Status of the CIP and Policy Commitments

1. Status of the CIP and Policy Commitments AU/NEPAD Agriculture Policy Exchange and Learning Event May 14, 2013

2. Structure of Presentation • Status of Country InvestmentPlan • InstitutionalArchitecture • Policy Objectives • Status ofImplementationofCommitments • Constraints

3. I. Status of Investment Plan • Country Investment Plan (PNISA) & the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition launched in April 2013. • PNISA’s overarching goals: • Agriculture growth: 7% per annum • Malnutrition reduction: from 44% in 2010 to 20% in 2020

4. II. Institutional Architecture Levels: • National: • Political (Ministers): Comité de Coordenação do Sector Agrário (CCSA): • Technical (National Directors): ComitéTécnico (CT) • Local: Development Corridors Members: • Ministries of Agriculture (head), Planning & Development, Finance, Fisheries, Industry & Commerce, Public Works & Housing, Environment, Science & Technology, Women & Social Affairs, Transport & Communications, and Energy; • Private sector, civil society and development partners.

5. II. Institutional Architecture (cont.) Agriculture Development Corridors Challenge: Corridors go across many districtsand ten provinces, requiring greater coordination (>3000km of coastline) Six corridors for the PNISA Cabo Delgado Niassa Nampula Tete Pemba Lichinga Zambezia Nacala Manica Sofala Vale do Zambeze Beira Gaza Inhambane Limpopo Maputo Maputo

6. III. Policy Objectives • Currently, five policy objectives with 16 commitments between Government, Private Sector and Development Partners were developed to accelerate implementation of the PNISA. • Policies and Regulations on Inputs • Land Use Rights • LiberalizationandFacilitationofTradefor AgriculturalProducts • Availabilityofand Access to Credit • MultisectoralImplementationoftheNutritionActionPlan

7. IV. Status of the Implementation of Commitments • 1. POLICIES AND REGULATIONS ON INPUTS • SEEDS AND FERTILIZERS New regulationsapproved • Draftedin an inclusive andparticipatorymanner; • Harmonizedwiththe SADC protocol; • Allowed private sector accreditation; • Stopped Free distributionofseeds(except in emergencysituations).

8. IV. Status (cont.) • 2. LAND USE RIGHTS • Thesystem for the management oflandinformationdesignedandpiloted in rural areas; • Simplificationofprocedures for thetransferofDUATs in rural areasproducedandpublished; • Directives for strengtheninglandtenuresecurity in rural communities, and for partnershipsbetweencommunitiesandinvestorsbeingdrafted; • Thesystematicregistrationoflandoccupiedbygood-faithoccupiersisunderway.

9. IV. Status (cont.) • 3. LIBERALIZATION OF TRADE FOR AGRICULTURE CULTURAS ALIMENTARES • Revisionofthetaxsystem to improve access to market for smallholders • 4. ACCESS TO AND AVAILABILITY OF FINANCE • Drafting of regulations on mobile finance services and private credit bureaus • 5. MULTISECTORAL ACTION PLAN FOR NUTRITION • Created National Committee for Food Fortification • Drafting of legislation for food fortification

10. V. Constraints Capacity (human, financial, social, institutional) to implement policy and regulations Coordination challenges among actors for policy change Land regulation reform in Mozambique is an extremely emotive issue touching the core of political and social ideology Remember: Regulatory reform takes time, operating within existing processes and laws

11. “For Agricultural Productivity, Food Security and Nutrition, and the Production of Wealth”