Program Update East Africa

Seed Sector “SWAT” Team Formed at Joint Learning Visit for Regional Seed Sector Stakeholders

Posted by 2019, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
Despite harmonized policies, cross-border seed trade is still lagging behind. There is a significant discrepancy between what is stated in harmonized policies and the actual seed certification and border procedures […]
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Africa Lead Facilitates Final Learning Series Event on Facilitative Leadership in Nairobi

Posted by 2019, Africa Leading Blog, BFS, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
Facilitative leadership, which has increasingly become the leadership style of choice in corporations worldwide, is now proving essential to effective development policies and programs throughout the African continent. This was […]
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Kickoff of Africa Lead and Africa Management Initiative’s Executive Leadership Course for Africa’s Food Security

Posted by 2019, Capacity Building, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
In February 2019, Africa Lead and the African Management Initiative (AMI) launched the Executive Leadership Course for Africa’s food security. An intensive six month program, the course combines high impact […]
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Africa Lead Facilitates Regional Seed Activity Implementation Task Meeting in Nairobi

Posted by 2019, Continental Updates, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
High quality seed is an important determinant of a country’s agricultural productivity and food security. Enhancing regional food security, therefore, requires deliberate efforts to improve seed production and seed trade […]
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Education Village Tackles Food Insecurity and Poor Nutrition in Northern Tanzania’s Rural Schools

Posted by 2018, Agriculture, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates,
In a remote Maasai village in northern Tanzania, Linda Simon, a 2014 Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) Fellow, is working to ensure that no school child goes hungry. Linda started […]
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Passing the Torch: Building Capacity for Kenya’s County-Level Agricultural Sector Transformation

Posted by ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates, Updates
In traditional African kitchens, the pot serves as an essential tool for the welfare of the family. Girls fetch water from the river, mothers brew porridge for the younger children, […]
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Africa Lead Facilitates the EAC Regional Fall Armyworm Workshop in Nairobi

Posted by 2018, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Knowledge & Learning, Program Updates, Updates
The Fall Armyworm (FAW) pest is a serious threat to food security in Africa, potentially causing loss of 8.3 to 20.6 million tons of maize per year if uncontrolled. FAW not only affects production of a staple food crop in the East Africa region, but also undermines the economic viability of Africa’s emerging private seed sector.
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Africa Lead Facilitates the Horn of Africa Resilience Network (HORN) Annual Regional Meeting

Posted by 2018, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Knowledge & Learning, Program Updates, Updates
The Horn of Africa is an area with scarce natural resources and that is vulnerable to food security crises, threatening traditional pastoral livelihoods. In 2011, the Horn of Africa faced the worst drought in 60 years, leading to famine in Somalia, and emergency food insecurity levels in Kenya and Ethiopia. At the peak of the drought, more than 13 million people across the region required humanitarian assistance, and more than 700,000 refugees fled Somalia.
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USAID East Africa Regional Partner Meeting: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning & Collaboration, Learning and Adaptation

Posted by 2018, ESA Updates, Featured, Knowledge & Learning, Program Updates, Updates
Africa Lead facilitated the Monitoring Evaluation and Learning / Collaboration, Learning and Adaptation (MEL/CLA) meeting for USAID/Kenya and East Africa (KEA) regional partners meeting on 22 August 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Open Institute Launches Farmer Mobile Data Collection

Posted by ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates, Updates
In May 2018, Open Institute, a recipient of the Africa Lead/CAADP Non-State Actors Coalition (CNC) Small Grants Program, launched activities aiming to train farmers in Nakuru North on collecting agricultural-based […]
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ABOUT AFRICA LEAD

Africa Lead is Feed the Future’s primary capacity building program in sub Saharan Africa. Feed the Future (FTF) is the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative.

The program works to help realize FTF's and the African Union’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) goals of reduced hunger and poverty by building the capacity of champions, institutions and stakeholders to develop, lead and manage the structures needed for African-led agriculture transformation.

US Office

Africa Lead is working across sub-Saharan Africa, with offices and staff across West Africa, East, and Southern Africa. Africa Lead II's US office is based in Bethesda, MD, USA.

East & Southern Africa Regional Office

  • Acorn House, 97 James Gichuru Road, Lavington Nairobi, Kenya

West Africa Regional Office

  • 8, Route du Meridien President Almadies
  • Residence Rokhaya /49 Dakar, Senegal
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