Our Benefactors
Donors and partners
The BecA-ILRI Hub owes its existence primarily to significant financial contributions from the Government of Canada through the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), the visionary support of the AU-NEPAD and the core donors of ILRI. CIDA supported renovation of existing laboratories and construction of new facilities, helping us better accommodate the needs of the region. Substantial financial and technical support critical to the sustainability of the Hub is provided by through various partnerships including:
Gates Foundation Partnership
Through its partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the BecA-ILRI Hub receives core support for operational costs as well as salaries for key staff in genomics, bioinformatics and crop breeding. The partnership also provides funding for capacity building activities at the Hub including workshop costs, funding for visiting scientists through the Africa Biosciences Challenge Fund as well as visits by Hub staff to research institutions in the region.
Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture
The partnership with the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture subsidizes the costs for research related services at the BecA-ILRI Hub, making it more accessible to African scientists and institutions. Through this partnership, the Hub also receives core support for operational activities and salaries for key staff supporting capacity building activities.
BecA Sweden Partnership
With funding from the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), the BecA-ILRI Hub, together with partners from National Agricultural Research Institutions (NARIs), African universities and regulatory bodies, private sector, international research institutes, foreign universities, CGIAR and other participants designed a number of unique research projects focused on two major issues with which agricultural developments in Africa are concerned – achieving food security and climate change mitigation.
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BecA CSIRO Partnership
The partnership between the BecA-ILRI Hub and Australia’s national science agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), is funded by the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). The research and capacity building priorities under this partnership are aligned with regional priorities defined in part by the Africa Union’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) and the Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA)
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