DAY ONE: 26 November 2024 | 9:00 – 16:30 (CET) | IFAD HQ, Rome, Italy and Zoom
High-Level Session: Catalytic Development Finance for a Sustainable and Resilient Future
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Background
This year’s AGA will engage in a series of thought-provoking questions and discussions around:
- innovative financing for food systems transformation and rural development;
- coordinating donor approaches to increasing the volume, efficiency and effectiveness of financial flows; and
- harmonized stakeholder engagement.
The AGA will build on the recommendations of the 2024 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report for donors, and the urgent need to bridge financing gaps for food systems. Overall, the AGA will build the GDPRD’s capacity to strategically influence international food systems transformation and rural development agendas.
| Agenda | ||
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| 8:30–9:00 | Welcome coffee | |
| 9:00-9:05 | Welcome by GDPRD Secretariat
Maurizio Navarra, GDPRD Secretariat Coordinator, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) |
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| 9:05-9:10 | Opening by GDPRD Chairs
Bruce Campbell, GDPRD Chair; Senior Policy Advisor, The Food Systems Section, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), and Focal Point, SDC Agriculture and Food Systems Network – Switzerland
Federica de Gaetano, GDPRD Chair; Food Security and Rural Development Expert, Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) |
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| 9:10-9:30 | Keynote Address
Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, African Union Special Envoy on Food Systems, Former Prime Minister of Niger |
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| 9:30-10:30 | Background and Scene Setting
Jim Woodhill, Senior Advisor, Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
Maximo Torero Cullen, Chief Economist, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Jo Puri, Special Adviser, Strategic Initiatives, Office of the President and Vice President, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) |
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| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-12:30 | High-Level Session: Catalytic Development Finance for a Sustainable and Resilient Future
Moderator: Agnes Johan, Head of Blended Finance, Rabo Partnerships
Attiya Waris, Professor of Fiscal Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi in Kenya and UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights in 2021 Georgia Apson, Coordinator of the World Food Forum Tanzania Chapter,
Hon. Neema Lugangira, Member of Parliament Tanzania and Board Member of the Global Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and IMF and Member of the Executive Committee of the UN Scaling Up Nutrition Movement
Ines Rocha, Regional Director Europe, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Chris Isaac, Chief Investment Officer, AgDevCo |
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| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Breakout Sessions: Drawing on the morning sessions, participants will pinpoint critical factors hindering or facilitating the effective utilization of donor resources, and the merits and synergies of different funding modalities to advance food systems transformation and rural development.
Thematic Discussion Areas Theme 1: Climate finance and vertical funds
Opening speaker: Savis Sadeghian, Senior Technical Specialist, Environment and Climate, IFAD
Moderator: Henry Bonsu, Journalist and Broadcaster Theme 2: Unlocking private capital for food systems transformation
Opening speaker: Christopher Brett, Lead Agribusiness Specialist, World Bank
Moderator: Jim Woodhill, Senior Advisor, Global Donor Platform for Rural Development Theme 3: Improving financing approaches for agri-food SMEs
Opening speaker: John Robert Okware, Country Director, Uganda, Aceli Africa
Moderator: Mandakini Surie, Senior Consultant, Global Donor Platform for Rural Development Theme 4: Innovative financing in fragile contexts
Opening speaker: Tuleen Alkhoffash, Senior Portfolio Manager, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) Special guest speaker: Kais Zuhaika, Head of Financial Institutions, Quds Bank
Moderator: Maurizio Navarra, GDPRD Secretariat Coordinator, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) |
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| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00–16:30 | Report-Back from Breakout Sessions: Moderated session with speakers and rapporteurs from the breakout sessions | |
Objectives
This session will seek to address the following fundamental questions:
