Fourth CAADP Biennial Review Brief: East African Community (EAC)
AUTHOR
Paul Guthiga, Fahari Marwa, and Bertrand Dushimayezu
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 focuses on the performance of the East African Community (EAC) Partner States in BR4, assessing the challenges faced and lessons learned. The brief also reviews policy and programmatic changes in the EAC region following the first, second, third, and fourth BRs. It concludes by highlighting the required policy actions for the region to meet the Malabo Declaration commitments by 2025.
A key recommendation from the analysis indicates that the region needs to pay particular attention to the commitment on enhancing agricultural investment finance, as most Partner States are not even halfway to meeting the 2021 benchmark, and others have not met the 10 percent budget allocation target.
PUBLISHER
AKADEMIYA2063
