AIDA is innovative and easy to use — government officials, analysts, researchers, and investors design a package of investments and AIDA reports how the choices affect a country’s economy and population. As such, AIDA will help governments, donors, and other partners to take agricultural investment decisions and to strengthen policy dialogues. This high-level event will launch AIDA for a set of four countries: Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, and Yemen. The event will take place as part of the inauguration of the new IFAD Innovation Talks, a platform aiming to advance innovation through mutual learning and partnerships.
IFPRI-USAID Egypt Virtual Symposium: 8 December, 2:00 – 4:00 PM (CLT)
© Mohammed Fouad 2018 The event presented key findings and policy recommendations based on research and capacity building activities conducted by IFPRI and its Egyptian partners under the USAID-funded Evaluating Impact and Building Capacity (EIBC) project. It informed Egypt’s post-COVID-19 development agenda, presented a digital monitoring tool (MAP Egypt), and identified directions for future policy […]
The political economy of COVID-19: Impacts on agriculture and food policies (Virtual Event): October 22, 2:30 – 4:00 PM (CLT)
What are COVID-19’s impacts on agriculture & food policies, and how has it altered the balance of power among urban and rural populations, the state and private sectors, and across government ministries?
COVID-19 and Social Protection: “From Effective Crisis Protection to Self-Reliance”
Basma Yassa - Senior Research Assistant, IFPRI
The economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have imposed unprecedented increasing pressure on global poverty levels. In response, governments have rapidly resorted to the use and the expansion of social safety nets to safeguard the most vulnerable from the negative implications of the outbreak of COVID-19. IFPRI held the 33rd seminar in the Evaluating Impact and Building Capacity seminar series on Tuesday, September 22 on the topic of “COVID-19 and Social protection: From Effective Crisis Protection to Self-Reliance.” The Seminar aimed to discuss [...]
IFPRI Podcast Research Talks with IFPRI: The Power of Safety Nets in Egypt
Egypt’s Minister of Social Solidarity and Social Protection Nivine El-Kabbag with IFPRI researchers Clemens Breisinger and Hoda El Enbaby share the story of IFPRI’s collaboration with the government of Egypt to evaluate the country’s first national conditional cash transfer program [...]
