About GODAN

Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition (GODAN) is a rapidly growing network of over 1000 global innovators and change makers across national governments, non-governmental organisations, and international and private sector organisations. A facilitator for pioneering ideas and cross-continental growth, GODAN aims to impact the lives of at least 12 million smallholders internationally by implementing innovations that help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goal 2 – ending global hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition and sustainable agriculture by 2030.

The GODAN initiative was announced at the Open Government Partnership Conference in October 2013 following 2012 G8 discussions, where the attending leaders committed to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition – a shared commitment to achieving global food security. This Open Government Partnership Conference worked to: “Obtain commitment and action from nations and relevant stakeholders to promote policies and invest in projects that open access to publicly funded global agriculturally relevant data streams, making such data readily accessible to users in Africa and world-wide, and ultimately supporting a sustainable increase in food security in developed and developing countries.” This would go on to form the basis of GODAN’s core mission.

About GODAN’s P4CD Africa

The Programme for Agricultural Capacity Development in Africa (P4CD Africa) promotes the nexus of Health, Nutrition, and Agriculture through data sourcing to support a capacity-building organization, driven by a systems-driven, strategy-anchored agribusiness structures. The programme supports and anchors GODAN’s data agenda in in Africa by:

• Creating capacity of development programmes that align the Open Data Agenda for Agriculture and Nutrition in Africa;
• Creating FoodHubs that promote demand for food supplies from FarmHubs through which farmers generate wealth from the labor generated by farmers using the guidance of youth and women who use the FarmHubs as their operational offices;
• Creating initiatives that create approaches for sourcing data from farmers, particularly smallholder farmers to support development partners in the implementation of Collaborative Engagements Development Partners in Africa and governments and between themselves through the open data spirt;
• Promoting partnership with individual universities and TVETs at every country where GODAN has a collaborative agreement to implement the agenda of the Nairobi Declaration Supporting in the training and capacity building of youths and women to understand the value of open data as an independence infusing tool.