Feed the Future: Building Capacity for African Agricultural Transformation (Africa Lead II) Quarterly Report April - June 2015

Africa Lead II—the Feed the Future: Building Capacity for African Agricultural Transformation Program—aims to support and advance agricultural transformation in Africa as proposed by the African Union Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program. It will also contribute to the Feed the Future goals of reduced hunger and poverty by building the capacity of Champions—defined as men and women leaders in agriculture—to develop, lead, and manage the policies, structures and processes needed for the transformation process.

The scope of Africa Lead II is divided into three components: improving institutional capacity to manage agricultural development; strengthening capacity to manage and implement the policy change and alignment process; promoting the effective, inclusive participation of non-state actors in the policy process. The quarterly report covers in detail the activities and outputs of the components (or strategic areas of program intervention) that make up the Africa Lead II program. It begins and ends with overall program support tasks and in between highlights program activities that Africa Lead has undertaken during this quarter.