FANRPAN Contract Farming Project

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FANRPANs Role in Generating Evidence for Policy
Harmonization In the SADC Region by Dr. Lindiwe
Majele Sibanda lmsibanda_at_fanrpan.org www.fanrpan.o
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FOCUS ON SOUTHERN AFRICA (SADC)

• SADC region 14 Member states, 228 million people
• The Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources
  (FANR) sector drives economic development
  contributes 35 to GDP employs over 70
• Vastly Disparate levels of economic and policy
  development.
• Region faces food insecurity challenges.
• Agricultural investments by governments have
  remained low.

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SADC HARMONIZATION TARGETS

• 2008 Free Trade Area
• 2010 Customs Union
• 2015 Common Market-allowing unrestricted cross
  boarder movement of labour and capital

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SADC Harmonization Processes

• SADC Treaty-July 1992 in 9 areas
• 22 Protocols-signed include trade
• 3 MOUs signed on i) Macroeconomic convergence,
  ii) coop on taxes,
• iii)stds, quality assurance, accreditation
• 2 Charters -Tourism, social human rights
• 6 Declarations

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Establishment of FANRPAN

• SADC Ministers of Agriculture recommended the
  formation of FANRPAN in 1994 to
• Promote appropriate agricultural policies at
  national and regional level in order
• to reduce poverty
• Increase food security and
• Promote sustainable agricultural development

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FANRPANs Corporate Identity

• A multi-country FANR policy research and advocacy
  network
• A multi-stakeholder FANR policy dialogue platform
• A multi-partner network of agricultural
  institutions

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FANRPANs Corporate Identity

• An autonomous regional FANR policy outfit
• A knowledge management and information exchange
  network
• Recognized by governments, universities, private
  sector and civil society as a source of expert
  FANR policy research and analysis

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Institutional Framework
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Studies/Programmes
Botswana
Mauritius
Tanzania
Zimbabwe
Namibia
S. Africa
Lesotho
Malawi
Angola
Zambia
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Agricultural Policy Harmonisation Project 2005-

• Funded by USAID
• Objectives
• To build a strong network that is better able to
  respond to the policy analysis and research needs
  of SADC
• To strengthen the capacity of country level
  policy nodes to conduct policy dialogue and
  research

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Harmonisation of Regional Policies

• Seed trade
• Fertilizer trade
• HIV AIDS policies
• Biosafety

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FANRPAN Success Story

• Relocation of the regional secretariat office
  from Harare to Pretoria July 2005.
• FANRPAN gets Diplomatic Status - Host agreement
  with SA govt signed on 8 March, 2006
• New Partnerships with Private Sector - MOU with
  Crop-Life International SACAU a regional
  Farmer Organisation
• New Partnerships with RECs - MOU with the SADC,
  COMESA, FARA and NEPAD
• New joint initiative between ARC of South Africa
  and FANRPAN - endorsed by NEPAD.
• New Partnerships with CGIAR Centers MOU with
  IWMI, a regional core research team (ICRISAT,
  ISU, SADC-SSN, Michigan State university) to
  guide the FANRPAN agricultural inputs trade
  studies.

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Success Stories (contd)

• Transfer of node coordination responsibilities
  from University to CSOs in Zambia, Malawi,
  Mozambique and South Africa.
• Identification of two and five-year targets aimed
  at strengthening the various areas of FANRPANs
  capacity.
• Documentation of governance and board rules and
  procedures, human resources policies and
  procedures and communication procedures.
• An increased appreciation of the importance and
  needs of FANRPAN by its development partners
  108 key partners attended 2005 high level
  regional policy dialogue
• 8 policy studies commissioned in partnership with
  international organisations IWMI, ICRISAT, MSU,
  IFPRI.

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Success story (contd)

• 30 Publications policy briefs, newsletters,
  study reports (Contract Farming, PVP, HIV and
  AIDS, Biosafety)
• Stakeholder policy dialogues/ engagements 5
  regional - Maize, Biosafety, HIV and AIDS,
  Inputs Trade, Contract Farming
• 18 National dialogues in three countries Zambia,
  Malawi, Mauritius
• On-Coming Dialogue events Angola 19 June,
  Mozambique-23 June, Malawi 27 June, RSA July
• New Website launched May 2006 www/fanrpan.org

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Way Forward

• Revised strategic plan and institutional
  positioning
• Focus on few long term policy programmes
• FANR INPUTS -seeds, fertilizer,
• Biosafety
• HIV and AIDS
• Strengthen Institutional Capacity for policy
  research and advocacy at national level

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INVITATION

• FANRPAN-ANNUAL HIGH LEVEL POLICY DIALOGUE
• 12-14 SEPTEMBER, 2006
• CENTURION, SOUTH AFRICA.

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Thank you!