Feed the Future: Building Capacity for African Agricultural Transformation (Africa Lead II) Quarterly Report October – December 2016

This report covers the program’s major accomplishments and outputs from October -December 2016, which is Quarter 1 of the Africa Lead’s fourth year of implementation. It highlights the support, facilitation, and training that Africa Lead provides partners to improve institutional capacity and broader systems, and institutional architecture to manage agricultural transformation as well to promote the effective, inclusive participation of non-state actors in policy processes.

Africa Lead activities are demand-driven, and the project serves as a flexible mechanism to support various USAID initiatives at the mission and continental level. To illustrate the program’s complex network of activities, Sections 2-4 of this report summarize progress during Quarter 1 (Q1) in the three cluster areas of capacity development, policy support, and knowledge sharing to align organizations, policies, and systems around Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme. Section 5 includes mission-level dashboards, which provide a snapshot view of Q1 activities and performance indicators for each of the project’s buy-ins.