The NEPAD Agriculture Unit Briefing Note 35th NEPAD Steering Committee Meeting 21st to 23rd August,

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The NEPAD Agriculture Unit Briefing Note35th
NEPAD Steering Committee Meeting21st to 23rd
August, 2008 Midrand, South Africa

• Richard Mkandawire

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Introduction

• ? Key highlights
• ? Coordinating responses to rising food prices
• ? The CAADP Multi-Donor Trust Fund
• ? The 5th Anniversary of CAADP
• ? Early Actions (i) Scaling up CA adoptions
  (ii) SLM GEF financing

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Key Highlights - 1
AU/NEPAD support to countries on responding to
rising food prices
1. High prices provide challenges and
opportunities for CAADP 2. Overwhelming global
response - AU/NEPAD and development partners
(DPs) have mobilised financing (Short and long
term) 3. Collective agreement to align responses
to the CAADP framework ( May 2008 AU/NEPAD
workshop)
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Key Highlights Rising Food Prices

• NEPAD is coordinating multi-partner Support to
• countries and RECs
• Mobilise expertise to support country programme
  preparation
• Ensure quality and alignment to CAADP and
  national priorities
• Facilitating RECs to engage to strengthen
  political ownership
• Deepen bilateral multilateral support and
  coordination within
• countries in alignment with CAADP agenda
• Facilitation of quality assurance of entire
  process including
• alignment of emergency responses to CAADP
  and country
• development Goals
• Brokering and leveraging additional financing and
  expertise
• Missions undertaken/lined up for Kenya, Gambia,
  Mozambique, Burkina
• Faso, Cote dIvoire, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya,
  Lesotho, Malawi, Mali,
• Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sierra
  Leone, Senegal,

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Key Highlights Rising Food Prices

• Examples of Options/Interventions identified .

• Short Term
• Humanitarian assistance for the most vulnerable
• Subsidised inputs, e.g. Seed and fertilizer
• Cash and food based safety nets e.g., cash or
  food for work
• Assisting livestock keepers with restocking and
  feed

• Medium-long term
• Investing in sustainable soil and water
  management measures
• Irrigation expansion
• Promotion of regional markets
• Policy reforms creating enabling environment
  for enhanced investment in agriculture

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Key Highlights Rising Food Prices

• Resource mobilization

WFP (US 530 Million)
World Bank (US 1.2 Billion)
Others
AfDB (US 733Mn, 2.2 Bn)
FAO (US 17 Million)
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Key Highlights Rising Food Prices

• Resource mobilization
• Bilateral development partners
• US, UK, Norway, Japan and France contributing a
  sum of US200 million in humanitarian assistance
  for Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Somalia, Mauritania,
  Uganda, and Sudan

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Key Highlights Rising Food Prices

• The Steering Committee is called upon to note
  that
• The rising food prices present challenges and
  opportunities calling for enhanced agriculture
  productivity
• - Aligning with the NEPAD CAADP framework will
  ensure that responses to the rising food prices
  take into account the CAADP growth agenda
• - Increased Investment in agriculture is more
  needed now than ever before! We call upon the
  NEPAD SC to support even further inter-sectoral
  collaboration as e.g. Energy, Infrastructure,
  Governance etc

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Key Highlights - 2
CAADP Multi-Donor Trust Fund

• AU/NEPAD have in consultation with DPs
  facilitated the set-up a CAADP Trust Fund to help
  finance CAADP implementation
• The Fund will
• Strengthen alignment and harmonization in
  development assistance along an African agenda -
  the CAADP
• Target specific gaps in CAADP financing-e.g.
  project preparation, mobilization of expertise,
  south to south learning , etc
• Facilitate partnerships and coalition building
  peer review at national and RECs level.
• Complement and leverage additional resources for
  investment in support of CAADP
• at the REC and country levels

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CAADP Trust Fund

• The Fund with an initial commitment of US50
  million will be launched in October 2008
• Governance of the Fund
• The Fund will be governed by a small oversight
  committee comprised of reps from the the AU,
  World Bank, partners contributing to the fund and
  reps from the African CAADP Centres of Excellence
• NEPAD/AU will provide the overall leadership

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CAADP Trust Fund - Governance
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The 5th CAADP Anniversary
Key Highlight - 3

• African leaders endorsed CAADP in 2003
• - achieving at least 10 target budget exp by
  2008
• Need to take-stock and build on the achievements
  and experiences
• - attainment of 10 target
• - embracing the NEPAD-CAADP principles and
  values (partnerships, ownership, governance etc)
• Commission a review process

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5th Anniversary of CAADP

• Objectives of the review
• Review of the performance of CAADP after 5 years
  to assess key milestones
• To define way forward in broadening Global and
  African support to enhancing agricultural growth
• To recognise the shortfalls and achievements
  accomplished by African Governments stimulating
  agricultural growth
• The review will be presented at a high level
  Forum in October which is intended to mark the
  5th Anniversary of CAADP
• A major focus of the Forum will be on stimulating
  the establishment of a Public-Private Partnership
  platform to advance agri-business

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5th Anniversary of CAADP

• Steering Committee is requested to note that
• 2008 is the 5th Anniversary of CAADP
• Join the high-level event expected to take place
  in October / November, 2008
• Proactively follow-up with national governments
  on commitments made in 2003 in Maputo on
  accelerating agricultural growth and food
  security in Africa, including commitments towards
  increasing national agricultural expenditures
• The Time for CAADP is now!

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THANK YOU!Richard Mkandawireemail
richardM_at_nepad.org Tel [phone]