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How COVID-19 and the oil shock will reshape the Middle East

The Brookings Center for Middle East Policy hosted a virtual panel event to discuss how COVID–19 is likely to reshape the Middle East. The panel featured Jihad Azour, director for the Middle East and Central Asia at the International Monetary Fund, who also served as Lebanon’s finance minister from 2005-08, and Rola Dashti, undersecretary-general and executive secretary of the Beirut-based U.N.-agency Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia and a former minister of planning and development for Kuwait. The panel also included Samantha Gross, a fellow at the Brookings Institution focusing on energy and climate. Hady Amr, a nonresident senior

Asia Regional Knowledge Sharing Meeting: Learning from the Past, Shaping the Future

The Knowledge Sharing Meeting brought together over 150 implementers, donors, and researchers for peer learning, knowledge sharing, and networking around food security and nutrition program implementation in Asia. The meeting strengthened collaboration between food security and nutrition implementing partners across sectors, organizations, and funding sources, while providing a platform for discussion of new evidence and recommendations relevant to food security and nutrition programming and opportunities for exchange of ideas and problem solving around issues of common concern. Agenda Agenda-at-a-Glance Program Booklet

Francophone Knowledge Sharing Meeting

The fifth TOPS Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Network Regional Knowledge Sharing Meeting brought together 136 implementers, donors, and researchers from 39 different organizations and 17 countries for peer learning, knowledge sharing, and networking around food security and nutrition program implementation in Francophone countries. The meeting strengthened collaboration between food security and nutrition implementing partners across sectors, organizations, and funding sources, while providing a platform for discussion of new evidence and recommendations relevant to food security and nutrition programming and opportunities for exchange of ideas and problem solving around issues of common concern. Agenda Program Booklet La cinquième Réunion Partage

Resilience in Action: Improving Food Security and Nutrition Outcomes

The FSN Network Knowledge Sharing Meeting in Washington, DC took place November 13-15, 2012. The meeting brought together grantees, donors, and researchers for peer learning, knowledge sharing, and networking around implementation strategies and practices for strengthened resilience and improved food security and nutrition outcomes. Topics at the event included resilience, community engagement in nutrition, theory of change, promising practices in capacity strengthening of local organizations, agriculture nutrition linkages, fraud prevention in commodity management, USAID’s Collaborating, Learning and Adapting Framework, matching goals and resources in program-level research, motivating community health workers, and many more. Access the Agenda

East Africa Regional Knowledge Sharing Meeting

The TOPS team along with food security and nutrition grantees, donors, and researchers met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to participate in the FSN Network East Africa Regional Knowledge Sharing Meeting. The meeting featured presenters from Tango International, Tufts University, and the Gates Foundation, as well as from implementing agencies from across the region to discuss technical, management, and policy issues relevant to food security and nutrition implementation in the region. Access the Agenda

Southern Africa Knowledge Sharing Meeting

The USAID/Office of Food for Peace (FFP)-funded TOPS Program held its second Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) Network Technical Meeting to bring together food security and nutrition grantees, donors, and researchers for peer learning, knowledge sharing, and networking around improved food aid implementation. This meeting was open to participants from throughout the food security and nutrition implementing community. Please see below the list of sessions and presentations (if available). Please note that not all sessions had PowerPoint presentations. Access the Agenda

Spring 2011 FSN Network Technical Meeting

The FSN Network’s inaugural event, the Spring 2011 FSN Network Technical Meeting, took place on May 9 in Baltimore, MD. The meeting featured a keynote address by Dina Esposito, Director of USAID’s Office of Food for Peace, as well as community-building activities and concurrent sessions on key opportunities and constraints facing food security and nutrition implementers. The meeting was an opportunity for networking, sharing information, shaping agendas, learning about and influencing donor priorities, building consensus on best practices, and working to diffuse technical knowledge. Access the Agenda

Introduction to World Food Program's SCOPE/CODA

USAID's Office of Food for Peace and The TOPS Program hosted the World Food Program (WFP) as they presented a new application called SCOPE CODA (Conditional OnDemand Assistance). SCOPE CODA merges identity management with program management to register, track and manage individuals who are treated for acute malnutrition through CMAM (Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition) programming. Building upon WFP's existing beneficiary management system, SCOPE the application that provides a unified platform for monitoring and improving performance through improved data quality and increased data utilization. Discussion centered on the participants' experiences, lessons learned and the programmatic needs, and the benefits and

KM4Dev-DC Happy Hour and Learning Moment

The Knowledge Management Team of the TOPS Program hosted an informal discussion on the Role of Knowledge Management in Project Close-Out. Our KM colleagues Jennifer Dahnke from QED, Peter Hobby from the KDAD project, and Aaron Buchsbaum from the World Bank shared their experiences. Event Resources KM Project Closeout Tips [Draft Sketch Note] by Jennifer Dahnke from QED The Knowledge-Driven Microenterprise Development (KDMD) Project Final Report from the KDMD Project Learning about Learning KDMD from USAID's Learning Lab's Resource Library