IFPRI- ECA Talks on Partnership Potential

ECA Press Release No. 45/2008

Addis Ababa - 11 December 2008 (ECA) - The Director General, Mr. Joachim von Braun, and Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), met with the Executive Secretary, Abdoulie Janneh, and senior ECA officials at the Commission’s headquarters in Addis Ababa on 10 December 2009. Their discussions focused on areas of potential collaboration between ECA’s work programme and IFPRI’s activities in Africa.

To that end, the meeting was informed by a series of presentations by the Director of ECA’s Office of Policy and Programme Planning (on ECA’s work programme recent repositioning and new strategic focus) as well as by the Director of ECA’s Food Security and Sustainable Development Division (on ECA’s work on food security and climate change issues) and, the ECA Knowledge Management Advisor (on ECA’s new knowledge management initiative).

Following the ECA presentations, the IFPRI Director General noted that there was “a lot of common ground” between ECA’s sub regional initiatives and IFPRI’s operations in Africa and that there was now scope to establish linkages between ECA and IFPRI’s offices in Africa. In response, Mr. Janneh ended the meeting with the hope that the collaboration talks, which have now started between the two institutions, would eventually lead to the signing of a MOU so that “we can move forward”.

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