From CAADP: Addis Ababa, 23 January 2011. GAIN - the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition - and the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) are proud to announce that they signed a Memorandum of Understanding which will significantly contribute to reduce malnutrition in Africa. The agreement was co-signed today in Addis Ababa during NEPAD’s steering committee between Jay Naidoo, chair of GAIN Board and Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO of NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency.
The 7th CAADP Partnership Platform (PP) will take place in Yaounde, Cameroon in early 2011. The theme of the PP is "Mutual Accountability in the formulation and implementation of country CAADP investment plans". The venue and dates are still TBD.
The Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) has launched an offical website housing information on the fund, its recipients and the proposal process. The fund is a multilateral mechanism to assist in the implementation of pledges made by the G8++ at L’Aquila in July 2009 and set up in response to a request from the G20 in Pittsburgh in September 2009. The fund is administered by the World Bank and assist the programs resulting from the implementaiton of CAADP.
Funding for countries implementing CAADP under the World Bank-administerd Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP) has begun flowing. Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Togo are the three countries to have started receiving payments through the fund. According to a recent allAfrica.com article, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and Uganda are all also expected to beneift from the fund pending approval of their proposals.
A one-day validation workshop for a proposal for the Global Agricultural and Food Security Programme (GAFSP) was held yesterday at the Kairaba Beach Hotel.
Building Capacities for Evidence and Outcome-based Food Policy Planning and Implementation: The Example of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, Badiane, Odjo, and Ulimwengu,IFPRI Discussion Paper, August 2010