Advocating For A Holistic Youth And Gender
Agriculture Policy Framework In Southern Africa
National Youth Policy Dialogue, 24 April 2013
Malawi
Sithembile Mwamakamba, Project Manager
sndema@fanrpan.org
Presentation Outline
1. The FANRPAN Policy Cycle
2. Overview of youth engagement in agriculture
in Southern Africa
3. Background on FANRPAN’s work on engaging
youth in agriculture policies
4. Why we are here today
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Unpacking the FANRPAN Policy Engagement Cycle
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Capacity development
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Strategic
Knowledge
partnerships generation
Key
components
What we do in this areas
• Generate knowledge through policy analysis and research
• Acquire knowledge through engagements at local, national,
regional and global levels
• Mobilize Strategic partnerships to generate policy evidence
and to mentor
• Forge partnerships for advocacy
• Coordinate the implementation of the collaborative
engagement.
• Analytical capacities and knowledge base of policy
implementers enhanced.
• Mentoring and career development (e.g. Nodes, Youth
through Internships, Msc and PhD thesis)
• Equip actors with relevant tools and terminology they need
to effectively engage with one another (e.g. TPA)
• Journalists training for responsive, relevant reporting and
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reaching wider audients
FANRPAN Policy Engagement Cycle (cont’d)
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Policy Advocacy
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Policy advocates capacitated (e.g. Elders, Champions
and Advocates)
Advocacy engagement at local, national, regional and
global levels (e.g. UNFCCC-Cop, AU, COMESA,
Montpellier panel etc.)
Promote change in Knowledge, Attitude and Skills (KAS)
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Documentation of processes and lessons learned
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Harvesting and consolidation of dispersed existing
knowledge assets
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Monitoring, evaluation and learning (e.g. reviews,
common vision retreats, exchange visits, reflection
meetings etc.)
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Knowledge management
and communication
Safe space and legitimate convening power of multistakeholder policy dialogues
· Dissemination policy briefs, www.fanrpan.org
publications, social media
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and other means
Youth and Agriculture in Southern Africa
• Africa is the world’s youngest continent,
• In 2010, 70 % of the region’s population was under
the age of 30,
• In 2010, 20 % of the population were young people
between the ages of 15 to 24.
• The large majority of the youth lives in rural areas
and mostly employed in agriculture, accounting for
65% of total employment.
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Regional Efforts in Creating Youth Policies
• NEPAD Youth Desk
– Launched in 2005 by New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) to give
youth a platform for dialogue and enable them to contribute to policy debates.
• The African Youth Charter
– Adopted July 2006 at the 7th Ordinary Session of the Conference of Heads of
States and Government
– Lays the pedestal for national programmes and strategic plans for Youth
empowerment
• Youth Decade Plan of Action (2009-2018)
– Declared by the African Union Assembly in January, 2009, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
– Framework for multi-sectoral and multidimensional engagement of all
stakeholders towards the achievement of the goals and objectives of the African
Youth Charter.
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Status of the African Youth Charter
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Youth Charter and Agriculture
Article 14: Poverty Eradication and Socio-economic Integration of
Youth
• Train young people to take up agricultural, mineral, commercial and
industrial production using contemporary systems and promote the
benefits of modern information and communication technology to
gain access to existing and new markets;
• Facilitate access to credit to promote youth participation in
agricultural and other sustainable livelihood projects
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Article 12: National Youth Policy
• State Parties shall obliged to develop a comprehensive and
coherent national youth policy as follows:
– The policy shall be cross-sectoral in nature considering the
interrelatedness of the challenges facing young people;
– The development of a national youth policy shall be informed by
extensive consultation with young people and cater for their active
participation in decision-making at all levels of governance in issues
concerning youth and society as a whole;
– The policy shall advocate equal opportunities for young men and for
young women;
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FANRPAN’s Youth In Agriculture Work
• September 2011
– FANRPAN convenes a Regional High Level Multi-stakeholder Food Security
Policy Dialogue on “Advocating for the Active Engagement of
the Youth in the Agricultural Value Chain”
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Background
• November 2011
FANRPAN commissioned case studies in Malawi, Mauritius, South Africa,
Swaziland, Tanzania and Zimbabwe to assess current and emerging youth
policies and initiatives with a special focus on links to agriculture.
Evodius Rutta
Executive Director
TAYEN
Tanzania
Nawsheen
Hosenally
Agriculture
Graduate
Mauritius
Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN)
Calvin Kamchacha
Executive Director
FAFOTRAJ
Malawi
Obert Mathivha
Executive Director
CAYC
South Africa
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Mduduzi Dlamini
President
Swazi Youth in AgriBusiness
Swaziland
Tavaka Nyoni
Consultant
ORAP
Zimbabwe
Study Objectives
• Establish baseline data on youth policies and initiatives currently in place
in the case study countries.
• Identify gaps and opportunities for developing national youth and
agriculture policies within agricultural sector and make appropriate policy
decisions.
• Investigate the current participation level and coverage of rural and
urban youth in agriculture and their perceptions towards the sector
• Investigate and assess how the key institutions as well as current tools,
and mechanisms and policy instruments available have mainstreamed
youth agenda
• Profile investment opportunities for youth engagement in the
agricultural value chains
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Methodology
COUNTRY
DESK
REVIEW
KEY
INFORMANT
INTERVIEWS
FOCUS GROUP ON LINE
DISCUSSIONS FORUM
DISCUSSIONS
SURVEYS
MAURITIUS
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ZIMBABWE
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MALAWI
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TANZANIA
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2012 FANRPAN High Level Food Security Policy
Dialogue, Tanzania
The theme was “From Policy to Practice: Advocating for the Active Engagement
of Youth in Agriculture Value Chains”.
• 253 delegates
• 23 countries
• Presentation of six country
case study findings to a
regional audience
• Launch of the Youth in
Agriculture Award
H.E. Dr Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of the Republic
of Tanzania
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Disseminating the Findings
• September 2012: USAID support in disseminating case study
findings at national level
• Three national dialogues (South Africa, Swaziland, Mauritius)
have been conducted to date
• Expansion of project to:
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Angola,
Lesotho,
Mozambique and
Zambia
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Nothing for
the Youth
Without
the Youth
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Thank You
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