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    Country level (Kenya) third-party projects supervisory/monitoring mission: Back to office report
    (FARA, 2023-12) FARA
    Prompted by problems found in an earlier Uganda mission, and because third-party projects hold 65% of AIRTEA's budget, FARA and EAFF visited the Kenyan projects to check technical and financial compliance with approved work plans and contracts and to resolve conflicts. The team met lead institutions, visited beneficiaries and held debriefings with TPP004 (Koppert), TPP001 (JKUAT), TPP008 (University of Nairobi), TPP010 (Cooperative Alliance of Kenya) and TPP009 (KeFAAS), and reported on the TPP003 potato site in Nyandarua. Projects were generally on track: hybrid solar fish dryers were working, certified potato seed and drought-tolerant maize had reached farmers, cassava processors were linked to growers, and digital connectors had started businesses. Weaknesses included financial reporting gaps (no malfeasance found) and "IPs" that were really farmer groups. Lessons call for routine meetings, financial reporting training and regular backstopping.
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    Report of the AIRTEA Third-Party Kick-off Meeting, Nairobi, 28th March – 1st April 2022
    (FARA, 2022) FARA
    The five-day kick-off meeting launched implementation of AIRTEA's eleven third-party projects. It aimed to build a shared vision of the project, review EC/OACPS contracting and reporting rules, strengthen the projects' logical frameworks and the overall M&E framework, revise Year 1 work plans and budgets, explain communication and visibility requirements, and let the KCB Foundation present co-financing opportunities. The report summarizes opening speeches by the leaders of FARA, ASARECA, EAFF, the OACPS Technical Assistance Unit, the KCB Foundation and Kenya's Ministry of Agriculture. It records each project's presentation with participants' comments, plus sessions on M&E, fiduciary rules, ABLA and communication strategy. Agreed actions included revised logframes, work plans and budgets by 15 April 2022, contracts by 30 April 2022, consortium agreements and project fact sheets.
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    Report of the third-party selection process of the AIRTEA project
    (FARA, 2021-11) FARA
    The report documents how AIRTEA selected the multi-stakeholder partnership projects it would fund. A call for proposals for grants of EUR 150,000–400,000, from a third-party envelope of EUR 2,652,000, opened on 10 June 2021 and closed on 9 August 2021, with a virtual information meeting on 8 July. Of 112 applications, 75 passed eligibility and administrative checks and 37 were rejected. An Independent Evaluation Committee scored the eligible proposals. The Project Steering Committee then applied affirmative action for youth-, women- and private-sector-led proposals and raised the number of grants from six to up to fifteen. It approved 12 projects on 8 November 2021, subject to OACPS and EC no-objection. The report lists the selected projects and their distribution by lead institution type and country.