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The 2018 community social mobilization exercise which was organized and conducted successfully in 40 new communities within the four local government areas of the project operational areas in Borno state. A total of 3,278 (1,987 M: 1,291 F) people participated. Both photo's: Participants at the 2018 community social mobilization in Borno State, Nigeria |
| In Tanzania, N2Africa continued to maintain its presence in 22 districts (Figure 1) as a result of established strong partnerships with local governments, the national agricultural research centers, the local input companies and various development organizations working around these project target districts. |
An exit strategy was inherent in the N2Africa project design to allow successful grain legume technologies at scale but also have a strategy for a pipeline of technologies to be continuously evaluated and availed to the farmers to improve their production systems and welfare. The quest for such a strategy was a major focus of the project for Uganda in the last year of the project
After being operational for more than five years in Ethiopia, N2Africa will end on 30 June 2019. To this regard, a workshop was organized on 3 May 2019 at ILRI Campus in Addis Ababa to recognize project partners and to close the project officially.
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The workshop was attended by nearly 100 participants from project partner and other stakeholder organizations and farmers comprised from the four project implementation regions; Amhara, Benishangul Gumuz, Oromia and SNNPR regions. |
The N2Africa project organised two workshops with participants from government, private sector, research and NGO, to discuss policy recommendations for government and development partners for further support to the development of the legume sector. A first round of policy analysis interviews were held in December 2018. Policy recommendation workshops were held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 3 May and in Iringa, Tanzania, on 8 May.
Beginning December 2018, N2Africa project has undertaken a policy advocacy activity in two steps; i) bilateral consultations with 15 organisations (in government, private sector, NGO’s) to understand perceptions about the current functioning and policy recommendations, for the whole legume sector and of specific segments in the value chain, and ii) a multi-stakeholder workshop in which the results of the policy analysis were presented and discussed, and consensus sought about next steps.
Under N2Africa Phase I and II, a wide range of training and extension materials about legumes (from production to marketing) and biological nitrogen fixation has been developed. Most of these materials have been adjusted to the relevant context in the different N2Africa countries, or translated into local languages.
This thesis was written under N2Africa supervision and with N2Africa data.