Africa Leading Blog

The counterpart organization capacity gap, is it solvable?

Posted by Africa Leading Blog
The first in a series of Africa Leading blog articles authored by Africa Lead's staff and partners on the organizational capacity development and strengthening. The series will highlight lessons learned from Africa Lead and some of the common pitfalls in capacity building efforts and solutions for overcoming them. In this post, Africa Lead's Steve Smith draws on 35 years of experience and 3 years at Africa Lead to explore how to think about capacity building from the start of a project and from a holistic approach to program design.
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10 Lessons from Year 3 – Africa Lead Annual Report

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, Featured, Program Updates
With the release of Africa Lead’s Year Three Annual Report, we are looking back at 2016 to share some of the key lessons learnt from Feed the Future’s capacity building program for food security. The Annual Report covers the program activities from October 2015 through September 2016.
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Using Communications to Make the Story, Not Just Tell It

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, ESA Updates
Often when we think of communications in development efforts, we focus on “telling the story”—the story about our impact—prior to and after we’ve implemented our programs. Over the last year, working as the East and Southern Africa Regional Director of Africa Lead, I’ve witnessed our team come to understand the power of communications in “making the story.”
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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

  • Karen Office Park, Hemingway Building- Top Floor
  • PO Box 424, Karen 00502 Nairobi, Kenya

West Africa Regional Office

  • PO Box LG 1199, Legon
  • Accra, Ghana
  • +233 (0) 203 791 827
  • +233 302 522 466
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