Fourth CAADP Biennial Review Brief: Namibia
AUTHOR
Winnie Kasoma-Pele, Greenwell Matchaya, Chongo Banda, and Benard Mumba
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 highlights Namibia’s performance in BR4 and compares this to the country’s BR1, BR2, and BR3 performance. It also discusses challenges and lessons learned during the fourth BR. Further, the brief reviews policy and programmatic challenges and concludes by highlighting the measures Namibia needs to take to meet all seven Malabo Commitments by 2025.
A key recommendation from the analysis indicates that Namibia needs greater focus on poverty eradication through agriculture by developing inclusive PPPs for commodity value chains, increasing youth jobs in agriculture, boosting the participation of women and other vulnerable groups in agriculture, and reducing the poverty headcount ratio.
PUBLISHER
AKADEMIYA2063
