9th March 2015
To be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, the CAADP is an annual milestone event which over the years has become a key forum bringing together players and stakeholders from various African institutions, governments, the private sector and the civil society, as well as development partners.
The meeting seeks to deliberate the common vision and programmes to support implementation of the CAADP agenda.
This 11th CAADP Partnership Platform Meeting will be held under the theme “Walking the Talk: Delivering on Malabo Commitments on Agriculture for Women Empowerment”.
This is pursuant to operationalising the decisions and commitments of African Union Heads of State and Government with regards to African Agriculture and CAADP Transformation agenda as espoused in the Malabo Declaration on CAADP (23rd Assembly of the African Union, June 2014, Malabo Equatorial Guinea).
Imperative for effective implementation, results and impact, the Malabo Declaration also calls for action by African stakeholders and partners alike to embrace this vision for agriculture-led inclusive growth and socio-economic development.
The theme reflects the tempo and ambition expressed by member states, both Governments and non-state players, to see more action, results and impact.
The meeting will seek to bring out, in practical implementation terms, the connections between CAADP, African Agriculture (Malabo Declaration and CAADP Results Framework) and the African Union (AU) “Agenda 2063” as well as the work on the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals.
The Partnership Platform is designed to also directly and concretely reflect the 2015 African Union theme - “Women Empowerment and Development, Towards Africa Agenda 2063".
Against this background, the 11th CAADP Partnership Platform - the first CAADP PP after the Malabo Declaration - is designed to help shape how the RESOLVE will be translated into action, results and impact.
The PP will help build a shared understanding of country and regional needs and expectations of them for rolling out the Implementation Strategy and Road Map including launching efforts to form technical partnerships to align with and support implementation.
CAADP faces new implementation challenges that will require new partnerships, including partnerships to integrate major initiatives and flagship efforts that are now in place making contributions to the areas and targets of the Malabo Declaration.
Tapping these efforts will be key to early success in achieving results and impact. The PP will also play a key role in understanding what are the systemic institutional and policy changes that are being targeted to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of development efforts.
It will also be an important milestone in helping to shape actions to advance important commitments around cross cutting issues such as gender, inclusiveness, regional trade, entrepreneurship development and youth employment.
The last three CAADP Partnership Platform (CAADP PP) Meetings (2012, 2013 and 2014) were dedicated to appreciating the challenges and gains as well as learning from the experiences of CAADP in the first ten (10) years of CAADP. This allowed partners to identify priorities, action areas and implementation strategies for CAADP in the 2nd decade (2015-2025) and beyond.
The AU Summit of June 2014 (Malabo Declaration, 2014) gave renewed legitimacy to CAADP as Africa’s policy framework for agriculture growth and transformation for shared prosperity.
The Malabo Declaration on agriculture and food security provides the African vision and resolve to accelerated agriculture transformation through collective and member states specific actions.
Among the key issues unique to the Malabo Declaration are two factors, namely, the focus on delivering measureable results and impact around eight areas of commitment - deepening the earlier CAADP Maputo commitments, and bringing focus on the need for institutional and policy change to create an enabling environment for country and regional efforts to succeed in delivering on the Malabo targets and commitments.
The PP will afford the various CAADP and African Agriculture constituencies the opportunities to identify the result areas and implementation aspects they would be involved in as part of the collective efforts towards the shared CAADP vision and Malabo Declaration and CAADP Results Framework goals and targets.
The Malabo Declaration itemises seven specific goals and targets for the 2015-2025. These include recommitment on the 10 percent annual public budget support to agriculture and the 6 percent annual agriculture productivity growth rate. Goal one is recommitments to the CAADP Vision and Principles and Goal seven is commitment to the CAADP Results Framework, both in terms of commitment to accountability in delivering measureable results as well as guide and benchmark for the set targets.
Goals two, three, four and five refer to specific targets as indicators of the desired progress, results and impact including expected change (transformation). The seven goals, together, reflect an articulation of high level aggregated indicators as the frontline-window (dashboard) to give a view on progress, results and impact.
The CAADP Results Framework presents an elaboration of the complete set of indicators – i.e. placing the seven dashboard indicators into a broader set of desegregated continental level indicators.
The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) was endorsed at the African Union Heads of State Summit as a New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) programme in July 2003.
The overall goal of CAADP is to “Help African countries reach a higher path of economic growth through agriculture-led development, which eliminates hunger, reduces poverty and food insecurity, and enables expansion of exports.”
CAADP is a growth-oriented agricultural development agenda, aimed at increasing agriculture growth rates to six percent per year to create the wealth needed for rural communities and households in Africa to prosper. To achieve this goal, CAADP focuses its interventions in four key pillars to achieve measurable outcomes:
• Pillar 1: Extending the area under sustainable land management and reliable water control systems;
• Pillar 2: Improving rural infrastructure and trade-related capacities for market access;
• Pillar 3: Increasing food supply, reducing hunger, and improving responses to food emergency crises; and
• Pillar 4: Improving agriculture research, technology dissemination and adoption.
Crosscutting issues common across the four pillars targeted for interventions include capacity strengthening for agribusiness, academic and professional training and improving access to information for agricultural strategy formulation.
In 2013, it will be 10 years since CAADP was endorsed in Maputo in 2003. The implementation of CAADP has enabled inclusive participation of all relevant sector players. CAADP has raised the profile of the agricultural sector in national domestic politics and the attention to agriculture has significantly increased.
CAADP has contributed to more specific, purposeful and incentive-oriented agricultural policies. It has also facilitated a noticeable improvement and progress towards donor coordination, harmonisation and alignment to country priorities. In a number of countries, additional resources have been allocated to targeted programmes that have the highest potential to generate returns to these investments.
Regional co-operation has been increased as a result of CAADP engagement. CAADP has also facilitated the establishment of mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation, peer review, dialogue and accountability.
At the African Union Commission (AUC), CAADP is implemented through the Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture (DREA), which was established with the objective of promoting agricultural and rural development.
It also strives to support African institutions in advancing food security for Africans as well as achieving sustainable development and improved livelihoods for the population, underpinned by sound environmental and natural resource management and adaptation to climate change.
The mandate of AUC-DREA is to work with NEPAD Agency, RECs and Member States, African institutions, civil society and development partners to strengthen the agricultural sector, rural economies and the environment in order to improve the livelihoods of African people and ensure food security and sound environmental management.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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