**3.3 IITA's Partnerships for Delivery Directorate**

The Partnerships for Delivery (P4D) Directorate aims to establish sustainable impact at scale and continues to expand rapidly in size and complexity. The Directorate operates under the authority of the IITA Board of Trustees and the supervision of the IITA Director General under the leadership of its Deputy Director General. It includes project and administrative support mechanisms provided to six Delivery Units: Development and Delivery, Youth in agribusiness, business incubation platform, mechanization, capacity development and communications. Each of these Units supports customized programs, projects, activities, and networks. P4D responded to two major opportunities: the unfolding of the One CGIAR agenda and the Dakar 2 Feed Africa Summit. The design of P4D is proving itself very strategic. Its Development and Delivery Unit is no longer a catchall for miscellaneous projects but has become a leader in Agricultural Transformation through its linkages to sovereign country loans and significant rural development efforts. The Youth in Agribusiness Unit [72] is no longer an exploratory curiosity but rather a platform for investment in the critical empowerment of young women and men through various approaches attractive to donors and national systems. With private partners, the P4D has proven to be a driving vehicle for increasing agricultural productivity by scaling technologies, promoting value chain development, and building economically sustainable seed systems. The Business Incubation Platform [73] has become the conveyor of proven technologies to the private sector while at the same time pivoting its orientation toward social enterprise in keeping with IITA's humanitarian principles. Maize is one of the focus commodities across all these efforts.
