GLOBAL AGRICULTURE and FOOD SECURITY PROGRAM

A presentation to CSOs in Asia

BACKGROUND

• Food Crisis in 2008• High level task Force• FAO W orld Food Security Committee• G8, Italy $20 billion were pledged, of which about

$ 6 billion were new additional funds• Entrusted to World Bank .

FOCUS

• FOOD SECURITY

Through

• Grants, Loans, Equity investments in poorest countries mainly through governments

Priorities

• Scale up agri productivity including improved tech, land tenure, agri innovation

• Market link including strengthened producers organizations

• Reducing risk and vulnerability• rural Non-farm income• Environmental sustainability

Eligible countries

• East Asia : Cambodia,Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Island, Timor Leste, Tongo, Vanuata, Vietnam

• Europe and Central Asia: Armenia, Azebajtan, Bosnia, Georgia, Kosovo, Kyrgz, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Recipient Countries

• Bangladesh (USD 50M)

• And 6 other countries (Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Togo, Haiti, Mongolia, Nigeria)

Key Principles

•o Country-led

•o Pooling of resources

•o Filling gaps

•o A broad-based multilateral coalition

•o Matching efforts: governance and allocation

•o Finding the right framework- trust building and flexisbility

Steering Committee Members

• Voting: 6 donors; 6 recipient countries• Non-Voting:• Trustee, Supervising Entities, UN High

Level Task Force, Donors in Non Voting Status, Recipient Reps in Non Voting Status

• CSOs (3): North, Africa, Asia

The Steering Committee role

• Studying and Deciding

• Allocating

• Identifying independent experts

• Informing the countries

CSO Participation

• Four Meetings Attended

• 22 requests Made

Output

• 18 of 22 requests approved some with modifications (see paper)

• Increased CSO Participation• PO participation in project devt

guidelines• Increased participation of small holders

in Private Sector Window

CSO Participation

• From observer to full member status

• From one to three

• From voluntary to Funded participation

• From voting to consensus

KEY ISSUES

• Communicating with National Governments re CSO participation

• Strategy of the GAFSP

• GAFSP and other International Initiatives

Where CSO engagement is now

• Reflection on effectiveness of CSO engagement in the GAFSP Steering Committee

• Review of CSO participation in GAFSP country projects

( by April 2011)

• GAFSP-tracking CSO colleagues esp at country levels

THANK YOU