Opening alice&constance-beating famine 14-4-15-rev compress
Transcript of Opening alice&constance-beating famine 14-4-15-rev compress
Grace MalindiFormer Director,
Agricultural ExtensionSenior Consultant UN Women
The Vision for Southern Africa’s
Small Holder Farmers
Who is in the room?
Southern Africa• Angola• Botswana• DRC • Kenya• Lesotho • Malawi• Mozambique• Namibia• South Africa• Swaziland • Tanzania• Zambia• Zimbabwe
Eastern Africa • Dijbouti• Eritrea• Ethiopia• Kenya• South Sudan• Sudan• Uganda
West Africa
• Burkina Faso• Cameroon• Chad• Ghana• The Gambia• Mali• Niger• Nigeria• Senegal• Sierra Leone
Outside of Africa
• Australasia• Central and South America• Europe• North America
Who is in the room?
Who is in the Room?
• Government• Non-governmental Organizations• Direct land managers/practitioners• Intergovernmental Organizations• Academic and Research• Community Based Organizations• Civil Society Organizations
Who is in the room?
• Years of Experience– More than 20 years of working experience?
– Between 10 and 20 years of working experience?
– Less than 10 years of working experience?
Objectives
Within the Southern Africa Region –• Stimulating national and regional stakeholder
(governments, NGOs, donors, community) awareness and action to adopt cost effective high impact techniques to address food insecurity
• Building resilience and create robust, productive farming systems in a changing climate
• Fostering a very large transformation in thinking and practice to tackling hunger resulting in a self propelling movement
Objectives
Globally –• Stimulating awareness and action from
international participants to take and apply learning from the conference to their own spheres of influence
Expected Outcomes
• Conference Declaration• Regional and National Action Plans• Thematic and Side Event Recommendations
related to scaling up solutions• Statements of Intent – New collaborative partnerships– Put learning from conference in practice
Process
• Keynote Speakers• Thematic Groups• Field Trips• Side Events• National and Regional Action Planning
Groups• Donor and Government Feedback• Declarations of Intent
Communications
• Help Desk/Information Booth• Field Trip Sign Up by Tuesday 18.30• Ongoing Evaluation: See “How are we doing?”
Boards on both floors• Message Boards• Twitter: #beatingfamine
Rules of Engagement
Share your views, openly and honestly
Share the airspace; concise interventions
Show up on time; present in allocated time
Be fully present
It’s a working conference; be informal, and take care of yourself and each other
Rules of Engagement
Ask questions Make Friends
Build Partnerships Find Solutions
Share your ideas
Have Fun
Be flexible
We need should Can! Will! Are!
Tim Costello CEO, World Vision Australia
Jeremias MowoRegional Director, ICRAF
Remarks from the Conference Hosts
• Louise Baker, UNCCD• Elvis Paul Tangem, AU Commission• Florence Rolle, FAO Representative, Malawi• Richard Record, World Bank Malawi• Mohammed Bakarr, Global Environmental
Facility
Regional and Global Perspectives
Remainder of the DayThematic Sessions 1 & 2
Cocktail Reception
Looking at the conference agenda…
Lunch is in the Banquet Hall
6.30 Cocktail Reception – Launch of the FMNR Report16.00 Session 2.2 is moved to the Herron Room; Session 2.3 is now in Mbuna Room
Martin BwalyaNEPAD
An audacious vision for reaching 25 million
farmers with Climate Smart Agriculture
Isaac NyokaSouthern Africa Regional Leader, World
Agroforestry Centre
Integrating Trees On Farms:
What Options are Available?
Constance NeelyWorld Agroforestry Centre
Changing the Decision Culture for Scaling-Up to
Achieve Desired Outcomes
Preparation for Country/Regional Strategy Groups
Working Group
• Angola, Botswana, Namibia• Kenya• Lesotho & Swaziland• Mozambique• Zambia• Zimbabwe• Republic of South Africa• SAR• HOA• West Africa
Malawi Working Group
• Southern– Lake shore– Highlands
• Central
• Northern
Instructions for Working Groups
• All working groups are outside between BICC & BH! • You will see a board with your working group name
and cluster of chairs• Identify a facilitator and a rapporteur• Three main areas: The vision, actions for
transformational change, and immediate next steps.• The whole of the report is done two ways:
– Typed into template, and – On a pin board
This afternoon – the Vision
In your groups discuss:• The existing, relevant national policies• The characteristics and success
indicators that will be achieved over the next 10 years.
• Capture the discussion on the template and on the pinboard.
• Leave your boards and return to the plenary at 17.30.