1. Stephen Muchiri
Eastern Africa Farmers
Federation

2.  The specific objective is “Enhanced, more
equitable, more demand-driven and mutually
beneficial collaboration of Africa and Europe on
agricultural research for development with the
aim of attaining the MDGs”. ....aims to move
from the currently largely supply-driven
approach in ARD towards a demand-driven
approach.

3.  Mobilization of African stakeholders
 ID of federating themes – food security &
market access – Livestock value chain
 Undertook case studies – livestock(one cow
project in Rwanda) and rice (in Burundi)
 Formation of consortia
 Multi-stakeholder consultations
 Formulation of research questions

4.  Development of EAFF LIVESTOCK STRATEGY
 Resilience
 Competitiveness
 Advocacy conducted to devpt partners - EC
 Developed two proposals with livestock
consortia focusing on the two approaches
 ALICE conference – explain
 Formation of PACA (Partnership on Aflatoxin
control in Africa under AUC auspices) explain..

5.  Maintaining momentum/ interest &
commitment within the consortia...
 ULP ‘new’ to many researchers...general
acceptability??
 Fund raising challenge to support the proposals
 Capacity constrains (heterogeneity) among
actors; limited soft skills
 Access to current information/ dynamism of
info/ information flow

6.  Demand driven approach – response driven
 Ownership by users & researchers
 More opportunities of support due to size &
dynamism of consortia
 Synergy among actors; ...entire VC approach/
back & forth communication flow – rich info &
experience by actors
 Need to develop a Knowledge sharing platform

7.  Continuous Capacity strengthening –process
facilitation; proposal dev & project mgt;
 Full project proposal development
 Advocacy for funding support – dutch support/
asareca co-funding; others
 Lessons/ experience sharing documentation

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