Opening alice&constance-beating famine 14-4-15-rev compress

Partners

Bob Kisyula National Director

World Vision Malawi

Welcome

Dennis GarrityWorld Agroforestry Centre

Land Regeneration in Southern Africa

Tony Rinaudo World Vision

The Impact of Farmer Managed Natural

Regeneration

Grace MalindiFormer Director,

Agricultural ExtensionSenior Consultant UN Women

The Vision for Southern Africa’s

Small Holder Farmers

Honorable Ministerof Agriculture

Dr. Allan Chiyembezkeza M.P.

Formal Opening

• Other side of auditorium (to your left)• Back of the auditorium (top

foyer)

Morning Tea Break

Constance Neely and Alice MullerFacilitators

Objectives Expected Outcomes

Process

Who is in the room?

Southern Africa• Angola• Botswana• DRC • Kenya• Lesotho • Malawi• Mozambique• Namibia• South Africa• Swaziland • Tanzania• Zambia• Zimbabwe

Eastern Africa • Dijbouti• Eritrea• Ethiopia• Kenya• South Sudan• Sudan• Uganda

West Africa

• Burkina Faso• Cameroon• Chad• Ghana• The Gambia• Mali• Niger• Nigeria• Senegal• Sierra Leone

Outside of Africa

• Australasia• Central and South America• Europe• North America

Who is in the room?

Who is in the Room?

• Government• Non-governmental Organizations• Direct land managers/practitioners• Intergovernmental Organizations• Academic and Research• Community Based Organizations• Civil Society Organizations

Who is in the room?

• Years of Experience– More than 20 years of working experience?

– Between 10 and 20 years of working experience?

– Less than 10 years of working experience?

Who is in the room?

We invite the women in the room to stand, please.

Who is in the room?

•Blue (Speakers)•Yellow (Helpers)•Pink (Media)•White (Participants)

Objectives

Within the Southern Africa Region –• Stimulating national and regional stakeholder

(governments, NGOs, donors, community) awareness and action to adopt cost effective high impact techniques to address food insecurity

• Building resilience and create robust, productive farming systems in a changing climate

• Fostering a very large transformation in thinking and practice to tackling hunger resulting in a self propelling movement

Objectives

Globally –• Stimulating awareness and action from

international participants to take and apply learning from the conference to their own spheres of influence

Expected Outcomes

• Conference Declaration• Regional and National Action Plans• Thematic and Side Event Recommendations

related to scaling up solutions• Statements of Intent – New collaborative partnerships– Put learning from conference in practice

Process

• Keynote Speakers• Thematic Groups• Field Trips• Side Events• National and Regional Action Planning

Groups• Donor and Government Feedback• Declarations of Intent

Communications

• Help Desk/Information Booth• Field Trip Sign Up by Tuesday 18.30• Ongoing Evaluation: See “How are we doing?”

Boards on both floors• Message Boards• Twitter: #beatingfamine

Rules of Engagement

Share your views, openly and honestly

Share the airspace; concise interventions

Show up on time; present in allocated time

Be fully present

It’s a working conference; be informal, and take care of yourself and each other

Rules of Engagement

Ask questions Make Friends

Build Partnerships Find Solutions

Share your ideas

Have Fun

Be flexible

We need should Can! Will! Are!

Tim Costello CEO, World Vision Australia

Jeremias MowoRegional Director, ICRAF

Remarks from the Conference Hosts

• Louise Baker, UNCCD• Elvis Paul Tangem, AU Commission• Florence Rolle, FAO Representative, Malawi• Richard Record, World Bank Malawi• Mohammed Bakarr, Global Environmental

Facility

Regional and Global Perspectives

Remainder of the DayThematic Sessions 1 & 2

Cocktail Reception

Looking at the conference agenda…

Lunch is in the Banquet Hall

6.30 Cocktail Reception – Launch of the FMNR Report16.00 Session 2.2 is moved to the Herron Room; Session 2.3 is now in Mbuna Room

Chris ReijWorld Resources Institute

Scaling-up Regreening Strategies

Martin BwalyaNEPAD

An audacious vision for reaching 25 million

farmers with Climate Smart Agriculture

Isaac NyokaSouthern Africa Regional Leader, World

Agroforestry Centre

Integrating Trees On Farms:

What Options are Available?

Mulugetta Mekuria CIMMYT

Sustainable Intensification

in Southern Africa

Constance NeelyWorld Agroforestry Centre

Changing the Decision Culture for Scaling-Up to

Achieve Desired Outcomes

Questions and Discussion

Thematic Session 3

12:30 Lunch – Banquet Hall

Looking at the conference Program…

Morning Tea

Feedback from thematic

sessions

Preparation for Country/Regional Strategy Groups

Working Group

• Angola, Botswana, Namibia• Kenya• Lesotho & Swaziland• Mozambique• Zambia• Zimbabwe• Republic of South Africa• SAR• HOA• West Africa

Malawi Working Group

• Southern– Lake shore– Highlands

• Central

• Northern

Instructions for Working Groups

• All working groups are outside between BICC & BH! • You will see a board with your working group name

and cluster of chairs• Identify a facilitator and a rapporteur• Three main areas: The vision, actions for

transformational change, and immediate next steps.• The whole of the report is done two ways:

– Typed into template, and – On a pin board

Example of a filled pinboard

This afternoon – the Vision

In your groups discuss:• The existing, relevant national policies• The characteristics and success

indicators that will be achieved over the next 10 years.

• Capture the discussion on the template and on the pinboard.

• Leave your boards and return to the plenary at 17.30.

Preparing for ThursdayField Trips

and Side Events

•Field Trips

•Side Events

See you on Thursday!