global Partners Meeting - November 2025

AGENDA OF THE MEETING

DAY 1
Chair of day 1: Olivia Falkowitz, Food Security and Livelihoods Assessment Specialist, IMPACT Initiatives (SAG Member) 

Objectives: panelists will share highlights of the global food security outlook in 2025; clusters’ achievements, insights on challenges going forward in 2026, with a focus on field experience in four of the most pressing and conflict-induced food security crisis. The session will also provide contributions from ALNAP and IPC for further evidence-based analysis. Agriculture Working Group presentation. 

08:30 | 09:00   Security and registration 

09:00 | 09:05   Welcome and introduction of the speakers Olivia Falkowitz, IMPACT (SAG member) 

09:05 | 09:25   Opening remarks M. Sibhensana, Deputy Director, Office of Emergency and Resilience, FAO R. Smith, Director of Emergencies, Preparedness and Response, WFP 

09:25 | 09:30   The gFSC Global Partners’ Meeting Agenda Olivia Falkowitz, IMPACT (SAG member) 

09:30 | 9:50 Overview of Global Food Security Crises Highlights of the response Abdul Majid, gFSC co-coordinator, FAO M-H Kyprianou, gFSC co-coordinator, WFP 

09:50 |10:30    Session 1: Humanitarian financing in uncertain times ALNAP Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2025 and 2026 planning Jennifer Doherty, PhD, Humanitarian research, learning and policy, ALNAP 

10:30 | 11:00   Coffee break 

11:00 | 13:15   Session 2: “Voices from the field” 

• Occupied Palestinian Territory:  Between a Fragile Ceasefire and a Suffocating Food System: The Food Security Reality in Palestine. Anas Musallam, Gaza FSS co-coordinator  Sohieb Sheebat, FSS West Bank co-coordinator Michelle Hsu, Gaza FSS co-coordinator Moayyad Bsharat, Lobby and Advocacy Director, UAWC
• South Sudan: Building resilience under reducing funding and rising  humanitarian needs in South Sudan Mat Gai, FSC Coordinator, South Sudan Jimmy Shillaho, Head of Programs at Coalition for Humanity, South Sudan
• Sudan: Worsening Food Insecurity in Sudan - A cause for Concern   Nika Farnworth - Programme Director Sudan - Concern Worldwide
• Yemen: A Collaborative approach to tackle alarming levels of food insecurity and malnutrition Abigael Nyukuri, FSC Coordinator 

13:15 | 14:30   Lunch break 

14:30 |15:30    Session 3: IPC Presents: “Food Security Data Ecosystems” José Lopez, IPC Global Programme Manager 

15:30 | 16:00   Coffee break 

16:00 | 17:00   Agriculture Working Group: 2025 in review & 2026 priorities Julie Mayans, Solidarités International, AWG Chair David Traynor, Concern Worldwide, AWG Chair

DAY 2

Chair of day 2: Matthias Amling, Deputy Humanitarian Director, Welthungerhilfe (SAG Member) 

Objectives: discussions will be focusing on the ongoing humanitarian reset and donors’ perspectives about the process, the food security cluster, and food security assistance. Sessions will further dig into some aspects of the reset such as localization, cluster activation and deactivation and area-based coordination. Anticipatory Action Working Group presentation. 

09:00 | 09:15   Overview of day one: Highlights and presentation of the agenda Matthias Amling, WHH (SAG member) 

09:15 | 10:45   Session 4: The Humanitarian Reset: donors’ and partners’ perspectives José Ruiz Espí, European Commission DG, Agriculture and Rural Development, ECHO Toby Parker, Chargé d’Affaires, United Kingdom Permanent Representation to the United Nations Agencies in Rome Frédéric Steck, Programme Manager,  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation 

10:45 | 11:15   Coffee break 

11:15 | 12:00   Session 5: The Humanitarian reset: transition, localization and coordination models  Nimo Hassan, Somali NGO Consortium Director / ICVA Chair of Board 

Introduction to the break out rooms (plenary): 

• Transition, activation and deactivation process: a quick intro – Abigael Nyukuri, FSC Yemen coordinator
• Area-based Coordination: emerging models, challenges, lessons - Marco Ferloni, Ethiopia FC coordinator 

12:00 | 12:45   Break-out sessions and partners’ dialogue 

• Group A&B : Focus on Cluster transition/de-activation Corrie Sissons, Catholic Relief Services (SAG member) Abigael Nyukuri, FSC Yemen coordinator
• Group C&D: Focus on group on Area-based coordination and Localization Marco Ferloni, Ethiopia FC coordinator Olivia Falkowitz, IMPACT Initiatives (SAG member) 

12:45 | 13:45   Lunch break 

13:45 | 14:30   Break-out (continue) sessions and partners’ dialogue 

14:30 | 15:15   Report to plenary 

15:15 | 15:45   Coffee break 1

5:45 | 16:30   Session 6: Strategic Advisory Group presentation and elections of new SAG members Regine Kopplow, Concern Worldwide (SAG Member) 

16:30 – 17:30   Anticipatory Action Working Group Chiara Mellucci, FAO, AAWG Chair Christoph Baade, WFP, AAWG Chair Matthias Amling. AA Chair

DAY 3

Chair of day 3: Corrie Sissons, Global Technical Advisor, Catholic Relief Services, SAG Member 

Objectives: panelists will engage on linkages between food security, protection, prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse, before leaving the floor to global food security support team members to present and discuss the strategic plan. Cash and market work WG presentation. 

09:00 | 09:15 Overview of day two: Highlights and presentation of the agenda C. Sissons, CRS (SAG member) 

09:15| 10:15 Session 7: gFSC engagement on Protection 

• Mainstreaming PSEA in the Food Security Cluster Natalia Macdonald, Senior Advisor PSEA, WFP, Martina Iannizzotto, FSC Co-coordinator, Somalia, Akulia Grace, Executive director for Tukul Africa
• Centralising protection in food security cluster response Victoria Metcalfe Hough, Senior Protection expert, IASC community of Practices on CoP
• Bridging Protection and Food Security: using analysis for risk informed FSL Programming Cyril Lekief, Head of FSL, ACF - Audrey Abit, Gender and Protection advisor, ACF, Angeliki Panagoulia, Protection analyst, ACF 

10:15| 10:45 Coffee break 

10:45 |11:45 Cash and Markets Working Group presentation Carolina Cinerari, Concern Worldwide, CMWG Chair Maria Pia Ferrari, ACF, CMWG Chair 

11:45 |12:15 Session 8: Review of the gFSC Strategy Corrie Sissons, CRS (SAG member) 

12:15 | 12:30 Closing remarks, key takeaways and priority actions forward Abdul Majid, gFSC co-coordinator, FAO Marie-Helene Kyprianou, gFSC co-coordinator, WFP