PAEPARD seeks proposals from innovative partnerships to apply for support aimed at making impact on livelihoods of small farmers in Africa

-By Development Network-

The Platform for African-European Partnership on Agricultural Research for
Development (PAEPARD) has been actively supporting the establishment of
innovative partnerships of African and European stakeholders that engage in
agricultural innovation and collaborative research to address shared challenges
and opportunities of the partners involved.
Aspiring partnerships are invited to apply for support to establish their
partnership and formulate collaborative agricultural research for development
(ARD) proposals targeted at identified funding opportunities without the later
being an end. The proposals should emphasize more on the indicators of impact
on livelihoods of small farmers in Africa with the aim of contributing to
achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The partnerships that PAEPARD supports aim to conduct joint innovation
processes that address shared challenges or opportunities. More specifically,
within the context of their innovation process, these partnerships wish to
formulate and seek funding for joint ARD activities that support their
innovation process. While these research activities will be led by a research
partner, the leadership of an innovation process goes beyond the mandate and
competence of a research organisation and thus requires that another actor
assumes this role.
Selection Criteria
Composition of the partnership: Partnerships should comprise both "non-research
partners" (producer organisation, private sector organisation and/or NGO) and
"research partners" (research organisations, universities), and both African
and European partners. A partnership should have at least one European partner,
one African non-research partner and one African research partner. All
partners should have an interest in addressing the shared innovation challenge
or opportunity.
Role of the research and non-research partners: Partners should jointly conduct
an innovation process, preferably initiated and led by a non-research partner;
the research activities undertaken as part of this innovation process will be
led by a competent research partner.
Openness to empowerment of non-research partners: Partners should be willing to
work with PAEPARD to enable non-research partners to play their expected role.
Prospect of obtaining research funding: Partnerships should aim to develop ARD
proposals targeting published or expected calls or existing other funding
opportunities offered by identified donors.
Support offered
Depending on needs, the successful applicants will benefit from the following
support from PAEPARD:
1. Support for participation in a facilitated "partnership inception
workshop".
2. Support for capacity strengthening, including training of an
innovation-facilitator proposed by the partnership.
3. Support for facilitation and coordination of partnerships.
Last date for submitting the proposal is July 15, 2011
For more information and details, please visit this link:
http://www.fara-africa.org/our-projects/paepard/announcements/

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