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CLM Workshops Support Integration of Senegal’s National Nutrition Policy into Local Governance Development Plans

Posted by 2019, Featured, Program Updates, WA Updates, West Africa
In an effort to eradicate malnutrition and reduce levels of under-nourishment in the country, Senegal’s government has adopted  the Multi-sector Strategic Plan (Plan Strategique Mulitsectoriel de Nutrition) –PSMN – requiring […]
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Facilitative Leadership: The Cornerstone of Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, Featured
This post is part of Africa Lead’s Final Program Year Learning Series and has been published in advance of the upcoming August 7th, 2019 Learning Series Event – Leadership for […]
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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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Why does Africa’s Continental Food Security Policy Framework Matter to Smallholder Farmers Everywhere?

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, Featured, Uncategorized
From Africa Lead's Learning Series: In a compelling article on and a YouTube video, Robert Ouma, Africa Lead's Senior Policy Advisor explores how CAADP puts smallholder farmers at the heart of food security policy solutions.
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Senegal PR4I Small Grants Award Winner Organizing 1st “Senegal River Valley Rice Trade Fair” to Promote Benefits of Consuming Locally Grown Rice

Posted by 2019, Featured, Program Updates, WA Updates, West Africa
When it comes to eating rice, Aïssatou Gaye, the founder of Entreprise Aïssatou Gaye (EAG) in northern Senegal, is definitely a “locavore” – that is, a proponent for including more […]
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ISAE/UCAD and MSD Join Forces to Foster a Youthful Generation of Senegalese Agribusiness Entrepreneurs

Posted by 2019, Featured, Program Updates, WA Updates, West Africa
A partnership deal recently struck between the Higher Institute for Agribusiness and Entrepreneurship at Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar (ISAE/UCAD) and the Movement for Development in Senegal (MSD), one […]
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Kenya Kicks Off Reporting Coordination for 2020 CAADP Biennial Review Reporting Process

Posted by 2019, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
Stakeholders from Kenya’s agriculture sector came together in mid-April to kickoff Kenya’s effort to collect data for and complete the second Biennial Review (BR) process of the Malabo Commitments and […]
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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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Preparing Kenya’s Champions to Deliver on the “Big Four Agenda” in Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security

Posted by 2019, East Africa, Featured, Kenya, Program Updates
Kenya government officials at the national and county level, alongside non-state actors, have been working together to develop a guiding national agricultural framework following devolution.  USAID, through Feed the Future’s […]
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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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