Fourth CAADP Biennial Review Brief: Tanzania
AUTHOR
Mwanahawa Leonard Mhina, Greenwell Matchaya, and Adella Ng'atigwa
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 Tanzania’s performance in terms of the seven Malabo Declaration Commitments, assessing the challenges faced and lessons learned. The brief also reviews policy, programmatic, and investment changes in Tanzania induced by the four BR cycles. The final section highlights policy actions and programmatic measures Tanzania must take to meet the Malabo Commitments by 2025.
Key recommendations from the analysis indicate that to ensure the achievement of the Malabo Declaration Commitments by 2025, Tanzania needs to boost investment in agriculture, enhance agricultural productivity and food security, and strengthen climate resilience.
PUBLISHER
AKADEMIYA2063
