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Africa Agriculture Status Report 2018 – “Catalyzing Government Capacity to Drive Agricultural Transformation”

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, Agriculture, Capacity Building, Enabling Environment, Featured, Institutional Strengthening, Report
During the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) held in Kigali, Rwanda (Sept. 4-8) the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) released the annual Africa Agriculture Status Report (AASR) 2018, this year titled and focused on "Catalyzing Government Capacity to Drive Agricultural Transformation".
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Kenya’s Agriculture Sector Finds Its Unified Voice

Posted by 2018, Africa Leading Blog, ESA Updates, Featured, Impact Story
The story of the Agriculture Council of Kenya (AGCK), an institution supported by USAID Kenya through Feed the Future’s Africa Lead program. AGCK was established in 2015 by six agriculture sector interest groups. Now the organization includes 10 apex organizations and 13 affiliate organizations, representing the interests of about 2.8 million individuals involved in agriculture across Kenya.
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Strengthening Learning and Collaboration for Increased Resilience in Northern Kenya

Posted by 2018, Africa Leading Blog, ESA Updates, Featured, Impact Story
Communities in northern Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) face one big threat to their livelihoods: drought. In recent years, more frequent and intense droughts in the region have resulted […]
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Strengthening the foundation for food security in Kenya

Posted by 2018, Africa Leading Blog, ESA Updates, Featured, Impact Story
Houses are built with certain factors in mind; how big the family will be, what rooms are needed, how much the home owner can afford, and other considerations. Over time […]
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USAID’s Jeff Hill Shares the Origin Story of Africa Lead

Posted by 2017, Africa Leading Blog, Agriculture, Featured, Videos
USAID’s Jeff Hill (left) with Carla Denizard, Africa Lead West Africa’s Regional Director (Center), and Maurice Lorka N’Guessan (right), CAADP Pillar IV Advisor (Rural Economy and Agriculture Department) African Union […]
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Africa Lead Grantees Promote Key Initiatives in Informal Financial Services, Policy Advocacy, and Agribusiness Incubator

Posted by 2017, Africa Leading Blog, Capacity Building, WA Updates
With support from Africa Lead, the Savanna Integrated Rural Development Aid (SIRDA) is working with Village Saving Loans Associations (VSLA) groups in the Northern Region of Ghana. The VSLA is […]
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Building Sustainability Through Intensive Coaching Clinics

Posted by 2017, Africa Leading Blog, Capacity Building, Continental Updates, East Africa, West Africa
Socrates once said that individuals learn best when they have ownership of a situation and share the responsibility for the outcome. That philosophy continues to shape modern coaching clinics today. […]
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10 Lessons from Year 3 – Africa Lead Annual Report

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, Featured, Program Updates
With the release of Africa Lead’s Year Three Annual Report, we are looking back at 2016 to share some of the key lessons learnt from Feed the Future’s capacity building program for food security. The Annual Report covers the program activities from October 2015 through September 2016.
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Using Communications to Make the Story, Not Just Tell It

Posted by Africa Leading Blog, ESA Updates
Often when we think of communications in development efforts, we focus on “telling the story”—the story about our impact—prior to and after we’ve implemented our programs. Over the last year, working as the East and Southern Africa Regional Director of Africa Lead, I’ve witnessed our team come to understand the power of communications in “making the story.”
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ABOUT AFRICA LEAD

Africa Lead is Feed the Future’s primary capacity building program in sub Saharan Africa. Feed the Future (FTF) is the U.S. Government’s global hunger and food security initiative.

The program works to help realize FTF's and the African Union’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) goals of reduced hunger and poverty by building the capacity of champions, institutions and stakeholders to develop, lead and manage the structures needed for African-led agriculture transformation.

US Office

Africa Lead is working across sub-Saharan Africa, with offices and staff across West Africa, East, and Southern Africa. Africa Lead II's US office is based in Bethesda, MD, USA.
  • 7600 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 200
  • Bethesda, MD 20814, USA
  • +1 301 771 7600
  • +1 301 771 7777
  • info@africaleadftf.org

East & Southern Africa Regional Office

  • Acorn House, 97 James Gichuru Road, Lavington Nairobi, Kenya
  • +254 727 405 020

West Africa Regional Office

  • 8, Route du Meridien President Almadies
  • Residence Rokhaya /49 Dakar, Senegal
  • Off: +221 33 820 3388
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