Project/ Program Development and Implementation
We aim to develop and implement projects which are demand driven and have impact. The projects we have developed and implemented range from research projects, community projects, leadership and designing learning events as well as mentorship of struggling projects. The proposal development stage is a collaborative process, which is informed by studies or needs of stakeholders. Working closely with our partners, we determined the need, appropriateness, willingness and motivation for stakeholders to support and own the process.
Some of the principles which guide our project implementation is creating value for money, impact, adaptability, participatory problem solving, learning, involvement and collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure ownership and sustainability.
Projects we have supported on Program Development
a) Strengthening Seed Trade Systems for Increased Seed Trade in the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA) Region.
Funder/ Partner: Africa Lead II
Geographical Coverage: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Zambia and Rwanda.
Duration: Feb-Dec 2019
Description of services: Africa Lead II was a program dedicated to supporting and advancing agricultural transformation in Africa working in accordance to CAADP and the USAID’s Feed the Future Strategy with the main aim of improving institutional capacity, strengthening management of policy change and alignment processes and enhancing capacity and engagement of non-state actors, including the private sector. Africa Lead, informed by the recent (2018) seed trade assessment report developed the ‘Seed Activity’, the pilot project aimed at improving trade within the COMESA in 2019. ECI-Africa supported Africa Lead by facilitating conversations among seed stakeholders in the region ‘to identify the key bottlenecks hindering seed trade and go beyond diagnosis by exploring the opportunities presented by these challenges. This led to the formation of the seed sector SWAT team with representation from the 6 countries engaged in the ‘Seed Activity’. The inspiring conversation led to the development of AGRA’s Improved Regional Seed Trade in Common Market of East and Southern Africa and East African Community region Project to address the issue of limited dialogue between seed stakeholders, cross-border seed trade requirement information asymmetry and lack of trust in seed certification and inspection process by supporting convenings to enable dialogue between actors, development of cross seed information requirement information guide and establishing a seed sector audit system.
b) The African Chicken Genetic Gains (ACGG)
Funder/ Partner: ILRI funded by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Geographical Coverage: Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania
Period of implementation: January 2015- October 2019
Description: The ACGG project, implemented in three countries (Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania), sought to increase access of poor smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to high-producing and agro-ecologically appropriate chicken genetics and inputs needed to make the flocks productive. ECI-Africa supported the overall design and implementation of the partnerships and institutional engagements component through innovation platforms. These innovation platforms (IP) served as the means for value chain diagnosis, challenges identification and solution co-creation to ensure the development of delivery models that work best for smallholder farmers. This enabled the delivery of the most appropriate and farmer-preferred genotypes and their successful entry into the local chicken value chains (VC) (smallholder chicken keepers, most of them women) and other VC actors.
Particular focus towards the end of the project period was the transformation of the national IPs into self-sustaining associations commonly referred to as Forums to drive the agenda beyond the ACGG project. ECI-Africa worked with the national stakeholders in each country to undertake background work that facilitated the initial stakeholder engagement design and subsequently supported the series of dialogues (using the IP approach) to concretize the vision, mission and the agenda which underpinned the formation of these on-going Forums or Associations. ECI-Africa also trained and mentored the local Forum facilitators to be able to design and run functional and effective Forum processes including how to design Forum meetings to ensure they are sufficiently participatory and effective to deliver on the objectives, shadowing them during actual processes and supporting them to develop mechanisms for on-going analysis/review and identification of critical Forum issues that speak to the priorities of stakeholders.
c) Leadership for Agricultural (L4Ag)
Funder/ Partner: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
Geographical Coverage: Tanzania, Kenya, Burkina Faso and Ethiopia
Period of implementation: April, 2019 – July, 2019
Description: The Leadership for Agriculture (L4Ag, 2017- Ongoing) is an African ministerial-level peer-to-peer network that promotes strategic engagement and policy action among African Ministers, private sector and other stakeholders. The main aim is to increase commitment to investing in agriculture and boosting agricultural productivity. It is hosted by the African Development Bank.
The objective of L4Ag included creating a platform to enable shared learning and knowledge creation, contributing towards economic growth and facilitating engagement and partnerships between African policy makers and investors. For phase one of the initiative, BMGF joined AfDB and the Rockefeller Foundation in 2019 to support the L4Ag concept and the Platform was re-designed to be more effective, with additional focus on change champions and emphasis on peer-to-peer learning on specific thematic areas, the idea being to help countries leapfrog agricultural transformation based on lessons learned from, and best practices by other countries. In addition to stronger thematic focus, the re-designed Forum sought to mobilize government ministers responsible for finance, agriculture, livestock and fisheries and senior leadership in these ministries including permanent/principal secretaries, and directors who were in charge of operationalizing government strategies and plans.
d) Building Research Leadership and Management Capacity of CCRP Communities of Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa
Funder/ Partner: McKnight Foundation
Geographical Coverage: Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania.
Period of implementation: 4 years, August 2014- October 2018
Description: The McKnight Foundation’s Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP) is a competitive grant program that seeks to increase food security for resource-poor people in developing countries.
The overall purpose of the project was to strengthen leadership and management capacity for agricultural R&D in East and Horn of Africa and Southern Africa Communities of Practice (CoPs) through a facilitated monitoring and coaching process targeting early career professionals. By building the leadership capacity of early career professionals, the project seeks to fill the current and future leadership gap that is eminent due to the lack of systematic skills-enhancement process to replace the drying pipeline of leaders in ARD in Africa. The expectation was that the project would create a cadre of individuals that have leadership and management competencies needed to put together and lead functional teams, are ‘leadership aware’, and are able to effectively deliver AR4D outcomes in the complex and ever-changing institutional context in which they work.
ECI-Africa’s supported the design and execution of a series of leadership training workshop, implemented in two cohorts; each lasting a 2-year cycle, to mentor and coach early career professionals from the national agricultural research systems (NARs) in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. The process revealed phenomenal transformation in the mentees. Their self-esteem and ability to influence others increased. They caused change at institutional and system levels and developed new models of collaboration within their institutions. Through activities carried out as part of the project (mini-projects), and lessons learned from project-driven processes, some of the mentees increased their visibility, were recognized and assumed positions of seniority.
e) Project: Africa-Brazil Agriculture Innovation Marketplace (AIM-Dairy)
Funder/ Partner: EMBRAPA Dairy Cattle
Geographical Coverage: Kenya, Homabay County
Period of implementation: Dec 2012 – May 2015
Description: The Africa-Brazil Agricultural Innovation Marketplace was an international initiative supported by different donors aiming to link Brazilian and African experts and institutions to develop cooperative projects. AIM-Diary worked with smallholder dairy producers and other actors that served the dairy value chain in Homa Bay County, a traditionally non-dairy area in Kenya. The intention was to address the production, support services and market challenges that constrain dairying in the area and was seen to be curtailing growth of an otherwise promising sector with significant potential for income generation. ECI-Africa organized Innovation Platform meetings, demonstrations and exchange visits and provided technical support to the stakeholders in the identification of challenges and co-creation of solutions; continuously highlighting successes and learning from what worked or did not work. The IP forums led to the establishment of the Kasbondo AIM Dairy Cooperative Society Limited which has seen more farmers being involved in commercial dairy farming and has been growing ever since. At the centre of the success of the project were three factors that ECI-Africa paid attention to during the early stages of the project: commitment to empowering the local community, building ownership, and inspiring the members to keep trying even in the face of challenges.
f) Network for Enhanced Market Access for Smallholders in East and Southern Africa (NEMAS)
Funder/ Partner: International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Geographical Coverage: East ad Southern Africa region
Period of implementation: April 2011 – December 2014
Description: NEMAS was premised on the recognition that a knowledge management operation embracing the diversity of organizations and linking up all players in the market is necessary to improving the efficiency and inclusiveness of agricultural markets.
The overall goal of the project was to increase the impact of public and private investments in inclusive market access by smallholders in East and Southern Africa through improved market efficiency and inclusion particularly targeting smallholder farmers; Scaling up proven practice; and enhancing returns on investments. NEMAS aimed at attaining a transparent, competitive and inclusive market for agricultural inputs and produce. ECI-Africa supported knowledge management to strategically deliver more efficient and inclusive agriculture markets, scale up proven practices and policies, and get better returns on investments. A key underpinning of the project was the development of win-win-win solutions to agricultural value chain challenges: the farmers and other value chain actors who sought to get value from their investments; business development service providers which develop/facilitate value chains and seek to get value through commissions, and public-sector investors that help create enabling environment for sustainable businesses.
g) Dairy Genetics East Africa (DGEA)
Funder/ Partner: ILRI and the University of New England funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
(BMGF)
Geographical Coverage: Kenya and Uganda
Period of implementation: Sep 2010- Mar 2013
Description: The DGEA project entailed research into what genotypes best fit different smallholder systems plus the investigation of and facilitating development of partnerships and businesses designed for delivery of germplasm services to smallholders. In the first phase, the project facilitated a local dairy innovation platform aimed at catalyzing home-grown transformation in the smallholder dairy industry in Kenya and Uganda. ECI-Africa used the “Innovative Platform (IP) Approach” to facilitate processes. The IP processes aimed at helping identify business opportunities in the smallholder dairy VC. This formed the basis for business process planning and partnerships for delivery of dairy genetics in Eastern Africa. ECI-Africa facilitated the development of the innovation platform and mentored the emergence of a number of businesses aimed at addressing the delivery of support services for the dairy industry. The process also helped identify and address policy bottlenecks that threaten dairying. Supply of quality heifers appropriate for the different systems, Artificial Insemination (AI) and animal health delivery as well as availability of quality and affordable feeds were central issues. ECI-Africa is currently working with other actors to develop a Phase 2 intervention which will focus on addressing the next set of issues, including multi-country on-farm recording and genetic evaluation.
Projects we have supported on Project Development
a) McKnight Foundation Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP)
Funder/ Partner: McKnight Foundation
Geographical Coverage: Eastern and Southern Africa
Period of implementation: 2015 – Ongoing
Description: ECI-Africa has been engaged by McKnight Foundation since 2015 to provide expert facilitation services for the Collaborative Crop Research Program (CCRP) and to work closely with the Eastern and Southern Africa Communities of Practice regional teams. We have provided the following services in this regard: Facilitation of and documentation of annual Eastern Africa Community of Practice meeting (EAf CoP); Facilitation of and documentation of annual Southern Africa Community of Practice meeting (SAf CoP); Facilitation and documentation of CCRP Farmer Research Network Meetings; Support to the MF CCRP Leadership Team: involves advice on governance and management and helping design and facilitate meetings of the Leadership Team (which is the Governance body of CCRP).
b) Consultative workshop for Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance and Development of 2-year work plan
Funder/ Partner: German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Geographical Coverage: Africa countries
Period of implementation: June –July 2018
Description : ECI-Africa facilitated the meeting and produced a joint 2-year work plan, captured the ideas and inputs for the Africa Climate Smart Agriculture Alliance Forum as well as identified the opportunities for collaborations between the national and regional alliance.
c) Review of Proposals for Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) Program Funder/ Partner: The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
Geographical Coverage: African countries
Period of implementation: April- June, 2018
Description: ECI-Africa supported the review and assessment of work plans and budgets for TAAT program proposals
d) Inception Meeting for the Advisory Board and Partners of Makerere University Regional Centre of Excellence for Crop Improvement (MaRCCI)
Funder/ Partner: Makerere University Regional Centre for Crop Improvement (MaRCCI)
Geographical Coverage: Uganda
Period of implementation: February 26th – March 2nd, 2018
Description: The World Bank in collaboration with West and Central African countries launched the Africa Centres of Excellence (ACE I) Project in 2014 to promote regional specialization to address development challenges in Agriculture; Health; and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The first component of ACE I was to strengthen Centres of Excellence to yield highly skilled graduates, and to generate applied research targeted towards tackling Africa’s development challenges. The second component (ACE II) was to enhance regional capacity and collaboration in research. Existing African higher education institutions in Africa were competitively selected as Centres of Excellence based on their capacity and potential to address priority economic sector needs, and to produce world-class post-graduate training and applied research. Makerere University was selected to run the Makerere University Regional Centre for Crop Improvement (MaRCCI). MaRCCI was expected to generate industry-ready plant breeders who were equipped to use cutting edge science and technology to develop and deliver new varieties of food crops in order to improve food security, nutrition and rural incomes. This Centre of Excellence would work with relevant stakeholders to develop a training curriculum which would meet international standards. ECI-Africa was requested to support the design, facilitation, documentation and report preparation of an inception Meeting for the Advisory Board and Partners of MaRCCI that brought together stakeholders drawn from the private sector, agricultural research and development sector, and regional and international institutions of higher learning. The meeting aimed at eliciting authentic commitment and goodwill from key partners based on a common understanding of the project.
e) Sixth NextGen Cassava Annual Meeting
Funder/ Partner: The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
Geographical Coverage: Tanzania
Implementation period: February 2018
Description : The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Next Generation Cassava Breeding project (NextGen Cassava) sought to modernize partner cassava breeding institutions in Africa and use cutting-edge tools for efficient delivery of improved varieties of cassava. The NextGen Cassava project initially focused on improving cassava using genomic predictions in Phase I. Phase II of the project entails a shift toward implementation for the delivery of improved varieties to smallholder farmers. The year 2018 was the transition year from Phase 1 to Phase 2.
ECI- Africa supported the design, facilitation and documentation of the 6th NextGen Cassava Annual meeting which was also initiating Phase II of the project held on 19th -24th February 2018, which brought together the NextGen teams composed of breeders, geneticists, data analysts, computer programmers, food technologists, social scientists and crop protectionists, to discuss how they will work together in a coordinated and collaborative manner, leveraging germplasm, genotypic and phenotypic data from one another. The outcome of the meeting was that the NextGen projects shared with each other information about their current state, clear expectations about the future and specific plans for the near future and the leadership came to a consensus on priorities and opportunities to build on.
f) African Forest Forum (AFF) Workshop: African Forests, People and Climate Change
Funder/ Partner: African Forest Forum (AFF)
Geographical Coverage:
Period of Implementation: Oct-Nov 2017
Description: The African Forest Forum (AFF) has been implementing the African Forests, People and Climate Change project whose overall goal is create capacities of stakeholders to strengthen the role of Africa’s forests and trees to adapt to climate change and mitigate its adverse effects in various landscapes in ways that will enhance livelihoods, sustain biodiversity and improve the quality of the environment. AFF requested ECI-Africa to provide design, facilitation and documentation support of a 5-day workshop bringing together African forestry stakeholders drawn from different ecological zones across Sub-Saharan Africa. The meeting was part of a process towards the development of a 3-year proposal for Phase III of the African Forests, People and Climate Change Project to be supported by Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). ECI-Africa’s facilitation approach ensured that stakeholder ideas were appropriately harnessed and harmonized to inform the Phase III of the project covering three years (2018-2020) and a longer period of 10 years.
g) The World Bank Eastern and Central Africa Agriculture Transformation (ECAAT) Project Joint Identification Mission Workshop
Funder/ Partner: The World Bank Group
Geographical Coverage: Countries in Eastern and Central Africa region
Period of implementation: Oct-Nov 2017
Description: The objective of the workshop was to identify strategic areas of intervention for the proposed ECAAT regional program to be financed by the World Bank. The meeting brought together multi-stakeholder groups from different countries in the Eastern and Central Africa region to give input to the proposed agricultural transformation project. They included representatives from ministries of agriculture, including permanent secretaries and technical and managerial personnel from research organizations from Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, DRC and Burundi. ECI-Africa was engaged to moderate the workshop.
Following this support, ECI-Africa was once again contracted as the lead facilitator for the follow-up workshop – the ECAAT Pre-Appraisal Mission which convened the ECAAT project partners in Nakuru, Kenya. The task also included contributing to the preparation of the project operations manual. ECI-Africa guided the process of reviewing the project appraisal document and the country project documents, developing the results framework, and the project implementation arrangements including regional coordination.
h) Launch the Gender Responsiveness in Agricultural Research and Development (GRARD) program
Funder/ Partner: International Center for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF)
Geographical Coverage: Africa countries
Period of implementation: July – August, 2017
Description: African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD) works toward inclusive, agriculture-driven prosperity for the African continent. It does so by strengthening the production and dissemination of more gender-responsive agricultural research and innovation. Gender-responsive agricultural research takes into account different gender dynamics depending on the purpose of a study. In July 2017 AWARD launched a new initiative that positioned it to scale up its contribution to agricultural research and development. The initiative, Gender Responsive Agricultural Research and Development (GRARD), sought to support institutions to design research agendas that could drive sustainable and inclusive growth, by enhancing gender responsiveness within their research priorities and processes. ECI-Africa supported the design, facilitation and documentation of the launch. The convening reviewed GRARD’s proposed activities and offered critical advice on the way forward.
i) Design and facilitation of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) Workshop: “Taking Stock on Sustainable Intensification Research for Impact in ESA: Implications and Strategies for Future Work”
Funder/ Partner name: CIMMYT
Geographical coverage: Africa-wide
Period of implementation: June 2017
Description: CIMMYT is a non-profit research and training institution dedicated to both the development of improved varieties of wheat and maize with the aim of contributing to food security, and the introduction of improved agricultural practices to smallholder farmers to help boost production, prevent crop disease and improve their livelihoods. CIMMYT convened a two-day workshop titled, “Taking stock on Sustainable Intensification Research for Impact in ESA: Implications and Strategies for Future Work” which was held in Arusha, Tanzania. The purpose of the workshop was to reflect on the impact of the Sustainable Intensification for Maize and Legumes in Eastern and Southern Africa (SIMLESA) project and to explore new opportunities for climate smart resilience systems for Africa. ECI-Africa facilitated the convening to enable sharing and learning among the stakeholders, while taking stock of what the project has accomplished so far, as well as charting a future path based on the project results.
j) Joint Steering Committee Meeting for PABRA Network
Funder/ Partner: International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
Geographical Coverage: African countries
Period of implementation: January – April 2017
Description: CIAT convened the joint steering committee meeting for the CIAT Pan African Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) Network. This workshop aimed at helping the network stakeholders to reach a common understanding of the project corridors and plan for implementation; to share and develop a common understanding of the new project (and in particular the concept and emphasis of the bean market corridor approach); to develop work plans for the new project for the year 2017-18; to reflect on the efforts and achievements of the other (PABRA) projects for the year 2016- 2017; and to develop an integrated PABRA work plan for 2017-2018 (for all the projects). ECI-Africa supported the design, facilitation and documentation of the meeting.
k) Deliberations on Poverty Situation in Western Kenya
Funder/ Partner: Africa Lead
Geographical Coverage: Kenya
Period of implementation: December 2016 – January 2017
Description: USAID had been implementing a number of projects in the western region of Kenya on poverty reduction and food security. It was important that these programs established collaboration, build synergies, and complementarities. This would ensure learning and mutual reinforcement of program activities, resulting in higher impacts. USAID Kenya Mission thus organized a one-day event bringing together all its implementing partners. ECI-Africa designed the activities for the learning event and facilitated discussions to ensure learning across the programs, while determining how best to accelerate poverty reduction in the region. The one-day session was used to learn about salient factors affecting poverty in the region and to understand how these can be addressed, what needs to be done more, or less, and what is needed to realize significant impacts on poverty reduction. The discussions focused on the current interventions, especially the targeted value chains, geographic focus, market systems, in addition to development opportunities that are necessary to achieve the Kenya Feed the Future (FTF) goal of reducing poverty and improving the nutrition status.
l) Harnessing Opportunities for Productivity Enhancement in Sorghum and Millets in Africa (HOPE II) Project Launch and Implementation Planning Workshop
Funder/ Partner: ICRISAT
Geographical Coverage: Ethiopia
Period of implementation: May 2016
Description: The Harnessing Opportunities for Productivity Enhancement in Sorghum and Millets in Africa (HOPE) project sought to strengthen formal and informal seed systems so as to increase the local availability and access to improved seed. The potential to close yield gaps in sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet were demonstrated in HOPE 1 with initial adoption of improved cultivars. HOPE 2 would strive to broaden and increase the uptake of improved, well-adapted sorghum, pearl millet and finger millet varieties; promote more effective agronomic practices; and foster better farmer access to seed and inputs. The project’s target countries were Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigeria in West Africa, and Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda
ECI-Africa was requested to support the HOPE II Project Launch and Implementation Planning Workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The objectives of the meeting were to: Launch Phase II of the harnessing Opportunities for Productivity Enhancement in Sorghum and Millets in Africa Project; Identify and develop specific activities and a Results Framework for each participating country; Discuss and agree on project management structure, Capacity development gaps for each country e.g. national coordinators, objective leaders; Familiarize project participants with a data management system. The result was the participating countries taking responsibility for ensuring proper implementation of the project; developing the Results-based Framework for each country and; Project coordination and management structures and Training needs were defined by each country.
m) Project for Financial Inclusion in Rural Areas (PROFIRA) Knowledge Management and Learning
Funder/ Partner: African Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (AFRACA) for The Rural Finance Knowledge Management Partnership (KMP) Grant
Geographical Coverage: Uganda
Period of implementation: July- September 2015
Description: The Rural Finance Knowledge Management Partnership (KMP), an International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), funded knowledge management grant started operations in 2003.KMP Phase 1 and 2 had been implemented. KMP Phase III had three components; program support and learning, action-based research partnership, and knowledge and information partnership was the next phase set for implementation. ECI-Africa supported PROFIRA by offering technical support to train PROFIRA staff on the concept and importance of knowledge management and learning (KM&L) as well as collaborated with the team to develop the action plan to integrate KM&L into the project.
n) Tropical Legumes III (TL-III) Project Launching Workshop
Funder/ Partner: The International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
Geographical Coverage:
Period of implementation: August 18-19, 2015
Description: ICRISAT and its partners have implemented two phases of tropical legume (TL) TL-I and TL-II. TL-III project was formulated to sustain gains made from first two phases. The project launch aimed at developing country specific implementation plans. ECI-Africa supported the facilitation and documentation of TL-III Launch. The outcomes at the end of the workshop were a better understanding of the project context and objectives; increased understanding of TL-III’s interface with respective country legumes strategies; a sense of ownership of the TL-III project was created and country teams developed draft work plans integrating TL-III objectives.
o) Concept note development for a project on “Developing a Comprehensive Program to Strengthen Seed Trade Associations in Africa”
Funder/ Partner: BMGF
Geographical Coverage: Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania
Period of implementation: March – June 2015
Description: BMGF was planning to invest on strengthening the institutional capacity of African Seed Trade Association (AFSTA) and the National Seed Trade Associations (NSTAs) in Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania. ECI-Africa led the development of the concept note for these planned investments through consultations with AGRA and AFSTA and input from NSTAs. The concept note was developed and shared by AGRA to BMGF.
p) Concept note development for a project on “Development of an Integrated Post Graduate Program on Seed Science, Business and Systems in Africa”
Funder/ Partner: BMGF
Geographical Coverage: Ghana and South Africa
Period of implementation: March- June 2015
Description: BMGF was planning a grant to develop and test a postgraduate (Masters) of integrated seed management course to be offered at two African Universities (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (UKZN) combining seed science, seed business and seed systems. ECI-Africa led the development of the concept note through consultations with AGRA, KNUST and UKZN. The concept note was submitted by AGRA to BMGF.
