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RECAP of DAY 1 and TOR for GROUP DISCUSSION on DAY 2

RECAP of DAY 1 and TOR for GROUP DISCUSSION on DAY 2. Sam Benin Willie Odwongo UGANDA STRATEGY SUPPORT PROGRAM (USSP) Inception Workshop 31 st October –1 st November 2005 Hotel Africana, Kampala. USSP objectives and activities. ISSUES ARISING Linking to other programs/projects

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RECAP of DAY 1 and TOR for GROUP DISCUSSION on DAY 2

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  1. RECAP of DAY 1andTOR for GROUP DISCUSSION on DAY 2 Sam Benin Willie Odwongo UGANDA STRATEGY SUPPORT PROGRAM (USSP) Inception Workshop 31st October–1stNovember 2005 Hotel Africana, Kampala

  2. USSP objectives and activities ISSUES ARISING • Linking to other programs/projects • Emphasize other agricultural sub-sectors (livestock, fisheries) • Communications: targeting non-policy outputs • Impact assessment of USSP • Financing Page 2

  3. Pro-poor growth • How can poverty-reducing agricultural and economic growth be achieved? ISSUES ARISING • Trade-offs between policies and objectives • Environmental impact assessment • Policy impacts on growth and poverty • Impacts of financing public investments • Rural-urban and farm/non-farm linkages • Regional inequality and lagging regions • Other agricultural sub-sectors: livestock, fisheries, etc • Large- vs small-scale production • Domestic market potential: food crops vs cash crops • Decentralization; equity and distribution considerations (spatial analysis) Page 3

  4. Public investments • What are the returns on investment of agricultural and rural development strategies and distributional effects of public expenditure patterns? ISSUES ARISING • Measurement issues (R&D) • Economy-wide linkages • Level of agricultural spending to meet target • Centralized vs decentralized spending • Returns to other PEAP target (human development) Page 4

  5. Decentralization • How can decentralization be made more pro-poor? How can service delivery be made more effective and efficient and how can its access and utilization by the poor be improved? ISSUES ARISING • Access and quality of services by poor vs non-poor groups • Variation among districts and changes over time • Efficiency in service provision • Role of actors in service delivery • Optimal level of decentralization • Costs and benefits of different reform options • Conditions that influence success of reforms • Fiscal decentralization (graduated tax) • Auditing and corruption Page 5

  6. Natural resources • How can agricultural growth and poverty reduction be achieved without compromising the natural resources and the environment? How can the profitability of inorganic fertilizer and other productivity-enhancing inputs be improved? ISSUES ARISING • Combination of (complementarity among) technologies • Innovative options for making fertilizer more profitable • Institutions for catalyzing adoption and use of technologies • Marketing options for lowering the transaction costs of fertilizer marketing Page 6

  7. Other strategic research questions • Markets and services: How can agricultural marketing and agro-processing systems be strengthened? How can supply of, access to and utilization of rural and agricultural finance be improved? • Commercialization: How can smallholders be better integrated into agribusiness supply chains? • Competitiveness:How can Uganda’s farmers become more competitive in domestic, regional and international markets? Page 7

  8. M&E, links to ECA SAKSS, communications • Monitoring and evaluation • Role of USSP in National Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation System • Agricultural productivity meta database • USSP-ECA SAKSS • Collaboration (analysis, capacity strengthening and communications) • Communication strategy • Targeting various outputs • Information management Page 8

  9. GROUP 1 Pro-poor growth Public investments Natural resources Competitiveness Other GROUP 2 Public investments Decentralization Commercialization M&E other TOR, groups, topics • Identify and discuss key issues to be addressed in 2006 • Identify potential partners • Identify target(s) • Identify mode(s) of communication of output(s) GROUP 3 • Pro-poor growth Decentralization • Natural resources • Markets and Services • other Page 9

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