CAADP 10 YEARS ON:
DIALOGUE TO IMPROVE IMPLEMENTATION,
COORDINATION AND
ALIGNMENT WITH NATIONAL AGRICULTURE
INVESTMENT PLANS (NAIPs)
Day 2

– Boaz Blackie Kezire

• Facilitator: Ed Rege
• Objective
– Quickly review emerging priority issues identified yesterday that need to be addressed to improve
CAADP implementation over the next 10 years

Emerging Issues Arising from Group Break
✓
Private Sector – should be driving force. Public sustainability
Outs Sessions sector should support Private sector to achieve
✓
M&E (tracking progress) and KM (Impact oriented policies / commitments / outcomes)
✓
Embedding thinking and doing in national frameworks (NAIPs)
✓
Sustainability/ self-sustaining (e.g. continuing investment that doesn’t depend on outside resources, building institutional framework, continuity of program)

✓
Bringing youth into agriculture
• Be more direct in supporting PPPs in value chain development so youth can benefit
• Entrepreneurship training for youth
✓
Local capacity / institutional strengthening
✓
Political commitment at all levels
• Develop model on how we can promote to encourage political commitment of our principles
✓
Go beyond drafting documents to our own resource mobilization and identify other sources of funding beyond what we are already familiar with.
✓
Consistency, stable, predictable government polices (e.g. trade policies)
✓
Research for development / innovative ideas being introduced into agr. systems

BIG ISSUES Mentioned by these Regions
No. of Times
Private Sector – should be driving force. Public sector should support
Private sector to achieve sustainability
M&E (tracking progress) and KM
(Impact oriented policies / commitments / outcomes)
Southern Africa,
East Africa, West
Africa GR1, West
Africa GR 2
Southern Africa,
East Africa, West
Africa GR1,
4
3
Embedding thinking and doing in national frameworks (NAIPs)
Southern Africa,
East Africa
2
Sustainability/ self-sustaining East Africa, West
Africa GR1,
2
Bringing youth into agriculture Southern Africa,
West Africa GR
2,
2

Day 2:
Donor Coordination, Harmonization and Alignment -
Conditions to be Met
Objectives:
• Exchange ideas and suggestions on current status of donor coordination and alignment
• Share ideas on how to improve donor coordination and alignment (at country level, between in-country and headquarter offices)
• Clarify conditions that countries need to meet in order for donors to turn promised support into high level policy commitments

• Status of Donor Coordination, Harmonization
and Alignment (10 min)
– Jeff Hill, USAID Food Security Policy Chief
• Sample Responses on Mutual Accountability,
Donor Alignment, Coordination and Aid
Effectiveness Stocktaking Exercise (10 min)
– Hubert Cathala, DPTT

Moderator: Boaz Blackie Keizire
• Saga Pascal Yves Ilboudo, PS, Ministry of Agr for
Coordination of Agriculture Policy, Burkina Faso
• Patrick Mutabwire, PS, Ministry of Local
Government, Uganda
• Fenton Sands, USAID/Ghana, ASWG
• Sam Kanyarukiga, CAADP Coordinator in COMESA
• Eric Force, ADWG/DPTT Country Rep, Cameroun

30 min

Objective:

• ECOWAS: Donor Mapping (15 min)
– Alain Sy Traore, Director of Agriculture, ECOWAS
• Ethiopia: Examples of approaches and tools used to support better coordination (15 min)
– Ato Dejene and Gary Wallace, MoA and Donor
Coordinators of RED&FS Discussion, Ethiopia
• Discussion / Summary

LUNCH – 1 HOUR RECONVENE BRIEFLY IN
PLENARY IMMEDIATELY AFTER LUNCH

Objectives of group discussion:
• Agree on 3-4 most critical donor coordination, harmonization and alignment issues that need to be fixed
• Brainstorm and agree on 3-4 specific, realistic actions that can be taken to overcome these issues (how can they be fixed)
• Summarize 3-4 Issues and How to Fix Them

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Country teams will meet in regional groups after lunch
NO FORMAL PRESENTATIONS – Keep comments concise so everyone can participate in dialogue
REMEMBER
• Frank, open dialogue
– share experiences on how issues have been dealt with to date
– help outline and guide specific actions needed to address these issues or challenges
• These are sessions to learn from each other
– It’s a RARE opportunity to have collegial problem solving discussions -starting with a good understanding of the problems you are facing and
MOVING TO SOLUTIONS

1. How Do You Recognize If Coordination,
Harmonization and Alignment are really happening?
(What would be the most critical indicators)
– Agree on 3-4 Indicators
1. What specific actions would you suggest to make coordination / alignment happen or to improve it beyond the current situation
– agree on 3-4 Actions
1. What is currently constraining national level leadership in coordination, alignment and harmonization? What specific steps should be taken to address this issue?
– Share 3-4 suggestions

Regional Group Configuration
West Africa Group 1 (Jim Tefft) – CAUCUS 11
Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Sierra Leone, Mauritania, 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: (Nalishebo Meebelo) – CAUCUS 10
Mozambique, South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, COMESA

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

MIN

Specific ACTIONS Needed To Improve Donor
Coordination, Harmonization & Alignment
Reports, Discussion & Synthesis
Objectives
• Share reports
• Agree on most critical issues and most realistic actions needed on donor coordination, harmonization and alignment
• Agreements will provide input into revised
“Guidelines for Donor Support to CAADP Process at a Country Level”

RAP
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W HAT HAPPENS TOMORROW