Presentation by D. Felicite-Zulma, T. Kiendrebeogo at the 2016 annual meeting of the European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD).

1. COLEACP USERS-LED
PROCESS (ULP)
ADDED VALUE NON-FOOD USES OF
MANGO BY-PRODUCTS IN WEST AFRICA
EFARD Conference
Prague - November 2016
D. FELICITE-ZULMA – T. KIENDREBEOGO

2. Presentation plan
• COLEACP involvement
• COLEACP-ULP: How does it work?
• The consortia and their objectives
• The partners involved and their role
• Achievements to date
• Lessons learnt from the ULP
• What is next ?

3. COLEACP involvement
• Partner of PAEPARD (2009): Representing the
private sector dealing with fresh horticultural
products in Europe and Africa-Caribbean-Pacific
• Challenging an innovative partnership process
(2011) with other PAEPARD non-research partners
• Adding value to mango waste: An answer to the
fruit fly mango threat in West Africa (2012 …)

4. COLEACP-ULP: How does it work?
• A bottom-up partnership process with time as partner
• A 6-step process (starting in 2012 …)
• Multi-stakeholder consortia formed under 3 sub-
thematics: Animal feed, Cosmetics, Energy-compost
• Each consortium comprising research institute,
private company and NGO representatives, one on
them as leader and an other as co-leader

5.  Federating Theme 2 Desk review 3 AIF
4 MSRWRQ 5 Concept notes
Consortia set-up and Inception workshops
† IF implement. + Write shops / Research proposals
2012
2013
2014 (Phase2)
2015 + 2016
Core
Group

6. Consortia and their objectives : step 5 (2013)
MSWRQ 2 sub-thematics
AIF +
2 concept notes 2 consortia (Project)
Æ Cosmetics (export market oriented)
Æ Animal feed and Energy-Compost
(family holding and local markets)
Core
Group

7. Ÿ MSHWRQ in Dakar (2013)
• AIF inception workshop
in Entebbe (2012)
Ÿ Consortia Inception workshop
in Ouagadougou (2014)

8. Coordination
COLEACP
Energy-
compost
consortium
Animal feed
consortium
Cosmetics
consortium
PAEPARD
Supervision
L : SNV
CL: GEBANA L: INERA
CL: ADG
L: DACOM
CL: INPH-B
Governance of the COLEACP-ULP
during the 6-step process

9. Partners
involved
in the Core
Group and
consortia

10. The Consortia and their objectives : step 5 (2014)
PAEPARD Incentive Funds (IF)
3 consortia built around 3 concept notes
• Cosmetics (mango seed)
- Mango butter extracted without any solvent (hexane)
• Animal Feed pulp, peel, crushed kernel and seed)
- Process for producing animal feed
- Impact evaluation on animal performance and product quality
• Bio-energy-compost (pulp, peel, kernel, shell)
- Methanation processes to produce biogas (industrial, individual),
briquettes and compost
- Determining the physico-chemical characteristics of compost

11. The Partners involved and their role
A shared vision
• Act together to find solutions in their
thematic
• Create value along the chain linked to
their thematic
• Make results applicable for all
benificiaries (consortia and beyond)

12. Consortia achievements to date
• Effective participative communication platform for
Animal feed and Cosmetics consortia (2015) and for
Energy compost (2016)
• Identified and ongoing partnership with European
partners for the cosmetics consortium at Vivaness
trade fair (2015, 2016) in Nuremberg (producers
and distributors of natural and organic cosmetics)
• Technical or business relationships established
intra and inter-consortia: e.g., WABEF/BioEnergy-
compost consortium, Cosmetics and BioEnergy-
compost (2015)

13. Consortia achievements to date
Cosmetics consortium
• Identifying high level of mango seed oil content
among the main export mango varieties
• Starting a mango butter test production (2017)
• New oil content analysis on wild mango (2017)
• Strenghtening contacts with identified
European research bodies (WUR, France
Extraction)

14. Animal feed consortium
• Funding opportunities in 2016: e.g., Africa Union
research call, German government
• IF application in July 2016
• Write shop participation of 4 partners of the
consortium (Accra, July 2016)
• Full research proposal submitted to the African
Union research call (August 2016)
Consortia achievements to date

15. Consortia Achievements
Energy-Compost consortium:
• Trade relationships developed with other
consortia members (SNV/FIRCA; GEBANA/I2T)
• WABEF proposed to involved some research
questions into their programme (2015)
• German Organisation (Soil and More) is ready to
bring their expertise on compost.
• Biophytech (France) BIOPROTEC Consortium
partner proposed to join the group for applying to
Africa Union Call,

16. COLEACP
Coordination
Energy
compost
consortium
Animal feed
consortium
Cosmetics
consortium
6 STEPS
PAEPARD
Supervision
L : SNV
CL: GEBANA L: INERA
CL: ADG
L: DACOM
CL: INPH-B

17. Constraints and solutionsConstraints:
- Maintaining the consortium motivation and dynamism
- Keeping a regular communication among the partners
- Poor use of the Intranet participative communication platform
(lack of training for using it, weak communication equipment, hard and sofware,
Internet access …)
- Finding funds and maintaining the level of expertise to access it
Solutions:
+ Remote training sessions (by Skype) on the communication tools
developed by the ULP Coordinator
+ Working groups inside each consortium to develop activities
+ Intra or inter-consortia business partnerships among partners
(with the support of international organisations, e.g. AAIN)

18. Lessons learnt from the ULP
• Federating theme and validation process to be managed by
the users
• European partners need incentives to go into a consortium
• Funding is the key factor to maintain consortium dynamism
• A definition of the work plan and role/responsabilities of
each partner shall be set up and updated along the process
• Communicate constantly among the consortium partners
• Facilitators (AIF) shall be present along the process

19. What is next?
• Organise consortium meetings to set up the work
plan and complete the next steps of the process
• Communicate externally on each consortium for
attracting new partners and expertises
• Identify new funding opportunities and submit
research proposals
• Develop trade relationships among partners on
each thematic and implement the research results
• Explore sub-thematics in order to develop new
business opportunities

20. Thank you for your attention !
Animal feed
consortium
http://www.coleacp.orghttp://paepard.org
Energy-compost
consortium
CAB