2021 CAADP Biennial Review Brief: SADC

AUTHOR

Greenwell Matchaya*, Panduleni Elago**, and Duncan Samikwa***

SERIES NAME

Biennial Review

YEAR

2022

ABSTRACT

As a key activity under the seventh commitment on mutual accountability, a continent-wide Biennial Review (BR) is conducted to monitor progress in achieving the seven commitments. The report on the third BR of 2021 and the associated Africa Agriculture Transformation Scorecard was launched at the 35th African Union (AU) Summit in February 2022.  

This brief highlights the performance of the SADC region as a whole and the individual member states that make up SADC in making progress toward the Malabo Declaration commitments as presented in the BR3 report.  

The brief equally identifies and analyzes some of the challenges faced in the region and lessons learned, reviewing policy and programmatic changes in the SADC region induced by lessons from the inaugural BR1 of 2017 (AUC 2018), BR2 of 2019 (AUC 2020), and the most recent BR3 of 2021. The brief concludes by highlighting required policy actions for SADC countries to meet the Malabo Declaration commitment targets by 2025.  

PUBLISHER

AKADEMIYA2063