January 2014 Telling Our Story Newsletter

USAID|Ghana’s New Mission Director Jim Bever (middle) is off to a very exciting start. Having traveled to nearly every region, Jim has participated in program launches, visited implementing partners in the field and just recently held a press roundtable briefing where he presented USAID|Ghana’s new Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) for 2013-2017.

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WASP : stakeholders and partners validated the Work Plan for 2013

Stakeholders and partners of the West Africa Seed Program (WASP) met from 25 to 27 March 2013 in Saly, Senegal to discuss the activities to be undertaken by stakeholders and partners in 2013.

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Collaboration between CORAF/WECARD and USAID-Ghana

As part of the implementation 2013 activities of the Feed the Future Program of the American agency USAID, Dr. Ernest Asiedu went to Accra on behalf of CORAF / WECARD to meet with representatives of USAID-Ghana. In concrete terms, the purpose of this meeting was to improve cooperation between CORAF/WECARD and representatives of USAID in Ghana, in particular concerning the implementation of WASP (West Africa Seed Program) and Climate Smart Agriculture.

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Monitoring and evaluation: actors ensure the quality of data of the projects funded under the partnership with USAID

From 21 to 23 January 2013, the national and regional coordinators of the six projects funded through the partnership with USAID and their partners were invited in Dakar to ensure the quality of data collected during the implementation these projects.

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Côte d’Ivoire: The West African Seed Programme (WASP) launched in Abidjan

The West Africa Seed Programme (WASP) is a new programme implemented by CORAF/WECARD with financial support of USAID. This programme aims to contribute to the achievement of the 6% annual growth in the agricultural sector by 2015, as defined by the CAADP. It participated in the implementation of CAADP pillar 4 related to the improvement of agricultural research and technology adoption and dissemination of which implementation CORAF/WECARD is responsible for in West and Central Africa.

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