First Meeting of the Investment Action Group of the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA) Participants Documents to read in advance

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1 First Meeting of the Investment Action Group of the Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture (GACSA) Time: 10am to 5pm Date: Tuesday, 5 th May 2015 Venue: PwC offices, 1 Embankment Place, London WC2N 6RH (Map in Annex I) WebEx: for tel dial details and further information please see Annex II. Participants: Members of GACSA and interested observers. Documents to read in advance: Framing paper on investment in climate smart agriculture (Annex III). Draft work plan of the Group (Annex IV). Meeting Objectives: To identify and share current work and initiatives on public and private investment into climate smart agriculture. To identify challenges and opportunities to increase public and private investment into climate smart agriculture. To agree priority actions members of the Group and interested observers can take to address these challenges and realise opportunities, and use these as inputs into the Group s work plan. To finalise modus operandi of the Group including agreement on convenors, activities and meetings. Meeting Agenda: Tuesday, 5 th May Registration and Tea/Coffee/Biscuits Welcome and Introductions Investment Group co-convenors David Howlett DFID and Richard Muyungi Vice Presidents Office. Richard will join by WebEx Introduction to Session 1: What are we doing, the challenges and opportunities? David Howlett, DFID There will be three rounds of presentations followed by panel discussions and Q&A which will focus on identifying key challenges and opportunities for action to address these - potentially under the Investment Group of the ACSA. Presenters will focus on answering three questions from their different roles in the investment process. What types of investments, if any, are you or others already making in climate smart agriculture? What are the challenges you see to increased investment? What opportunities do you see on working together (public and private sectors) to address these challenges? Round One Private sectors view Chair Inge Rydland, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway Rowan Douglas, Willis Harry Guinness, Lionhead Daniel Hulls, AgDevCo Ritu Kumar, CDC Group plc Chris Garza, Kellog tbc Tea and coffee 1

2 Round Two Practioners views - Chair Helen Edmundson, DFID Iain Henderson, UNEP Finance Initiative Angela Falconer, Climate Policy Initiative Jim Stephenson, PwC Andrew Wardell, CIFOR Chris Delgado, WRI Networking Lunch Round three Donor and public sector views Chair Federica Matteoli, FAO David Howlett, Department for International Development, UK Inge Rydland, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway Tim Ash Vie, PwC on work with NEPAD/ CAADP Emmanuelle Poirier-Magona, Agence Française de Développement Katherine Kahn, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Session 2 Investment Group Actions Chair David Howlett Subject to number of people attending we will break into two or three groups to reflect on what we have heard during the three rounds of presentations and discussions to answer two questions. Where are the opportunities for joint action by public and private sectors? What are the priority actions for members and interested observers to take under the umbrella of the investment Group? Facilitators for the groups will be Federica Matteoli, Jim Stephenson and Tim Ash Vie and we will use a common template to record the outcomes of each group Reports on opportunities and actions from breakout groups Tea/Coffee Session 3 Modus operandi of the Investment Action Group Chair Mark Holderness (GFAR) tbc Update from Enabling Group and ideas on joint action - Mark Manis (USDA) Update from Knowledge Group and ideas on joint action Dhanush Dinesh (CCAFS) and Federica Matteoli (FAO) Next steps on finalising and agreeing work plan of the Group. This will be a living document and will be placed on ACSA web site. David Howlett/Richard Muyungi Confirming governance arrangements and agreeing on convenors for the Group and next meetings (physical and virtual) Session 4 Closing session David Howlett and Richard Muyungi (by WebEX) Informal networking drink. 2

3 Annex I: Map and Directions to PwC office, 1 Embankment Place, London, WC2N 6RH 3

4 Annex II Details on how to join the meeting remotely by WebEx To join the meeting remotely from your computer using WebEx please go to and then follow instructions. There is no password to join. You can also join by telephone - numbers are given below along with full details. During the meeting Jim Stephenson has kindly agreed to manage the WebEx connection and subject to demand we hope to be able to take your questions and points. We are also happy to receive any points by either to Jim s jim.a.stephenson@uk.pwc.com copied to David s d-howlett@dfid.gov.uk as well. Title: Start Time: Host Url: Attendee Url: Event Id: First Meeting of the Investment Group of GACSA 05/05/2015 9:00 AM Meeting No: Password: Webex Audio tel nos: Entry Control: List: Join Early: None UK Toll: Global call-in numbers (Australia toll) (Austria toll) (Belgium toll) (Canada toll) (Czech Republic toll) (Denmark toll) (Finland toll) (France toll) +49-(0) (Germany toll) (Hong Kong toll) (Hungary toll) (Ireland toll) (Italy toll) (Japan toll) (Luxembourg toll) (Netherlands toll) (New Zealand toll) (Norway toll) (Poland toll) (Russia toll) (Singapore toll) (South Africa Toll) (Spain toll) (Sweden toll) (Switzerland toll) (USA/Canada toll) Open To All Public - Listed For All 10 Minutes 4

5 Annex III Framing paper on investment in climate smart agriculture See separate file 5

6 Annex IV Draft work plan of the of Investment Action Group the Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture Based on the framework and agreement in launching ACSA the following purpose and objectives for the investment action group are proposed. Purpose: To increase public and private investments that support the three pillars of climatesmart agriculture. Specific objectives are: To help existing public and private investments in agriculture to review their compatibility with climate smart agriculture; To help facilitate and identify existing and new sources of financing for climate-smart agriculture from domestic, private and public (multilateral and bilateral) sources; To help support private companies (commodity groups, input suppliers, traders and processors) to develop standards on CSA for their investments and supplies. During the first year of the Group (2015/16) the following outputs are expected: Agreement on Group s objectives and active engagement in the Group by ACSA members and observers; Identify countries, companies and farmer s organizations that are investing and promoting climate smart agriculture as best practices and document these, Identification of existing and future private and public investment opportunities, including future global funding mechanisms, and their potential to support climate smart agriculture; and, Developing methodologies and metrics to guide existing public and private investment strategies. To help finalise a work plan and agree outputs for 2015/16 for the Group a physical and virtual meeting of the Group is planned on 5 May in London. This will also be used for the Group to agree on facilitators for the Group. Currently the UK and Tanzania have agreed to help convene the Group ahead of any agreement on how the group will be coordinated and facilitated. 6