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IFPRI Special Event: 28th Annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture - 10/29/2018 - Sfan & MRuel Oct 31, 2018

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Opening remarks: Shenggen Fan, Director General, IFPRI Marie Ruel, Director of Poverty, Health and Nutrition Division, IFPRI The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is pleased to host the 28th Annual Martin J. Forman Memorial Lecture. The Annual Lecture commemorates the significant impact on international nutrition by Martin J. Forman, who headed the Office of Nutrition at USAID for more than 20 years. The annual lecturer is invited to present his or her personal, often unconventional, views about large issues dealing with malnutrition. Over recent decades, as global food systems have changed rapidly, so has the face of malnutrition. Obesity and the double burden of malnutrition have risen dramatically, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Many of these countries are using fiscal and regulatory tools to address these issues, with little evidence on their effectiveness. This lecture will discuss findings from our evaluations of these public health efforts around the world. Some surprising new results—including impressive findings on the impact of marketing and front-of-the-package profiling options—may shift the focus of our actions. However, we still have much to learn about what works and how we can sustain dietary improvements. To date, no country has successfully arrested or even slowed the rise in overweight and obesity. Our challenge is assembling a set of effective programs and policies to address the new face of malnutrition.

IFPRI Special Event: Pro-WEAI - 10/25/2018 - New WEAI resource center Oct 30, 2018

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Presenters: Audrey Pereira, Research Analyst, IFPRI Elena Martinez, Research Analyst, IFPRI Emily Myers, Research Analyst, IFPRI The pro-WEAI is a new survey-based index that builds on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and is adapted for project use with a closer focus on aspects of empowerment related to health and nutrition. The index is being developed by IFPRI’s Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2), a learning and capacity-building initiative working with 13 agricultural development projects, which is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Feed the Future (led by USAID), and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH). The GAAP2 team will introduce the latest version of the pro-WEAI as a measure of women’s empowerment and orient potential users to the WEAI Resource Center. Panelists representing organizations that are potential users of pro-WEAI will discuss how the tool can support knowledge management in their projects. The discussion will also solicit feedback from the broader development community, including donors, NGOs, and the private sector, about pro-WEAI’s usefulness in promoting women’s empowerment in agricultural projects and as part of national statistical surveys, and further discuss what policy implications can be derived from these analyses.

IFPRI Special Event: Pro-WEAI - 10/25/2018 - Presentation GAAP2 for Pro-WEAI Oct 30, 2018

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Presentation ( GAAP2 for pro-WEAI, empowerment and measurement and Pro-WEAI health and nutrition module): Presenters: Agnes Quisumbing, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Hazel Malapit, Senior Research Coordinator, IFPRI Jessica Heckert, Research Fellow, IFPRI The pro-WEAI is a new survey-based index that builds on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and is adapted for project use with a closer focus on aspects of empowerment related to health and nutrition. The index is being developed by IFPRI’s Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2), a learning and capacity-building initiative working with 13 agricultural development projects, which is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Feed the Future (led by USAID), and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH). The GAAP2 team will introduce the latest version of the pro-WEAI as a measure of women’s empowerment and orient potential users to the WEAI Resource Center. Panelists representing organizations that are potential users of pro-WEAI will discuss how the tool can support knowledge management in their projects. The discussion will also solicit feedback from the broader development community, including donors, NGOs, and the private sector, about pro-WEAI’s usefulness in promoting women’s empowerment in agricultural projects and as part of national statistical surveys, and further discuss what policy implications can be derived from these analyses.

IFPRI Special Event: Pro-WEAI - 10/25/2018 - Panel Oct 30, 2018

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Panelists: Farzana Ramzan, Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist, USAID Jenn Williamson, Senior Director of Gender and Social Inclusion, ACDI/VOCA Florence Santos, Global Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Manager, Oxfam America Anuja Kar, Economist/ Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and Impact Evaluation Specialist, World Bank Lina Salazar, Senior Economist, Inter-American Development Bank

IFPRI Special Event: Pro-WEAI - 10/25/2018 - CGrown Oct 30, 2018

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Presenter: Caren Grown, Senior Director of Gender, World Bank The pro-WEAI is a new survey-based index that builds on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and is adapted for project use with a closer focus on aspects of empowerment related to health and nutrition. The index is being developed by IFPRI’s Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2), a learning and capacity-building initiative working with 13 agricultural development projects, which is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Feed the Future (led by USAID), and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH). The GAAP2 team will introduce the latest version of the pro-WEAI as a measure of women’s empowerment and orient potential users to the WEAI Resource Center. Panelists representing organizations that are potential users of pro-WEAI will discuss how the tool can support knowledge management in their projects. The discussion will also solicit feedback from the broader development community, including donors, NGOs, and the private sector, about pro-WEAI’s usefulness in promoting women’s empowerment in agricultural projects and as part of national statistical surveys, and further discuss what policy implications can be derived from these analyses.

IFPRI Special Event: Pro-WEAI - 10/25/2018 - MRuel Oct 30, 2018

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Presenters: Marie Ruel, Director of Poverty, Health and Nutrition, IFPRI The pro-WEAI is a new survey-based index that builds on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and is adapted for project use with a closer focus on aspects of empowerment related to health and nutrition. The index is being developed by IFPRI’s Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2), a learning and capacity-building initiative working with 13 agricultural development projects, which is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Feed the Future (led by USAID), and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH). The GAAP2 team will introduce the latest version of the pro-WEAI as a measure of women’s empowerment and orient potential users to the WEAI Resource Center. Panelists representing organizations that are potential users of pro-WEAI will discuss how the tool can support knowledge management in their projects. The discussion will also solicit feedback from the broader development community, including donors, NGOs, and the private sector, about pro-WEAI’s usefulness in promoting women’s empowerment in agricultural projects and as part of national statistical surveys, and further discuss what policy implications can be derived from these analyses.

IFPRI Special Event: Pro-WEAI - 10/25/2018 - FPlace Oct 30, 2018

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Presenters: Frank Place, Director, CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets, IFPRI The pro-WEAI is a new survey-based index that builds on the Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) and is adapted for project use with a closer focus on aspects of empowerment related to health and nutrition. The index is being developed by IFPRI’s Gender, Agriculture, and Assets Project, Phase 2 (GAAP2), a learning and capacity-building initiative working with 13 agricultural development projects, which is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Feed the Future (led by USAID), and the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH). The GAAP2 team will introduce the latest version of the pro-WEAI as a measure of women’s empowerment and orient potential users to the WEAI Resource Center. Panelists representing organizations that are potential users of pro-WEAI will discuss how the tool can support knowledge management in their projects. The discussion will also solicit feedback from the broader development community, including donors, NGOs, and the private sector, about pro-WEAI’s usefulness in promoting women’s empowerment in agricultural projects and as part of national statistical surveys, and further discuss what policy implications can be derived from these analyses.

IFPRI Policy Seminar: Ag, Structural Transformation and Poverty Reduction - 10/22/2018 - RBertram Oct 23, 2018

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Discussant Robert Bertram, Chief Scientist, Bureau for Food Security, USAID Agricultural development has traditionally been among the most effective tools for reducing poverty and central to development efforts. But does this still stand today, as countries have urbanized and the world has opened up? This seminar will present key results from a recent Special Issue of World Development that add important nuances to our understanding of the critical relationship between agriculture, structural transformation and poverty reduction. Using a variety of analytical techniques, the authors, including IFPRI researchers, address the relative effectiveness of agricultural growth in reducing poverty, who benefits, where it works best, and how financing affects the outcomes.

IFPRI Policy Seminar: Ag, Structural Transformation and Poverty Reduction - 10/22/2018 - WMartin Oct 23, 2018

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Agricultural development has traditionally been among the most effective tools for reducing poverty and central to development efforts. But does this still stand today, as countries have urbanized and the world has opened up? This seminar will present key results from a recent Special Issue of World Development that add important nuances to our understanding of the critical relationship between agriculture, structural transformation and poverty reduction. Using a variety of analytical techniques, the authors, including IFPRI researchers, address the relative effectiveness of agricultural growth in reducing poverty, who benefits, where it works best, and how financing affects the outcomes.

IFPRI Policy Seminar: Ag, Structural Trans & Poverty Reduction - 10/22/2018 - LChristiaensen Oct 23, 2018

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