Emerge Centre for Innovations – Africa

Emerge Centre for Innovations – Africa (ECI-Africa) is an international not-for-profit organization based in Nairobi, Kenya that serves clients across Africa. It has worked with over 100 organizations across the continent with a mission of promoting access to organizational development tools to African agriculture and rural development organizations to embolden them to initiate fit-for-purpose change management initiatives. Areas of practice include strategy development, participatory learning, partnership development, leadership training, team and individual mentorship, executive coaching, project/program development and implementation, and specialized multi-stakeholder process facilitation.

ECI-Africa has partnered with Meridian in multi-stakeholder process facilitation, leadership management, strategy development, results framework development, and project implementation. In 2013, the organizations partnered to develop the first strategy for the Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA), a collaboration that aims to protect crops, livestock, and people from the effects of aflatoxins by providing consistent coordination and coherent leadership to the efforts of aflatoxin control across Africa. Following this partnership, ECI-Africa and Meridian collaborated to design the PACA Partnership Platform, a biennial international stakeholder Forum, to facilitate information exchange, increase coordination among partners, and provide a space for stakeholders to cocreate aflatoxin interventions across the continent. ECI-Africa provided support to the African Union Commission in 2014 in conducting the continent-wide consultations that underpinned the development of the Malabo Declaration, and subsequently the development of the 10-year African Agriculture Strategy and the Results Framework for tracking its implementation progress. Driven by outcomes such as these, ECI-Africa is committed to continuing to realize major change in African institutions—from community to continental levels.