Capacity Building

Kickoff of Africa Lead and Africa Management Initiative’s Executive Leadership Course for Africa’s Food Security

Posted by 2019, Capacity Building, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
In February 2019, Africa Lead and the African Management Initiative (AMI) launched the Executive Leadership Course for Africa’s food security. An intensive six month program, the course combines high impact […]
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Africa Agriculture Status Report 2018 – “Catalyzing Government Capacity to Drive Agricultural Transformation”

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, Agriculture, Capacity Building, Enabling Environment, Featured, Institutional Strengthening, Report
During the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) held in Kigali, Rwanda (Sept. 4-8) the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) released the annual Africa Agriculture Status Report (AASR) 2018, this year titled and focused on "Catalyzing Government Capacity to Drive Agricultural Transformation".
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Institutional Architecture Resources

Posted by 1Agriculture, Capacity Building, Institutional Architecture Assessment, Institutional Strengthening, Policy, Resources, Southern Africa, Study, Tool
Find below resource documents for IAA Workshop (Click to download) Bench-marking performance in agricultural transformation (BPaT) tool Ethiopia IA Assessment Rpt 9 9 13 Ghana IA Assessment Rpt 9 9 […]
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Africa Lead Intern Uses Experience to Launch Own Agribusiness Start-Up

Posted by 2017, Agriculture, Brief, Capacity Building, Featured, Impact Story, West Africa, Youth
Africa Lead Chief of Party, David Tartif-Douglin (right) listens intently as Boadu Owusu speaks of his internship experience and plans for his start-up, Accra, Ghana When Boadu Owusu graduated from […]
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Leading Resilience Learning in Kenya

Posted by 2017, Capacity Building, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
Drought emergency, human conflict, and endemic poverty is a chronic risk for communities in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs). Spanning 23 counties and representing 89 percent of the country’s […]
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Youth Leader Empowers Women and Improves Livelihoods in Maasai Communities

Posted by 2017, Agriculture, Capacity Building, East Africa, Impact Story, YALI, Youth
Kisioki displays one of the energy-efficient cook stoves he makes . Photo credit: Craig Davis/Africa Lead Thirty-one year-old youth activist and director of the non-profit International Collaborative for Science, Education and […]
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Youth Combats Malnutrition and Promotes Food Security in Tanzania Village

Posted by 2017, Agriculture, Capacity Building, East Africa, Impact Story, YALI, Youth
Linda Simon Paulo in the Tingatinga School garden. Photo credit: Craig Davis/Africa Lead Twenty-nine year-old youth activist, Linda Simon Paulo, believes that malnutrition is the greatest threat facing Maasai communities […]
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Youth Entrepreneur Follows His Passion: Agriculture

Posted by 2017, Agriculture, Capacity Building, East Africa, Impact Story, YALI, Youth
Edson stands before his beef cattle on this 102-acre farm. Photo credit: Craig Davis/Africa Lead Thirty-six-year-old entrepreneur Edson Enos Mfuru is an agribusiness consultant and manager of his own 102-acre […]
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Africa Lead Grantees Promote Key Initiatives in Informal Financial Services, Policy Advocacy, and Agribusiness Incubator

Posted by 2017, Africa Leading Blog, Capacity Building, WA Updates
With support from Africa Lead, the Savanna Integrated Rural Development Aid (SIRDA) is working with Village Saving Loans Associations (VSLA) groups in the Northern Region of Ghana. The VSLA is […]
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Building Sustainability Through Intensive Coaching Clinics

Posted by 2017, Africa Leading Blog, Capacity Building, Continental Updates, East Africa, West Africa
Socrates once said that individuals learn best when they have ownership of a situation and share the responsibility for the outcome. That philosophy continues to shape modern coaching clinics today. […]
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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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