Improving Synergies at the CRP level: A4NH Plans for Phase II

Nancy Johnson, A4NH/IFPRIMAIZE Planning Meeting

Jan 24, 2017, Nairobi

L-R: S. Mann/ILRI, J. Raneri/Bioversity, A. Nguyen/ILRI

A4NH Phase II Results Framework

• Management: – 5 CGIAR centers (IFPRI, Bioversity, CIAT,

IITA, ILRI)– 2 non-CG partners (London School of

Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), and Wageningen University and Research Center (WUR))

• Geographical focus: work in 30 countries but focus in 5-- Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, and Vietnam

A4NH Phase II (in brief)

• Ways of working across CRPs: – Joint research with other CRPs, particularly in

CGIAR Country Coordination countries– Networking, capacity development and mutual

learning, conducted through FP-led learning platforms or CRP-led communities of practice

– As a bridge to global, regional, and national nutrition and health communities

A4NH Integrating Role Phase II

Integrating activities within A4NH organizational structure

Gender and nutrition community of practice started in Phase I

Platform for working with other CRPs with food systems focus

Annual convening in target countries

Collaboration with AFS CRPs in priority value chains

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• Convening agriculture, nutrition and health– 2nd Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy week 9-13

July 2017 in Kathmandu, Nepal (joint with FtF Innovation Lab for Nutrition Agriculture-Nutrition Scientific Symposium)

– Regional consultation for South Asia July 8 in Nepal and for East Africa in June (with Transform Nutrition).

– Ag-nutrition convening in India at the ICAR campus in New Delhi in early July

• Food Systems for Healthy Diets (FP1) country planning meetings in Nigeria (March) and Bangladesh (June/July)

• Gender-Nutrition workshop in Q4 (topic TBD)

Some potential activities for 2017

Collaboration with MAIZE (Annex 3.6)

Food systems (FP1) Biofortification (FP2) Food safety (FP3)Maize

Joint research

Receives: Maize value chain actors and innovations including food processing and maize-based system changes Provides: analysis of diet quality and implications for food system transformation

Receives: Breeding, genetics, varietal development; maize-based delivery and processing networks in target countries. Provides: ex-ante and ex-post impact assessments; bioavailability and nutritional efficacy; networks for nutrition and biofortification delivery; policy and regulatory enabling new nutrient-dense traits; Cooperation on food basket approaches to biofortification in LAC and Africa

Receives maize value chain innovations mainly biocontrol and post-harvest management Provides: food safety expertise (epidemiology, economics, risk assessment) and food safety risk mitigation technologies and approaches

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