About VIFAA:
Building on previous investments in innovations for soil health and inclusive agricultural transformation by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Visualizing Insights on Fertilizer for African Agriculture (VIFAA) Program VIFAA was designed as a four-year program to holistically address the supply, demand, and use of fertilizer data. “Vifaa” means “tools” in Swahili. This program goes beyond developing data dashboards to promote data-driven fertilizer policy and programming – by effectively presenting information that matters to public and private sector actors, and then supporting them to apply it to their decision-making. VIFAA focuses on better aligning the fertilizer data supply with information needs in Kenya, Nigeria, and Ghana, bringing together disparate data from existing sources and investing in innovations for filling priority data gaps.
Since October 2018, Development Gateway (DG) has been working with technical experts from the International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), the African Fertilizer and Agribusiness Partnership (AFAP), and Wallace & Associates to ensure fertilizer data and program learnings are leveraged throughout SSA. VIFAA is engaging country and regional level stakeholders to understand their fertilizer priorities and information needs and design country-specific approaches for promoting data use.