Regional CollaborationPlatform

Regional Collaboration Platform includes the following three regional initiatives for Near East and North Africa:

Near East and North Africa’s Water Scarcity Initiative
This Initiative aims to identify and streamline policies and best practices that can significantly improve
agricultural productivity and food security. It promotes a regional collaborative strategy that focuses on
the major priority areas such as strategic planning of water resources, governance, water management
efficiency, water supply augmenting, climate change adaptation and drought management, ground water
sustainability, benchmarking, monitoring of and reporting on water use efficiency and productivity in the
region.

Small-scale Agriculture for Inclusive Development in the Near East and North Africa
This Initiative covers three main components: a) evidence-based policy and strategies to improve
and enhance the small-scale agricultural sector and the livelihoods of those involved, b) sustainable
improvement of productivity of small-scale agriculture, aiming at youth inclusiveness in the agricultural
sector, and c) the institutions and empowerment of smallholders, through the support to enabling
environments for economically viable and sustainable development in small-scale agriculture.

Building Resilience for Food Security and Nutrition in the Near East and North Africa
The Initiative’s main goal is to strengthen the resilience of countries, communities and households to
shocks and crises affecting food security and nutrition in the Near East and North Africa. It focuses on
developing efficient evidence-based food security information and knowledge exchange for effective
decision support systems; promoting the development of efficient, sustainable and resilient food systems;
promoting sustainable access of households to safe, nutritious and diversified food; and building resilience
to anticipate, absorb and recover from the negative impacts of human-induced and natural shocks.