Digitally Enabled Resilience and Nutrition Policy Innovations

22 February 2023. Launch Event of the Digitally Enabled Resilience and Nutrition Policy Innovations (DERPIn) Project

In order to support improved planning and decision-making across food systems, AKADEMIYA2063 has recently been awarded a grant by Germany’s Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to implement the “Digitally Enabled Resilience and Nutrition Policy Innovations (DERPIn) project” over a three-year period in five African countries – Benin, Ghana, Malawi, Uganda, and Senegal – jointly with the Pan-African Farmers’ Organization (PAFO) and invited local partners.

The DERPIn project aims to foster the capacity and agility of government planners and private sector operators, including smallholder farmers and their organizations, to craft adapted, gender-sensitive, and impactful policies and programs to advance food systems transformation and enhance resilience to shocks. It does so through a combination of digitally-enabled, customizable tools, data, and analytical products to cater to the needs of a broad range of stakeholders including government, the private sector, and most crucially food systems actors including smallholder farmers.

Moreover, it will harness the synergies across several lines of work at AKADEMIYA2063, drawing from the wealth of data, evidence tools from concluded, ongoing as well as new projects in the areas of growth, poverty reduction, nutrition, vulnerability, trade, gender, remote sensing, and artificial intelligence, including the Malabo Montpellier Panel and Africa Agriculture Watch (AAgWa).

• Welcome Dr. Ousmane Badiane, AKADEMIYA2063 
• Opening Remarks Dr. Olivier Kamana, Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI), Rwanda 
• Innovation for sustainable food systems transformation Ms. Barbara Krause, GIZ 
• Introduction to the DERPIn project Dr. Katrin Glatzel, AKADEMIYA2063 
• Moving from re-building to withstanding crises: the farmers’ perspectives Dr. Babafemi Oyewole, PAFO 

The country-specific context 

• Nestor Ahoyo Adjovi - National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRAB) 
• Prof. Amos Laar – University of Ghana 
• Prof. Charles Jumbe - Center for Agricultural Research and Development (CARD) 
• Dr. Isaac Shinyekwa - Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) 
• Dr. Cheikh Sadibou Fall - Senegalese Institute of Agricultural Research (BAME-ISRA) 
• Representatives of regional (SACAU, ROPPA, EAFF) and national PAFO members

Digital platforms and tools as enablers for policy change Dr. Racine Ly, AKADEMIYA2063

Understanding, learning from, and replicating positive change Dr. Katrin Glatzel, AKADEMIYA2063 

• Next steps and conclusion Dr. Ousmane Badiane, AKADEMIYA2063