Addressing the Crossroads of GBV, Agriculture, and Food Security

Distinguished representatives,

The United Nations Rome-based Agencies cordially invite you to a joint event on Tuesday, 28 November 2023, from 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (CET) to commemorate the 2023 International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and participate in the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence (GBV).

The event, entitled "Addressing the Crossroads of GBV, Agriculture, and Food Security," is hosted by IFAD and co-organized with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP). Experts will shed light on the adverse impact of GBV on agricultural production and food security, sharing insights from development interventions.

How to join?

The event will be held in hybrid format, in person in the Italian Conference Room at IFAD headquarters in Via Paolo di Dono, 44, Rome, and online through Zoom.

Your participation would positively contribute to our discussions.

To join the plenary session in person: please RSVP to gender@ifad.org with your name and title by noon on 27 November 2023.

To join the plenary session online: please register here:  https://bit.ly/STOPViolenceAgainstWomenandGirls

Click to download the event agenda and the concept note.

Distinguished representatives,

The Change, Delivery and Innovation Unit is pleased to share with you the video with the main highlights and messages from the 2023 IFAD Innovation Day, which focused on addressing the question: “How can we make innovation and impact investments work for rural people and vulnerable groups”.

The video is available in all IFAD languages: Arabic, English, French and Spanish. Please feel free to share it with your networks and on your social media.

We encourage you to also explore the event page and take a look at the main takeaways from the sessions. A recording of the full event is also available on the IFAD YouTube channel.

For further information, please feel free to write to: Gladys H. Morales Guevara, Senior Officer, Change Delivery and Innovation Unit at: g.moralesguevara@ifad.org or innovation@ifad.org.  

Links:

Arabic: https://bit.ly/45J3ZGR

English: https://bit.ly/44AoXGx

French: https://bit.ly/3Z2v1q2

Spanish: https://bit.ly/3Pcd04q

Event page: https://bit.ly/44SiYgm

Recording Event: https://bit.ly/469y95S

Distinguished representatives,

The Change, Delivery and Innovation Unit (CDI) at IFAD is pleased to invite you to the 2023 IFAD Innovation Day and Marketplace on Wednesday 28 June from 09.00 – 18.30 CEST at IFAD headquarters in Rome. A reception will follow from 18.30 – 20.00 CEST.

What is Innovation Day?

Innovation Day is a forum that brings together multi-stakeholders to showcase progress, opportunities and areas where strategic partnerships and co-financing could scale up innovation and enhance impact to “Make innovation and impact investments work for the rural poor".

Who is organizing Innovation Day?

The event is organised by CDI in partnership with Cariplo Factory, Global Action and the Fund for Innovation in Development with the media partnership of adnkronos. We would like to especially thank the Governments of Colombia, Finland, France, Germany and Norway for their support and contribution of their high-level representatives.

What’s on the agenda?

This year, there will be plenary sessions and a “marketplace” - an interactive open space with stands featuring innovative solutions curated by IFAD and IFAD's partners.

Opening remarks will be offered by the President of IFAD; the Minister for International Development of the Kingdom of Norway; the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia; the Director General for Development Policy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Finland; and high-level speakers from the United Nations and the private sector. The plenary sessions will address topics on:

·       Financing for innovation in rural and agricultural development.

·       Funding evidence-based innovations to rural development challenges.

·       Multi-Stakeholder partnerships to scale up innovation.

·       PITCH EVENT showcasing the winners of the IFAD Innovation Challenges.

·       Innovations for the well-being of Indigenous People.

·       Collaborating to innovate and enhance impact at a systemic level.

There will also be an open doors session with the press which will focus on the role of partnerships to finance and scale up innovation. In 2023, IFAD is enhancing collaboration with key partners in the following areas: Geospatial Information Systems (GIS), data, innovative finance, youth and capacity building.

The event agenda, concept notes and other useful background documents can be found here.

HOW TO JOIN?

·       Innovation Day is hybrid: in person at IFAD headquarters and online through Zoom.

·       Post Innovation Day reception: in person only, in the foyer of IFAD headquarters.

To join the plenary sessions in person: please RSVP to innovation@ifad.org with your name and title by close of business (Rome time) on 22 June 2023.

IFAD Innovation Talk No. 13 - “Evaluation through the lens of brain science: Building a humanized approach for better results”

Distinguished representatives, 

IFAD’s Change, Delivery and Innovation Unit (CDI) and the Independent Office of Evaluation (IOE) is pleased to invite you to attend a discussion on how brain science can enhance the transformative potential of evaluations, and how this is impacting IFAD.

During the event, Dr. Indran A. Naidoo, Director of the Independent Office of Evaluation at IFAD, and Dr. Srini Pillay, CEO of NeuroBusiness Group – will delve into the ramifications of building a humanized approach to evaluation. Renata Mirulla, Facilitator of the EvalForward community of practice at FAO, will moderate the session. This event will be in English with live interpretation to Arabic, French and Spanish.

When registering, please let us know if you are joining the event in-person or remotely. For guests registering to join us in-person, kindly note that IFAD will not be responsible for visa processing or travel costs. Deadline for in-person registrations is COB (17:00 CET) on Monday 20 March 2023.

During the session Dr. Naidoo and Dr. Pillay will address the following questions:

• The fields of neuroscience and evaluation in development contexts would appear unrelated. What prompted IOE to recognize a potential synergy between the two?
• Can the application of neuroscience-based principles improve evaluation processes?
• Can communication approaches to evaluation that encompass neuroscience-based principles trigger transformative change?
• Is IOE planning to test the application of neuroscience principles in its work to help to improve the effectiveness of IFAD? What might be some examples?
• What are the benefits of a constructive engagement between the evaluator and the evaluand?
• Why is it important to establish a psychologically safe environment where people feel open to expressing themselves during an evaluation? How can this be done, in practice, considering the constraints we work in and the different cultural and social norms that influence our behaviours?

In preparation for this session, please visit the event page and read the concept note, where you will find further information and a list of web-based resources and related publications.

For questions: Please send an e-mail to innovation@ifad.org with the subject line “IFAD Innovation Talk No. 13”.