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.

1. Main achievements of PAEPARD
by
Jonas Mugabe, Remi Kahane & Vesta Nunoo
Brussels, 26th November 2018

2. Where do PAEPARD I & PAEPARD II come from?
Research-research collaboration, no
other stakeholders involved
Projects concentrated in a few African
countries
Problems identified under
PAEPARD I
Declining European-African ARD
collaboration
Driven by research interest of European
partners with African research
stakeholders (=supply approach)
Dominated by European research
organisations
Solutions sought that
PAEPARD II will bring
Inclusive partnerships with non-research
stakeholders (FOs, private sector, NGOs)
leading those partnerships
Projects spread over more African
countries
Increased number of European-African
ARD partnerships
Driven by demands of end users
Balanced partnerships, led by African non-
research stakeholders

3. Specific Objective
Enhanced, more equitable, more demand-driven; and mutually
beneficial collaboration of Africa and Europe on ARD with the aim
of attaining the MDGs (SDGs)
Consortium of partners: FARA, PAFO, RUFORUM, FANRPAN|
AGRINATURA, CSA; ICRA; CTA, COLEACP
Funding (EUROS):
 PAEPARD I (2007-08)- 339,202.50
 PAEPARD II (2010-18)- 11,832,562
 CRF-IF (2014-18) - 2,222,257.16
 Total= 14,394,021.66
Equitable partnerships
 African - European
 Research-Research-
users
 Public - Private

4. 19 consortia in 17
African countries
+
5 ULPs
Demand-led research (needs of users)
One example : the issue of aflatoxin
in the groundnut value chain

5. t
Users’ Led
Process
Incentive
Fund
Competitive
Research Fund
Communication &
Capacity
strengthening
Strategies
The Main Achievements of PAEPARD

6. Users-Led Process : Concept and regional pilots
 EAFF: Extensive livestock
 PROPAC: Urban Horticulture
 ROPPA: Rice value chains
 FANRPAN/NASFAM: Aflatoxin in
Groundnut value chain
 COLEACP: Adding value to mango
waste

7. Some MSP facilitated by PAEPARD secured funds
through CRF-IF, capacity building & communication
1. Burkina Faso - Trichoderma biofertilizers
2. Benin - Soybean afitin and milk
3. Uganda - African indigenous vegetables >
4. Malawi/Zambia – Aflatoxin in groundnuts
5. Malawi - Enhanced aquaculture
6. Togo - Pepper improved varieties
7. Nigeria - Poultry feed with cassava
8. Burundi - Potato seed system
9. Kenya - Aflatoxin control in food & feed
10. Benin - Pineapple supply chains
11. Ghana - Citrus Angular Leaf Spot control >
12. Uganda - Rice/Green gram smallholders
13. Mali - cowpea value chain

8. Women Processors and researchers have co-created
technology that prolongs the shelf life of soybean milk
Soybean-milk in Benin
1 DAY 6 MONTHS
CRF

9. Compost enriched with Trichoderma
in Burkina Faso
• 30% increase of tomato, onion and Irish potato yields
• 25% increase of farmer’s incomes
• Becoming a business in rural communities
empowering women
CRF

10. Resource mobilization of external funds through CRF_IF

11. • 19 projects, involving
• 40 African universities
• In more than 20 African
countries, and
• 8 European universities and
research institutes, including
• RUFORUM and Agrinatura ,
value of
• Over € 37 M raised from a
diversity of donors
Support to the strengthening capacity of
African universities to develop proposals
(RUFORUM network)

12. Costs, rates of return on investments and lessons
The Input Costs (over 5 years)
• €2.2. Competitive Research Fund & Incentive
Fund
• € 480k of the capacity strengthening (Inception
workshops, write-shops)
• Every €1 CRF-IF invested in PAEPARD Consortia to
respond to calls leveraged €2.0 for the Consortia
• A total amount of > €40 million if we consider
funds mobilized by stakeholders non-members of
PAEPARD consortia
Lesson & Observation
1. Building partnerships is a long-
term engagement. Results are not
immediate, but when they start
they are long-lasting
2. PAEPARD Consortia are now
equipped to respond to calls, but
they require maintenance
support to sustain quality
responses to calls and scale up.

13. PAEPARD has used Dgroups, blogposts,
OSIRIS and social media to make effective
the communication and reach out up to
10,000 members

14. Lessons learnt & challenges from the MSPs (1/2)
1. African-European partnerships needs time to build trust; and
time for cultural integration (Africa and Europe; institutional
practice differences, etc.).
2. Inadequate funding opportunities for agricultural research
and innovation (AU Research Grants Call)
3. Small funding (ARF, CRF) but flexible (IF) can trigger
innovation as well as big one; what is important is the
momentum

15. Lessons learnt & Challenges from the Multi-Stakeholder
Partnerships (2/2)
4. Capacity to reflect and learn together is crucial in MSPs. It
creates a shared vision among partners and allows to re-thing the
strategy.
5. Communication (internal and external) is a catalytic element for
MSP to keep the motivation in the consortium. PAEPARD has used
the Dgroup, blogposts, OSIRIS to make effective the
communication and reach out to more 10,000 members.
6. A coordination anchored within apex bodies (FARA &
AGRINATURA) made the action easy to reach members in different
sub-regions of Africa

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