Events

The Child Status Network will be holding a webinar to discuss the mapping of orphans and vulnerable children programme data for decision making, which will focus on the challenges and successes of mapping orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) data and populations as well as advanced uses of mapping and GIS analysis for OVC programme support.

The presentation draws on experiences from a March 2012 MEASURE Evaluation data demand and use workshop with stakeholders working with OVC programs in Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia. During the workshop participants discussed using GIS to facilitate the use and understanding of their program data, and participants were introduced to the use of free, open-source GIS software called QGIS. This presentation will not include a tutorial on GIS. Rather, it will be an introduction to the value of mapping and spatial analysis for orphans and vulnerable children program support with examples from these three countries.   

The discussion will be held at 9am EST on September 26th and will be led by Jen Curran from the MEASURE Evaluation Geographic Information Systems (GIS) team. Visit Measure Evaluation for more information on connecting to the webinar. 

Stimulating Economic Development & Improving Food Security through School Feeding Programmes

May 13 – May 18, 2012

Sponsored by the Partnership For Child Development (Imperial College London) and Global Child Nutrition Foundation with technical support from the World Food Programme.

Objectives

The 2012 Forum will examine how institutionalized school feeding programs can encourage local economic growth while also improving the health and well-being of citizens.
More specifically, the Forum agenda will:

• Identify the importance of policy framework, financing, design, institutional capacity, and community participation in implementing sustainable school feeding programs.
• Improve access for smallholder farmers to stable markets through school feeding programmes.
• Highlight the importance of private sector engagement across the supply chain in improving service delivery mechanisms and expanding efficient school feeding programs.
• Provide in-depth snapshots of recent school feeding successes and challenges in Africa nations.

Agenda

DAY 1: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Theme: Stimulating Economic Development & Improving Food Security through School Feeding Programs
Chair – Government of Ethiopia

Read more: 2012 Global Child Nutrition Forum – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

In conjunction with the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Agriculture and Food, the Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College London will be hosting a parliamentary panel discussion at the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday 8th February, from 6 -7.30pm. 

This APPG meeting will focus on food security in order to raise wider awareness and stimulate dialogue on food security initiatives, including government-led school feeding programmes.

We are delighted to welcome keynote speaker: John Kufuor, former president of Ghana and 2011 World Food Prize Laureate. Others speakers will include Lead Health Specialist from The World Bank and Professor Don Bundy and Professor of International Development at Imperial College, Professor Gordon Conway.

Read more: Linking Local Agriculture, Nutrition & Education: Innovations to Improve Food Security

London, 27-29 September 2011

The Partnership for Child development are hosting a meeting to share and explore latest thinking on the development of school feeding programmes linked to smallholder farmer production. The three day meeting will bring together stakeholders from different sectors and disciplines, bridging policy, research and practice. 

This technical meeting entitled “Linking School Feeding with Agriculture Development” is part of an ongoing series of meetings framed around the development of a harmonised school feeding research agenda, with a particular focus on:

• Recent research on school feeding and links with small holder farmers 
• Understand linkages between possible effects on agriculture, nutrition and education
• Explore possible impacts on community development, governance and accountability
• Forthcoming research, including the design of the HGSF impact evaluations, HGSF and strategic grain reserves, and opportunities for reaching orphans and vulnerable children

Read more: Linking School Feeding with Agriculture Development: Technical Meeting