USAID Community Meeting on Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 on Food, Nutrition & Water Security
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Date: 2020-08-07

Exploring how we can mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on global food, nutrition and water security, including through improved coordination between humanitarian and development actors and actions. 

Country-specific data and examples from implementing partners, ACDI/VOCA, DAI, CORUS International, Helen Keller International, as well as a representative from the USAID Ethiopia mission inform the discussion. 

Additionally, we unveil a new platform during the meeting that will allow for stakeholders such as yourself to share learning, data, impacts and reports on COVID-19. 

Speakers: 

Trey Hicks, Assistant to the Administrator for the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (alter ego for the Associate Administrator for Relief, Response and Resilience), USAID 

Maura Barry, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (alter ego for the Assistant to the Administrator), USAID

Max Primorac, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator (alter ego for the Assistant to the Administrator) Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, USAID 

Greg Collins, Deputy Assistant Administrator and USAID Resilience Coordinator, Bureau for Resilience and Food Security, USAID

Featuring a discussion with:

Muhammad Nurul Amin Siddiquee, Chief of Party of Feed the Future Bangladesh Livestock Production for Improved Nutrition, ACDI/VOCA Country Representative

Euphresia Luseka, Water Governance and Policy Specialist, DAI

Wendi Bevins, Resilience Technical Advisor, CORUS International

Pooja Pandey Rana, Deputy Chief of Party, Helen Keller International, Representative from USAID Ethiopia