Partners MeetingJune 24, 2009

policy@fanrpan.org

www.fanrpan.org

Francis Hale

FANRPAN

Communication and Advocacy

Communication

• Websites

• Networking and Project Engagements

• FANRPAN Award

• Dialogues

Websites

• www.fanrpan.org

• www.africaclimatesolution.org

Websites

• www.fanrpan.org

Websites

www.africaclimatesolution.org

Websites

www.africaclimatesolution.org• Official dissemination point for Africa - wide Civil Society Climate Change Initiative for Policy Dialogues (ACCID) Project

• Rallying point of practitioners and CSOs working on Climate Change

• Weekly distribution of newsflash – ACCID Digest - since May 2009

- Distribution to 800 core practitioners and +4 000 CSO members

- Requests for inclusion

- Endorsements

Networking and Project Engagements

1. Madrid, Spain High level Meeting on Food Security for All

2. Delhi, India Delhi Sustainable Development Summit

3. Paris Global Donor Platform for Rural Development International Organisation

4. New York, USA Intergovernmental Preparatory Meeting – UNCSD

5. Copenhagen, Denmark Beyond Kyoto-Addressing the challenges of Climate Change

6. Copenhagen, Denmark International Scientific Congress on Climate Change

7. Copenhagen, Denmark 30th Session on the Subsidiary body and UNFCC Convention Subsidiary bodies

8. Bonn, Germany IFPRI Climate Change – CGIAR Science Forum

9. Washington DC Conference on Regional Integration and Africa Food Security

10. Bonn, Germany IFPRI Climate Change Project Meeting

11. Iowa, USA World Food Prize

12. India, Thailand and China Australian Habitat Studies, International Executive Workshop

13. Caribbean The Caribbean Week of Agriculture

UN/Global Engagements

Networking and Project EngagementsContinental Engagements1. NEPAD Offices World Bank/ NEPAD Work Program of the Sec General's High Level

Task Force on Food Security

2. Nairobi, Kenya ACCID Workshop: Post Poznan Conference, feedback and Training

3. Nairobi, Kenya COMESA Climate Workshop

4. Windhoek, Namibia African Agriculture in the 21st Century: Meeting the Challenges, Making a Sustainable Green Revolution High level Meeting

5. Nairobi, Kenya AGRA Regional Markets Conference

6. Accra, Ghana FARA NSF 3 Annual Programme Planning Meeting

7. Midrand, South Africa CAADP Partnership Platform Meeting

8. Lusaka, Zambia Regional Conservation Agriculture Tour

9. Accra, Ghana IFS / AWARD / CGIAR Proposal & Scientific Writing Training

10. Kadoma, Zimbabwe COMESA Climate Change Meeting

11. United Kingdom Media Tour on “Farming First” principles

12. New York, USA United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (17th CSD)

13. Nairobi, Kenya AGRA International conference on market development and poverty alleviation

14. Nairobi, Kenya Pre – AMCEN and AMCEN

15. Libya 13th AU Summit, 18th Ordinary Session

Networking and Project EngagementsRegional Engagements1. Lilongwe, Malawi Meeting with the President H.E Bingu wa Mutharika

2. Lusaka, Zambia RUFORUM Ministerial Meeting

3. Harare, Zimbabwe  SDC Workshop on Food Security

4. Pretoria, South Africa Node Coordinators’ Common Vision Meeting

5. Durban, South Africa SACAU Policy Dialogue and AGM

6. Johannesburg, South Africa Hyper Endemic Pillar Working Group Meeting

7. Lusaka, Zambia COMESA Climate Change Partners Meeting

8. Johannesburg, South Africa IDASA Public Expenditure and Smallholder Agriculture workshop

9. Gaborone, Botswana SADC – REDD

10. Livingstone, Zambia ACTESA Workplan and CAADP Compact Workshop

11. Nairobi, Kenya Kenya Private Sector Alliance Conference on Environment

12. Johannesburg, South Africa CSO – PAP Dialogue

13. Vic. Falls, Zimbabwe COMESA Policy Organs meeting and Summit of Heads of State and Government

14. Zambia IFS AWARD Training

15. Pretoria, South Africa HSRC Seminar Series - Darfur: The problem and the way out of it

16. Namibia CropLife East and Southern Africa Hub Meeting

17. Pretoria, South Africa FANRPAN Partners’ Meeting

Communication and Advocacy Teams

• Background

- Stakeholders working in silos

- Suspicion between state and non-state actors

Researchers, CSOs, Private Sector Government

• Way Forward

- Identification and mobilisation of eminent people

- Formation of thematic advocacy teams

- Engage in policy formulation processes

FANRPAN Food Security Policy Leadership Award

• Inaugural Winner 2008 – His Excellency. Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika – President of the Republic of Malawi

FANRPAN Food Security Policy Leadership Award

Next Steps

• July Receiving nominations

Call to Partners - Mobilisation of accompanying prizes

Current sponsors: CropLife International

Microsoft Corporation

• August Analysis and Adjudication

• September Award announcement - Maputo, September 2009

Annual Stakeholder Dialogue

• Annual Stakeholder Dialogue

- 1 to 5 September 2009

- Maputo, Mozambique

• “The true contribution of Agriculture to African Economies” – country studies

• Multi-stakeholder Sessions- Farmers, Researchers, Government (Ministers) Private

Sector

• Launch of Publications

• Networking and Partnerships