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Vartika Singh

Vartika Singh is a Senior Research Analyst in the Natural Resources and Resilience Unit, based in New Delhi, and a Senior Research Officer at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Humboldt University in Berlin and a guest researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) in Germany. Her research interest is in the nexus of food-water-energy and land. 

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Investing in Communities: Key to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Event organized by IFPRI and The Movement for Community-Led Development

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International Food Policy Research Institute

2033 K Street, NW, Washington, DC Fourth Floor Conference Facility

Washington, United States

April 6, 2016

  • 4:15 – 5:45 pm (UTC)
  • 12:15 – 1:45 pm (US/Eastern)
  • 9:45 – 11:15 pm (Asia/Kolkata)
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IFPRI Special Event: Investing in Communities

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One sea-change from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is Goal 16, which calls for participatory decision-making at all levels, including the community level where basic needs are met. The SDGs also call for integrated solutions – especially critical for nutrition, women’s economic empowerment and resilience – and this integration must happen at the community level.  

Building the capacity of communities to plan and take charge of their own development is a science, and diverse actors have developed systematic methodologies which some nations are now taking to national scale.

John Coonrod framed the issue; Pierre Ferrari discussed international non-governmental organizations as capacity builders; Nancy Lee addressed donors as partners; Nancy E. Wilson talked on fragile state reconstruction; and Tewodaj Mogues highlighted the role of policy research.

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