The conference was organized around five broad themes:
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| General Conference Opening Session |
The Programme for this day includes official opening by the Ugandan Minister of Education and Sports, two lead papers that will touch on various issues related to building Innovation Capacity of Farmers, facilitating smallholder access to modern technology, strengthening value chains and key policy issues for Agricultural development and African Tertiary Agricultural Education (TAE).
Day Two: Enabling Environment for Agricultural Development
We are arranging for a key note plenary paper on “overview of agricultural development landscape in Africa”. This will help set the stage for a panel discussion and later two lead papers, one on China Experience and the second on Brazil experience. We have arranged for a follow-up round table discussion on fostering African-Brazil-China partnership on Higher Education.
Day Three: Assessing Impact
A lead paper on Assessment of Agricultural Programmes focused on whether or not the agricultural programmes are really working? This was followed by a panel discussion and field / Alumni experiences on impact of University Higher Education and Research.
A side event drew lessons from especially RUFORUM Alumni and Market actors on strengthening engagement of African Youth in rural transformation and Agri-business. The RUFORUM Board had its Annual Meeting in the afternoon of this day.
Day Four: The Future of African Agriculture
Two lead papers were presented:
Day Five: Agricultural Tertiary Education and Training. Two lead papers were presented:
PAEPARD participation:
Several PAEPARD partners took part in the 3rd RUFORUM Biennial Conference which was held on 24-28 September in Entebbe, Uganda. The Conference was attended by over 700 participants from across Africa and from many countries in other continents. The theme of the Conference was Partnerships and Networking for Strengthening Agricultural Innovation and Higher Education in Africa. This theme is highly relevant to PAEPARD and provided an opportunity to describe our approach and share experiences from the initiative so far.
Jonas Mugabe (FARA), African co-manager of PAEPARD gave a plenary talk on ‘Multi-stakeholder partnerships: how can African universities better engage?’ The need for higher education institutes in Africa to engage more effectively with rural communities and strengthen links with the private sector was repeatedly emphasised during Conference discussions. Jonas was able to show how universities are making important contributions to many of the multi-actor agricultural research for development consortia which PAEPARD is supporting. Amongst these is a consortium led by Makarere University in Uganda, co-host of the Conference, which aims to enhance the relevance and implementation of agricultural research for development by strengthening research methods. Susan Tumwebaze (Makerere University), the leader of this consortium, was present at the Conference. Susan outlined some of her research on how changes in land use is influencing soil carbon stocks and affecting the livelihoods of people in the Mount Elgon Region of Uganda.
Several other project staff gave presentations on multi-stakeholder partnerships. Adewale Adekunle (FARA), PAEPARD’s co-director, summarized lessons from the sub-Saharan Challenge Programme; Moses Osiru (RUFORUM) described RUFORUM’s Community Action Research Programme which links African universities to communities and to agribusiness. Richard Hawkins (ICRA) outlined some key issues on experiential learning and Monica Kapiriri (Lead agricultural innovation facilitator) was a member of a panel discussing issues relating to strengthening Science and Technology in Africa. Monica also launched her book ‘Thinking about my continent Africa’. Tim Chancellor (NRI/Agrinatura) met with several development partners and discussed the need for new funding mechanisms to support multi-actor agricultural research for development initiatives.
The need for universities and research organizations to engage more effectively with the private sector and civil society was highlighted in several of the Conference sessions and is reflected in the final Communiqué. This will be available shortly on the RUFORUM website at www.ruforum.org
Related: CTA-RUFORUM WEB2.0 training
The CTA organised two side events during theRUFORUM Biennial Meeting –
Day Four: The Future of African Agriculture
Two lead papers were presented:
- the first on “Emerging and Future Trends and their Impact on African Development and Agriculture in particular - Foresight predictions”; and
- a second on “Climate Change and implications on Food and Agriculture in Africa”. We have in addition, included a follow-up programme, to show case what RUFORUM is doing using a Market Place approach.
Day Five: Agricultural Tertiary Education and Training. Two lead papers were presented:
- one on “Assessment of African Capacity Development in Agriculture” to be lead by African Capacity Building Foundation and
- a second on “An overview of Investments in Agricultural Research and Higher Education in Africa” led by IFPRI.
PAEPARD participation:
Several PAEPARD partners took part in the 3rd RUFORUM Biennial Conference which was held on 24-28 September in Entebbe, Uganda. The Conference was attended by over 700 participants from across Africa and from many countries in other continents. The theme of the Conference was Partnerships and Networking for Strengthening Agricultural Innovation and Higher Education in Africa. This theme is highly relevant to PAEPARD and provided an opportunity to describe our approach and share experiences from the initiative so far.
Jonas Mugabe (FARA), African co-manager of PAEPARD gave a plenary talk on ‘Multi-stakeholder partnerships: how can African universities better engage?’ The need for higher education institutes in Africa to engage more effectively with rural communities and strengthen links with the private sector was repeatedly emphasised during Conference discussions. Jonas was able to show how universities are making important contributions to many of the multi-actor agricultural research for development consortia which PAEPARD is supporting. Amongst these is a consortium led by Makarere University in Uganda, co-host of the Conference, which aims to enhance the relevance and implementation of agricultural research for development by strengthening research methods. Susan Tumwebaze (Makerere University), the leader of this consortium, was present at the Conference. Susan outlined some of her research on how changes in land use is influencing soil carbon stocks and affecting the livelihoods of people in the Mount Elgon Region of Uganda.
Several other project staff gave presentations on multi-stakeholder partnerships. Adewale Adekunle (FARA), PAEPARD’s co-director, summarized lessons from the sub-Saharan Challenge Programme; Moses Osiru (RUFORUM) described RUFORUM’s Community Action Research Programme which links African universities to communities and to agribusiness. Richard Hawkins (ICRA) outlined some key issues on experiential learning and Monica Kapiriri (Lead agricultural innovation facilitator) was a member of a panel discussing issues relating to strengthening Science and Technology in Africa. Monica also launched her book ‘Thinking about my continent Africa’. Tim Chancellor (NRI/Agrinatura) met with several development partners and discussed the need for new funding mechanisms to support multi-actor agricultural research for development initiatives.
The need for universities and research organizations to engage more effectively with the private sector and civil society was highlighted in several of the Conference sessions and is reflected in the final Communiqué. This will be available shortly on the RUFORUM website at www.ruforum.org
Multi-stakeholder partnerships: How can African Universities better engage?
A discussion paper for RUFORUM Conference (2012)
Kapiriri NM and Mugabe, JM
The paper aims at engaging universities in a discussion on the role of universities in multi-stakeholder partnerships.
A discussion paper for RUFORUM Conference (2012)
Kapiriri NM and Mugabe, JM
The paper aims at engaging universities in a discussion on the role of universities in multi-stakeholder partnerships.
The CTA organised two side events during theRUFORUM Biennial Meeting –
- Scientific Writing for shortlisted participants of the Women in Science competition – managed by JAF, and
- InK4Dev Week – consisting of 3 parallel sessions on (a) Training of Trainers on ICM Strategy development at ARD institutions; (b) Training of Trainers on Monitoring and Evaluation of Information Projects, Products and Services (c) Sensitisation on use of ICT tools for agricultural research techniques and information sharing.
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