PLATFORM | 9. SEPTEMBER 2021, 12:30–15:00 | CEST
Keynote Speaker
Jemimah Njuki

Director for Africa International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Panelists
Moderator
Henry Bonsu

International broadcaster and media consultant
About the event
Donors play a key role in supporting initiatives that form the foundation for collaborative efforts across food systems through their innovations, programming and investments. This independent Food Systems event of the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD) is a contribution to ensure donors and their partners collaborate to realize the full leveraging potential of donor funding.
Optimizing the catalytic and leveraging potential of donor support will be key in responding to the outcomes of the Food Systems Summit (FSS). Donor investments in food systems are relatively small compared to the investments of farmers, food sector businesses and national governments, but they are crucial for enabling and incentivizing other actors to play their part.
The event will:
The event will also launch the GDPRD stocktaking report on “Donor contributions to food systems”, a mapping of the patterns and scale of food systems-related funding and an assessment of the extent donors are embracing a food system framing and aligning their investments to the UN FSS Action Tracks.
Agenda | |
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12:30–12:40 | Opening of event: GDPRD Co-Chair |
12:40–13:00 | Keynote Speaker: Jemimah Njuki, IFPRI WATCH RECORDING ON YOUTUBE |
13:00–14:30 | High-level moderated panel Moderator: Henry Bonsu WATCH RECORDING ON YOUTUBEHigh-level speakersGerda Verburg, SUN Movement Giorgio Marrapodi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy Jim Barnhart, USAID Alvaro Lario, IFAD Carla Montesi, European Commission Martin Bwalya, AUDA-NEPAD Andrew Campbell, ACIAR |
14:30–15:00 | Launch of the GDPRD stocktaking report Moderator: Henry Bonsu WATCH RECORDING ON YOUTUBEPresentation by Jim Woodhill, AgriFoodNexus Consulting Tristan Armstrong and Conrad Rein, Co-chairs of the GDPRD |