Kouété Paul Jimmy, Subregional Coordinator in West & Central Africa (jimmykouetepaul@yahoo.fr)
In its 2016–20 strategy, the Prolinnova network decided to create regional and subregional platforms of country-level multistakeholder networks (“Country Platforms”). The West & Central Africa (WCA) Subregional Platform currently includes the Country Platforms (CPs) in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Mali and Senegal and is open to other Prolinnova CPs that …
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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Update on the WCA Subregional Platform In line with the Prolinnova network’s regionalisation agenda, as set out in one of the objectives of the ELI-FaNS project, regionalisation in West and Central Africa (WCA) has made progress. A meeting of Country Platforms (CPs) in the subregion was held on 24 May 2024. A total of 16 …
The Prolinnova subregional platform in West & Central Africa (WCA) comprises multistakeholder Country Platforms (CPs) in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal and Mali. Most activities were implemented by these CPs under five externally funded projects, with the support of Misereor (Germany) and McKnight Foundation (USA). In the 2023 annual report from WCA, the Subregional …
The 6th Africa-Wide Agricultural Extension Week (AAEW 2023) was held in Abuja, Nigeria, on 5–11 November, co-hosted by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development and the Nigerian Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (NIFAAS). The AAEW is a biennial flagship event of the African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS), which brings participants …
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The Prolinnova West & Central Africa Subregional Platform is happy to announce its 2022 annual report, which highlights the achievements, challenges and perspectives at both subregional and country-platform level. These include the identification, documentation and sharing of local innovations as well as participatory innovation development (PID) processes, capacity strengthening, networking and fundraising. It also describes …
The Country Platforms (CPs) in West & Central Africa have elected a new person to take the seat for their region in the Prolinnova Oversight Group (POG): Franklin Avornyo from Ghana. Franklin is an animal nutrition scientist in the Animal Research Institute (ARI) under the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Ghana. He …
New POG member / Nouveau membre du POG : Franklin Avornyo, Ghana Read More »
Le rapport final du projet de Promotion de l’innovation locale en Gestion de l’Eau dans l’Agriculture Familiale au Sahel (Proli-GEAFaSa) a pour but de partager l’information sur le déroulement des activités clefs du projet au fil des trois années d’activité (janvier 2020–décembre 2022) de même que les principales leçons apprises pour les projets futurs. Proli-GEAFaSa …
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Paul Jimmy, the new SRC in West & Central Africa, was introduced in the March 2023 issue of the Appropriate Technology magazine: Prolinnova names new Subregional Coordinator for West & Central Africa (pp22–23).
Innovative Water Management Forum in Senegal On 30–31 January 2023, the Proli-GEAFaSa (Promoting local innovation in water management in family farming in the Sahel) project held a forum in Thiès, Senegal, on agricultural water management in the Sahel to provide space for different actors in research and advisory services to discuss their role in processes …
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 …
