Fourth CAADP Biennial Review Brief: Angola

AUTHOR

Winnie Kasoma-Pele, Greenwell Matchaya, and Kiakanua Manuvanga

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 assesses Angola’s performance toward meeting the Malabo Declaration commitments across the four BR rounds. Furthermore, it highlights the challenges faced and lessons learned by Angola during BR4 in 2023. The brief also outlines policy and programmatic measures required for Angola to meet the Malabo Declaration commitment targets by 2025.

 

A key recommendation from the analysis indicates that Improving Angola’s performance on all commitments calls for increased funding for data generation, management, analysis, utilization, and monitoring and evaluation in the agricultural sector.

PUBLISHER

AKADEMIYA2063