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Working Group 4.4
Regional farmers associations: role, value added, effectiveness and future?

French speaking working group

Resource persons

• Elisabeth Atangana (Plateforme Régionale des Organisations Paysannes d’Afrique Centrale(PROPAC))
• Ndogiou Fall (ROPPA)
• Isolina Boto (CTA)
• Sebastien Subsol (Ministère des affaires étrangères, France)

Moderator

• Florence Lasbennes (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France)

Questions to guide working group discussions

• What is the rationale for regional farmers associations in Africa? What problems do they address, and to what extent have they provided an adequate response to these problems?
• How well have regional farmers associations performed? What has been learned from successes and failures? (consider examples) What are the principal constraints on performance?
• How can links to national and sub-national farmers associations be strengthened?
• What is the likely future of regional farmers organisations?
• What are the implications for development strategies, and what do donors need to do differently?

These questions illustrate the range of issues that could be addressed by the working groups. While they should not be considered to be the only issues that may be discussed, and participants are at liberty to raise others that fall within the scope of the working groups, presenters are asked to consider giving priority to some of these questions.

Please note that all working groups are asked to consider: What are the implications for development strategies, and what do donors need to do differently?

partners: European Commission. Directorate General Development and Relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific States | Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations | Global Donor Platform for Rural Development | Department for International Development (DFID), UK | Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Germany | Irish Aid, Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland | Ministry of Foreign Affairs, France | Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Development Cooperation, The Netherlands | Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Switzerland | Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) | Deutsche Gesellschaft für technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) GmbH, Germany | InWEnt Capacity - Building International, Germany

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09.01.2009, 22:01