2018

Africa Lead Participates in Inaugural Arid and Semi-Arid Lands Conference in Kenya’s Kilifi County

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As USAID Kenya’s lead learning partner in the Partnership for Resilience and Economic Growth (PREG), Africa Lead participated in the inaugural ASAL Conference. The objective was to create a platform for prioritization and realigning of the ASALs development agenda with the national development priorities for accelerated social, economic and cultural development,
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Request for Proposals (RFP): Leaders for Africa’s Food Security – Leadership Distance Learning Partner

Posted by 2018, East Africa, ESA Opportunities, Opportunities
Opportunity: Leaders for Africa’s Food Security – Leadership Distance Learning Partner Location:  Nairobi Kenya Period of Performance:  October 2018 to June 2019 Background: Africa Lead is USAID’s primary capacity building […]
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USAID East Africa Regional Partner Meeting: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning & Collaboration, Learning and Adaptation

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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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Kenya’s Agriculture Sector Finds Its Unified Voice

Posted by 2018, Africa Leading Blog, ESA Updates, Featured, Impact Story
The story of the Agriculture Council of Kenya (AGCK), an institution supported by USAID Kenya through Feed the Future’s Africa Lead program. AGCK was established in 2015 by six agriculture sector interest groups. Now the organization includes 10 apex organizations and 13 affiliate organizations, representing the interests of about 2.8 million individuals involved in agriculture across Kenya.
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USAID Tanzania Supported Film “Kumekucha: FATUMA” Wins Top Swahili Awards at 2018 Zanzibar Film Festival

Posted by 2018, East Africa, Featured, Program Updates, Updates
Zanzibar, Tanzania – The USAID Tanzania supported film, Hadithi za Kumekucha: FATUMA, about a Tanzanian woman’s struggles and triumphs as a farmer and the matriarch of her family took four […]
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Grants & Program Manager

Posted by 2018, East Africa, ESA Opportunities, Opportunities
USAID Building Capacity for African Agricultural Transformation (Africa Lead II) Project Title:    Grants & Program Manager Location: Nairobi, Kenya (with in-country and periodic international travel) Period of Performance: Oct […]
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Kericho Dairy Development Organization Facilitates Stakeholders Forum in Kericho County

Posted by 2018, ESA Updates, Featured, Non-state Actors, Program Updates, Updates
Kericho County is one of the epicenters of tea farming and processing, dairy production, and food crop production in Kenya. Though the varieties of agricultural value chains are extensive, many […]
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SUCAM Presents Findings of Food Security Projects in Kisumu County

Posted by 2018, ESA Updates, Featured, Non-state Actors, Program Updates, Updates
The Sugar Campaign for Change (SUCAM), a recipient of the Africa Lead/CAADP Non-state Actors Coalition (CNC) Small Grants Program (SGP), facilitated a Validation Workshop on 9 August 2018 at Merryland […]
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Africa Agribusiness Academy (AAA) Fosters SMEs in Kenya for Sustainable Entrepreneurship

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The Africa Agribusiness Academy (AAA) in partnership with the Africa Lead /Non-State Actors Coalition (CNC)/Small Grants Program held a validation workshop for entrepreneurs and SMEs in agriculture aimed at supporting […]
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PREG Partners Identify Areas of Synergy during Speed Dating Workshop

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Africa Lead (also known as PREG Learning) facilitated the FY19 ‘speed dating’ joint work planning workshop for USAID’s Partnership for Resilience and Economic Growth (PREG) on 9 August 2018 in […]
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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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