PROGRESS REPORT

26 PROGRESS REPORT GTP I TRANSFORMATION AGENDA 27
Achievements and Lessons Learned During GTP I Agricultural
Transformation Agenda Implementation
Overall Performance of Deliverables
The performance of the 84 deliverables in the
Transformation Agenda was regularly assessed
throughout GTP I and reported to the Prime
Minister and the Transformation Council based on
a rigorous performance management framework.
While the ultimate goal of the Agricultural
Transformation Agenda is to deliver impact at
the smallholder farmer level, each deliverable
has been prioritized and designed to address a
particular systemic bottleneck in the agriculture
sector. As such, many deliverables are several
steps removed from directly working with
smallholder farmers and it becomes difficult to
quantify the direct impact of each deliverableon
a specific number of farmers. For example,
deliverables such as updating the seed sector
proclamation or improving the career path and
incentive structure of agricultural researchers
are expected to make major contributions to the
performance of the agriculture sector as a whole
and to ultimately benefit smallholder farmers.
However, the immediate and direct contribution
of these two deliverables, and many similar ones,
on the production and productivity of a specific
number of smallholder farmers is impossible to
quantify.
Nevertheless, a concerted effort has been made
to quantify and analyze the specific contributions
that each deliverable has had on the agriculture
sector during GTP I. As such, all 84 deliverables
in the Transformation Agenda for GTP I have been
measured based on the outputs generated across
five broad thematic areas: Policies/Strategies/
Regulations, Institutional Structures/Processes/
Systems, Introduction of Innovative Ideas,
Capacity Building, and Direct Engagement with
Smallholders.
As of July 31, 2015, 53% of deliverables (45 of
84) were deemed to be “On Track,” while 35%
(29 deliverables) were considered “Slightly
Delayed” and 12% (10 deliverables) were
considered “Significantly Delayed.”
Achievements of Transformation Agenda Deliverables by Primary Thematic Area
Primary Thematic Area Output Indicators Achievement
Policies/Strategies/ No. of policies/proclamations revised 3
Regulations
No. of strategies/regulations/guidelines implemented 23
Structures/Processes/ No. of new institutional structures implemented 29
Systems
No. of new institutional process/system implemented 132
Introduction of
No. of innovative concepts/approaches piloted 70
innovative ideas No. of innovative concepts/approaches scaled-up 23
Capacity building
No. of stakeholders experts trained 67,671
No. of institutions strengthened/capacitated 2,148
No. of SHF trained or reached by new technologies 9,689,578
Direct engagement with
No. of SHF using newly introduced technologies 4,436,020
smallholders
Ha. of land covered by newly introduced technologies 2,187,545
35%
12%
53%
On Track
Slightly Delayed
Significantly Delayed
All deliverables have also reported outputs in
each of the five thematic areas, tracking two
major indicators for each thematic area. Results
and data have been collected, verified and
reported by deliverable owners and government
bodies at local, regional and federal levels.
Internal verification of the outputs in each
thematic area has also been undertaken by the
ATA’s Performance Management Unit in most
(but not all) cases.
Key outputs achieved by Transformation Agenda
deliverables during GTP I include: the revision of
three policies/proclamations; the development
of 23 new strategies/guidelines/regulations,
the introduction and scale-up of 23 innovative
concepts, and the engagement of over 4.4 million
farmers using new technologies introduced
through the Transformation Agenda deliverables
on over two million hectares of land. (Specific
contributions by each deliverable and each
program to these overall figures are provided in
the Program Summary section of this report).
Although most deliverables have made
contributions toward outputs in more than one
thematic area, each deliverable has also been
classified as having one primary thematic focus
area. Common, measurable targets have been
utilized to track and assess achievements in
each thematic area, in order to determine the
“On Track,” “Slightly Delayed,” and “Significantly
Delayed” status. Relevant additional factors,
such as the deliverable start date and complexity
of the task, are also factored into these status
ratings for certain deliverables.
The counterfactual of how the Transformation
Agenda, and more specifically the ATA, have
contributed to overall agricultural development
during GTP I may be difficult to capture given
that the objective of most Transformation Agenda
deliverables is to improve the pace and quality of
existing institutional arrangements.
In the following sections, the performance of
Transformation Agenda deliverables is analyzed
based on the five broad thematic areas that all
deliverables fall into. In addition, the final part
of this section provides the results of a survey
undertaken with all deliverable owners and key
partners working on the Transformation Agenda
during GTP I. A more detailed program-byprogram
review of deliverables is provided in the
next section of the Progress Report.