Eastern Africa Parliamentary Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (EAPA - FSN)

8 to 10 March 2020 in Djibouti. In their 3rd Annual General Assembly, members of the Eastern Africa Parliamentarian Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (EAPA - FSN), underlined that now was the critical time to enact and enforce laws on food security and nutrition. They noted ensuring the allocation of an adequate share of national budgets for agricultural development and food security programmes is a priority.

Background:
Member of Parliaments (MPs) from eastern African nations established the Eastern Africa Parliamentary Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (EAPA - FSN) in April 2019 in Arusha, Tanzania. It comprises of MPs from 11 countries: Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) and the IGAD Inter-Parliamentarian Union (IPU) are also member of the Alliance. The Alliance is a subregional platform that promotes cross border sharing of experience and best practices for more advocacy work.

FAO supported the organisation of their three Annual General Assemblies held in April 2019, October 2019 and March 2020 to fast track the operationalisation of the Alliance, through the endorsement of the work plan and road map, which focus on the means by which food insecurity and malnutrition in the subregion can be significantly reduced.

Resilience research and innovation

26-28 October 2015. Djibouti. The Resilience, Research and Innovation (RRI) Conference was an initiative to review the role that research and innovations can play in guiding and enhancing the interventions aimed at building resilience to drought and other shocks and stresses.

The conference organized by the Ministry of Higher Education & Research of Djibouti took stock of the research involvement towards building resilience for the population of Arid and Semi-Arid Lands as well as to analyze and discuss some of the key challenges, innovations and research experiences, with the ultimate view of making resilience a true vector of development.

Final Agenda of the Conference RRI is available here.
Consult here the presentation note in French and in English.