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With research staff from more than 70 countries, and offices across the globe, IFPRI provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries.

Lilia Bliznashka

Lily Bliznashka is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. Her research focuses on assessing the effectiveness of multi-input nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions and the mechanisms through which they work to improve maternal and child health and nutrition globally. She has worked in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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Since 1975, IFPRI’s research has been informing policies and development programs to improve food security, nutrition, and livelihoods around the world.

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IFPRI currently has more than 480 employees working in over 70 countries with a wide range of local, national, and international partners.

2019 ReSAKSS – Gender Equality in Rural Africa: From Commitments to Outcomes

Co-Organized by the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) and IFPRI

Hotel Sarakawa

Boulevard Du Mono

Lomé, Togo

November 11 to 13, 2019

  • 9:00 – 5:00 pm (Africa/Lome)
  • 4:00 – 12:00 pm (US/Eastern)
  • 2:30 – 10:30 pm (Asia/Kolkata)

The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC), is convening the 2019 ReSAKSS Annual Conference to promote review and dialogue on the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) implementation agenda.

This year’s conference theme, “Gender Equality in Rural Africa: From Commitments to Outcomes,” calls for deliberations on the key findings and policy recommendations of the ReSAKSS 2019 Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR).

State and non-state will reflect on how stakeholders should apply a gender lens to various issues among rural populations. The conference will take place at Hotel Sarakawa in Lomé, Togo from November 11-13, 2019.