Viv Anthony Mauritius, 1-2 February 2018 Demand-Led Plant Breeding Pan Africa Educators Leadership Meeting Session 1 Objectives and outputs Viv Anthony Mauritius, 1-2 February 2018

DLB meeting objectives Share ideas and make decisions on the content of Phase 2 programme Consult and include additional partners to strengthen and broaden the reach of DLB  

DLB meeting outputs An agreed set of partners, priorities, and programme of work that will be used to seek the next 3 years of funding from the Food Security Alliance group (ACIAR, SFSA, Crawford fund) Action plan to prepare for phase 2 and deliver remaining outputs from phase 1  

Overview of agenda and sessions Day 1 – Thursday Session leaders Session 1 Introduction and meeting objectives - Viv/Kerri Scene setting and phase 2 framework Session 2 Sharing experiences and learning from phase 1 project - JC/Viv Session 3 Phase 2 – Objective 1 DLB alumni engagement and use of best practices in breeding programmes -SH/Kerri  

Overview of agenda and sessions Day 2 – Friday Session leaders Session 4 Phase 2 - Objective 2 Acceleration variety adoption - Paul/Viv Regulatory environment Government and R&D institution policy Session 5 Phase 2 – Objective 3 -JC/Viv In-depth implementation in vegetable breeding programmes: beans and tomatoes Session 6 Decisions, next steps and actions - Viv/Kerri Phase 2 and completion phase 1