The objective of the DeSIRA LIFT+ facility (€3M) is to strengthen coherence, synergies and collective learning across DeSIRA+ interventions by:

• Fostering structured dialogue among implementers, African partner organizations and policy makers;
• Providing tailored services and expert support upon identified needs;
• Producing actionable and transversal knowledge to support agroecological innovation at scale;
• Strengthening evidence-based policy dialogue at continental, regional and national levels.

DeSIRA LIFT+ operates as a service facility, meaning that it does not substitute project implementation but supports and complements DeSIRA+ projects and answers DG INTPA F3 demands through:

• Facilitation of the DeSIRA+ community;
• Strategic partnership building;
• Transversal studies and analyses;
• Support to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) and Knowledge Management Systems (KMS);
• Policy dialogue facilitation and capitalization of lessons learned.

These facilities manage and deliver pre-defined services and emerging on-demand services. Also, a number of thematic studies are carried out (e.g. on seed systems, bioinputs, scaling), resulting in reports and briefs well-aligned with both policy-making processes and agribusiness needs. Results aim to strengthen innovation ecosystems, to inform and support DeSIRA and DeSIRA+ projects implementers (i.e. large European Development National Agencies and African partner organisations) in monitoring and evaluating their respective projects, and to provide them with evidence about scaling and innovation factors and conditions, leading to agroecological transformations.