West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program 2A

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The development objective of Second Phase of the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program Project (WAAPP-2A) for Africa is to scale-up the generation, dissemination and adoption of improved technologies in the participating countries priority agricultural commodity areas. There are four components to the project, the first component being enabling conditions for regional cooperation in the generation, dissemination and adoption of agricultural technologies. This component aims at strengthening the mechanisms and procedures for the exchange of technologies, so as to allow participating countries to benefit fully from the regional cooperation in technology generation and exchange. The second component is the National Centers of Specialization, or NCoS. This component aims at strengthening regional cooperation in technology generation by aligning national priorities with the regional ones. It will support the upgrading of the NCoS into Regional Centers of Excellence (RCoE). The third component is the support to demand-driven technology generation, dissemination and adoption. This component aims at strengthening priority-focused demand-driven agricultural research and development (R&D), scale-up technology dissemination and adoption within participating countries and facilitating access to improved genetic material. Finally, the fourth component is the project coordination, management and monitoring and evaluation.