA Training PresentationCANAAFRICA
This a presentation by CCAFS East Africa during the CANA partners training.
The presentation highlights the different areas the program works in across East Africa.
Rolling out the Science Agenda for Agriculture in Africa (S3A) at country levelHillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
CAADP and CGIAR alignment efforts - expanding the role of Institutional and t...Hillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
Workstream 1: Technology Platform: Case StudiesHillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
A Scoping study of the evolving institutional structures for the delivery of ...Hillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
Bridging the Gap: the application of agricultural innovation and technologyHillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
Comprehensive Overview of Investment and Human Capacities in African Agricult...Hillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
A Scoping study of the evolving institutional structures for the delivery of ...Hillary Hanson
Scientific and Technical Partnerships in Africa: Technologies, Platforms, and Partnerships in support of the African agricultural science agenda, Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire, April 4&5, 2017
Political economy of agricultural policy processes in Africa with a focus on ...futureagricultures
Presentation by Colin Poulton at the event "The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy Processes in Africa", September 2014.
http://www.future-agricultures.org/events/the-political-economy-of-agricultural-policy-processes-in-africa
Overview - Political economy of agricultural policy processes in Africafutureagricultures
Introduction by John Thompson at the event "The Political Economy of Agricultural Policy Processes in Africa", September 2014.
http://www.future-agricultures.org/events/the-political-economy-of-agricultural-policy-processes-in-africa
Advances of the AU-EU FNSSA Partnership towards Food Systems TransformationFrancois Stepman
23-25 January 2024. Joint SCAR workshop: “Research needs and priorities for the transformation to Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) at European and global level”
https://paepard.blogspot.com/2024/01/research-needs-and-priorities-for.html
GCARD2: Briefing paper North-South and South-South Collaborative ActionsGCARD Conferences
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 Science Agenda for Agriculture in Africa (S3A)Francois Stepman
11 May 2018. Cotonou, Benin. In order to ensure that the Science Agenda is taken into account in the development of the projects to implement the PNIASAN (the National Agricultural Investment and Food Security and Nutrition Plan (PNIASAN 2017-2021), Benin has asked to join the Science Agenda.
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
AU Policies and Decisions for the Use of STI in the Implementation of a Susta...Francois Stepman
Jeremy Tinga OUEDRAOGO
Head of the NEPAD Regional Office for West Africa
Director of the African Biosafety Network of Expertise - ABNE
30 - 31 August 2018. Gent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium. IPBO conference 2018: “Scientific innovation for a sustainable development of African agriculture”
A discussion paper on the development of a Science Agenda for Agriculture in Africa (SAAA): a long term strategic framework. This Discussion Paper raises substantive questions as they relate to the essential ingredients of a long-term strategic framework for a SAAA, and invites a discourse around these issues and questions.
Seminar of U.V. Spectroscopy by SAMIR PANDASAMIR PANDA
Spectroscopy is a branch of science dealing the study of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy refers to absorption spectroscopy or reflect spectroscopy in the UV-VIS spectral region.
Ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy is an analytical method that can measure the amount of light received by the analyte.
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Cancer cell metabolism: special Reference to Lactate PathwayAADYARAJPANDEY1
Normal Cell Metabolism:
Cellular respiration describes the series of steps that cells use to break down sugar and other chemicals to get the energy we need to function.
Energy is stored in the bonds of glucose and when glucose is broken down, much of that energy is released.
Cell utilize energy in the form of ATP.
The first step of respiration is called glycolysis. In a series of steps, glycolysis breaks glucose into two smaller molecules - a chemical called pyruvate. A small amount of ATP is formed during this process.
Most healthy cells continue the breakdown in a second process, called the Kreb's cycle. The Kreb's cycle allows cells to “burn” the pyruvates made in glycolysis to get more ATP.
The last step in the breakdown of glucose is called oxidative phosphorylation (Ox-Phos).
It takes place in specialized cell structures called mitochondria. This process produces a large amount of ATP. Importantly, cells need oxygen to complete oxidative phosphorylation.
If a cell completes only glycolysis, only 2 molecules of ATP are made per glucose. However, if the cell completes the entire respiration process (glycolysis - Kreb's - oxidative phosphorylation), about 36 molecules of ATP are created, giving it much more energy to use.
IN CANCER CELL:
Unlike healthy cells that "burn" the entire molecule of sugar to capture a large amount of energy as ATP, cancer cells are wasteful.
Cancer cells only partially break down sugar molecules. They overuse the first step of respiration, glycolysis. They frequently do not complete the second step, oxidative phosphorylation.
This results in only 2 molecules of ATP per each glucose molecule instead of the 36 or so ATPs healthy cells gain. As a result, cancer cells need to use a lot more sugar molecules to get enough energy to survive.
Unlike healthy cells that "burn" the entire molecule of sugar to capture a large amount of energy as ATP, cancer cells are wasteful.
Cancer cells only partially break down sugar molecules. They overuse the first step of respiration, glycolysis. They frequently do not complete the second step, oxidative phosphorylation.
This results in only 2 molecules of ATP per each glucose molecule instead of the 36 or so ATPs healthy cells gain. As a result, cancer cells need to use a lot more sugar molecules to get enough energy to survive.
introduction to WARBERG PHENOMENA:
WARBURG EFFECT Usually, cancer cells are highly glycolytic (glucose addiction) and take up more glucose than do normal cells from outside.
Otto Heinrich Warburg (; 8 October 1883 – 1 August 1970) In 1931 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his "discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme.
WARNBURG EFFECT : cancer cells under aerobic (well-oxygenated) conditions to metabolize glucose to lactate (aerobic glycolysis) is known as the Warburg effect. Warburg made the observation that tumor slices consume glucose and secrete lactate at a higher rate than normal tissues.
THE IMPORTANCE OF MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE SAMPLE RETURN.Sérgio Sacani
The return of a sample of near-surface atmosphere from Mars would facilitate answers to several first-order science questions surrounding the formation and evolution of the planet. One of the important aspects of terrestrial planet formation in general is the role that primary atmospheres played in influencing the chemistry and structure of the planets and their antecedents. Studies of the martian atmosphere can be used to investigate the role of a primary atmosphere in its history. Atmosphere samples would also inform our understanding of the near-surface chemistry of the planet, and ultimately the prospects for life. High-precision isotopic analyses of constituent gases are needed to address these questions, requiring that the analyses are made on returned samples rather than in situ.
Nutraceutical market, scope and growth: Herbal drug technologyLokesh Patil
As consumer awareness of health and wellness rises, the nutraceutical market—which includes goods like functional meals, drinks, and dietary supplements that provide health advantages beyond basic nutrition—is growing significantly. As healthcare expenses rise, the population ages, and people want natural and preventative health solutions more and more, this industry is increasing quickly. Further driving market expansion are product formulation innovations and the use of cutting-edge technology for customized nutrition. With its worldwide reach, the nutraceutical industry is expected to keep growing and provide significant chances for research and investment in a number of categories, including vitamins, minerals, probiotics, and herbal supplements.
The increased availability of biomedical data, particularly in the public domain, offers the opportunity to better understand human health and to develop effective therapeutics for a wide range of unmet medical needs. However, data scientists remain stymied by the fact that data remain hard to find and to productively reuse because data and their metadata i) are wholly inaccessible, ii) are in non-standard or incompatible representations, iii) do not conform to community standards, and iv) have unclear or highly restricted terms and conditions that preclude legitimate reuse. These limitations require a rethink on data can be made machine and AI-ready - the key motivation behind the FAIR Guiding Principles. Concurrently, while recent efforts have explored the use of deep learning to fuse disparate data into predictive models for a wide range of biomedical applications, these models often fail even when the correct answer is already known, and fail to explain individual predictions in terms that data scientists can appreciate. These limitations suggest that new methods to produce practical artificial intelligence are still needed.
In this talk, I will discuss our work in (1) building an integrative knowledge infrastructure to prepare FAIR and "AI-ready" data and services along with (2) neurosymbolic AI methods to improve the quality of predictions and to generate plausible explanations. Attention is given to standards, platforms, and methods to wrangle knowledge into simple, but effective semantic and latent representations, and to make these available into standards-compliant and discoverable interfaces that can be used in model building, validation, and explanation. Our work, and those of others in the field, creates a baseline for building trustworthy and easy to deploy AI models in biomedicine.
Bio
Dr. Michel Dumontier is the Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University, founder and executive director of the Institute of Data Science, and co-founder of the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data principles. His research explores socio-technological approaches for responsible discovery science, which includes collaborative multi-modal knowledge graphs, privacy-preserving distributed data mining, and AI methods for drug discovery and personalized medicine. His work is supported through the Dutch National Research Agenda, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Horizon Europe, the European Open Science Cloud, the US National Institutes of Health, and a Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network. He is the editor-in-chief for the journal Data Science and is internationally recognized for his contributions in bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and semantic technologies including ontologies and linked data.
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Agricultural Intensification thought ?
The problems of agriculture at the global scale and more
in Europe and Africa
• Sustainability Issues [Sustaining
productivity of labour, land and capital]
• Managing natural resources
• Increasing energy cost
• Meeting up the growing societal
expectations
• Working under the complicated
factor of climate change.
5. Forum for Agricultural Research in AfricaForum for Agricultural Research in Africa
Constraints in Africa Agriculture
• Agricultural productivity still
low.. reflecting the failure to
find, adopt and use of more
productive farming
technologies and poor
market linkages.
• Inadequate
infrastructure and poor
land tenure
arrangements
•
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Constraints in Africa Agriculture
Some Data
<5% suitable agricultural
land in production
Only 4% land in production
irrigated (30% in S Asia)
Low fertiliser use/high
depletion of soil nutrients
Agricultural productivity
was 25% of global average
Only 1% of commercial
lending in Africa goes to
agriculture
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State of Africa agriculture
Weak private sector
Underinvestment in
research; leading to
ineffective R&D models;
weak and unaccountable
institutions
In appropriate policies
External influences [
globalization etc.]
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Crosscutting issues…
NRM
Sustaining
Increased
Productivity
Market
Policy
Income
Nutrition
Environment
Sustainable
livelihood
One Billion
Hungry
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…Agricultural intensification thought
..agricultural
intensification is the
most suitable option
that we have to cope
with the ever-
increasing demand for
food and fiber, but
such intensification
must be carried out in
a sustainable way.
.. a balance among the
variable of sustainability !
…more than
• Good technologies
• Suitable policies
• Adequate infrastructure
• Balanced institutions
• Market
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…Agricultural intensification thought
Understanding the
different intensification
pathways and developing
a combination of
pathways to respond to
diverse situations is the
key factor to sustainable
intensification.
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…Agricultural intensification thought
• Research on sustainable models
of intensification is growing… but
not in Africa.
• Generic understanding of the
systems functioning is prominent
in Africa.
• The well known “ready-to-use”
intensification models may be
dysfunctional in Africa.
• long term research partnership
between Europe and Africa is
required.
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The intensAfrica Initiative
The overall objective of the
IntensAfrica initiative is to
improve the food and
nutrition security and the
livelihoods of African
farmers and to enhance the
resilience of their natural
resource base by exploring
existing knowledge,
generating new knowledge
and utilizing knowledge on
effective pathways to
sustainable intensification of
agricultural systems
Multidisciplinary
Stakeholders
Participation
Pooling
expertise /
resources
Agricultural
Science
Ecological
Science
Economics
Social &
Policy Science
Innovation
systems
Africa &
European policy
partnership
Partnership with
Research
structures in
Africa
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Objective
The objective of this project is to develop a
proposal for a long-term research and
innovation partnership between Europe and
Africa. With focus on the improvement of
the food and nutrition security and the
livelihoods of African farmers by exploring
and exploiting the rich diversity of
pathways leading to sustainable
intensification of African agro-food
systems, with support of the relevant policy
environment
The PROIntensAfrica
Outcome
A coherent and
fundable proposal for
a European / Africa
initiative that could
yield the much needed
agrarian revolution in
Africa and
sustainability in
Europe.
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The PROIntensAfrica
The partnership proposal will:
1. Describe the scientific and innovation
domains that need further research to
identify and
2. Implement effective pathways (the
what),
3. Identify the value for both continents
in addition to ongoing partnerships
and activities (the why), and
4. Suggest financial and governance
structures that can adequately
support the partnership (the how).
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The PROIntensAfrica Work Packages
WP 1: Consortium Governance
and Project Coordination:
WP1 main responsibility is the
overall organization and
governance of the program, to
enhance coherence between the
various WPs and tasks to be
executed, monitoring the
progress, and to report efficiently
to the EU.
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The PROIntensAfrica
WP2: Building IntensAfrica
Scientific Research Agenda
The CSA initiative intends to build, in
about two years, a convincing proposal
to evaluate within the diversity of
farming conditions and prevailing
markets those intensification pathways,
their impact, the conditions for their
opportune and effective implementation,
and finally the conditions through which
the expected changes may happen at
farm, communities and country scales.
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The PROIntensAfrica
WP3 : Joint Programming: Building on What
Exist and Creating Synergies:
• Preparing the ground for joint programming of
EU/AU
• R&I activities in Africa.
• Mapping existing research (themes, actions)
• Funding mechanism.
• Describing national/continental research
mechanisms.
• Identifying ways to promote joint programming;
• Identifying ways to add value to on-going
projects.
• Positioning joint EU/AU R&I programming.
ProintensAfrica
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The PROIntensAfrica
• WP 4: Working Modalities, Rules of
Participation and Funding Instruments:
• This will establish a clear and common
understanding of how partners will work
together to reach the goals of the project.
• This will be a handbook of sorts that helps
to focus efforts on the agreed-upon
strategic activities of the IntensAfrica
partnership.
• Create an infrastructure that facilitates
equal participation within the project and
provides a tool for enabling science-based
dialogs
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The PROIntensAfrica
WP5: Prompting IntensAfrica Bi-
Continental Governance: -
Establishment of bi-continental high level
dialogue on governance and devise specific
policy measures
(1) Governments (Ministers of European and
African countries).
(2) The economic communities.
(3) International organizations and networks.
(4) Higher education and research institutions.
(5) The private sector and foundations,
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The PROIntensAfrica
WP 6 Communication :
• Awareness of the need for, and
potential value of the IntensAfrica
initiative,
• Define and put in place the tools
required to ensure participation of
the various stakeholder groups, with
representation from policy, other
international research programs and
end-users (farmers, processors,
consumers
• information campaigns
• publication of outcomes
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The PROIntensAfrica
WP7: Expected impact of IntensAfrica:
• WP7 deals with the expected impact of
the IntensAfrica initiative.
• As such it builds on the proposed
activities in the program, and is
strongly connected to the justification
of IntensAfrica.
• it will rely on a relatively concrete
detailing of the focus and instruments
in IntensAfrica, which in turn depend
on a detailed needs assessment and
mapping of existing initiatives.
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for the attention
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