Presentation at the Side event of PAEPARD the 7th African Agriculture Science Week

1. Brokering the multi-stakeholder partnerships
in ARD: role of SMEs
Africa Agriculture Science Week
Kigali, 13th June, 2016

2. PAEPARD Partners
Objectives
Overall: Build joint African-European multi-stakeholder partnerships
in ARD contributing to achieving the MDGs
Specific: Enhanced, more equitable, more demand-driven; and
mutually beneficial collaboration of Africa and Europe on ARD with
the aim of attaining the MDGs/SDGs.

3. STEP 1
Partneship formation
«Searching partners and
funding opportunities»
STEP 2
Inception workshop
« Building partnerships »
STEP 3
Writeshop
« Writing/devel
opment of
research
proposal »
SLOW TRACK
FAST TRACK
PAEPARD FIRST BROKERAGE MECHANISM BASED ON CALLSelection
STEP 4
« Applying to
funding
opportunity »
Selection
OUTSIDE
PAEPARD?
+ capacity strengthening
+ support for facilitation
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 2 3 4 5 6
Number of months
Number of months
- Call 1: 14 December 2010 & Call 2: 03 June 2011
2011

4. PAEPARD’s learning approach
for a users led process (ULP)
4
Users Led
Process

5. 5 sub-regional ULPs
4 led by a Farmers Organization
1 led by a professional organization
19 consortia in 17 African countries
Analyze of the needs & prioritization
 Example of Citrus Consortium
 Innovation Platforms
Farmers, Private sector, MPs, NGOs,
Researchers

6. t
FOUR INSTRUMENTS GENERATED BY PAEPARD
Users Led
Process for
Consortia
Incentive
Funds for
Consortia
Competitive
Funds
Strategy of
communication
and capacity
strengthening

7. 20 Agricultural innovation facilitators trained
55 concept notes and proposals drafted
Translate the needs into
research questions and
identificate funding
opportunities
Example of the Round Table of experts on aflatoxine issues in Africa

8. Example of a production unit of Trichoderma
for the management of soil fertility in
vegetable farming in Burkina Faso
21 project proposals funded since 2010
Convert concept notes into research
proposals and sustainable fund
sourcing

9. Intranet and Internet tools
Dgroups and blogposts with over
6,500 followers
> 500 participants in training
workshops
Reflection and analysis publications

10. Some lessons from PAEPARD’s experience to be
further discussed:
• Not always easy to translate development issues into
research questions that’s why it takes time to build the multi-
stakeholder partnerships
• Brokerage is key to organize and strengthen multi-stakeholder
partnerships in ARD
• Funding is key for the sustainability of a multi-stakeholder
partnerships hence time dedicated to fund searching.
• The benefits of a multi-stakeholder partnership cannot be
restricted to financial aspects; capacity building, lessons
learning and sharing etc. are among other benefits