The National Policies and Strategies for Food, Land and Water Systems Transformation (NPS) Initiative will hold its launch and inception event in Kenya on May 17-18, 2022, at the ILRI Campus in Nairobi, Kenya. NPS is a new One CGIAR initiative that has been co-created with national and international partners with the main objectives of Building policy coherence, Responding to crises and Integrating policy tools at national and subnational levels in six countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The initiative is expected to make substantial, research-based contributions to improve food and water security, nutrition and livelihoods; reduce poverty and support job creation, gender equality and social inclusion; and find solutions for climate change adaptation.

The inception event will introduce the NPS initiative and bring together key stakeholders to help plan a specific work program for Kenya in the next three years.

The event is an opportunity to join hands with key partners and stakeholders from Kenya and other One CGIAR initiatives to:

• Deepen partnerships at national and subnational levels, including with public sector, non-government, international organizations, and think tanks;
• Kick-off a new coherence-building mechanism across policy-focused One CGIAR initiatives working in Kenya;
• Advance planning for the development of rapid crisis response tools and the generation of demand-driven evidence;
• Start building a Community of Policy Practice (CoPP) in partnership with other initiatives, experts, and external policy partners; and
• Deepen the integration and user-friendliness of policy support tools that strengthen country-level policy analysis.

IFPRI Participants

• Kibrom Abay, Country Program Leader/Research Fellow, IFPRI, NPS Country Initiative Lead – Egypt
• Kwaw Andam, Country Program Leader / Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI, NPS Country Initiative Lead – Nigeria
• Clemens Breisinger, NPS Initiative Lead, Country and Regional Program Leader and Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Monica Dourado, Acting Human Resources Director, IFPRI & NPS One CGIAR People & Culture Focal Point 
• Charlotte Hebebrand, Director of Communications and Public Affairs, IFPRI
• Naureen Karachiwalla, Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Juneweenex Mbuthia, Research Officer, IFPRI 
• Lensa Omune, Research Officer, IFPRI
• Karl Pauw, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI
• Johan Swinnen, Global Director, CGIAR Systems Transformation Science Group & Director General, IFPRI 
• Maria Theresa Tenorio, Research Division Contracts and Grants Manager, IFPRI & NPS One CGIAR Business Operations and Finance Focal Point

Moderator

• Yumna Kassim, Senior Research Associate, IFPRI, NPS Program Manager