Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy and Developement, Egerton University, is a leading provider of evidence and knowledge for accountability and learning, to catalyse agricultural and rural sector transformation.

Egerton University's Tegemeo Institute is a key participant in the 9^th Annual ReNAPRI Stakeholder Conference Looking ahead: “Strengthening Africa’s food system through increased productivity, climate resilience and adaptation” Africa.

Tegemeo Institute is advancing local leadership and innovation networks (ALL-IN) Soil. This emerged during the; Evidence to Action Conference 2022, Makerere University in Kampala Uganda. 26th to 30th September 2022.

The Institute’s researchers Dr John Olwande and Mr. John Mburu represented Egerton University in the conference organized by the International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED) and its partners.

This conferences’ theme was; “Adapting Innovative Evaluation Practices for Evidence-Based Decision Making During and Beyond Covid-19 Pandemic”. It was premised on reimagining evaluation, evidence generation, synthesis and utilization and making it more functional amidst the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond.

 Dr John Olwande presented in the side event organized by ICED for all the 12 ALL-IN projects in sub-Saharan Africa.

Tegemeo Institute-Kenya, Michigan State University and Purdue University in the US are implementing a multi-year research project on “Support for Applied Research and Analysis in Kenya and East Africa Region. (SARA-KEA)”. The project supports development programming by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Kenya and East Africa Missions in the counties of focus in Kenya.One of the study topics in the project is to examine the role entrepreneurial investor farmers play in driving agricultural transformation in Kenya. The study team conducted a listing of all farm households in 40 selected villages in Kakamega and Kisumu counties. the activity was conducted from 20^thto 31^stOctober 2022. The household survey of sampled farmers will take place from mid-November through December 2022.

Farm to Market Alliance (FtMA) is an Alliance of six agri-focused organizations whose operations are coordinated by the World Food Programme (WFP). In Kenya, FtMA’s operations began in July 2017, and currently covers thirteen (13) counties. The key value chains the program focuses on are Maize, Sorghum, Rice, and Irish potatoes, other smaller value chains of interest are Soya and Finger millet FtMA Kenya’s key objectives are to: Increase the productivity and income of smallholder farmers, develop self-sustaining Farmer Service Centres (FSCs), increase private investment and involvement in the smallholder food sector and develop evidence based documents on the FtMA model. The institute was contracted by WFP to undertake the evaluation of the FtMA project. The lead consultant is Dr Jackson Langat, Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation Officer. Training of data collection staff was undertaken at Agricultural Training Centre in Nakuru and thereafter the teams were dispatched to the field. Data collection is completed and the data management and analysis is ongoing and the evaluation report is due for submission by the 3^rd week of December 2022.

Tegemeo Institute has been in collaboration with the following Counties:.Taita Taveta https://taitatavetaassembly.go.ke/

Tegemeo Institute, an affiliate of Egerton University, led a group of farmers and agricultural enthusiasts on an extraordinary farm tour across Kenya.

The tour, which started from June 22nd to June 24th, organized in collaboration with the Kenya Agricultural Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and Agribench, aimed to promote knowledge sharing, empower farmers with the latest agricultural techniques, and provide insights into government programs.

In a major effort to shape the future of Kenya’s agriculture, Egerton University’s Tegemeo Institute hosted a conference in partnership with Michigan State University and Purdue University. With the theme, “Shaping Sustainable Futures: