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Wednesday, June 15, 2022

Global donor platform Annual General Assembly

14-15 June 2022. The 2022 Annual General Assembly (AGA) was entirely dedicated to “Implementing National Pathways for Food Systems Transformation to Accelerate Progress Towards the SDGs in Times of Crisis and Conflict”.
The AGA took place in person at IFAD HQs in Rome, Italy and on zoom and streamed over the internet. The Platform is working with the donor community and other key actors to help facilitate coordination and investments across an integrated set of pathways for action. For instance, support for food systems coalitions, national pathways and other initiatives that have emerged from the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit (FSS) process is crucial, with a focus on how these initiatives can accelerate and scale up change at local and national levels. 
  • The 2022 AGA took the FSS outcomes into account, contextualizing the need to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – and in particular SDG2, zero hunger – through the strengthening of national pathways and national-level coordination of actions and agricultural and rural development strategies.
  • The AGA also held sessions on central topics to food systems transformation and rural development, such as country-level coordination, data for decision-making, rural youth employment and land governance.

14/06: Session 1: Supporting National Food Systems Transformation Pathways: Enhancing donor effectiveness and coordination at the country level in times of crises  

Enhancing donor effectiveness and coordination at the country level in times of crises

The stocktaking report on “Donor Contributions to Food Systems” and the recent white paper on “Transforming Food Systems: Directions For Enhancing The Catalytic Role Of Donors”, both launched by the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD), promote strengthening coordination among donors and other actors at all levels to improve programme complementarity and enable countryled and -owned development processes. The white paper devotes an entire chapter segment to national pathway coordination, noting that the national pathways are a key pillar of taking the UNFSS outcomes forward. This includes aligning donor investments with national pathways, monitoring and investing in national pathways, and learning lessons from national-level policy outcomes.

SCENE-SETTING KEYNOTES:
  • Gérardine Mukeshimana, Minister of Agriculture (Rwanda)
  • Claudia Sadoff, Executive Management Team Convener and Managing - Director, Research Delivery and Impact (CGIAR)
BACKGROUND BRIEF ON THE UNITED NATIONS FOOD SYSTEMS COORDINATION HUB:
  • Stefanos Fotiou, Director, Office of Sustainable Development Goals, Director, United Nations Food Systems Coordination Hub
OPENING PANEL
  • Karima Al-Hada'a, Planning and Liaison Specialist at Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN)-Yemen Secretariat - Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (Yemen)
  • Ayodeji Balogun, Chief Executive Officer of AFEX Commodities Exchange
  • Agnes Kalibata, President, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Former United Nations Special Envoy on the Food Systems Summit
  • Jyri Ollila, Coordinator for the Food Systems Summit, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (Finland)
  • Sok Silo, Secretary General of the Council for Agricultural and Rural Development (Cambodia)
  • Johan Swinnen, Global Director of Systems Transformation (CGIAR), Director-General, IFPRI Co-Chair of the Think20 Task Force on Food Security
Group country discussion sessions
  • Mahamadou Aboubacar, Coordinator and Focal Point, Haut-Commissariat de l'Initiative 3N (Cellule Nutrition, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN)-Niger)
  • Louise Aubin, United Nations Resident Coordinator (Niger)
  • Zulma Yanira Fonseca Centeno, Director of Nutrition, Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF) (Colombia)
  • David Gressly, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator (Yemen)
  • Olusola Idowu, Chair of the National Committee on Food and Nutrition (NCFN) (Nigeria)
  • Mahesh Kharel, Program Director, National Planning Commission (NPC) (Nepal)
  • Jean Claude Musabyimana, Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) (Rwanda)
  • Sara Sekkenes, United Nations Resident Coordinator (Lao People’s Democratic Republic)
  • Sisay Sinamo, Senior Program Manager at Seqota Declaration (SD) Federal Program Delivery Unit, Federal Ministry of Health (Ethiopia)
  • Julie Kasa-Kanga Tshilombo, Coordonnatrice Adjointe de la Coordination des Ressources Extérieures et du Suivi des Projets (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
SYNTHESIS PANEL - presentations reporting discussion, and concluding remarks
  • Louise Aubin, United Nations Resident Coordinator (Niger)
  • Namukolo Covic, Director General’s Representative to Ethiopia ILRI (Ethiopia)
  • Stefanos Fotiou, Director, Office of Sustainable Development Goals, Director, United Nations Food Systems Coordination Hub 
  • David Gressly, United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Yemen)
  • Ron Hartman, Director, Global Engagement, Partnership and Resource Mobilization, IFAD 
  • Sara Sekkenes, United Nations Resident Coordinator (Lao People’s Democratic Republic)
  • Rosse Noda Videa, Representate Asistente Programas, FAO (Bolivia

14/06: Session 2: Optimising date in decision making

The purpose of this session was to explore why optimizing the use of data in decision-making is a key element of implementing national pathways for food systems transformation and how more coherent and coordinated donor support for data and statistical systems can drive food systems transformation at the national level and a more coherent and effective global response to current crises. 
  • Jenna Slotin, Senior Policy Advisor, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) 
  • Joe Glauber, Senior Research Fellow IFPRI Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS) Chairman 
  • Vasco Molini, Program Manager, 50x2030 David Laborde, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI 
  • Jaron Porciello, Co-director, CERES 2030 
  • Davis Adieno, Director of Programs, GPSDD 
  • Béatrice Gakuba, Executive Director, African Women Agribusiness Network (AWAN) 
  • José Rosero Moncayo, Director, FAO Statistics Division (ESS) 
  • Conrad Rein, Policy Officer, European Commission

15/06: Session 3 - Responsible Land-Based Investing as a Strategy to Mitigate the Harms of a New Food Crisis

Panel
  • Moderator: Henry Bonsu, Journalist and Broadcaster
  • Karol Boudreaux, Senior Land and Resource Governance Advisor, USAID, and Chair, Global Donor Working Group on Land
  • Gemma Betsema, Senior Programme Advisor, Netherlands Enterprise and Development Agency, and Vice Chair, Global Donor Working Group on Land
  • Chris Penrose-Buckley, Senior Adviser, Land Policy, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, UK
  • Francisco Marques, Technical Specialist, Private Sector, IFAD
    Francisco presented: Making Private Sector Finance work for the poor @1:03:23
  • Michael Taylor, Director, International Land Coalition Secretariat at IFAD

15/06: Session 4 - Rural Youth Employment and Food Systems Transformation – Solutions in times of (multiple) crisis!

KEYNOTE: Rural youth employment within a (systemic) food systems transformation in times of crisis and conflict
  • Lauren Phillips, Deputy Director, Inclusive Rural Transformation and Gender Equality, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
PANEL DISCUSSION: Rural youth employment promotion – policy perspective and suggestions for donors

Youth perspectives 
  • Tumwebaze Khamutima, CEO, Young Farmers Champions Network (YOFCHAN), Uganda
  • Olawale Rotimi Opeyemi, Founder and CEO, JR Farms Limited, Rwanda
Country policy perspective
  • Lova Manjaka Rakotoson, Head of the Rural Training and Agricultural Extension Department, Directorate for Support to Producers' Organisation and Agribusiness, Madagascar
Continental perspective
  • Kennedy Mukulia Ayason , Policy Officer, Rural Development Division, African Union´s Commission Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Development (AUC-DARBE)
Multilateral Organization
  • Mollie Brennan, Lead Consultant, Coalition of Action on Decent Work and Living Incomes and Wages for All Food Systems Workers (DWLIW), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
  • Elvis Beytullayev, Rural Economy Specialist, International Labour Organization (ILO)

15/06: Special High-Level Session of the 2022 Annual General Assembly of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development

Building Consensus and Coordination on the Current Global Crisis Response Initiatives: The Potential Role of Donors and the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development. Co-sponsored by the European Commission, IFAD and the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development

DOWNLOAD HIGH-LEVEL SESSION NOTE
  • Jim Barnhart, Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, USAID
  • Beth Dunford, Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, African Development Bank (AfDB)
  • Gabriel Ferrero de Loma-Osorio, Chairperson of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) and Ambassador at Large for Global Food Security, Spain
  • Celine Jurgensen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative for France to the United Nations agencies in Rome
  • Sebastian Lesch, Head of Division, Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains, International Agricultural Policy, Agriculture, Rural Development, Innovation, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany
  • David Nabarro, UN Global Crisis Response Group, Food workstream co-lead and Strategic Director of 4SD
  • Satu Santala, Associate Vice-President, External Relations and Governance Department, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

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