Annual Conference 2010 Montage

The Partnership's 2010 Forum, Putting Principles into Action: A US-Africa Forum on Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa, was packed with great content and discussions.

In convening the Forum, the Partnership focused plenary and small-group discussions on options for improving the areas deemed most critical to transforming the impact of US assistance for food security:
•Fostering new ways of working together on strategic problems-- with private business, civil society and academia in the host country and US; across USG agencies; and with the multilateral system;
•Meeting the challenge of capacity building , i.e., focusing external technical assistance in the near
term on the longer term strategic goal of building the expertise and institutions to plan, manage and
drive agricultural development agendas in-country;
•Accelerating the provision of funding support and enhancing its flexibility;
•Integrating food aid and other support to meet critical immediate needs with medium to long-term
programming for agriculture, nutrition and food security;
•Improving metrics and accountability for substantive and sustained results; and
•Telling the story of agriculture's role and successes in cutting hunger and poverty development to
sustain the public commitment to "more and better" investment

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• Breakout sessions
• Daniel Karanja
• Julie Howard
• Mark Petruniak