update from lfa and l africa
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Update from LEAD Francophone Africa
and LEAD Africa
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History of LEAD in Africa (Net) working within LEAD Africa LEAD Francophone Africa activities LEAD Africa activities What next?
LEAD Nigeria
1992 LEAD Nigeria set up
1994 LEAD SA set up
2000 LEAD FA set up
2006• LEAD SA expands to
form LEAD SEA; • LEAD Nigeria becomes
LEAD AWA;• LEAD Africa starts
2007 Madagascar &Rwanda join LEAD SEA
LEAD in Africa
LEAD SA
LEAD FA
LEAD SEA
LEAD AWA
LEAD AfricaLEAD Africa
LEAD FA
LEAD AWA
LEADSEA
Lead Benin
Lead Mali
Lead Congo
Lead Togo
Lead Benin
Lead Mali
Lead DRC
Lead Chad
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LEAD Africa
LEAD Africa structure
(net) Working within LEAD
LEAD Africa• LEAD Africa Fellowship
Programme• EcoHealth • Building capacity for climate
change adaptation • Afrikki TV• Participatory-GIS for natural
resource management and food security
LEAD FA and LEAD Africa:Current projects
LEAD FA• Innovation in
micro-irrigation for dryland farmers (GEF medium sized project)
• Pond management (Ramsar)
Innovation in micro-irrigation for dryland farmers
• Objective: contribute to sustainable land management and support sustainable livelihoods in Senegal, through capacity-building, investments in micro-irrigation and learning, evaluation and adaptive management
• Duration: Oct 2009 – Oct 2012
• Partners: LEAD FA, GEF, UNDP, Communities in Bakel, Senegalese gov’t
EcoHealth
• “Helping research find health: Moving from evidence to policy”
• Objective: Linked to pan African session for LAFP theme on Ecohealth, this action research programme will work with government to examine institutionalisation of EcoHealth, across 5 countries
• Partners: LEAD Africa Fellowship programme partners, IDRC, Gov’t
Building capacity for climate change adaptation
• Description: Strengthening capacity of communities and local institutions to better respond to climate change, in Western and Southern Africa
• Partner: LEAD FA, LEAD SEA, LEAD International and DFID
Afrikki TV
• Description: 12-part documentary series to construct a fair and balanced image portraying current positive developments in Africa
• Partners: AfDB, Africable, MMN, EBK Productions, ENDA
• Project duration: 2008 – 2012
Participatory-GIS for NRM & food security
• Description: A pan-african research programme to contribute to making available good quality, reliable and accessible information systems through P-GIS, for natural resource management and food security
• Partners: IDRC, UQAM, ECM, ACP-EU
• Project duration: 2009-2011
What next? Incubator projects
LEAD Africa
• LAFP Roll out in 2011
• COP 16 – LIVE
LEAD FA
• Bakel, Senegal – next steps
• Strengthening the LFA network and associations
• Waste management
LFA (net) working
• LEAD Algeria
• LEAD Benin
• LEAD Burkina Faso
• LEAD Burundi
• LEAD Cameroun
• LEAD Congo
• LEAD Cote D’Ivoire
• LEAD Djibouti
• LEAD Guinea Conakry
• LEAD Mali
• LEAD Morocco
• LEAD Mauritania
• LEAD Niger
• LEAD RAC
• LEAD Rwanda
• LEAD Senegal
• LEAD Chad
• LEAD Togo
• LEAD Tunisia
Thanks
leadinafrica.org
leadfrancophoneafrica.org