Fostering collaboration to scale out innovations<\/strong><\/p>\nSo far, I made the argument that the public sector, the private sector and the brokers are very important in developing and implementing successful scaling strategies. But what is even more impactful is the collaboration among them together with the researchers. That\u2019s why learning from our experience, we have launched the Evidence-Policy-Action (EPA<\/u>) Network that seeks to establish a functional platform between evidence generators and evidence users. For this to happen sustainably, we are working on three aspects.<\/p>\n
First is the access \u2013 we are working to ensure that researchers and innovators have access to what research questions policymakers and practitioners are struggling with; and when evidence and innovations are generated from these questions, we also work to ensure the users have access to them.<\/p>\n
The second point is on capacities \u2013 we are working to build the capacities of policymakers, practitioners and the private sector, so that they have the capacities to demand and use evidence, and adopt innovations to scale them.<\/p>\n
Finally, and the most important, we collaborate with all the actors to support effective implementation and scaling out\/up the solutions developed by evidence generators. This can follow different pathways including formulation of business cases to market the solutions or influencing the policy systems to direct more resources towards the solutions.<\/p>\n
We are one decade to the deadline of the SDGs. The Goals are so ambitious that it needs transformation at scale. The good news is that we have many innovations and solutions that are just waiting for the best routes and mechanisms to reach those who need them the most. There were still 800 million people who were affected by food insecurity in 2018 globally. Scaling innovative and effective food security and nutrition solutions, inclusively, is the next milestone in curbing this number.<\/p>\n
I remain confident that we know the challenge ahead are and cognizant of the importance of working together, pooling resources and knowledge, mobilizing the unusual suspects who are the private sector and brokers to deliver the solutions to food insecurity and malnutrition at scale.<\/p>\n
Thank you.<\/p>\n
Frejus Thoto, Director ACED and Coordinator of the EPA Network.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the (edited) transcript of the keynote speech of our Director at the \u201cScaling for Impact\u201d workshop organized by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) from 20 to 21 November 2019, in Cotonou, Benin. Good morning dear participants at this public day. It\u2019s always a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":990010,"featured_media":8011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acedafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acedafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acedafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acedafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/990010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acedafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acedafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16824,"href":"https:\/\/acedafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008\/revisions\/16824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acedafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acedafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acedafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acedafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}