Fourth CAADP Biennial Review Brief: Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)

AUTHOR

Sylvia Henga, Mohy Tahomi, Daher Elmi, Senait Regassa, and Paul Guthiga

SERIES NAME

Biennial Review

YEAR

2025

ABSTRACT

The Malabo Declaration on accelerated agricultural growth and transformation for shared prosperity and improved livelihoods is a set of goals adopted by Heads of State and Government of the African Union in 2014 in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (AUC 2014). To translate the seven Malabo commitments into results, a call for action was made by the Heads of State and Government for the African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Union Development Agency NEPAD (AUDA-NEPAD), in collaboration with partners, to initiate a review process to be conducted on a biennial basis starting 2017, with an objective of tracking, measuring, and reporting progress toward achieving the Malabo Declaration commitments by 2025.

Four Biennial Reviews (BR) have been conducted—the inaugural BR in 2017, the second BR in 2019, the third BR in 2021, and the most recent BR concluded in 2023. 
 

As part of fulfilling Commitment 7 on mutual accountability, the fourth BR Report (BR4) and the Africa Agriculture Transformation Scorecard (AATS) were launched at the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the AU Heads of State and Government in March 2024 (AUC 2024). 
 

 This brief draws on the fourth BR (BR4) report to summarize the performance of Member States from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) region against the targets set for the attainment of the Malabo Declaration commitments. The brief also assesses the challenges faced and the lessons learned by the region.
 

A key recommendation from the analysis indicates the need for IGAD Member States to strengthen their mutual accountability systems, including establishing and strengthening agricultural joint sector review (JSR) mechanisms by learning from countries such as Rwanda, which has an established agricultural JSR mechanism that has been working well over time.

PUBLISHER

AKADEMIYA2063