The Africa Resilience Forum (ARF) is a biennial event bringing together policymakers and practitioners from the humanitarian, development, peace and security communities, the public and private sectors, academia, and civil society. The objective is to exchange knowledge and innovative thinking on how to foster peace and stability in fragile and insecure contexts, and strengthen partnerships across the humanitarian, development, and peace nexus through new innovative peace financing norms, guidance, approaches, and structures.
Building on work with numerous partners, the fifth edition of ARF took ‘peace finance’ as its theme, exploring new ideas for how to scale peace-positive investment approaches that create safety, security, and sustainable peace for communities.
[picture: AfDB Vice-President Marie Laure Akin -Olugbade and Elhadj As Sy, member, Interpeace Governing Board]
Extracts of the full program
04/10 @ Session 6 @11:30 – 13:00 Scaling-up investments for Trade and Food Security
This panel explored the opportunities, and strategies for improving food security and promote peace through trade and investment.
This session was jointly developed with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
- Hon. Jeanine Milly Cooper, Minister of Agriculture, Liberia
4/10 Scaling-up investments for Trade and Food Security NOTE THE COMMENTS OF Hon. Jeanine Milly Cooper, Minister of Agriculture, Liberia ON CAADP @ - 3.05.11 I'm one of those who challenges assumptions because see how we are operating. The Ministry of Agriculture has about 1% of the national budget, the budget that is passed and ratified. The budget of the Ministry of Agriculture for 2023 is 2.8 million dollars. Our national budget is around 800 million. But when I report on budgetary allocations, we reported last year against around $30 million. This year [2023], we had a budget of about $76 million. Where's that funding coming from? We like to say: "It's ODA". It doesn't count because it's development assistance. But the government is paying those loans back. And if you're paying those loans back, that means that it is an allocation that is coming towards the agricultural sector. But we don't come in the same way according to the formula. So that's how we're doing. We have a large projectized budget. But the projectized approach to development is like drinking chicken soup with a fork. You will take some nourishment but it will take you a long time to finish that bowl of soup. And you will be struggling by the time you finally get there. It's very slow. It's very process oriented is very transactional. And it's less focus on impact. But that is what we have. And so that's what we're working with and we thank those partners, particularly the African Development Bank that looked at that specific problem in Liberia, and said we're going to help you to solve that pain point by giving us sector budget support that we can use and apply to where it is needed. Rather than apply to strict project budget lines like the analogy of chicken soup with a fork" - Dr. Beth Dunford, Vice President, Agriculture, Human and Social Development, AfDB
- Dr. Joseph Sany, Vice President, United States Institute of Peace Ayodeji Balogun, CEO, AFEX
- Dr. Apollos Nwafor, Vice President, Policy and State Capability, AGRA
- Dr. Junior Davis, Head of Research and Policy Analysis Branch, UNCTAD
- Moderated by Axel Addy, CEO, Ecocap Investment Group, Former Minister of Commerce and Industry, Republic of Liberia, and Host, Trade for Peace Podcast Strategic Partners
05/10 Accelerating Climate Finance for Sustaining Peace
Transition states
are disproportionately impacted by climate change and receive less climate
finance than non-fragile contexts. There is a growing recognition that the
inaction to address climate adaptation and mitigation can increase the risks
of violence and insecurity. This session focused on how to reconfigure the
climate finance system towards innovation, sustainability and predictability
while widening the engagement of financing actors, including the private
sector, to channel more climate finance into these environments, preventing
conflict and sustaining peace.
- Video Dr. Patrick Verkooijen CEO - Global Center on Adaptation.
- Dr. Kevin Kariuki, Vice President, Power, Energy, Climate Change and Green Growth, African Development Bank Group
- Gilles Carbonnier, Vice President, International Committee of the Red Cross
- Saoudata Walet Aboubacrine, Secretary General, TIN HINAN
- Wilford Mwanza, Founder and CEO, FordOlutions and Forbes 30 Under 30 Africa
- Moderated by Dan Smith, Director, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) This session was jointly developed with the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
05/10 @11:00 – 12:30 Session 10 Technology for Resilience
Strategies can be adopted to capitalize on the growing evidence that internet availability enhances job creation, and that poverty reduction policies to boost DTs will fuel more and better jobs for the continent, which is poised to have the largest workforce by 2030. The session will focus on how to increase productive use of digital technologies to transform economies and create jobs. It will be a practical session to learn from the experience of innovative projects across the continent.
- H.E. Salima Mormona Bah, Minister of Communication, Technology, and Innovation, Sierra Leone
- Nicholas Williams, Head of ICT Operations, AfDB Group
- Ibrahima Guimba-Saïdou, Chief Village Officer, G16 I4Dev LLC
- Winnie Karanu, Philanthropies Lead, Sub Saharan Africa, Microsoft
- Ben Mohamed Ghalmi, Founder, Ghalmi Strategies
- Marie-Reine Seshie, Co-founder and CEO, Kola Market
- Moderated by Mberry Seck, Regional Tech Advisor, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
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