Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network for Southern Africa FANRPAN

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Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy
Analysis Network for Southern Africa (FANRPAN)

• Contact details
• P. O Box 2765
• Causeway
• Harare
• ZIMBABWE
• Telephone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email policy_at_fanrpan.org

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Title

• FANRPAN PRESENTATION

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FANRPAN Mission

• To coordinate, influence and facilitate policy
  research, analysis and dialogue at the national,
  regional and global levels in order to develop
  the food, agriculture and natural resources
  sector through networking, capacity building and
  generation of information for the benefit of all
  stakeholders in the SADC region

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Why FANRPAN?

• In 1994, the SADC Ministers of Agriculture
  adopted a recommendation from policy advisors
  that the empowerment of smallholder farmers
  through training and creation of producer
  associations, greater involvement of private
  sector actors and other stakeholders as well as
  the creation of policy analysis networks were key
  prime movers for achieving agricultural growth
  and eradicating food insecurity.

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Composition of FANRPAN

• An autonomous regional stakeholder driven policy
  research, analysis, implementation and advocacy
  network established in May 2001.
• Designed to ensure that policy makers have
  continual access to well researched and analysed
  policy advice both at the national and regional
  level.
• A lean regional secretariat supported by a sector
  wide board of governors. (two permanent
  secretaries as government representative, two
  farmer representatives, two private sector
  members, and two members from policy
  institutions, all drawn from the participating
  countries)
• Maintains close link with SADC, donors and other
  institutional research collaborators working in
  the region.
• Network operates nodes in 11 of the 14 SADC
  countries.

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Member Countries

• Botswana
• Lesotho
• Malawi
• Mauritius
• Mozambique
• Namibia
• South Africa
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

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FANRPAN Network Structure
FANRPAN BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Secretariat
 
Chief Executive Officer
Coordinator Communications and Policy Advocay
Coordinator Policy Research
Technical Advisory Committees
Country Level Networks
ADMIN UNIT
HIV and ADS Project
Contract Farming Project
Livelihoods Project

• Country Nodes -
• Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, South Africa,
  Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Mauritius, Botswana, Namibia,
  Angola, Swaziland, Lesotho,
• Node Coordinator
• Farmer Representative
• Private Sector Representative
• Government Policy Maker

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Objectives of FANRPAN

•   Promote appropriate agricultural policies in
  order to reduce poverty, increase food security
  and enhance sustainable agricultural development
  in the SADC region
•  Improve policy analysis, research and
  formulating of priority SADC themes
•   Develop human and institutional capacity for
  coordinated dialogue among all stakeholders
• Establish contacts with similar networks and
  other research collaborators
•   Collect, store and exchange information and
  liase with target groups in order to facilitate
  broad participation of stakeholders (public,
  private, NGO, civil society) in policy issues

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Thematic Policy Research

• Divided into four major themes
• Productivity growth and Technology Development
  for Crops and Livestock e.g study on GMO, seed
  fertiliser and soil fertility
• Commercialisation,trade market competitiveness
  e.g studies on strategic grain reserves, contract
  farming
• Institutional reform and capacity building e.g.
  study on farming organisations, HIV/AIDS
• Land, water and natural resource management

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Research Study Process

• Identification prioritising of the research
  topic
• Drafting the necessary TORs and circulating them
  to nodes and research partners for comments
• Setting out timeline and research teams through
  nominations from nodes, secondments from partners
  or competitive bidding
• Setting up a steering committee to guide the
  research team and drawing contracts
• Inception workshops if necessary or workshops to
  present results
• Publication and circulation of synthesis papers,
  policy briefs, and proceedings to relevant
  stakeholders
• Periodic review and monitoring of policy
  recommendations

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FANRPAN Core Research Program Process
   
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Current Studies/Programmes
 
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Project Time Frame
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Effective Networking

• FANRPAN is unique because of its vertical and
  horizontal connectivity with stakeholders
• The Network operates nodes in 11 of the 14 SADC
  countries
• At country level the nodes operate as a network
  of stakeholders
• Through their steering committees, the nodes
  spearhead policy analysis in their respective
  countries

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Effective Networking Contd

• FANRPAN links to SADC through the FANR
  directorate which is an ex officio member of the
  Board of Governors.
• The CEO of FANRPAN attends the SADC Council of
  Ministers meetings where the network feeds back
  issues and research results.
• Conferences and workshops are used not only for
  disseminating research results but also as tools
  to train policy analysts in making policy
  presentations and debates

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Stakeholder Consultations

• Country nodes implement in country stakeholder
  consultation meetings to define agenda
• Stakeholders are involved throughout the policy
  process
• Stakeholders are drawn from Ministries of
  Agriculture, NGOs farmer organisations,
  agricultural institutions, relevant
  parastals,private sector, research institutions
  and extension
• The FANRPAN stakeholder directory is intended to
  bring together network members

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Challenges

• Limited financial resources for the network for
  operations and research
• Resulting in a weak network organisational
  structure
• Policy analysis research capacity in the region
  is weak

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New vision for sustainability

• To continue to facilitate regional policy
  dialogues
• To continue strengthening capacity of nodes to
  effectively communicate with all stakeholders
• To introduce national stakeholder policy
  dialogues on topical FANR policy issues
• To coordinate community driven information
  systems that will link rural communities to
  national policy processes through the nodes.
• Strengthen the national level policy research
  nodes that form the backbone of the network
• Implement relevant regional studies within two of
  the four defined themes
• Monitor and evaluate the implementation of
  recommended policies