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2011 ReSAKSS January - March Progress Report

2011 ReSAKSS Work Plan

ReSAKSS is pleased to announce our Progress Report from January - March, and the introduction of the Work Plan for Phase II of ReSAKSS for the course of January - December 2011.

Reflecting on 2010

The first three quarters of 2010 have seen a great deal of progress in the CAADP process. To date, 22 countries and one regional economic community, ECOWAS, have completed Roundtables and signed CAADP compacts.  Since May 2010, 17 of those countries and ECOWAS have moved on to develop their agricultural investment plans that have gone through different stages of the Technical Review process.

Since its adoption in 2003, the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) has established a reputation as a framework of support for sustainable agricultural development in different countries and regions of Africa. Several African countries have now signed their CAADP compacts with the support of the ReSAKSS network. As we enter the post-CAADP compact implementation phase in many countries, it is important to streamline the areas of intervention of CAADP by making only those incremental and value-added changes to the current services provided by CAADP as are necessary.

The significant progress made at the country level toward CAADP implementation over the past several months is continuing into mid-2010. Since the January/February issue of the ReSAKSS e-Newsletter, four countries have held Roundtables and signed CAADP compacts. Three of these countries are in the COMESA region (Malawi, Swaziland, and Uganda) and one (Guinea) is in the ECOWAS region.

The significant progress made at the country level toward CAADP implementation in mid to late 2009 is continuing into 2010. Since the November/December issue of the ReSAKSS e-Newsletter, two countries have held Roundtables and signed CAADP compacts (Senegal and Cape Verde) and one country – Togo –held their post-compact meeting. Five more countries are scheduled to hold Roundtables and sign compacts within the next 2 months.