TWG Youth Meeting Minutes 18 September 2025
Sierra Berardelli2025-10-15T11:15:50+02:00Download the PDF
The Donor Platform to co-host two official side events at CFS 53
Michelle Tang2025-10-11T09:58:47+02:00The Donor Platform will participate at the 53rd Plenary Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 53) with two side events: one on 'Blended Finance and Impact Measurement in Agrifood Systems' and the other on 'Financing Agrifood Systems Transformation'."
CFS 53 Side Event SE26 – Blended Finance and Impact Measurement in Agrifood Systems: The Catalytic Capital Framework
Michelle Tang2025-10-11T09:41:45+02:00This CFS53 Side Event (SE26), presents the GDPRD’s Thematic Working Group on Sustainable/Blended Finance and the new Catalytic Capital Framework with testing insights from donors to support more consistent assessment of impact and additionality in agri-SME blended finance. The event is co-organized by the GDPRD, IFAD, and the Agri-SME Learning Collective.
Investing in the Future of Food and Agriculture: How systems approaches can unlock impact
Michelle Tang2025-10-07T11:05:30+02:00In this interview, Corinna Hawkes, Director of Agrifood Systems and Food Safety at the FAO, highlights the urgent need and opportunity for donors to adopt systems-based approaches that can lead to real, lasting change in agrifood systems.
CFS 53 Side Event SE32 – Financing Agrifood Systems Transformation: Aligning multilateral, public and private investments
Michelle Tang2025-10-11T09:43:20+02:00This CFS53 Side Event will reaffirm the importance to double down global efforts to transform agrifood systems and strengthen multilateralism amid mounting global, declining ODA and weakening international cooperation. It will spotlight agrifood systems transformation as key to prosperity, well-being and global security. Co-organized by the GDPRD, FAO, and IFAD.
Norway’s Evolving Role in Donor Collaboration and Food Systems Finance: A Conversation with Norad’s Anders Aabo
Michelle Tang2025-09-19T10:31:01+02:00Learn how Norway is advancing food systems transformation through agri-SME finance, donor collaboration, and partnerships like the Financing for Agri-SMEs in Africa (FASA). He also highlights the GDPRD’s role in setting shared standards through its Thematic Working Group on Sustainable/Blended Finance.
Webinar – Development Finance for Youth in a Changing Landscape
Michelle Tang2025-10-06T10:59:21+02:00With major donors reducing development aid, the global development community is under pressure to do more with less. Speakers will explore how emerging financing mechanisms can contribute to youth employment creation. This is a webinar by the GDPRD's Thematic Working Group on Rural Youth Employment.
Introducing the Donor Platform High-Level Advisory Group
Michelle Tang2025-10-14T22:50:17+02:00In March 2025, the Donor Platform launched a new High-Level Advisory Group to guide the development of a White Paper on financing food systems and rural development. The global community needs a new financing model that aligns public and private capital, leverages innovation and positions agrifood systems at the centre of sustainable development.
OECD: Projections for 2025 and the near term
Michelle Tang2025-10-03T16:24:13+02:00This policy brief, “Cuts in official development assistance: OECD projections for 2025 and the near term”, examines the question of where cuts to official development assistance (ODA) may fall.
