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SUMMARY:Young Africa Works Summit 2017
DESCRIPTION:The MasterCard Foundation organizes its annual Young Africa Works Summit in Kigali\, Rwanda on February 16 – 17\, 2017. This meeting will bring together 300 high-level influencers\, practitioners\, experts and youth to discuss strategies and solutions to ensure young people can actively participate in the modernization and growth of the agricultural sector in Africa. \nAt its inaugural 2015 Summit\, the foundation explored agricultural value chains as a prime source of opportunity for youth economic empowerment. The Summit fostered a rich discussion about employment challenges and solutions. For more information about the event\, please see the Summit Report. \nIn 2017\, the foundation will move the conversation forward by shifting the discussion from how to engage youth in agriculture\, to youth as drivers of agricultural transformation. This transformation holds tremendous promise for catalyzing prosperity and creating sustainable livelihoods for young people in Africa. \nRegistration information and further details will follow soon: for questions\, please contact (function(){var ml="umElDoBC3in-fkAs24g01y%arw.Fdptche"\,mi="F87GF@CPHQ9:
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SUMMARY:Workshop "G4AW Towards More Impact"
DESCRIPTION:The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and The Netherlands Space Office (NSO) have announced the Third Call of The Geodata for Agriculture and Water facility (G4AW). For this occasion NSO organizes the workshop “G4AW Towards More Impact” on February 17\, 2017 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  \nThe Geodata for Agriculture and Water (G4AW) Facility is a programme of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands Space Office is responsible for the implementation of this programme. G4AW supports projects to improve food security in partner countries.The projects are aimed to improve sustainable food production and to increase the use efficiency of inputs like seeds\, fertilizer\, pesticides and water in agriculture by providing satellite information based products and services to smallholders. Satellite data can help to generate reliable\, timely and frequent information facilitating better decision making by smallholders. Partnerships between the private and public sector are the basis for developing new services. \nInformation Meeting Third Call G4AW\nThe workshop aims to: \n\nInspire and facilitate potential partnerships for the 3rd call of the G4AW programme with objectives\, criteria\, and timeline information\nShare lessons learned and good practices from G4AW projects and related themes.\nDiscuss with project managers of the 17 ongoing G4AW projects and experts in the field of finance\, gender\, water productivity and service development\, about chances to strengthen the projects and secure a sustainable service provision.\n\nDuring this day you will learn what makes a good G4AW project\, or better\, what makes a sustainable service provision for smallholders. For example: What is a strong partnership? How do you bridge the last mile? What is a strong business case? How to address and incorporate gender? How do you monitor and evaluate your project? How do G4AW proposals contribute to development goals and create business opportunities? \nClick here for the full programme and online registration. Attendance is limited\, so if you want to participate\, please do register in time. And if you come\, do not forget to bring your ID. \n
URL:https://knowledge4food.net/event/workshop-g4aw-towards-impact/
LOCATION:Ministry of Foreign Affairs\, The Hague\, Netherlands
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