On 8 March 2025, join GAIN in celebrating International Women’s Day under the powerful theme:
"For ALL Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment."
This year, we’re calling for bold actions that unlock equal rights, power, and opportunities for every woman and girl—no matter where they are. It’s a reminder that gender equality isn’t just a goal—it’s a right.
This year's World Food Day theme, "Right to Food for a Better Life and Future", underscores the urgent need to address the global hunger crisis.
Despite producing enough food to feed the world, an alarming 733 million people still face hunger due to a complex interplay of factors, including climate shocks, conflicts, and inequality caused by the steep rise in food prices.
The Africa Food Systems Forum will host its annual summit from September 2-6, 2024 in Kigali Convention Centre, Rwanda.
Africa’s Food Systems Forum, formerly AGRF, is the world’s premier forum for African agriculture and food systems, bringing together stakeholders to take practical actions and share lessons that will move African food systems forward. Africa Food Systems Forum is designed to energise political will and advance the policies, programs, and investments required to achieve an inclusive and sustainable food systems transformation.
This year’s summit will “spotlight the continental agenda on food systems, showcase innovative approaches, solutions, proven business models, best practices and latest technologies that could transform agriculture and food systems to ensure food and nutrition security in Africa while creating jobs and opportunities for youth and women.”
Scroll through the list to discover all the events GAIN is leading and participating in at AFSF 2024
| Date | Time | Session | Organiser(s) | Type of event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2-Sep | 11:45-12:45 | Mobilising Private Sector for Investment in Nutrition | AGRA, GAIN, Shamba, ATNI, AUDA-NEPAD | Side-event |
| 3-Sep | 9:00-11:00 | Official opening ceremony | AFSF | Plenary |
| 3-Sep | 9:00-11:00 | Parliamentary Network Forum: Championing Food Systems through PMs in Africa | AFSF | Plenary |
| 3-Sep | 14:00-16:00 | Where Are We on Scalable Innovative Food Systems Policies & Flagships Programs | AFSF | Plenary |
| 3-Sep | 14:00-15:00 | Financing Inclusive Food Systems by Chemonics | Chemonics | Knowledge session |
| 4-Sep | 9:00-11:00 | Food Systems and Nutrition | AFSF | Plenary |
| 4-Sep | 10:00-17:00 | Knowledge Market Platform | AFSF | Parallel session |
| 5-Sep | 9:30-10:30 | Food Systems Transformation & Nutrition Accountability | GNR, FCDO, FAO, GAIN, ATNI | Side-event |
| 5-Sep | 9:15-10:30 | Ending Malnutrition through Policy Implementation | GAIN, CARE, Dutch MFA | Side-event |
Executive Director, GAIN
Director, Knowledge Leadership
Chief Technical Officer
Country Director, Kenya
Country Director, Nigeria
Country Director, Mozambique
Lead, CASCADE
Senior Communications Manager
The Youth Leadership Initiative aims to enable young people aged 18-25 to play a pivotal role in shaping food systems, through leadership and collective action with a special focus on national and global decision-making.
This facilitator handbook is a key resource in this process, offering structured support and inspiration. The handbook provides you with suggested plans and sessions but is designed to be used flexibly, with each facilitator selecting the most relevant exercises for them and adding their own content and expertise, and on the group, context, time and mode of delivery you have available. Activities in this guide are suitable for groups of 20 - 30 young people and can be delivered both online an in person.
This handbook contains two sections to provide you with end-to-end support:
1. Community Building
Comprehensive guidance on leading sessions, encouraging active participation, and managing group dynamics.
Tips for fostering a sense of community where every voice is valued and heard.
2. Youth leadership towards collective action
There are three core ingredients:
Understanding food systems: Ensures the group has a shared understanding of what food systems are and how their work or interests fit within them.
Influence and change in food systems: How policy change is made at a local, regional and global level and the key people that influence change.
Collective action: Brings to life the skills youth leaders have learnt so far, working as a group to create a campaign that identifies an issue to tackle, people to engage and actions to make it happen together.
Programme Lead, Children and Young People
