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NEPAD Agency ABNE

Potential for Sustainability of the Association of National Biosafety Agencies in Africa

Genesis

• NEPAD Agency ABNE spear headed the establishment of the Association of NBA in 2015

• ABNE Team developed a concept paper and was distributed among stakeholders

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Rationale

• The national biosafety agency is charged with the responsibility for providing regulatory framework, institutional and administrative mechanism for safety measures in the application of modern biotechnology.

• The concept was accepted by DG/CEOs who attended the Consultative Planning Meeting for Intercessional COP MOP Support to the Africa Group in South Africa, December, 2015.

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Mission

1. The Overall spirit is to make things Better for Regulating Biosafety in Africa

2. Collaborate, Share and Enhance safe, and Responsible Work with Biotechnology

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Official Launch of ANBAA

OBJECTIVE 1

– To support African countries in implementing biosafety and regulatory activities

OBJECTIVE 2

1. To support African countries in COP-MOP related activities

2. To support African countries participation in OECD

NEPAD/ABNE strategy: Building Functional Biosafety Systems in Africa

ACTIVITIES TO ACHIEVE OBJECTIVES

• Creating an Enabling Policy, Legal and Institutional and Administrative Framework

• Building Critical Mass of Regulators with Enhanced Competencies in Biosafety Regulation

• Support for Stakeholder awareness and outreach

• Support for issues management

Sustainability of the Association • A key requirement

– Garnering political and institutional support of member countries

– Brand the association for the common goal of African regulators

Cautions

1. Foreign donor support should be pursued

2. Excessive reliance on it reduces opportunities for local resource mobilization

3. Also impedes upon generating innovative ideas which can ensure sustainable growth for NGOs.

Finding Funders

Resource Mobilization for the Association

• Discussion interphase

1. How do we telling a Compelling Technical Story

2. What is the “big dreams”

3. Know Who You’re Talking To “strike the right chord”

4. What is excited about the association - Bring on the WOW! Factor

5. KISS principle for a start – Keep It Simple, Succinct

6. Let Passion and Enthusiasm Become Infectious

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Strategies to access funding

• Do your homework

• Register on this site: http://www.africangrantmakersnetwork.org

• Review this conference opportunity – search for others: http://assembly2015.africangrantmakersnetwork.org

• AIARD (Association for International Agriculture & Rural Development) http://www.aiard.org

• DEVEX - https://www.devex.com/

• Craft your pitch

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Useful resources

Development Firms: – http://www.dai.com; http://www.tetratechintdev.com

– http://www.engilitycorp.com; http://www.socialimpact.com

– http://www.chemonics.com/; http://www.ideorg.org

– http://www.cnfa.org; http://www.fhi360.org

– http://www.qedgroupllc.com; http://www.winrock.org

– http://www.technoserve.org; http://counterpart.org

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Useful resources • Foundation Center

– http://foundationcenter.org

• Aga Khan Development Network

– http://www.akdn.org

• African Development Bank

– http://www.afdb.org/en/

• African Development Foundation

– http://www.adf.gov

• Africa Grantmakers’ Affinity Group

– http://africagrantmakers.org

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Useful resources

• Howard G. Buffett Foundation

– http://www.thehowardgbuffettfoundation.org

– Areas of work:

• Food Security, Water Security

– Partners

• Sequoia Farm Foundation

• Catholic Relief Services

• ECHO - http://www.echocommunity.org

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Useful resources • The Rockefeller Foundation

– http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org

– Areas of work: • Advance health, Revalue ecosystems, Secure livelihoods,

and Transform cities

– Funding: • Ghana: Venture Capital Trust Fund

• Uganda: Africa Innovations Institute

• Nigeria: PYXERA Global Inc.

• Ethiopia: Ethiopia Institute of Agricultural Research

• Burkina Faso: Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa

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Useful resources

• Conservation, Food, and Health Organizations

– http://www.fundsforngos.org/latest-funds-for-ngos/cfh-grants-round-2-grants-up-to-us25000-for-developing-countries/

• International Development Research Centre

– http://www.fundsforngos.org/funding-schemes/grow-systematic-review-call-effects-womens-economic-empowerment-economic-growth/

• Ford Foundation

– http://www.fordfoundation.org

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Remember African leaders vision

Vision of African Union

“An integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa

driven and managed by its own citizens and

representing a dynamic force in the international

arena”

“we shall accumulate machinery and establish steel works,

iron foundries and factories; we shall link the various states

of our continent with communications; we shall astound

the world with our hydroelectric power; we shall drain

marches and swamps, clear infested areas, feed the

undernourished, and rid our people of parasites and

disease. It is within the possibility of science and technology

to make even the Sahara bloom into a vast field with

verdant vegetation for agricultural and industrial

developments” - Kwame Nkrumah 1963

“…it is within

the possibility of

science and

technology to

make even the

Sahara bloom…..”

Asante sana

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