Eastern & Southern Africa

Prolinnova launches new project in Uganda and Kenya

31. August 2025 6. September 2025 / Platforms, Eastern & Southern Africa, Uganda Country Platform, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The Prolinnova Platform in Eastern and Southern Africa Sub-Region (ESA), together with partners in Uganda and Kenya, received a grant of USD50,000 from the East Africa Regional Agroecology Fund (EARAF) to support an 18-month project titled “Strengthening Grassroots-led Agroecology Practitioners for Climate Resilience and Policy Dialogue in Kenya and Uganda”. The project will run from …

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Eastern & Southern Africa Subregional Platform

19. December 2017 13. January 2025 / Eastern & Southern Africa

In its 2016–20 strategy, the Prolinnova network decided to create regional and subregional platforms of country-level multistakeholder networks (“Country Platforms”/CPs). The Eastern & Southern Africa Subregional Platform includes the CPs in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Sudan and Uganda. It is also open to multistakeholder groups that want to promote farmer-led local innovation and experimentation …

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Charter guiding the Eastern & Southern Africa Prolinnova platform

23. August 2025 6. September 2025 / Platforms, Eastern & Southern Africa, News & Events

Reposted: This document is an agreement on how the Country Platforms (CPs) in the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) subregion want to interact and for what purposes. It explains the roles of the current entities – Country Platforms (CPs), Subregional Coordinator (SRC) and Subregional Taskforce – and provides suggestions about how the agreements may be …

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ESAPP coordination meeting in April 2025

28. June 2025 23. July 2025 / Platforms, Eastern & Southern Africa

This report provides a summary of the Eastern and Southern Africa Prolinnova Platform (ESAPP) coordination meeting, held virtually on 30 April 2025. The primary objective was to confirm the membership of the coordination and governance structures of the ESAPP. The meeting, which was attended by representatives from five Country Platforms (CPs) in the Prolinnova Eastern …

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Report on International Farmer Innovation Fair & Conference 2024

20. November 2024 26. November 2024 / Farmer Innovation Fair, West & Central Africa, Eastern & Southern Africa, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The multistakeholder platform Prolinnova–Kenya organised an International Farmer Innovation Fair & Conference on the theme “Two decades of promoting farmer-led participatory innovation development (PID) for enhanced climate change resilience, food and nutrition security and sustainable natural resource management” in Nairobi in April 2024. The report is now available here. Farmer innovators from 11 African countries …

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2023 report from Eastern & Southern Africa Prolinnova platform

27. August 2024 31. August 2024 / Platforms, Eastern & Southern Africa, News & Events

The annual report outlines the achievements, challenges, perspectives and lessons learnt in promoting local innovation and PID processes within the Eastern and Southern Africa subregion of the Prolinnova network in the year 2023, at the level of both the Country Platforms and the Subregional Platform.

Prolinnova-Uganda annual report 2023

29. July 2024 29. July 2024 / Platforms, Eastern & Southern Africa, Uganda Country Platform, News & Events

The report summarises the activities carried out by Prolinnova-Uganda partners in 2023. Check for details here.

Prolinnova-Mozambique annual report 2023

16. July 2024 30. July 2024 / Platforms, Eastern & Southern Africa, Mozambique Country Platform, News & Events

The report summarises the activities carried out by Prolinnova-Mozambique partners in 2023. See the report in English here and in Portuguese here.

Prolinnova-Kenya annual report 2023

26. June 2024 30. June 2024 / Platforms, Eastern & Southern Africa, News & Events, Kenya Country Platform

The Prolinnova-Kenya annual report 2023 presents the platform’s achievements, challenges and perspectives as regards its 2023 activities including identifying, documenting and sharing innovations and PID results, capacity strengthening and organisational development, supporting the commercialisation of farmer innovations, networking and policy dialogue as well as resource mobilisation and management of Local Innovation Support Funds/Facilities (LISFs). It …

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Prolinnova-South Africa annual report 2023

26. June 2024 29. July 2024 / Platforms, Eastern & Southern Africa, News & Events, South Africa

The Prolinnova-South African 2023 report describes the achievements, challenges encountered and lessons learned by the partners in this multistakeholder platform during the year 2023. It also highlights the platform’s future perspectives.

2022 report from Eastern & Southern Africa Prolinnova platform

11. June 2023 11. June 2023 / Eastern & Southern Africa, News & Events

The 2022 annual report on the activities of the Prolinnova subregional platform in Eastern and Southern Africa highlights the achievements, challenges and perspectives at both subregional and Country Platform levels. The achievements include identifying, documenting and sharing local innovation processes (and local innovations), facilitating farmer-led participatory innovation development, capacity strengthening, networking and fundraising. It also …

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SULCI-FaNS project in Africa completed!

13. February 2023 13. February 2023 / West & Central Africa, Burkina Faso Country Platform, Innovation in Food & Nutrition Security Proli-FaNS / SULCI-FaNS / ELI-FaNS, Eastern & Southern Africa, Cameroon, Ghana Country Platform, Kenya Country Platform

The 3-year “Scaling Up Local Capacity to Innovate for Food and Nutrition Security” (SULCI-FaNS) ran from 1 October 2019 to 30 November 2022, with funding from Misereor/KZE Germany. The project aimed to strengthen the innovative capacities of rural communities, particularly of women, and to increase local resilience to change. It also contributed to building platforms …

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