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Locally-Led: Operationalizing USAID’s New Vision

Join Humentum for a new webinar series "Locally-Led". USAID’s new targets for locally-led development have generated much conversation across the sector. In this webinar, experts will unpack USAID Administrator Samantha Power’s vision for global development and provide insights on how the sector can collaborate to turn these policy propositions into reality.

SEADS Handbook Public Consultation Launch

The draft of the SEADS Handbook will be ready for review and feedback on 17 January 2022. This first edition of SEADS will support donors, program managers, technical experts, and others to design, plan, implement, and evaluate crop-related crisis response before, during, and after emergencies. During the webinar, the SEADS team will provide an overview of the handbook, showcase the public consultation platform, give some tips to make the feedback process as easy as possible, and answer questions. This event will be held in English.

Climate Knowledge Co-Production

Co-production of knowledge is a collaborative process that brings together different people, experiences and perspectives, to generate trust, collaboration, new knowledge and better long-term strategies. It has been used in fields such as healthcare to make services more relevant to users. Weather and climate services are increasingly using co-production principles as a way to ensure climate services address the needs and preferences of different communities, governments and other stakeholders. In this webinar, learning will be shared from two recently completed programs— Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) and Weather and Climate Information Services for Africa (WISER)— that used a range of

COVID-19: Implications for Global and Country-Level Food Security, Nutrition, and Poverty

About the Event COVID-19 threatens devastating impacts on food security, poverty, and nutrition, particularly in developing countries. IFPRI researchers are taking an early look at the pandemic’s global and country-level implications. Introduction Introduction with a focus on Economic Impacts / Implications: Johan Swinnen, Director General, IFPRI Rapid Fire Presentations Global implications for food security and poverty: David Laborde Debucquet, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Country-level implications for food security and poverty: James Thurlow, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Developments in India and implications for food security and nutrition: Purnima Menon, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI Developments in China and implications for food security

Sharing to Survive: The Role of Social Networks during the Yemen Crisis

Watch Recording (English) Watch Recording (Arabic) View Presentation (English) View Presentation (Arabic) Discussion notes can be viewed here (English). Join REAL for a discussion exploring the findings from a recent report on the role of social connections and social networks during Yemen’s humanitarian crisis. It is estimated that over 20 million Yemenis—66% of the population—are in need of assistance. Nonetheless, the humanitarian response in Yemen remains severely underfunded. So how are Yemenis coping? Experts on food security, research from other contexts, and Yemenis themselves have pointed to an obvious but under-recognized answer: social connections and social networks. These informal support