In any sector, policy dialogue is a critical component to efficient and harmonious policymaking and implementation. A joint sector review (JSR) is an annual review of the sector to identify where challenges are preventing coherent dialogue. In Ghana, the first agriculture JSR was instituted in 2008 with the goal of reaching a common point-of-view among key sector stakeholders on important achievements in the preceding year.

Ethiopias key development objectives are poverty eradication and food security at the household level, with agriculture playing an important role in the achievement of both of these objectives. The major policy framework for doing so is the Agricultural Development-Led Industrialization (ADLI) strategy, which has been the central pillar of Ethiopias development vision since the 1990s. Agricultural sector growth in the short and medium terms is envisaged as the driver for long-term industrialization and the structural transformation of Ethiopias economy.

This report is part of the overall approach to agricultural development in Mozambique set in motion by the National Agricultural Investment Plan (NAIP) (referred to in Mozambique as the Plano Nacional de Investimento do Sector Agrrio, or PNISA). This process takes place within the context of the mutual accountability framework of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Plan (CAADP). This report is a preliminary step to successfully establish within the country the process of the joint sector review (JSR).

Cote d'Ivoire AgPER (French)

Diagnostic Review of Public Expenditure in the Agriculture Sector in Cote D'Ivoire (1999-2012)

Dans le cadre de la mise en place et de loprationnalisation du systme national danalyse stratgique et de gestion des connaissances (SAKSS national), une stratgie de renforcement des capacits est labore travers notamment lvaluation des besoins des institutions impliques dans le processus de politique agricole et alimentaire en matire individuelle, organisationnelle et institutionnelle.

Le processus de mise en oeuvre du Programme dtaill de dveloppement de lagriculture africaine(PDDAA) sest acclr depuis la dclaration dengagement des chefs dtats de lUnion africaine Maputo en 2003 de consacrer au moins 10% de leur budget lagriculture. Ce cot de fouet a permis, au niveau rgional et national du continent africain, de dvelopper des initiatives pour amliorer les conditions de production agricole. LUEMOA, la CEDEAO, le CILSS, en collaboration avec les tats membres, ont renforc la convergence de leurs politiques pour plus defficacit.

The 2014 Annual Trends and Outlook Report examines both current and future trends that are likely to shape the trajectory of African economies. It investigates the drivers behind the recent growth recovery, the nature and pattern of structural transformation among African economies, past strategies and future outlook for industrialization, the changes occurring in agrifood systems, and the role of major infrastructure sectors in the continents past and future growth.

The CAADP Results Framework provides Africa and its partners with a set of goals and results to be pursued in the transformation of the agriculture sector. It gives the political and technical impetus to foster policy alignment and harmonization of interventions geared at advancing the agriculture transformation agenda. It articulates the targets to be achieved over the next ten years, and provides the set of associated indicators.

Strengthening Capacities for Evidence-based Policy Planning and Implementation in Africa: IFPRI's Support to CAADP in 2014-2015