Statement by Ousmane Badiane

Director for Africa

The Inaugural CAADP Biennial Review Report: Launch of the African Agricultural Transformation Scorecard and Recognition of Five African Countries as Best Performers

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

29 January 2018

 

On January 29, 2018, the African Union (AU) launched the first-ever African Agricultural Transformation Scorecard (AATS) during its 30th ordinary session of the assembly of the African heads of state and government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The scorecard is an innovative tool for evaluating agriculture sector progress of African countries toward achieving the seven broad commitments of the 2014 Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods. In the Declaration, African leaders pledged to hold themselves accountable to the commitments by conducting a continental level biennial agricultural review to monitor and report on progress. 

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