ESA Updates

Kericho Dairy Development Organization Facilitates Stakeholders Forum in Kericho County

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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

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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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Strengthening Learning and Collaboration for Increased Resilience in Northern Kenya

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Communities in northern Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) face one big threat to their livelihoods: drought. In recent years, more frequent and intense droughts in the region have resulted […]
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Open Institute Launches Farmer Mobile Data Collection

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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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Building Capacity for Kenya’s County-Level Agricultural Sector Transformation

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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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AgCK Business Plan Validation Meeting

Posted by 2018, Agriculture, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates, Updates
In 2018, Africa Lead continued to support institutional strengthening of the Agricultural Council of Kenya (AgCK) to consolidate membership, policy engagement, and dialogue. Through the hiring of an institutional sustainability […]
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Supporting CNC Small Grants Program Partner Africa Agribusiness Academy

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In April 2018, recipients of the Africa Lead/Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Non-state Actors Coalition (CNC) Small Grants Program began activities to strengthen NSA networks aligned to CAADP to […]
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Strengthening the foundation for food security in Kenya

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Houses are built with certain factors in mind; how big the family will be, what rooms are needed, how much the home owner can afford, and other considerations. Over time […]
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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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