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ClemensBreisingerandAlan Nicol(InitiativeLeadandCo-lead)
MarieCharlotteBuisson,XinshenDiao,NaureenKarachiwalla,JoyceMaru(NPSWP leads)
YumnaKassim(NPSProgramManager)
May17, 2022
National Policies
and Strategies
(NPS) Initiative
Kenya Launch Event
#NPSInitiative

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Responding to crises
Building policy coherence
Strengthening policy coherence at national level and across the One CGIAR initiative portfolio
Piloting national policy and cross-CGIAR policy coherence mechanisms
(Work Packages 1,2,3,4)
Rapid-response tools, network of experts and evidence
Community of policy practice
(Work Packages 1, 3 and 4)
Integrating policy tools
Strengthening the analytical performance of countries’ institutions
Training of Trainers (TOT) approach & user-friendly tools
(Work Packages 1, 2 and 4)
Main NPS Impact Areas:
 Nutrition, health and food security
 Poverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs
 Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
 Climate adaptation and mitigation
 Environmental health and biodiversity

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NPS institutional setup and partners in Kenya
NPS will build on the ongoing collaboration of CGIAR centers with the GOK and other
partners based on existing agreements ands memoranda of understandings.
Key initial partners:
• Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Co-operatives and other Ministries
related to Food System Transformation such as planning, water, etc.
• Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)
• Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS)
• County Governments
• Universities, think tanks, private sector, DPG-ARD group, etc.
• New partnerships.  Next session.

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NPS will work together with other ONE CGIAR
initiatives
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Number of One CGIAR initiatives per NPS
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 Kenya: country with most ONE CGIAR initiatives
 Key role of ONE CGIAR country convener

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Work Package 1 (in 2022):
Monitoring coherence of One CGIAR initiative policy research and engagement at
country level and analysis of food, land and water policies and institutions
Research methods:
Policy landscape analysis, institutional analysis, political economy.
Outputs:
One CGIAR initiatives policy research and engagement dashboard.
Policies and institutions landscape analysis framework.
Food, land and water policies and institutions flagship report.
Outcomes:
Coherent One CGIAR in country approach supporting policy uptake.
Alignment of stakeholders (including initiatives) with government policies and priorities.

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Work Package 2 (in 2022):
Integrating policy and investment tools at country level
Research methods:
Social accounting matrices (SAM), partial and general equilibrium analysis & diagnostics, household microsimulations.
Outputs:
SAM trainings and new Kenya SAM.
National and selected county/state public expenditure databases jointly developed with partner institutions
Joint public expenditure analysis with partner institutions at the national & county level
Agri-food system (AFS) performance diagnosis and
Crisis microsimulation tool
Outcomes:
In-country SAM capacity and ownership.
AFS transformation evidence and public expenditure priorities known and used by policy makers.

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Work Package 3 (in 2022):
Policy analysis and outcome measurement for crisis management and response
Research methods:
Political economy, impact evaluation, process evaluation, qualitative methods.
Outputs:
Evidence on crisis mitigation: what countries do at the time of a crisis to mitigate negative effects (ex-post). These are more
immediate analyses. Uncovering and piloting ways by which countries have set up and can set up crisis response architectures
that mitigate negative effects.
Rapid response toolkit for policy-makers  using political economy tools that draw on a 1CG community of practice as well as
process evaluation and qualitative analysis.
Outcomes:
Improved effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of programs/policies related to rapid crisis response.

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Work Package 4 (in 2022):
Rapid crisis response and policy community of practice (food/energy policy
focus)
Research methods:
Qualitative/quantitative, crisis impact narratives and policy response monitoring.
Outputs:
New Kenya NPS seminar series with Kenyan researchers, national policy makers, UN, private sector, One CGIAR, and other
stakeholders.
A Community of Policy Practice (CoPP) established focused on Food, Land and Water Systems to help CGIAR initiatives translate
coherence building analysis into practice.
Capacity building on household crisis response microsimulation model (developed under WP2) and linkage to future crisis response
policy design.
NPS Kenya website (expanding / building on existing CSSP websites/tools) to allow for easy sharing of data, papers and in support of
CoPPs.
Outcomes:
By sharing lessons at country and regional levels and across-initiatives the Kenya CoPP supports improved policy and program design.
Improved coherence and collective responses to crises at national and regional levels.

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Next steps for NPS Kenya today and beyond
• Continued deepening of our engagement with Kenyan partners and ONE CGIAR
initiatives in Kenya, today:
 Panel discussion
 Rapid-fire presentations
 Small group discussions
• After today’s event, NPS will immediately start with implementation.
• We looking forward to work with you to reach our goals for the benefit of Kenya and
the Kenyan people.

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NPS Kenya
Launch:
Initiatives Rapid
Fire Presentations

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Building Policy
Coherence

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The Agroecological Initiative will provide evidence for the transformative nature of
agroecology and its broad applicability to food, land and water system change,
including technical innovations, business models, behavioral change
communications and policy and institutional options to promote uptake.
Policy coherence work:
Assess incentives for agroecology in existing policies and institutions, consult
stakeholders on potential areas for enhancing incentives, develop an action plan and
track progress
Policy models:
We will explore linkages with other initiatives on integrating agroecology practices
and outcomes into national models
Counties in Kenya:
Kiambu, Machakos, Makueni and Muranga
Key policy partnerships:
Inter-sectoral Forum on Agrobiodiversity and Agroecology
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Transformational Agroecology Across Food, Land, and
Water Systems Aymen Frija

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• Equitable access to healthy diets for the urban poor
• Decent employment for women & youth in the urban food system
• Climate-smart, circular bioeconomy strengthening urban resilience
Tools to support policy coherence:
• Global evidence base on urban food programming
• (Virtual) Center of Excellence on urban food systems research and innovation
Policy models:
• Integration of elements of global food policy and urban resilience models
• Milan Urban Food Policy Pact monitoring framework
Cities in Kenya: Nairobi (other cities in future)
Key policy partnerships:
• Nairobi City County (Member of new Food Liaison Advisory Group)
• Private sector organizations (formal and informal)
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Resilient Cities Through Sustainable Urban and Peri-
Urban Agrifood Systems Simon Heck

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Initiative pitch:
• To foster an enabling environment for nature positive solutions (contributing to agroecology) and to
ensure they are embedded in existing agricultural, food, environment and climate change policies.
• To develop supportive polices and a regulatory framework that fosters an integrated seed system
(incl tree GR) adapted to farmers’ needs – esp. farmer variety registration and alternative quality
assurance mechanisms that enhance access to a range of diverse quality seeds/tree GR.
• To contribute to Genetic Resources policies, esp. on access and benefit sharing, that enhance
availability of diversity to farmers for climate change adaptation and sustainable agriculture.
Policy coherence work:
• High-level policy round tables on seed and genetic resources, access and benefit sharing; seed and
IP rights
• Co-hosted by ISFAA/MoALF nationally, County stakeholder platforms embedded in CASSCOM
• Databases/frameworks: True Cost of Food accounting; Payment for Ecosystem Services,
- Monitoring Framework spanning ABD in agriculture and conservation, water, soils and waste;
- Business Models for Waste Recycling and Circular Economy, Restauration decision Tools
Policy models: https://www.bioversityinternational.org/news/detail/a-decision-making-tool-for-countries-
to-implement-the-multilateral-system-of-access-and-benefit-shar/
Counties: Kisumu, Vihiga, Kericho, Kajiado (by extension Turkana and Nakuru)
Key policy partnerships:
ISFAA, MoALF, KALRO; GeRRI, County governments of Kisumu, Vihiga, Kericho, Kajiado, PELUM, WWF,
IUCN, Seed Savers Network, Community seed banks & farmer groups, Universities of Maseno, Masindi
Muliro, Nairobi, etc.
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Nature Positive Solutions
Céline Termote

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• To improve productivity, profitability and environmental performance of aquaculture
systems, while building disease and climate-change resilient farming systems, that meet
low-income consumers’ demand for nutritious food, through the rapid development and
delivery of improved fish strains (tilapia, carps and catfish) in Africa and Asia.
• Secure rights (governance), bring livelihood benefits for 100,000 small-scale actors in
food systems (AqFs) in Asia-Pacific and more nutritious diets for 700,000 people.
• Develop and implement Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) strategies to
livelihood, and water use outcomes in multifunctional land- and waterscapes adopted by
stakeholders in Asian and African countries.
Policy coherence work:
• Building robust and coherent data on AqFs performance for 11 countries of focus of the
initiative (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Malawi, Myanmar, Nigeria,
Solomon Islands, Timor Leste and Zambia).
• Build partnerships, though workshops and joint research, that foster inclusion of AqFs and
actors in land-water-food systems.
Regions in Kenya: Central and Western Kenya (others to be determined).
Key policy partnerships:
• Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), Kenya Fisheries Services
(KEFS), and Aquaculture Association of Kenya (AAK), others to determined.
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Rahma Adam

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Integrating Policy
Tools

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ClimBeR aims to transform the climate adaptation capacity of food, land, and water systems in six countries: Kenya, Guatemala,
Morocco, the Philippines, Senegal, and Zambia, ultimately increasing the resilience of smallholder production systems to withstand
severe climate change effects like drought, flooding, and high temperatures.
Key themes: transformative adaptation, climate resilience, gender and social equity, climate finance, socio-ecological-technological
bundles
Policy coherence work:
• Climate Security innovations (Policy gap and coherence analysis) and scenario workshops
• Policy Pathways to be represented using a new integrated assessment framework
• Multiscale polycentric governance for resilience (Governance 4 Resilience)
Policy models:
• Climate Security Policy Toolkit, Climate Security Observatory (CSO), Climate Security Index (CSI), and Climate Security Proofing
Guidelines
• iFEED: the integrated Future Estimator for Emissions and Diets (Policy Pathways)
• Multiscale polycentric governance model for reducing systemic risks and transformative adaptation (Governance 4 Resilience)
Counties in Kenya:
• Garissa County (Governance 4 Resilience)
• All work packages include a focus at the national level
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ClimBeR: Building Systemic Resilience to Climate
Variability and Extremes
Key policy partnerships:
• Kenya Meteorological Department, IPCC focal point for Kenya
• Ministry of Agriculture Livestock Fisheries and Cooperatives
• Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Climate Change
Directorate
• National Drought Management Authority (NDMA)
• African Group of Negotiators Expert Support (AGNES)
• Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis
(KIPPRA)
• Intergovernmental Authority on Development Centers (IGAD
Centers: ICPAC, CEWARN, ICPALD)
• Regional Centre For Mapping Of Resources For Development
(RCMRD)
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Technical partners
Focus countries
Brazil
India
China
South Africa
Kenya
Rwanda
Malawi
Zambia
Bangladesh
Focus regions
F&M | Foresight & Metrics Initiative
Food system diagnostics
(NPS builds the SAM)
Policy prioritization
(NPS has a subnational focus)
Economywide metrics
(NPS engages government)
Four Work Packages
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2
3
4
• Integrated modeling tools (e.g., RIAPA + Climate + Microsimulation)
• Simultaneously assess multiple policy & investment options
• Multiple economic, environmental & welfare outcomes
• Poverty, incomes & jobs (AgGDP+, AgEMP+)
• Inequality & economic mobility (WIST)
• Resilience & emissions (AgGHG+)
• Biodiversity & water use (AgWater+)
• Diets & food security (ReDD)
WP2(4) aligned to NPS
Key Innovations for Increased Policy Coherence
CGIAR: ABC, CIMMYT, IFPRI, ILRI, IWMI
Kenya partners: KIPPRA, ReNAPRI (Tegemeo), Government
Indonesia
Nepal
Medium to long-term challenges;
strategic opportunities at global &
regional scales
Modeling analysis with national
partners to inform policy &
investment decisions; focus on
climate risks & resilience
Enhance access to and
transparency of foresight
modeling tools & metrics
Enhance partners’ analytical
capacity through collaborative
research & structured training
WP1:
Global
trends &
strategies
WP2:
National
policy
priorities
WP3: Access
&
transparency
WP4: Skills
& learning
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Initiative pitch:
• Building a coordinated global agronomy R&D community to develop impactful tools.
• Facilitating partnerships with public and private sector partners to deliver scalable agronomy
solutions for smallholder farmers.
• Building and strengthening data access, analytics and insights generation to support agronomic gain
Policy coherence work:
• EiA will hold webinars on lessons learned from implementing Use Cases that scale agronomic
uptake.
• EiA will produce policy briefs to recommend approaches that can advance the scaling of modern
agronomy
Policy models developed/used: EiA will support policy influencing work to advance the
enablement of the farmer support environment to accelerate agronomy delivery and uptake.
Counties in Kenya the initiative focuses on: Working on finalizing partnerships that will support
work in Bungoma, Busia, Elgeyo Marakwet, Siaya, Kisumu, Kakamega, Homa Bay, Migori, Meru,
Tharaka Nithi, Nakuru, Narok, Nyandarua.
Key policy partnerships:
• Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources – Fertilizer Recommendation Domain
• Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation – Yield gap analysis and irrigation
optimization tools.
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Initiative pitch: SAPLING aims to fill critical productivity and value chain
competitiveness gaps by developing a pipeline of new and existing demand-driven,
co-delivered health, genetics, feed and market systems innovations. In Kenya,
SAPLING is working on dairy and chicken
Policy coherence work: livestock policy issues are embedded in some work- e.g.,
Feed policy or milk market regulations. Reach out for any livestock related policies
Policy models developed/used: improvement of modelling for livestock master
plans, including more robust gender and environment components
Counties in Kenya the initiative focuses on: tentative list for dairy
1.Makueni and Kakamega for pre-commercial dairy areas and
2.Meru, Nandi (and possibly Uasin Gishu) for high-potential dairy areas
Key policy partnerships: state department of livestock, county governments
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Sustainable Animal Productivity for Livelihoods, Nutrition
and Gender inclusion (SAPLING) Sirak Bahta

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Initiative pitch: LCSR aims to partner with public and private actors to develop and
deliver actionable innovations that measurably help producers, businesses, and
governments adapt livestock agrifood systems to climate change and reduce
gas emissions, contributing to sustainability and development goals across livestock
systems.
Policy coherence work: likely interventions include providing data and evidence for
improved decision making in relation to climate, livestock and land use policies and
land management particularly in drylands, a climate policy coherence framework,
rangelands data platform, capacity building for improved reporting of nationally
determined contributions (NDCs) and land degradation neutrality, climate security
observatory, “greening” of livestock master plans.
Policy models developed/used: LMP models with environment component,
system-focused policy models, cost-benefit analysis
Counties in Kenya the initiative focuses on:
1. For rangelands/drylands work – Baringo and Wajir in first year (TBC after this)
2. Counties for mixed crop-livestock TBC, but possible overlap with SAPLING
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1) Support stakeholders and planners to increase capacity to use co-developed
tools, data, and analyses to design food system emissions reduction strategies
2) Improve food system GHG emission monitoring and national communications to
UNFCCC
3) Develop frameworks for co-designing, adapting, testing, and mainstreaming low-
and negative-emissions food systems solutions and address the institutional
environment to enable scaling up and out of low emissions food system solutions
Policy coherence work: Stakeholder meetings, focus groups, NDC analysis,
political economic analysis
Policy models developed/used: Plan to use country CGE
Counties of focus: Kajiado, Nandi and Bomet (TBC)
Key policy partnerships: Climate Change Unit (MoALFC), Climate Change
Directorate (MoEF), AGNES
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Digital Innovation and Transformation Initiative
Research
Question
How can Digital Innovations contribute to the inclusive and sustainable Transformation
of food, land, and water systems in the Global South?
Policy
Coherence
• Digital Policy Toolbox: An online catalog of enabling policy options that support digital
innovation ecosystems and incentivize innovators to work towards poverty reduction
and jobs.
• Digital Crisis Response Framework: A policy framework that allows key decision-
makers to share data and insights rapidly in response to and anticipation of emergency
events.
• Digital Infrastructure Impact Assessment: Assessing the impacts of digital
infrastructure on food-land-water systems-level outcomes and generating impact
evidence for investments.
• Digital Advisory Impact Assessment: Assessing the impacts of using digital advisory
services on gender/social inclusion outcomes and providing support for the service
providers to improve.
Counties
in Kenya
Digital Advisory Impact Assessment work will be undertaken in Machakos to assess
the impacts of using digital advisory services on gender equality and social inclusion
(GESI) outcomes and to provide support for the service providers to improve key GESI
metrics.
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Key objective:
Influence policies and market behavior
for efficient, inclusive value chains,
greater job creation, and adoption of
sustainable practices
Rethinking Food Markets and Value Chains for Inclusion and
Sustainability
Market
incentives &
policy
support
• More employment
and higher incomes
(esp. for women &
youth)
• Less food loss
• Affordable healthy
diets
• Lower GHG
emissions
Research approach:
 Bundled innovations in food VCs and
markets
 Scaling up through market-wide incentives
 Model-based scenario analysis and
stakeholder dialogues for policy coherence
Geographic focus
 East Africa – Ethiopia, Uganda
 West Africa - Nigeria
 South Asia - Bangladesh
 Central America – Guatemala, Honduras
Girma Tasfahun Kassie and Rob Vos