Invitation to USAID Stakeholders Consultation Workshops.docx

USAID/Bangladesh Virtual Stakeholders' Consultations on Increased Access to Finance; Strengthening of Oilseed and Pulses Value Chains, and Commercialization of Agricultural Research and Biotechnology in Bangladesh

USAID/Bangladesh plans to hold virtual stakeholders' consultations on Increased Access to Finance; Strengthening of Oil Seed and Pulses, and Commercialization of Agricultural Research and Biotechnology. The objective is to enable stakeholders across the Feed the Future (FTF) Zone of Influence (ZOI) and Zone of Resilience (ZOR) to provide feedback and recommendations on the status of, challenges and opportunities for, and the way forward for enabling systemic changes in these three thematic areas. Consequently, ten categories of stakeholders - media, government, value chain actors (including smallholder farmers), judiciary, donor-funded activities, academia, civil society organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Financial Institutions, and the private sector entrepreneurs – across five regions of the FTF ZOI and ZOR (Barishal, Cox’s Bazar, Dhaka, Jashore and Khulna) will be participating in the workshops as scheduled. Those interested in participating should kindly contact Mr. Mehedi Hasan, mhasan@usaid.gov, by Thursday, November 12, 2020, indicating thematic areas, regions, and days of interests.

Schedule of Virtual Stakeholders' Consultation Workshops

Thematic Areas

Commercialization Agricultural Research and Biotechnology

29-Nov-20

6-Dec-20

30-Nov-20

7-Dec-20

1-Dec-20

8-Dec-20

2-Dec-20

9-Dec-20

3-Dec-20

10-Dec-20