This document discusses strategies and mechanisms for sustaining partnerships between Africa and Europe in agricultural research for development. It describes a user-led process where farmers' organizations provide demand for research. This allows for better mutual understanding and capacity strengthening between farming and research communities. The document also outlines funds for competitive research and incentives that provide diversification of funding opportunities. Communication and knowledge management strategies are discussed as ways to elaborate partnership proposals, attract funding, and ensure visibility. Institutionalizing brokerage mechanisms and developing a common knowledge platform are presented as ways to sustain research consortia and prevent backtracking on past partnerships between Africa and Europe in agricultural research.

1. Sustainability and
perspectives of
PAEPARD

2. Users-Led Process
Competitive
Research Fund
Communication &
Capacity
strengthening
Strategies
Mechanisms experimented to sustain MSP
Incentive
Fund

3. Users-Led Process : from concept to application
 Similar to many innovation
processes/platforms (e.g.
CDAIS)
 Unique for Africa-Europe
partnerships
 Designed from users demand
(farmers organizations)

4. Users-Led Process : Farming-Research dialogue
 A better mutual understanding
 Seeking win-win situations
 Emerging leaders and team
spirit
 Capacity strengthening in
partnership
 Capacity in entrepreneurship
Competitive
Research
Fund
Incentive
Fund
Communication
& Capacity
strengthening
Strategies

5.  Information and knowledge management to
elaborate proposals and set up partnerships
 Diversification of funding opportunities to be
reactive and positive (power of proposition)
 Communication for visibility, attraction and
influence
Incentive
Fund
Competitive
Research
Fund
Sustainability = Individual +
Institutional Ownership

6.  Sustainability of the consortia through new
funding for dissemination (PPP, start-up …)
 Sustainability of the mechanisms to manage
information and knowledge (to fund ARD, to
find partners …)
 Sustainability of the brokerage through
institutionalization
Communication
& Advocacy
Sustainability = scaling up +
scaling out + scaling deep

7. Perspectives: the knowledge management
platform of FARA and AGRINATURA
 A common knowledge
management system
 A joint brokerage to build and
strengthen MSP in ARD
 An advocacy for funding ARD
• Prevent back to the 2007 status of
Africa-Europe partnership in ARD
• Scale what PAEPARD (and others e.g.
CDAIS) has experimented
• Harmonize the ARD mechanisms
between Africa and Europe

8. Visit us!
www.paepard.org