The three day strategic workshop brought together youth stakeholders to provide input on the development of CTA's youth strategy. Participants engaged in learning sessions from partner organizations, worked in groups to discuss key youth and agriculture issues, and reported their findings to the CTA panel. The workshop aimed to gather youth perspectives on challenges such as unemployment and opportunities for supporting agripreneurs. Participants worked to develop recommendations that will inform CTA's approach to promoting youth opportunities in agriculture and ICT.

1. Strategic Youth Stakeholder Workshop
Hof van Wageninge Hotel, Netherlands, 14 to 16 November 2012
Wageningen ,
DRAFT AGENDA
Day 1: Setting the scene and learning from partners
Time Sessions Facilitators
09:00 - 09:15 Arrival and registration of participants
09:15- 09:30 Welcome and opening remarks
Michael Hailu, Director, CTA
09:30 - 10:00 Introduction of participants
10:00 - 10:10 Presentation of the agenda
10:10 - 11:00 Overview of CTA current initiatives on youth
Karen Batjes,
Supporting youth scientists (10 min) Bert Alkemade
Judith Francis, Senior Programme Coordinator, CTA, Policies
Developing youth in agriculture policies (10 min)
Jose Filipe Fonseca, Senior Programme Coordinator, Policies
Promoting youth opportunities in agriculture and ICTs – the ARDYIS project
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(10 min)
Ken Lohento, Programme Coordinator, ICT4D
Question and answer session ( min)
(15
11:00 -11:15 Coffee break
11:15 -12:30 Opening panel: Unemployment and economic opportunities for
agripreneurs and youth in rural areas Karen Batjes,
Bert Alkemade
Youth in Agriculture and rural development developing regions: brief
situation analysis, key challenges, policy responses and perspectives -
(20 min)
John Omiti, Principal Policy Analyst, Kenya Institute for Public Policy
Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)
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Employment, economic challenges and opportunities for young in youth
in rural areas (20 min)
Sylvestre Ouédraogo, economist, University of Ouagadougou/Yam
Ouagadougou/Yam-Pukri
Burkina Faso
Respondent: Lamon Rutten, Policy, Market and ICTs (PMI) Programme
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2. Manager, CTA
Question and answer session (15 min)
12:30 -13:15 Learning from partners: Round 1 Karen Batjes,
Bert Alkemade
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations – (15 min)
Mauro Bottaro, Gender and Rural Institutions Specialist, FAO, ESW
International Fund for Agricultural Development : Approaches, Young
Farmers’ project and Global Youth Innovator Network - (15 min)
Anne-Laure ROY, Technical Adviser, IFAD
Question and answer session (15 min)
13:15 -14:15 Lunch
14:15 -15:30 Learning from partners: Round 2 Karen Batjes,
Bert Alkemade
Young Professionals in Agricultural Research for Development (15 min)
Marina Cherbonnier, Web and Communications Officer, YPARD
Challenges and opportunities of youth agri-preneurs in the Caribbean (15
min)
Kelly Holder, Caribbean Farmer Network (CAFAN)
Supporting youth in the Pacific (15 min)
Miriama Kunawave Brown, Secretariat of Pacific Communities
Question and answer session (15 min)
15:30 - 16:00 Video projection Judith Francis
Bee Wise – A winning video from the Caribbean Science and Agriculture
Film and Video Competition
Question and answer session (15 min)
16:00 -16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 17:00 Learning from partners: Round 3
Empowering rural youth in Zambia (15 min)
Isaac Chanda, Ndole Youth Resource Centre
Karen Batjes,
Enhancing the mainstreaming of gender in youth in agriculture initiatives:
Bert Alkemade
Youths and young women in agriculture in Congo
Sylvie Niombo, Azur Development, Congo
Question and answer session (15 min)
17:00 -17:15 Recap Day 1 Karen Batjes,
Bert Alkemade
End of day 1 - Departure to Hotel Paasberg, Ede
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3. Day 2 – CTA Youth Strategy - Key Ideas
Time Sessions Facilitators
09:00 -10:15 Learning from partners: Round 4
Youth championing ICT innovations in agriculture in East Africa (15 min)
Claude MIGISHA, General Manager, KLAB, Rwanda
Supporting youth in Southern Africa (15 min)
Sithembile Ndema, Project Manager, Food, Agriculture and Natural
Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN) Karen Batjes,
Bert Alkemade
Youth entrepreneurship in agriculture: The Goat Dairy Project (15 min)
Brooks-Smith-Lowe, Malaika, Grenada
Empowering youth in Nigeria – (15 min)
OLUMIDE IDOWU Emmanuel, Nigerian Youth Climate Coalition (NYCC)
Question and answer session (15 min)
10:15 – 10:45 Presentation of initial elements of the CTA Youth Strategy
Question and answer session (15 min)
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00- 11:45 Preparation of working group sessions
Expectations from the sessions; creation of groups
(4 or 5 groups ; themes might be : Youth and ICKM, youth in agriculture Karen Batjes,
policies, Youth and Value Chains, Youth in science) Bert Alkemade
Discussions will be structured around key issues that will be presented to
participants.
11:45 – 13:00 Working group sessions
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00 -16:00 Working group sessions (continued) Karen Batjes,
Bert Alkemade
16:00 -16:15 Coffee break
16:15- 17:45 Working group sessions (continued) Karen Batjes,
Bert Alkemade
17:45- 18:00 Session wrap up
18:00 -21:00 Cocktail and Dinner – Hotel Hof Wageningen
End of Day 2 – Departure to Hotel Paasberg, Ede
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4. Day 3 Reporting working group sessions to CTA panel (CTA Headquarters)
Time Sessions Facilitators
09:00 -09:30 Finalization of working group discussions
09:30-10:30 Report of working groups 1 & 2 Karen Batjes,
Bert Alkemade
Followed by discussions
10:30-11:00 Coffee break with CTA Staff
11:00 -12:15 Report of working groups 3 &4
Followed by discussions
12:15 -12:30 Wrapping up discussions: initial follow-up elements
Ken Lohento, Programme Coordinator, CTA
12:30 -12:45 The way forward: perspectives from CTA Karen Batjes,
Bert Alkemade
Rutten Lamon, Manager, Policies, Markets and ICTs, CTA
Ibrahim Khadar, Manager, Learning, Monitoring & Evaluation Unit, CTA
12:45 13:00 Closing remarks
Michael Hailu, CTA Director
End of the workshop – Departure to Hotel Paasberg for Lunch
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