The ASARECA competitive grant program has been established to stimulate market oriented agricultural production in the region. As part of this effort ASARECA will promote agricultural technology transfer through collaboration between research and partner organizations in Eastern and Central Africa. ASARECA expects to reach this goal by:
¿ Providing competitive grants to researchers to work together with partner institutions and beneficiaries dedicated to technology transfer that shows promise for replicability and adoption;
¿ Using the experience of funded projects to develop lessons and guidelines applicable to help solve the problems of technology transfer in the region; and
¿ Supporting projects that will make a positive contribution toward the region¿s economic development through investment in agriculture.