This note presents summaries, experiences and lessons from the inaugural BR process focusing on the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC). It highlights country and regional averages of BR scores and brings out common policy lessons for the region.
In 2003, the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government adopted the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), an agriculture-led integrated development framework to boost African Agriculture with the aim to accelerate growth and eliminate poverty and hunger in African countries. CAADP was adopted in all ECOWAS Member Countries, that all developed and implemented a National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plan (NAFSIP).
This paper uses panel data on 25 African countries from 2001 to 2014 and a country and year fixed-effects model to estimate the impacts of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), an agriculture-led integrated framework of development priorities in Africa, on government agricultural expenditure, official development assistance (ODA) for agriculture, and land and labor productivity. Instrumental variables and Heckman correction (inverse mills ratio) are used to address potential endogeneity and selection bias, respectively.
Abridged version of the Malawi Ministry of Irrigation and Water Development Integrated Water Resources Management and Water Efficiency Plan for the period 2008 – 2012.
