Dissemination of General Feeding Program RCT Results
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Date
07.08.24
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Time
11:00 am > 02:00 pm UTC+02:00
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Location
Cairo, Egypt
This event is jointly hosted by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Egyptian Food Bank (EFB), Sawiris Foundation for Social Development (SFSD), and the CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies (NPS).
Despite the increasing global efforts to address hunger and malnutrition, unhealthy diets are still a key driver of malnutrition worldwide, with 3 billion people unable to afford healthy diets. The need to transform our food systems to ensure sustainable, healthy diets for everyone is more urgent than ever. Achieving meaningful change will require implementing high-impact, evidence-based solutions that are adaptable, dynamic, and equitable to fit specific contexts.
This event will be dedicated to the General Feeding Program implemented in the Arab Republic of Egypt. The general feeding program seeks to empower impoverished Egyptians by providing them with monthly food packages to alleviate hunger, eliminate malnutrition, prevent non-communicable diseases, and improve the Egyptians’ quality of life. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Egyptian Food Bank (EFB) and Sawiris Foundation for Social Development (SFSD), and the CGIAR Initiative on National Policies and Strategies (NPS). look forward to increasing know-how on the best interventions when combatting malnutrition and hunger in Egypt. to. Experts will share key insights, challenges and recommendations stemming from the GFP impact evaluation. The presentations will be preceded by a panel discussion comprised of nutrition experts from different sectors and will be followed by a Q&A session.
Agenda
Master of Ceremony: Adham Hamdy
| Dissemination of General Feeding Program RCT Results | ||
| Welcoming Remarks | 11:30 AM- 11:45 AM | Mohsen Sarhan, CEO, Egyptian Food Bank (EFB)
Sikandra Kurdi, Country Program Leader International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Layla Hosni, Executive Director, Sawiris Foundation for Social Development (SFSD) |
| Panel Discussion
Motivation for the study |
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM
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Mohsen Sarhan, CEO, EFB
Ahmed Elsayed, Executive Director of J-PAL MENA Mohammed ElKarmany, Director of Learning & Strategy, SFSD Sahar Zaghloul, Professor Emeritus, NNI Moderator: Hannan ElKhayal, Principle Social Empowerment officer, Sawiris Foundation |
| General Feeding Program RCT Endline Results | 12:45 PM – 01:35 PM
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Overview of GFP (Intervention, Targeting, box and awareness components)
Aliaa Ahmed, Growth Lab’s Head and Senior Manager of Program Strategies (20 minutes) Endline Impact Evaluation Results Lina Abdelfattah, Senior Research Associate, IFPRI (20 minutes) Reflection on RCT Results Mohsen Sarhan, CEO, EFB (5 minutes) Targeting Results Mai Mahmoud, Postdoctoral Fellow, JPAL MENA (10 minutes) |
| Q&A Session | 01:35 PM – 02:00 PM | Moderator, Sikandra Kurdi, Egypt Country Program Leader and Research Fellow, IFPRI |
| Appreciation Award | ||
| Lunch & Networking
02:00 PM |
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This work is part of the CGIAR Research Initiative on National Policies and Strategies (NPS). CGIAR launched NPS with national and international partners to build policy coherence, respond to policy demands and crises, and integrate policy tools at national and subnational levels in countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. CGIAR centers participating in NPS are The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (Alliance Bioversity-CIAT), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), International Water Management Institute (IWMI), International Potato Center (CIP), International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), and WorldFish. We would like to thank all funders who supported this research through their contributions to the CGIAR Trust Fund.
