PAEPARD is an ongoing 8-year project funded by the European Commission. Since 2010 PAEPARD has been working to promote new innovation process through different stakeholders to allow new projects. Its main goal is to facilitate the multistakeholder partnership between Africa and Europe, in the field of agriculture research of development (ARD).

The partnership of the projects is AGRINATURA (the European Alliance for Agricultural Knowledge for Development, which coordinates European research partners), COLEACP (private sector representative), CSA NGOs), ICRA (capacity building specialist in ARD) and CTA (Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation). Furthermore, African partners, including The African Regional Forum For Agriculture Capacity Building (RUFORUM) and Network for Policy Analysis on Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources ( FANRPAN ). The outputs follow an iterative process where the solution is tested following the goals of the project. First calls for proposals are the first attempt to form partnerships able to respond to calls for proposals from donors. The ULP (user-managed processes) represents the way the demand is designed. Finally, competitive research funds ( CRF ), incentive funds ( IF ) and communication strategy are three new tools that facilitate the formation of partnerships and the obtaining of financing for the launching of research projects.