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GLOBAL AGRICULTURE and FOOD SECURITY PROGRAM

GLOBAL AGRICULTURE and FOOD SECURITY PROGRAM. A presentation to CSOs in Asia. BACKGROUND. Food Crisis in 2008 High level task Force FAO W orld Food Security Committee G8, Italy $20 billion were pledged, of which about $ 6 billion were new additional funds Entrusted to World Bank. FOCUS.

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GLOBAL AGRICULTURE and FOOD SECURITY PROGRAM

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  1. GLOBAL AGRICULTURE and FOOD SECURITY PROGRAM A presentation to CSOs in Asia

  2. BACKGROUND • Food Crisis in 2008 • High level task Force • FAO W orld Food Security Committee • G8, Italy $20 billion were pledged, of which about $ 6 billion were new additional funds • Entrusted to World Bank .

  3. FOCUS • FOOD SECURITY Through • Grants, Loans, Equity investments in poorest countries mainly through governments

  4. Priorities • Scale up agri productivity including improved tech, land tenure, agri innovation • Market link including strengthened producers organizations • Reducing risk and vulnerability • rural Non-farm income • Environmental sustainability

  5. Eligible countries • East Asia : Cambodia,Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Island, Timor Leste, Tongo, Vanuata, Vietnam • Europe and Central Asia: Armenia, Azebajtan, Bosnia, Georgia, Kosovo, Kyrgz, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

  6. Recipient Countries • Bangladesh (USD 50M) • And 6 other countries (Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Togo, Haiti, Mongolia, Nigeria)

  7. Key Principles • o Country-led • o Pooling of resources • o Filling gaps • o A broad-based multilateral coalition • o Matching efforts: governance and allocation • o Finding the right framework- trust building and flexisbility

  8. Steering Committee Members • Voting: 6 donors; 6 recipient countries • Non-Voting: • Trustee, Supervising Entities, UN High Level Task Force, Donors in Non Voting Status, Recipient Reps in Non Voting Status • CSOs (3): North, Africa, Asia

  9. The Steering Committee role • Studying and Deciding • Allocating • Identifying independent experts • Informing the countries

  10. CSO Participation • Four Meetings Attended • 22 requests Made

  11. Output • 18 of 22 requests approved some with modifications (see paper) • Increased CSO Participation • PO participation in project devt guidelines • Increased participation of small holders in Private Sector Window

  12. CSO Participation • From observer to full member status • From one to three • From voluntary to Funded participation • From voting to consensus

  13. KEY ISSUES • Communicating with National Governments re CSO participation • Strategy of the GAFSP • GAFSP and other International Initiatives

  14. Where CSO engagement is now • Reflection on effectiveness of CSO engagement in the GAFSP Steering Committee • Review of CSO participation in GAFSP country projects ( by April 2011) • GAFSP-tracking CSO colleagues esp at country levels

  15. THANK YOU

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