Capacity Building

Champion for Change Transforms Lives of High School Graduates and University Students

Posted by 2017, Capacity Building, Impact Story, WA Updates, Youth
Moses Awuah (left), CEO of Youth Arise Organisation with technical team members during a training event. Moses Baffour Awuah is a young entrepreneur and president of Youth Arise Organization(YAO). YAO […]
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Strengthening Kenya’s “Digital Harvest”

Posted by 2017, Capacity Building, East Africa, ESA Updates, Featured, Program Updates
Devolution – the delegation of power from the national government to county governments – is a central pillar in Kenya’s new constitution set into law in 2010. Seven years later, […]
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Passing the Torch: Building Capacity for Kenya’s County-Level Agricultural Sector Transformation

Posted by Agriculture, Capacity Building, ESA Updates, Impact Story
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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Knowing “WhatsApp” with Food Security

Posted by Capacity Building, ESA Updates, Impact Story, Knowledge & Learning, Technology, Youth
Fredrick Korir is a young extension agent from Bomet County, located in Kenya’s agricultural heartland. Following a leadership training from Feed the Future's Africa Lead program, Korir started using WhatsApp to integrate mobile technology into extension services.
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Regional Training of Trainers Course for Agribusiness and Entrepreneurship Short Course Launch

Posted by 2017, Capacity Building, Program Updates, WA Updates, West Africa
For Africa to experience a green revolution and to spur agricultural growth and food security on the continent there is a need to create agriculture-related jobs for its ever increasing […]
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Super Champions for Change Leadership Course Trains Youth and Women for Agricultural transformation in Nigeria

Posted by 2017, Capacity Building, Gender, Program Updates, WA Updates, Youth
Africa Lead collaborated with eight organizations in Nigeria to competitively select and nominate participants for the Champions for Change leadership course held from March 13-17, 2017. The organizations included the […]
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Rwanda CAADP II/PSTA III Private Sector Consultation Report

Posted by 262Agriculture, Capacity Building, East Africa, Institutional Strengthening, Policy, Report, Resources
Rwanda CAADP II/PSTA Private Sector Consultation Report April 2014
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Zambia Institutional Architecture Assessment

Posted by Agriculture, Capacity Building, Institutional Architecture Assessment, Institutional Strengthening, Policy, Resources, Southern Africa, Study, Tool
Zambia IAA January 2014
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Tanzania Institutional Architecture Assessment

Posted by 269Agriculture, Capacity Building, East Africa, Institutional Architecture Assessment, Institutional Strengthening, Policy, Resources, Study, Tool
 Tanzania IAA September 2013
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Mozambique Institutional Architecture Assessment

Posted by 267Agriculture, Capacity Building, Institutional Architecture Assessment, Institutional Strengthening, Policy, Resources, Southern Africa, Study, Tool
Mozambique IAA December 2013
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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
The information provided on this website is not official U.S. government information and does not represent the views or positions of the U.S. Agency for International Development or the U.S. Government.