FNSSA joint agenda setting exercise

About LEAP4FNSSA

LEAP4NFSSA is a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) that aims at establishing a Europe-Africa International Research Consortium (IRC). The IRC will provide a tool for all European and African institutions ready to engage in a sustainable partnership platform for research and innovation on Food and nutrition security as well as Sustainable agriculture (FNSSA). Once established, the IRC will be instrumental to the High Level Policy Dialogue (HLPD) on science and technology for innovation in meeting its strategic objectives. It will help to coordinate and prioritize the actions described in the FNSSA Roadmap endorsed by the HLPD. LEAP4FNSSA will also support the work of the two Commissions and its member countries in developing the science cooperation.

Purpose of this exercise

The purpose of this exercise is to gather information for joint agenda setting for the envisioned Africa-Europe Collaborative Platform in FNSSA. LEAP4FNSSA partners plan to make use of the information you provide to forge alliances for developing and implementing research and capacity development projects. Please fill the core competence form to make sure that you are on board.

Procedure

It is a participatory process that combines information gathering and consensus building for the development of strategic documents. The process consists of 5 steps:

Step 1 - Gathering basic information  (25 Oct to 5 Nov): Partners are asked to provide information on problems, concerned stakeholders, and relevant regional communication mechanisms.

Step 2 - Consensus Building (8 Nov to 17 Nov): Feedback from Step 1 is synthesized by the West and North Africa study teams (working groups). The draft list of problems, stakeholders, and communication mechanisms will be shared with participants for improvement. Feedback will be used to finalize the documents.

Step 3 - Prioritization of problems (22 Nov to 26 Nov): Participants take a survey to rank the problems in order of importance. 

Step 4 - Gathering additional information (29 Nov to 17 Dec): Participants are asked to provide information on the causes and context of the most important problems and to describe relevant multi-stakeholder platforms (dialogues). Following the same procedures as in Step 2, the study teams interact with participants to finalize the list of root causes and description of context for the most important problems and to agree on the most important dialogues.

Step 5 - Develop roadmaps 20 Dec to 21 Jan): For each priority problem, participants are asked to indicate relevance to the SDGs, issues for R&I, linkages to policy, impact pathways, and capacity development needs. Again, the study teams will systematically interact with participants to reach consensus on the final documents. 

The roadmaps are key documents for subsequent decision-making, planning, and forging alliances to solve problems.

Eligibility

Only employees of agricultural agencies, research, education, extension, and development organizations in West and North Africa are eligible to participate.

Personal data protection

We need your contact information to provide you with access to the platform so that you can participate in the further steps of the process. Under no circumstances will we use your data for any other purpose or share it with third parties.

Anonymity

This is a collective and democratic process aimed at building consensus around the research and innovation agenda. To give every participant an equal opportunity to have their voice heard, we will anonymize the information you provide before it is forwarded to the working groups for analysis and preparation of the summary reports.

Organization

The survey is organized by the National Research Foundation (NRF) South Africa and the Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE) Germany. The process is facilitated by AFRIS providing a help desk assisting and reminding participants to contribute in time. The data gathering exercise is split in two rounds. Round one is open and people can submit information without having to login. Round two will only be accessible to registered partners having a login.

Action plan and schedule of activities