Lessons from PAEPARD 10 years experience

26th November 2018
by secretary

Paepard

26 November 2018. The Platform for Africa-Europe Partnership on Agricultural Research for Development (PAEPARD) supports since 2009 research collaboration between a wide range of organizations in Africa and Europe.

The conference describes the main achievements of the various mechanisms – multi-stakeholder partnerships, users-led process – and instruments – incentive funds, write-shops, communication tools – to set up, strengthen and get sustainable various consortia. The potential for impacts has been recently assessed, and the perspective to scale will be discussed.

Introduction:

Wim Olthof, Deputy Head of Unit DEVCO C1, Rural development, Food security and Nutrition
Christophe Larose, Head of sector, Sustainable Agriculture, DEVCO C1

Presentations:

Jonas Mugabe – Manager PAEPARD, FARA, Accra, Ghana
Remi Kahane – Deputy Manager PAEPARD, Agrinatura/CIRAD Montpellier, France

Respondents:

Irene Annor Frempong – Director for Research and Innovation, FARA, Accra, Ghana
Philip Kiriro – Former Chair of the East African Farmers Federation (EAFF), Nairobi, Kenya

Source: PAEPARD FEED