Water-Energy-Food Nexus Webinar Series 2nd Round // Beyond traditional financing models for Smallholders and other End-users in the WEF-Nexus: Challenges and Innovative solutions
Hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This is the fourth session of the 2nd Round of Webinars on Water-Energy-Food, focused on Nexus SOLUTIONS.
December 14, 2021 | 1:30 - 3pm GMT+1
About the WEF Nexus Webinar Series
The water-energy-food (WEF) Nexus is a useful framework for addressing complex transdisciplinary natural resource and environmental challenges in integrated, innovative ways. This webinar series explores using and operationalizing WEF Nexus approaches for finding solutions to these challenges. The series focuses on examples and solutions by linking and using WEF Nexus approaches to timely interventions, technologies and issues of importance, especially in the context of COVID-19 and climate change.
About Session 4
In rural areas around the globe access to finance is a prerequisite for the sustainable development of end-users (e.g. smallholder farmers and agri-food SMEs). Without access to finance, end-users of the water-energy-food nexus face extreme hardships to grow their businesses or increase their income! But who are the end-users in the WEF nexus? What are their needs and challenges in accessing finance? And what new, innovative financial models exist to enable end-users to grow their businesses or increase their income? This webinar provides answers while it aims to share knowledge, raise awareness, and advance the discussion on how to close the end-user financing gap in the WEF nexus – with special focus on the West Africa Region.
This session will be presented by:
- Kay Grulich, GIZ/WE4F (Germany)
- Marlène Amegankpoe, SCS International (Mali)
- Bastian Domke, GIZ (Germany)
- Joëlle Duff, Cordaid Investment Management B.V. (The Netherland)
It will be moderated by the African Foresight Group (Ghana).
Registration
Registration for the event is available here, it will be held via zoom.
Further information
For more information about the webinar series, see here.
For additional information about the webinar series organizations, see the websites of the WEF Nexus in Africa Initiative, WE4F, the GIZ Nexus Dialogues, and SEI.
Past webinars of the WEF Nexus Webinar Series Round 2
WEF Nexus Webinar Series - Round 1
- Webinar // FAO Water-Energy-Food Nexus Webinar Series Session 9 - Selected experiences with WEF Nexus decision-making: an application in Jordan
- Webinar // FAO Water-Energy-Food Nexus Webinar Series Session 8: Securing Food sustainably: Business Cases of Nexus Innovation in the MENA region
- Webinar // FAO Water-Energy-Food Nexus Webinar Series Session 7 - Selected experiences with WEF Nexus decision-making: applications in Jordan and Morocco
- Webinar // FAO Water-Energy-Food Nexus Webinar Series Session 6 - The WEF Nexus in practice: multi-scalar case studies and a WEF Nexus Index
- Webinar // FAO Water-Energy-Food Nexus Webinar Series Session 5 - Nexus and sustainability in theory and practice: Examples from Iran
- Webinar // FAO Water-Energy-Food Nexus Webinar Series Session 4 - The WEF Nexus on the ground: practical applications from the Maghreb and West Africa
- Webinar // FAO Water-Energy-Food Nexus Webinar Series Session 3 - A Water-Energy-Food Nexus approach for evaluating the sustainability of the Mediterranean Diet: The Case of Lebanon
- Webinar // FAO Water-Energy-Food Nexus Webinar Series Session 2 - Tools and Methods to find Nexus Solutions: Examples from Morocco and Jordan
- Webinar // FAO Water-Energy-Food Nexus Webinar Series Session 1 - Understanding the nexus and nexus challenges: Examples from the NENA region