High-level Food Systems Event: Leveraging Change: The Role of Donors in Food Systems Transformation
9 September 2021 @ 12:30 – 15:00 CEST
PLATFORM | 9. SEPTEMBER 2021, 12:30–15:00 | CEST
Keynote Speaker
Jemimah Njuki
Director for Africa International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Panelists
United Nations Assistant Secretary-General and Coordinator, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement
Director-General for Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy
Assistant to the Administrator, USAID Bureau for Resilience and Food Security
Officer in Charge, Associate Vice-President for External Relations and Governance; Associate Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Director, Green Deal, Digital Agenda, Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA)
European Commission
Ag Director, Knowledge Management and Programme Evaluation (KMPE), Africa Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)
Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
Director, AgriFoodNexus Consulting; Honorary Research Associate Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Senior Sector Specialist, Agricultural Development and Food Security Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) – Australia. Co-chair, GDPRD
Policy Officer, Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA), European Commission; Co-chair, GDPRD
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 | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
