ThisCORAF and USAID partnership is underpinned by the conviction that regional approaches and interventions are efficient as an added value to national efforts in reaching out to millions of people whose livelihoods depend on agriculture and whose socio-cultural and economic circumstances are similar. The current program, Partnership for Agricultural Research, Education and Development (PAIRED) in West and Central Africa (WCA), funded by USAID was designed to undertake the needed restructuring, with the aim of transforming CORAF into a structurally sound and financially stable organization to take the lead in agricultural research and innovation in WCA.