CAADP 10 YEARS ON:
DIALOGUE TO IMPROVE IMPLEMENTATION,
COORDINATION AND
ALIGNMENT WITH NATIONAL AGRICULTURE
INVESTMENT PLANS (NAIPs)
Feb 11-13, 2014
African Union Conference Center
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• Chair: Dr. Abebe Haile Gabriel
– Director, Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture (DREA), African
Union Commission
• Official Welcome (5-10 min each)
– Eulogio Montijano, Attaché on behalf of EU Head of Delegation, DPTT
–
Chair
HE Tumusiime Rhoda Peace(Mrs.), Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union
• Opening Remark (5-10 min)
– H.E AtoTefera Deribew, Minister for the Ethiopian Ministry of
Agriculture

VERVIEW OF
EETING
Facilitator: Ed Rege

• Share NAIP implementation progress and challenges and identify lessons learned.
• Discuss and identify lessons from efforts to coordinate and align donor assistance to specific components of NAIPs.
• Review and discuss the 2014 areas of focus and workstreams / thematic areas being proposed to sustain momentum and sharpen focus on implementation efforts.
• Review and discuss the areas of focus to accelerate the impact of
NAIPs and investments on poverty and hunger reduction.

• Development of Post Business Meeting
Guidelines
• Production of a Technical Report
• Produce updated Guidelines for Donor
Support to CAADP Process at a Country Level

• Day 1:
– Recent Progress – Results of country and regional
Stocktaking Exercise
• Day 2:
– Donor Coordination, Harmonization and
Alignment
• Day 3:
– Sustaining Momentum of CAADP
Implementation

MIN

• Progress on key milestones and 2014
Overview (15 min)
– Boaz Blackie Keizire, CAADP Coordinator, DREA,
AUC
• Results of Stocktaking Exercise – Changes in
African Agriculture resulting from implementation of CAADP Approaches (10 min)
– Josue Dione, AUC

• Synthesis of emerging or existing NAIP Priorities and modeling of possible performance impacts if countries implement their plans
– Ousmane Badiane, Director for Africa, IFPRI
•
•
Regional-Bilateral ECOWAP (CAADP) coordination in West Africa (RAIP and NAIPs)
– Alain Sy Traore, Director of Agriculture, ECOWAS
Group Summary

PANEL Discussion: Dialogue on
Implementation Goals, Actions and Targets
• Sam Sesay
– Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security, Sierra Leone
• Vincent Rubarema
– Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and
Fisheries, Uganda
• Mrs. Sophia Kaduma
– Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania
• Assiongbon Kuessan
– Secretary General, Ministry of Rural Equipment (MER), Togo

1.
Going beyond process to outcome of impact indicators
2.
Clarity on what constitutes private sector and actions to mobilize local private sector
3.
Are policy and institutional changes being translated into actual reforms which address hunger and poverty outcomes?
4.
Is there evidence of sustainable increase in public (and leveraged) private investments in agriculture?
5.
The land question: Local access and ownership vs. “land grab” question
6.
Lessons on addressing agricultural market challenges
7.
Strategies for engaging the youth in agriculture
8.
Capacity building on M&E at national and regional levels
9.
Data collection and analysis infrastructure at national and regional levels

• Objectives:
– Discuss country assessments – what has worked and what are the gaps (based on stocktaking assessment done prior to the meeting)
– Discuss and agree on 3-4 most common areas of progress
– Identify the 3 – 4 major issues /constraints that must be addressed to improve implementation over the coming years
– Prepare to report on areas of progress and major constraints

• Country teams will meet in regional groups after lunch
• NO FORMAL PRESENTATIONS
• Frank, open dialogue
– share experiences on how issues have been dealt with to date
– help outline and guide next steps on what might be done to address these issues or challenges
• These are not sessions to judge
– It’s a RARE opportunity to have collegial problem solving discussions -- starting with a good understanding of the problems you are facing

• Agreement on 3-4 most common areas of progress across the countries represented in regional group
• Agreement on 3-4 PRIORITY issues that MUST be addressed (by countries/ RECs / donors or all) to move forward

• What’s going on with Ag production and productivity?
• What are you doing to improve the functioning of Ag markets?
• How do you engage private sector entities in CAADP NAIP implementation?
• What’s the status of food security and provision of safety nets in your country?
• Are you managing natural resources for sustainable agriculture production differently since CAADP NAIP began?
• How are you involving women small holders ?
• What are the priority policy and institutional reforms needed?
• What specific emerging /cross-cutting areas should be addressed by higher level CAADP coordination?

Regional Group Configuration
West Africa Group 1 (Jim Teft) – CAUCUS 11
Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Sierra Leone, ECOWAS
West Africa Group 2: (Maurice Lorka) – CAUCUS 12
Ivory Coast, Senegal, Togo, DRC, Niger, ECOWAS
East Africa: (Mbosonge Mwenechanya)– CAUCUS
13 Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, COMESA,
IGAD
Southern Africa: (Mebero Nalishebo) – CAUCUS 10
Mozambique, South Africa, Malawi, Zambia,
COMESA

LUNCH – 1 HOUR RECONVENE BRIEFLY IN
PLENARY AT 1415

R EGIONAL G ROUP D ISCUSSIONS
1
HOUR
B REAK AT 1600/ PLENARY AT 1630

MIN

Objectives:
• Share results of regional discussions
– 3-4 common areas of progress
– 3-4 PRIORITY issues that MUST be addressed
• Brainstorm
– emerging consensus around priority issues that need to be addressed to improve CAADP implementation over the next 10 years – from country perspective

W RAP U P
AUC-H OSTED SOCIAL EVENT