At present, stakeholders innovating in the agricultural field in Senegal are not yet sufficiently structured to make a system. In view of this, MAERSA plans to bring them together within an effective national agricultural innovation system (NAIS)¹ through the TAP-AIS project launched by the European DeSIRA initiative. To support it in this process, the other DeSIRA projects operating in Senegal highlight the following strategic points:

• an inclusive and decompartmentalised coordination framework, involving all sectors and stakeholders concerned, especially the agricultural organisations;
• an exhaustive mapping exercise at the national level listing ALL of the stakeholders involved, including endogenous knowledge holders;
• a system for capitalisation documenting results as well as research methods, and based on participatory monitoring-assessment.

This Policy Brief backs up these three proposals made by the DeSIRA projects operating in Senegal, as well as the way in which these projects intend to support their implementation.

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For more information, see the workshop page as well as the briefing note and the final report (available only in french).

¹ The NAIS can be defined as all of the stakeholders involved in agricultural innovation at the national level, divided into three sub-systems depending on whether they participate in agricultural production, knowledge production or support services. An effective NAIS implies the existence of an institutional and policy framework that guides the articulation between these three sub-systems.