African Union led initiatives have been shaping policy debates and driving research agendas towards the transformation of African agriculture for the last two decades. Continent-wide policies have set a clear vision for African agriculture and now the frontrunners are being recognised.
I’m just off an overnight plane from East Africa, and while I’m not a Marvel fan, it was refreshing to see a theme dominated by Africans in the ‘Black Panther’ movie last night. Could Africa be helping itself towards the seemingly equitable prosperity of the fictional African country of Wakanda?
This report is primarily for mutual review at the continental level, the process that culminates in the annual CAADP Partnership Platform meeting (CAADP PP) that brings together representatives of the leading Regional Economic Communities (RECs) as well as other regional organizations dealing with agriculture, major bilateral and multilateral development agencies, and private-sector and farmers’ organizations to review overall progress in the implementation of CAADP at the Africawide level.
Progress with implementation of CAADP in Lesotho: Despite Lesotho signing the CAADP Compact in 2013, finalization of the National Agriculture Investment Plan (NAIP) is still in
progress, while subsequent processes (technical review and business meeting) are yet to be conducted. A SAKSS node to facilitate monitoring and evaluation, and provide a platform
The 2016/17 Agriculture Sector Performance Report (ASPR) documents the performance of the agricultural sector of Malawi for the fiscal year 2016/17 against the set goal, objectives and outcomes measures of the National Agriculture Policy (NAP) and the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework of the National Agriculture Investment Plan (NAIP). As such, this report contains the baseline measures for monitoring progress towards achieving the agricultural transformation agenda outlined in the NAP and operationalized through the investment
The 2016 Joint Sector Review report has been prepared against the background of four key national developments relating to the ASWAp implementation, finalization of the development of the National Agricultural Policy, climate change induced humanitarian crisis involving 6.7 million people, and continued volatile macro-economic conditions that have significant bearing on the sector’s investments.
Report of the AU Commission on the Implementation of the Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods.
Assembly Decision (Assembly/AU/Decl. 1 (XXIII)) of June 2014
Presented at the 30th Assembly of the Africa Union
January 29, 2018
Back in 2016, the Country CAADP Implementation Guidelines under the Malabo Declaration were developed based on a long participatory process that absorbed information from a range of studies, meetings, country visits and events. These Guidelines were validated by all CAADP constituencies and provide very broad directions to countries to design and implement National Agriculture Investment Plans that are aligned to and consistent with the spirit, values and principles of CAADP as encapsulated in the Malabo Declaration.
