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Agricultural Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Agricultural Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Greg Traxler Senior Program Officer & Interim Deputy Director Agricultural Policies Program. May 16, 2013. Foundation Overview. 5. Monitoring, evaluation & priority setting. 1. Data & Statistics. 4. Implementation. 2.

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Agricultural Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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  1. Agricultural Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Greg Traxler Senior Program Officer & Interim Deputy Director Agricultural Policies Program May 16, 2013

  2. Foundation Overview

  3. 5 Monitoring, evaluation & priority setting 1 Data & Statistics 4 Implementation 2 Research & Policy Analysis 3 Deliberation, negotiation & policy selection How We Got Started 1997 2000 2006 2008 Warren Buffettdecides to giveBerkshire Hathawaystock. New Division – Agricultural Development Launched Policy & Statistics team added to Ag Development – (Market Access, Farmer Productivity, Science & technology) Foundation officially created Bill and Melindaread an article about rotavirus.

  4. Grantmaking Areas 25% Global Development 50% Global Health Ag Development (15%) 25% United States

  5. Agricultural Development Program • Four grantmaking programs - $400m/yr ($2B cumulative) • Science & Technology (42%) • Access & Markets (42%) • Agricultural Policies (9%) • Livestock (9%) • Grant only for sub-Saharan Africa (85%) and South Asia (15%) • All staff based in Seattle • Ag Policies team: • Data & Diagnostics (Stan Wood & Tuu-Van Nguyen) • Country Policies (Greg Traxler & Alan Rennison) • Cross-cutting (Gender, Environment, Nutrition)

  6. Our Strategy: A Two-Pronged Approach Global public goods with highest potential to impact productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia Continental Investments Global Public goods delivered by international partners Focused GeographyInvestments …paired with targeted country level delivery systems and policies

  7. Monitoring, evaluation & priority setting Data & Statistics Policy Implemen- tation Research & Policy Analysis Advocacy/Dialogue/Deliberation/policy selection A simple model of policy support

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