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88 A Decade of NEPAD: Deepening African Private Sector and Civil Society Ownership and Partnership As no single road map will suit all countries, each African country is expected to implement the CAADP Agenda in its own way – although each will be able to use a common set of tools, such as the Pillar frameworks and the country roundtable processes. Success will be measured by the extent to which each country’s policies and investment programmes change are reformed as benchmarked against the common principles and goals of the CAADP Agenda. The national roundtables lead to national pacts between donors and individual governments that will help different countries to achieve the four Pillars. Each national roundtable takes responsibility for: ӹ aligning state policies with regional priorities and the four Pillars; ӹ exploiting synergies and discussing economic bottlenecks between neighbouring countries, and deciding appropriate action on those matters; ӹ identifying gaps in the donor funding needed to achieve agreed priorities; ӹ initiating work to monitor and evaluate CAADP’s progress at the national, regional and continental levels. With the four Pillars as a framework, CAADP efforts drill down to the national level through a roundtable process that focuses on: ӹ exploiting synergies and inclusive, evidence-based discussions on socio-economic bottlenecks and deciding appropriate action on those matters; ӹ identifying gaps in donor funding needed to achieve agreed priorities; ӹ initiating work to monitor and evaluate CAADP’s progress at the national, regional and continental levels; ӹ aligning state policies with regional priorities and the four Pillars; ӹ developing long-term commitments to finance agricultural investment programmes that are aligned with CAADP principles and targets. The country roundtable process is flexible and is being constantly adapted, becoming more robust as it is used and refined. Since CAADP’s inception, NEPAD, the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) and the African Union (AU), have worked together with a number of donors and African governments to mobilise and harmonise support for the initiative. Collectively, they have helped to establish the CAADP Multi-donor Trust Fund which is hosted at the World Bank and funnels financial support to CAADP processes and investments. The CAADP Multi-donor Trust Fund is a flexible yet systematic, efficient and reliable way to: ӹ Allow economies of scale ӹ Complement existing resources mobilised around CAADP Pillars and other thematic priorities ӹ Facilitate partnerships and coalition building among African institutions, partners and donors ӹ Harmonise priorities ӹ Increase the efficiency and effectiveness of financial resources ӹ Target specific gaps in financing, capacity and technology For potential private sector partners, consultants and/or clients, each of the four CAADP pillars offers different prospective engagement opportunities: Pillar 1 – Sustainable Land and Water Management The lead technical agencies of Pillar 1 are the University of Zambia, and the Burkina Faso based Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel. The programme in Pillar 1 focuses on: ӹ Development of the pillar vision and framework ӹ Forging partnerships for sustainable land and water management ӹ The mobilization of US$150 million, leveraging US$1 billion, and ӹ Facilitation of the CAADP country roundtables. Key initiatives under Pillar 1 to date involve the following: ӹ TerrAfrica: Under Pillar 1, the TerrAfrica Initiative has mobilised US$1 billion for investment in country programmes for sustainable land and water management through the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Strategic Investment Programme. Initially, GEF provided US$150 million; a further US$900 million was invested by the Initiative. The design of country programmes and disbursement of funds is already under way. ӹ Conservation agriculture: In 2008, the Norwegian Government committed US$4 million in response to the
high food prices, but with a special focus on conservation agriculture. This is being used in a joint NEPAD- FAO programme (2008-10) to scale up the adoption of conservation agriculture in Southern Africa. It aims to reach 23,700 rural households. Farmers in Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland and Zimbabwe have been trained and given improved seed varieties and appropriate technologies such as the jab planter and planting basin methods. Women and children are key targets of the programme, which in 2010 will be extended to Eastern Africa. ӹ Water and irrigation: Under Pillar 1, NEPAD coordinates, aligns and manages knowledge initiatives across the continent. An initiative to address regional constraints to scaling up investments in irrigation development was launched. Here NEPAD focused on ensuring that regional resource mobilisation directly supports country CAADP processes. Pillar 2 – Market Access Pillar 2 aims to increase market access through improved rural infrastructure and other trade-related interventions. The lead agency under Pillar 2 is the Dakar, Senegal based Conference of Ministers of Agriculture of West and Central Africa (CMA/WCA): The objectives of Pillar 2 are to: ӹ Accelerate growth in the agricultural sector by raising the capacities of private entrepreneurs (including commercial and small-holder farmers) to meet the increasingly complex quality and logistic requirements of markets, focusing on selected agricultural commodities that offer the potential to raise rural (on- and off-farm) incomes, and ӹ Create the required regulatory and policy framework that would facilitate the emergence of regional economic spaces that would spur the expansion of regional trade and cross country investments Key objectives of the work programme under Pillar 2 include initiatives to: ӹ Improve local infrastructure so that African farmers have better connections to markets, addressing issues including: • transportation, (road, rail, marine and air freight) • storage, packaging and handling systems • retail facilities 7. Toward Ownership and Partnership with NEPAD: Key Recommendations A Decade of NEPAD • information technology, and • overall supply chains. ӹ Improve competitiveness through sound trade policies at the national, regional and continental level. ӹ Strengthen capacity to participate in trade negotiations and meet market access requirements for world trade (quality, grades and standards, etc.). ӹ Strengthen capacities among the agribusiness community and facilitate business partnerships with importing companies. ӹ Build strategic alliances to create industry-to-industry linkages and expand domestic and foreign direct investment in agriculture Key initiatives under Pillar 2 to date include the following: ӹ Framework Development: Work is proceeding on the Market Access vision and framework simultaneously. The Secretariat has facilitated and coordinated the final technical review and validation processes for the CAADP Pillar 2 Framework on increasing market access through improved infrastructure and trade-related interventions. ӹ Fertiliser Programme: Following up on the Abuja Declaration, NEPAD has worked closely with the African Union Commission and the African Development Bank to establish the Africa Fertiliser Financing Mechanism. Already over US$35 million has been mobilised and will be directed to countries through country roundtable processes. ӹ Regional trade: Facilitation programmes are currently being funded in the COMESA and ECOWAS regions to promote the integration of regional markets and raise the competitiveness of local products in these markets. ӹ Other initiatives: The UK’s Research Into Use Programme recently launched the African Enterprise Challenge Fund to finance agribusiness joint ventures and other business-to-business alliances. The US African Growth and Opportunities Act also provides duty free access for African origin products, including agri-products. Pillar 3 – Food Supply and Hunger Pillar 3 aims to increase food supply and reduce hunger across the region by raising smallholder productivity and improving responses to food emergencies. The lead technical advisers under Piller 3 are the University of KwaZulu Natal – African Centre for Food Security in Durban, 89
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