17th CAADP Partnership Platform Schedule

Theme: “Ending hunger in Africa by 2025 through resilient food systems."

24th November, 2021 [Day One]

11.4 AM - 12.00 AM

Meeting Room Open

SIDE EVENTS

12.00 PM - 1.30 PM

Side Event 1: Africa Soil Initiative – FARA

12.00 PM - 1.30 PM

Side Event 2: Strengthening accountability and utilization of Biennial Review results: the enhanced role for parliamentarians – AGRA

1.50 PM - 2.15 PM

Welcome Address


Meeting ground rules

2.15 PM - 4.00 PM

SESSION 1: Strengthening systemic capacity to help “build back better”


    • Session Moderator: Dr Godfrey Bahiigwa

    • Keynote Presentation & Setting the Scene

    • Panel Discussion

    • Moderated Question and Answer Session

    • Synthesis & Way forward

4.00 PM - 6.00 PM

SESSION 2: Nutrition and Food Safety

Session Moderator: Dr. J. Chris Toe

Keynote Presentation & Setting the Scene

    • Panel Discussion

    • Moderated Question and Answer Session

    • Synthesis & Way forward

25th November, 2021 [Day Two]

SIDE EVENTS

11.00 PM - 1.00 PM

PANAP Side Event

The Impact of the AfCFTA on Food Security

11.00 PM - 1.00PM

CAADP Business Meeting

Closed session

2.00 PM - 4.00 PM

SESSION 3: Agrifood Trade

Session Moderator

  • Keynote Presentation & Setting the Scene

  • Panel Discussion

  • Moderated Question and Answer Session

  • Synthesis & Way forward

4.30 PM - 6.00 PM

SESSION 4: Presentation of the AU CAADP Business Plan 2022-2025

  • The African Union is developing a business plan that will drive the CAADP agenda over the next 4 years. This session will present the key programmes being considered in the Business Plan and invite participants to offer critical feedback.

  • Moderator: Mr. Robert Ouma

  • Presenters: Dr Simplice Nouala & Dr Hamady Diop

Moderated Discussion and Q&A Session

26th November, 2021[Day Three]

2.00 PM - 5.00 PM

SESSION 5: PLENARY OPENING SESSION

  • Welcome remarks: H.E Amb. Josefa Sacko-The Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment, AUC


  • Mr. Stanlake Samkange, Chair, CAADP Development Partner Coordination Group


  • Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki- Chief Executive Officer, AUDA-NEPAD


  • Opening: Hon. Angela Thoko Didiza, Chair of the Bureau of the 3rd AU STC on Agriculture, Rural Development, Water and Environment, and Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, South Africa

Keynote Address:


Dr Agnes Kalibata, President of AGRA and UNFSS Special Envoy: “From UNFSS to Actions – what is needed to strengthen institutions and increase investments to accelerate CAADP implementation?”

  • Key highlights from Technical Sessions of the MAPLE and CAADP PP: Presented by Dr Simplice Nouala / Mr. Mamadou Diakhite

High-Level Ministerial Forum (HLMF) Panel Discussion

Session Moderator: Hon. Angela Thoko Didiza

FAO Representative – Dr. Abebe Haile Gabriel

African Development Bank – Dr Martin Fregene

Commissioner Agriculture ECOWAS 5mn Minister of Agriculture Uganda (only country on track to ending hunger in the 2nd BR report)


Minister of Agriculture Morocco

Minister of Agriculture Rwanda

Minister of Agriculture Ghana

Private Sector Representative

President of Pan-African Farmers Organization

Ministerial Statements – brief feedback from other ministers attending the meeting 3mn each

Statements by partners

Statements by CSOs

PANEL 2: HIGH LEVEL PARTNER PANEL

Session Moderator: Dr Ousmane Badiane


Panelists:

        • Director General of FAO, Mr. QU Dongyu

        • President, African Development Bank – Dr Akin Adesina

        • Deputy Assistant to the Administrator, USAID-Alexious Butler

        • President of Pan-African Farmers Organization – Nathaniel Buka

        • Director-General of IITA – Dr Nteranya Sanginga

        • World Bank Representative

        • Commissioner for Agriculture, European Union Representative

        • Continental Agribusiness Representative

        • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Representative

Partners will offer brief remarks re-committing to supporting the common CAADP agenda of ending hunger by building resilience and inclusive food systems.

Feedback from Technical Sessions

Feedback from MAPLE 2021


HEALTH BREAK

5.30 PM - 6.00 PM

SESSION 6: CLOSING CEREMONY

Session Moderator: Mrs. Estherine Lisinge Fotabong

Video on agricultural transformation - AU

Reading the 17th CAADP PP Communique: Dr Godfrey Bahiigwa.


Official Closing Remarks:

  • HE Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner of DREA, AUC

  • Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki - Chief Executive Officer, AUDA-NEPAD

  • H.E Amb. Josefa Sacko -The Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment, AUC

  • Hon. Angela Thoko Didiza - Chair of the Bureau of the 3rd AU STC on Agriculture, Rural Development, Water and Environment, and Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, South Africa