Monitoring Agricultural Development Assistance
Joint workshop with the ONE campaign and Imperial College London: 10th May 2010
In working discussions at the end of 2009, development researchers at ONE and Imperial College London identified increasing numbers of initiatives to monitor and analyse donor commitments and disbursements of agricultural development assistance.
These different initiatives appeared to have different approaches and objectives, but potentially similar methodological challenges.
We concluded it would be useful to encourage information sharing and try to identify synergies and complementarities. On Monday 10th May, ONE and Imperial College convened a workshop to explore these ideas further.
The main objectives of the event were:
- To bring together development practitioners and researchers currently engaged in monitoring agricultural development assistance
- To share information about current activities and approaches to monitoring, including definitions of agricultural funding.
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To determine areas of overlap and how work could be mutually supportive going forward, including continued contact and information sharing in the future
The Hosts
| Name | Institution |
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| Gordon Conway | Professor of International Development, Imperial College London - Africa and Europe: Partnerships in Food and Farming |
| Laura Kelly | Director of Policy - Europe, ONE |
| Emily Alpert | Senior Policy Manager - Agriculture, ONE |
| Liz Wilson | Deputy Investigator, Imperial College London - Africa and Europe: Partnerships in Food and Farming |
| Jo Seed | Personal Assistant and Project Administrator, Imperial College London - Africa and Europe: Partnerships in Food and Farming |
The Participants
| Name (with presentations) | Institution |
|---|---|
| Richard China | Director, Policy Assistance and Programme Development Division, FAO |
| Luca Chinotti | Policy Advisor on Safety, Food and Climate Changes, OXFAM |
| Daniel Coppard | Senior Policy Advisor, Development Initiatives |
| Timothy Ellis | Assistant to the Director, FAO |
| Peter Hazell | Formerly IFPRI and the World Bank |
| Julie Howard | Executive Director, Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa |
| Emma Hughes | International Campaigner, ActionAid UK |
| Veli Koc | Researcher in the Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London |
| Richard Moberly | Food Group, DFID |
| Jenifer Piesse | Professor, Kings College London |
| Colin Thirtle | Professor, Imperial College London |
| Thomas Wallace | Student, Imperial College London |
| Steve Wiggins | Research Fellow and Programme Leader, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) |
Further Reading
- Gordon Conway and Laura Kelly's Global Food Security blog post about this work.
- Agricultural Development Assistance report by Development Initiatives commissioned by ONE (2010).
- European Agricultural Development Assistance: Preliminary Review commissioned by Imperial College (2010).
- OECD analysis on aid to agriculture
- AidData - a comprehensive development data porthole for tracking development finance
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For more information about the work of the Partnership to Cut Hunger in Africa please contact David Shiferaw at dshiferaw@gmail.com
