Open-to-all launch event for the new, phase III of MAFAP on 6 April 2022!
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The official launch of 2022-2027 Monitoring and Analsying Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme will take place virtually on Wednesday, 6 April 2022 at 15.30-17 CEST/Rome time.
Joining FAO to hear about MAFAP's new mission and activities across eight partner sub-Saharan African countries will be respresentatives from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - the programme's main donor -, as well as policymakers from two MAFAP countries - Rwanda and Uganda, and global stakeholders the UK's Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and NGO the Just Rural Transition.
The agenda is as follows:
· Welcome by moderator Nozipho Tshabalala
· Opening remarks by FAO Chief Economist Máximo Torero Cullen
· Short, joint presentation on the renewed MAFAP 2022-2027 by Christian Derlagen, MAFAP Manager and Senior Economist, FAO; and Marco V. Sánchez, Deputy Director, Agrifood Economics Division, FAO
· Country champions:
o Rwanda: Chantal Ingabire, Director General of Planning, Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
o Uganda: Fred Mayanja, Commissioner for Agricultural Planning and Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries
o Uganda: Ollen Wanda, Senior Agriculture Planner, National Planning Authority
· Stakeholder voices:
o Rachel Waterhouse, Team Leader, Natural Resources, Climate and Environment Directorate, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom
o Sareh Forouzesh, Deputy Director, Just Rural Transition
· Closing remarks by Marco V. Sánchez, Deputy Director, Agrifood Economics, FAO
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