GLOBAL LAUNCH EVENT FOR THE CGIAR INITIATIVE ON NATIONAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES FOR FOOD, LAND AND WATER SYSTEMS TRANSFORMATION (NPS)

National Policies and Strategies for Food, Land and Water
Systems Transformation (NPS) Initiative

May 17th, 2022
9:00-14:00 Nairobi
ILRI Campus

See related blog post.

On Tuesday, May 17^th, 2022, on the ILRI Campus in Nairobi, Kenya, the National Policies and Strategies for Food, Land and Water Systems Transformation (NPS) Initiative held its launch event. NPS is a new One CGIAR initiative that has been co-created with national and international partners with the main objectives of building policy coherence, responding to crises, and integrating policy tools at national and subnational levels in six countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The initiative is expected to make substantial, research-based contributions to improve food and water security, nutrition and livelihoods; reduce poverty and support job creation, gender equality and social inclusion; and find solutions for climate change adaptation.

The inception event introduced the NPS initiative and bring together key partners and stakeholders from Kenya and other One CGIAR initiatives to:

• Deepen partnerships at national and subnational levels, including with public sector, non-government, international organizations, and think tanks;
• Kick-off a new coherence-building mechanism across policy-focused One CGIAR initiatives working in Kenya;
• Advance planning for the development of rapid crisis response tools and the generation of demand-driven evidence;
• Start building a Community of Policy Practice (CoPP) in partnership with other initiatives, experts, and external policy partners; and
• Deepen the integration and user-friendliness of policy support tools that strengthen country-level policy analysis.

AGENDA

Event Moderator Yumna Kassim, NPS Program Manager

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Jimmy Smith
Director General, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)

Johan Swinnen
Global Director of Systems Transformation, One CGIAR and Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Harry Kimtai
Principal Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Co-operatives, Kenya

Clemens Breisinger
NPS Initiative Lead

Alan Nicol
NPS Initiative Co-Lead

Commentator:
Harold Roy-Macauley (Virtual)
Regional Director, East and Southern Africa, One CGIAR

Building Policy Coherence

Aymen Frija (Recording)
Transformational Agroecology Across Food, Land, and Water Systems (Agroecology)

Simon Heck
Resilient Cities Through Sustainable Urban and Peri-Urban Agrifood Systems (Resilient Cities)

Céline Termote
Nature-Positive Solutions for Shifting Agrifood Systems to More Resilient and Sustainable Pathways (Nature+)

Rahma Adam
Resilient Aquatic Foods for Healthy People and Planet (Res.Aquatic.Food)

Integrating Policy Tools

Tanaya Dutta Gupta
Building Systemic Resilience to Climate Variability and Extremes (ClimBeR)

Karl Pauw
Foresight and Metrics to Accelerate Food, Land, and Water Systems Transformation (Foresight & Metrics)

Mandlenkosi Nkomo
Excellence in Agronomy for Sustainable Intensification and Climate Change Adaptation (EiA)

Sirak Bahta
Sustainable Animal Productivity for Livelihoods, Nutrition and Gender inclusion (SAPLING) & Livestock, Climate and System Resilience (LCSR)

Laura Cramer
Mitigation and Transformation Initiative for Greenhouse Gas Reductions of Agrifood Systems-Related Emissions (MITIGATE+)

Responding to Crises

Steve Kemp
Digital Innovation and Transformation Initiative (DX1)

Girma Tesfahun Kassie (Virtual)
Rethinking Food Markets and Value Chains for Inclusion and Sustainability (Rethinking Food Markets)