Continental Updates

Learning Series Event: Data and dialogue – local policy engagement by Non-State Actors in CAADP

Posted by BFS, Continental Updates, Featured, Program Updates
The intentional inclusion of Non-State Actors (NSA) in the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is viewed by many as critical to ensure an accountable and inclusive policy process. As […]
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African Union CAADP & Biennial Review Toolkit

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, Continental Updates, Featured
During the official launch of the 15th CAADP Partnership Platform meeting in Nairobi by Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto, and H.E. Josefa Leonel Correia Sacko, the African Union's Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture (AU DREA), AU DREA and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) launched the a new communications toolkit for CAADP advocates, leaders, and focal points entitled, "Catalyzing Action & Agricultural Transformation in Africa: Understanding CAADP & the Biennial Review"
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Africa Lead Facilitates African Union CAADP Training on 2nd Biennial Review Reporting and Peer-2-Peer Network

Posted by 2019, BFS, Continental Updates, Featured, Program Updates
To advance member state performance and participation in the 2nd Biennial Review process, the African Union (AU) Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture (AUC DREA) in partnership with Partnership for […]
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Africa Lead Supports Public-Private Sector Dialogue on ‘Plan for an Emerging Senegal’

Posted by 2019, Continental Updates, Featured, Program Updates, WA Updates, West Africa
January 10 – 11, 2019, Dakar, Senegal Senegal adopted its Plan for an Emerging Senegal (PES) in 2014 with the goal of becoming an emerging market economy, with a low […]
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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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Africa Lead Q3 Quarterly Report April-June 2018

Posted by 2018, Continental Updates, Program Updates, Quarterly Report, Report,
This report covers the program’s major accomplishments and outputs from April through June 2018, which is Quarter 3 of Africa Lead’s fifth year of implementation. It highlights the support, facilitation, […]
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Africa Lead Q1 FY 2018

Posted by 2017, 2018, Continental Updates, Program Updates, Quarterly Report, Report,
This report covers the program’s major accomplishments and outputs from October through December 2017, which is Quarter 1 of Africa Lead’s fifth year of implementation. It highlights the support, facilitation, […]
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Africa Lead Annual Report FY 2017

Posted by 2017, Continental Updates, ESA Updates, Program Updates, Report, Updates, WA Updates, ,
The report highlights Africa Lead’s support, facilitation, and training to improve institutional capacity and broader systems and institutional architecture to manage agricultural transformation as well to promote the effective, inclusive […]
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Reviving Regional Joint Planning and Coordination of CAADP and Malabo Domestication

Posted by Continental Updates, Featured, News
NOVEMBER 21- 24, 2017 – KIGALI, RWANDA – The African Union Commission Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture (AUC-DREA), NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency (NPCA) and the Regional Economic Communities […]
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Africa Lead Q3 Quarterly Report April-June 2017

Posted by 2017, Continental Updates, Program Updates, Quarterly Report, Report,
This report covers the program’s major accomplishments and outputs from April through June 2017, which is Quarter 3 of Africa Lead’s fourth year of implementation. It highlights the support, facilitation, […]
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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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