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CAADP Pillar IV Support to the Country Round Table Process

www.fara-africa.org. CAADP Pillar IV Support to the Country Round Table Process. 1. CAADP- Comprehensive African Agricultural Development program. Pillar 1 Land & water mgt. Pillar 2 Rural infrastructure & trade-related capacities for market access. Pillar 3

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CAADP Pillar IV Support to the Country Round Table Process

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  1. www.fara-africa.org CAADP Pillar IV Support to the Country Round Table Process 1

  2. CAADP- Comprehensive African Agricultural Development program Pillar 1 Land & water mgt Pillar 2 Rural infrastructure & trade-related capacities for market access Pillar 3 Increasing food supply & reducing hunger Capacity strengthening cuts across all the Pillars Pillar 4 Agricultural research, technology dissemination & adoption Agriculture includes crops, livestock, fisheries and forestry

  3. Pillar IV of CAADPReforming, revitalizing and expanding ARD Objectives • Develop technologies, policies and institutional options provide solutions • Test options in a participatory and iterative fashion • Develop mechanisms for wide-scale dissemination and adoption • Empower resource-poor farmers in Africa • Themes • Integrated natural resource management • Adoptive management of appropriate germplasm • Development of sustainable market chains • Policies for sustainable agriculture

  4. The Framework for African Agricultural Productivity (FAAP) • Prioritizes activities with highest potential to impact productivity, e.g. overcoming • Capacity weaknesses • Insufficient end-user involvement • Ineffective farmer support systems • Systematic fragmentation among innovation systems elements • Fragmented external support • Inadequate investment in ARD 4% growth rate in agricultural productivity CAADP 6% growth rate in agriculture

  5. Providing leadership for CAADP Pillar IV • At three Levels • Continental leadership: provided by Lead Institution (FARA) • Sub-regional leadership: provided by the SROs (ASARECA, CORAF/WECARD, CARDESA and NASRO)— • RECs provide overall leadership for CAADP (i.e. All Pillars) at the sub-regional level. • National leadership: provided by NARS Adheres to the subsidiarity principle Continental Sub regional National Spill-overs

  6. Continental Leadership of Pillar IV • Through 5 Networking Support Functions (NSFs) & a governance reform stream coordinated by the FARA secretariat but drawing on resources and expertise of all FARA stakeholders • FARA’s NSFs • Advocacy and resource mobilization • Access to knowledge and technologies • Regional policies and markets • Capacity strengthening • Partnerships and strategic alliances • Complemented by a CAADP Pillar IV Expert Reference Group

  7. FARA Secretariat Arrangement for Pillar IV Implementation

  8. FARA’s interventions through Networking Support Functions (NSFs)

  9. Requirements for evidence based planning

  10. Participation in country RT processes • Jointly with AU/NEPAD, RECs and SROs, participate in Round Table processes, at least once, to:

  11. Building alliances with investors • Prioritize and agree on investment areas and interests • Build coalitions • Adopt or design investment programmes • Delivery mechanisms, resource requirements, financial commitment, M&E framework • Alignment of initiatives • clear articulation of steps taken with existing initiatives • Clarification of expectations • Establish COMPACTS

  12. Key Implementation Principles • Understanding of roles and responsibilities of all parties involved • Agreement on investment instruments • Monitoring and learning for performance improvement • M&E framework adoption at all levels • Appropriate use of peer review mechanisms

  13. CAADP Pillar IV Framework Functions • Quality assurance in analysis, planning and implementation • Support/guide in the design of investment programmes • Provision of tools and analytical instruments for: • M&E • Stocktaking • Reviews and stakeholder analysis • Institutional capacity assessment • Identification of priority drivers of growth • Provision/access to lessons learnt • Fostering alignment to leverage resources /economics of scale • Guide in the application/adaptation of the principles of CAADP • Development/nurturing networks of expertise

  14. Roles and responsibilities of FARA (as the Lead Institution for CAADP Pillar IV) • Advocacy to ensure that Pillar IV priorities are properly reflected in roundtable processes because: • Effectiveness of agricultural technology generation and dissemination institutions depends on their relevance and impact • Farmers’ needs and agri-business should drive the orientation of agricultural research and extension services • Adopt frameworks at national level • Become a knowledge hub • Mobilize resources (human, institution and financial)

  15. Research Development Transfer Product Marketing Impact An innovation systems approach to agricultural R&D Because it is.... • prescriptive – does not allow for participation of all actors to ensure relevance & foster learning • reductionist – technology “bullets” target parts of the system, not integrated to deal with the holistic system • Poorly linked with markets and policy Why is this a priority? Traditional “pipeline” approach to agricultural R&D inadequate to meet Africa’s 6% growth target.

  16. Integrates people – through innovation platforms, involves a diverse cross-section of relevant actors (e.g., from across the value chain) Integrates interventions – addresses the interfaces of productivity, NRM, markets and policy Integrates institutional change – addresses the reforms in norms and practices that impede development Integrates learning through participatory monitoring and evaluation Focuses on the innovation process, not on technology generation per se An innovation systems approach to agricultural R&D

  17. Teaching materials Case studies Strengthening capacity to build capacityfor sustained innovation and development • Human resource capacity: knowledge, skills and attitudes in identified priority areas • Institutional capacity: policies, methods and tools, programs/curricula, resources, collaboration across disciplines and institutions • Societal/organisational capacity: Awareness, attitudes, perspectives, linkages, political and financial commitments, knowledge and experience of local communities African universities (set priorities & agendas) Teaching &learning methods Improved teaching, learning & institutions Case studies Agricultural Research Centres Non-African partner universities Case studies

  18. ASARECA SROs’AgriculturalInformationSystem Northern Africa CORAF SADC-FANR Regional and global knowledge through information exchange and learning Agricultural Information Learning Systems 1. Advocacy for increased investments in agricultural information and learning systems by African governments and institutions 2. Improve the access and contribution by African ARD stakeholders in the global knowledge exchange 3. Facilitate AISsynergies and learning among international and national organizations • Build continent-wide platform for AILS National focal point FARA National focal point National focal point National focal point

  19. Challenges of Pillar IV Implementation 1. Communication problems - low response rates for information Lack of response = no information on implementation • Unreliability of data source – no disaggregation of allocations for Pillar IV priorities

  20. Challenges for Pillar IV Implementation • Low awareness of CAADP in general contributes to low Pillar IV implementation • Need to upscale visibility of CAADP • Urgent PR work needs to be done by all actors – regional, sub-regional and national • Strategies being developed by all NSFs for FARA and the Secretariat to upscale Pillar IV – all done through stakeholder consultations • Need to fast track the compact processes to move beyond that to implementation to achieve CAADP goals

  21. Monitoring and Evaluation of Pillar IV • CAADP Pillar IV activities embedded within the FARA M & E framework. • All Pillar IV activities will be monitored by FARA secretariat • All FARA Secretariat activities monitored and evaluated to ensure responsiveness to constituents. • FARA M & E Strategy being developed by M&E Specialist at the FARA Secretariat in collaboration with existing institutions (AU/NEPAD-AETS, ASTI, ReSAKSS) - expand list of indicators, access databases and share analytical results

  22. Monitoring and Evaluation of Pillar IV • M & E outputs/results will be used as a tool at FARA secretariat for advocacy and resource mobilization and shared with NARS RECs/SROs AU-NEPAD Other Pillar institutions

  23. Conclusion • The leadership model used by Pillar IV will be a major determinant of its success • A leadership model should be owned by the actors it will affect and is built on established structures • We seek constructive feedback from stakeholders, Africans and non-Africans on arrangements that will, • generate greater ownership, commitment, efficiency and efficacy in the delivery of CAADP Pillar IV

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