CAADP: sustaining the momentum Meeting with development partners

1. CAADP: sustaining the momentumMeeting with development partners London, 6 June, 2012

2. Agenda • Opening remarks • Process and parameters • The building blocks • Towards a definition of the key issues, key results sought, possible modalities, and accountabilities • Next steps • NPCA forward work plan CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

3. Process and parameters • One step in a continuum – a political moment • Parameters: • African owned • Built on existing foundations • Feasible technically, socially, economically, politically • Timely, measurable results • Realistic taking account of capacity constraints • Going with the grain • Designed to spur forward action: a ‘wow’ factor CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

4. Foundations Changing Africa What CAADP’s achieved Changing global challenges and opportunities CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

5. Changing Africa • Improving governance • Better, stable macroeconomic policy and practice • Some improvements in microeconomic policy and practice • Growth (but pattern/composition does not deliver enough jobs) • A demographic ‘gift’: youth • Continuing urbanisation • Slow but growing regionalism and growing global integration • But poverty and food insecurity remain CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

6. What CAADP’s achieved • Is an African owned initiative and agenda • Provides an African platform for advocacy for agriculture • Offers a broad strategic framework for policy development, and opens up policy processes for greater participation • Has defined roles for and built linkages between key institutions, started to strengthen capacity • Has started to strengthen African knowledge communities: four pillar framework papers prepared • Focuses on resource mobilisation and investment planning processes: • 30 countries have National Compacts • 23 have started to finance their investment plans and subjected them to independent Technical Reviews organized by the NEPAD Agency • 20 have held Business Meetings • Provides processes for dialogue and coordination with development partners • Has started to include the private sector and other NSAs • Is about accountability in a sector wide framework CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

7. Changing global environment • Demand growth for food • Demand growth for energy • Supply constraints – land, water, technology • Climate change • Trade • Environmental sustainability • Technology improvements CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

8. Objectives for agriculture • Agricultural growth and productivity increases to provide: food security and resilience; employment and opportunities, especially for women and youth; increased contribution to economic and social transformation, including through increased savings and domestic investment, and improved trade balances. • We need to continue to scale-up public investment and donor support for public investment through investment plans. • We need to continue to encourage domestic and foreign private investors, and public private partnerships. CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

9. Issues, Results, Modalities, Accountabilities CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

10. Cross cutting issues • Leadership • Institutional capacity • Policy capacity • Women • Youth CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

11. Issues • Competitiveness • Innovation • Integration • Voice CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

12. Competitiveness • Policies, legislation, regulation and practices for a better business environment for agriculture • Small, medium and large scale • Suppliers, buyers/traders, as well as farmers • Logistics (transport and storage) • Doing Business in Agriculture • Building cross-sectoral linkages and ’joined-up’ government • Agriculture, Finance, Trade, Water, Land, Business, Women, Education/Youth, Central Bank • Improved financial services and products CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

13. Competitiveness (ii) CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

14. Innovation • Systems linking R&D, manufacturing, and distribution (and credit), including extension • Social enterprise, venture capital • Knowledge, information, skills • Use of ICT CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

15. Integration • Regional (G56) and global (G8, G20, OECD, BRICS) • Enabling policies and practices for regional integration and integration into global markets • Enabling hard and soft infrastructure CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

16. Voice • For farmers, traders, women, youth • Think tanks, academia, media, parliamentarians Accountability = Transparency + Participation CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

17. Results • Specific/stretching • Measurable/motivational • Achievable/appropriate • Relevant/realistic • Timely/tangible CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

18. Modalities (vehicles, vessels, products) • Roundtables • Compacts • Investment plans • Technical reviews • Business meetings • KISS • MDTF • Grow Africa • New Alliance New modalities? • Annual Meeting of Ministers of Agriculture • 10 year Summit New products? • Doing Business in Agriculture Index CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

19. Accountabilities Owners: • National governments • Regional economic communities • AUC/NPCA-NEPAD • NSAs: Research/Think Tanks, Associations, Media, etc • Donors CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

20. A framework CAADP: Sustaining the momentum

21. Other major issues • Environmental sustainability and ecology • Land tenure • Climate change and climate smart agriculture • Nutrition • Emergency, humanitarian aid • Fisheries CAADP: Sustaining the momentum