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KSS Culmination Event: Taking the Learning on HDP Coherence Forward

Since USAID’s release of Programming Considerations for Humanitarian-Development-Peace (HDP) Coherence: A Note of USAID’s Implementing Partners, IDEAL’s Knowledge Sharing Series (KSS) on HDP Coherence has been convening humanitarian and resilience practitioners in 13 sessions that started in June 2022. In this 2-hour culmination event, IDEAL invited the community, once more, to look back on the key takeaways gleaned from the sessions and identify ways to apply the learning moving forward. Kevin Brown, Deputy Director, Office of Technical and Program Quality, Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, provided welcoming remarks followed by a panel discussion where guest speakers drawn out key takeaways from

Africa Agriculture Status Report 2021

TOPS/FSN Network Knowledge Sharing Meeting Program Booklet July 2014

Water Law and Governance

What is water law? Which are the legal issues related to irrigation, dam management and integrated water resources management for agriculture? What are some of the main governance issues plaguing effective and inclusive water law implementation, compliance, and enforcement Learn about AQUALEX- FAO’s legal database on national water laws and shared watercourses during this online event. Join to participate in a discussion in the context of water law and governance.

Hindsight 2020: Key Findings from the BHA FY20 COVID-19 Evaluation

Join us on September 29th to learn more about the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)’s response to COVID-19 in humanitarian contexts through the FY2020 supplemental funding. The COVID-19 Evaluation Associate Award was commissioned to determine the effectiveness, relevance, timeliness, and coordination capacity of BHA’s programming. During this presentation, the evaluation team will highlight key findings, lessons learned, high-level conclusions, and priority recommendations for future programming. We will look at both general and sector-specific findings and highlight both successful approaches and lessons learned for both ongoing COVID-19 programming and future outbreak response in humanitarian contexts. Implementing partners of this supplemental funding

Private Service Provider (PSP) Online Course Launch

Community-based savings groups provide poor households with safe and frequent opportunities to save and take loans in the convenience of their own community, thereby enabling them to accumulate assets and increase their resilience to shocks and stresses. The Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) methodology developed by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is now in use in 61 countries, reaching 196,000 groups and 4.6 million members. To ensure these groups are sustainable, CRS developed the Private Service Provider (PSP) model which sees groups formed, trained and supported by networks of community-based, fee-for-service trainers. The PSP approach was first piloted in East

What Does it Take to Be a Gender and Youth Champion?

The GAYA (Gender and Youth Activity) needs your input! On September 27, join GAYA for a participatory discussion on what core competencies are needed for gender and youth champions and how we can promote them within food security programs. Gender, Youth, and Social Dynamics (GYSD) Leads on Resilience and Emergency Food Security Activities are often hired with either a gender background or youth background, but rarely both. Hiring gender and youth staff with the right skills, and supporting them to grow those skills, is a key to program success. In 2017, the TOPS program created a Core Competencies series. These

Local Actors Enhancing Food Systems: SCALE's Creative Adaptation Award 2022

SCALE called out to humanitarian and development practitioners at the local level, who are rapidly adapting the ways in which they deliver critical aid and programming, and asked them to share with us how they are helping communities around the globe face unprecedented challenges. Three entries were selected for demonstrating this year's Creative Adaptation Award winning approaches. View their videos to learn more about their work toward enhancing food systems below: People's Choice Award: Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Empowerment, Nigeria, SOFADRIC App Donor's Choice Award: Esomchi Foundation, Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato Honorable Mention: Tailored Food and partner Kayvey Nutri Foods