Overview of Good Practice in East Africa

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Overview of Good Practice in East Africa

• Spencer Henson Oliver Masakure
• International Food Economy Research Group
• Department of Food, Agricultural Resource
  Economics
• University of Guelph

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Overview

• Good practice benchmarks
• The projects
• Examples of good practice across projects
• General principles of good practice
• Conclusions

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Good practice benchmarks

• Challenges
• Timeframe interventions verses impacts
• Attribution
• Multiple interventions
• Natural evolution of capacity
• Multi-factorial impacts
• Partial capacity-building
• Differing scope of interventions
• Metrics
• Process
• Impacts
• SPS-related managerial capacity
• Higher-order objectives

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Hierarchy of SPS management Functions
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Higher-Order Impacts

• Metrics
• Enhancement of SPS status
• Enhancement of trade performance
• Value/volume of exports
• Unit value of exports
• Access to new markets
• Impacts on livelihoods/poverty
• Differential impacts
• Gender
• Vulnerable groups/regions
• Large versus small firms/farms

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Case Study projects

• Pesticide Initiative Programme (PIP) (EU)
• East Africa Phytosanitary Information Committee
  (USAID)
• Food Control Capacity-Building Needs assessments
  (FAO)
• Advanced Training Programme on Quality
  Infrastructure for Food Safety (SWEDAC/SIDA)
• Global Salm-Surv Training Programme on
  Laboratory-Based Surveillance of Food-Borne
  Diseases for Anglophone Central and Eastern
  Africa (WHO)
• Study on Costs of Agri-Food Safety and SPS
  Compliance in Tanzania, Mozambique and Guinea
  (UNCTAD)

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Pesticide Initiative Programme

• Extended duration
• Basic awareness raising/information provision
• Flexible work programme
• Multi-tiered approach
• Public/Private
• Regulatory measures/Private standards
• Individual/Collective
• Levels of SPS capacity
• Engagement with private sector
• Demand-driven
• Cost-sharing
• Local capacity-building for service provision
• Individuals
• Materials

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East Africa Phytosanitary Information Committee

• Recipient role in project genesis
• Significant degree of local control/ownership
• Ability to evolve
• Local capacity linked to regional capacity
• Regional cooperation coordination
• Flexibility across countries
• Basic capacity
• Higher-level capacity
• Critical capacity developed to attract other
  donors

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Food Control Capacity-Building Needs assessments

• Standard framework
• Project team
• Local consultant
• International consultant
• Stakeholder engagement
• Efforts towards political buy-in
• On-going engagement

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Advanced Training Programme on Quality
Infrastructure for Food Safety

• Needs assessment
• Scheduling organization
• Extended engagement
• Length of training programme
• Follow-up
• Practical elements
• Two-way engagement between participants and
  instructors
• Project work
• Nature of participants

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Global Salm-Surv Training Programme on
Laboratory-Based Surveillance

• Adaptation to local context
• Combination of theoretical practical training
• Extended training programme
• Mixture of participants
• Establishment of informal network of
  practitioners
• Use of local facilities

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Study on Costs of Agri-Food Safety and SPS
Compliance in Tanzania

• Standard methodology
• Local consultants
• National dissemination workshop
• Public private sectors

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Hierarchy of SPS management Functions
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Evidence of higher-order impacts

• SPS status
• Trade flows
• Livelihoods/Poverty

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Common Areas of Less Good practice

• Supply-driven model still often prevails
• Needs identified externally
• Broader external priorities
• Local engagement in capacity-building can be
  limited
• Often limited attention to capacity to build
  capacity
• Rigorous assessments remain the exception
• Much assistance remains fragmented partial
• Multiple interventions
• Failure to address fundamental constraints
• Predominant focus on public sector

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General Principles of Good Practice

• Demand versus supply-driven technical cooperation
• Needs assessment
• Flexibility
• Practitioner networks
• Active learning
• Linking skills development to practice
• Selection of beneficiaries
• Establishing local capacity-building capacity

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General Principles of Good Practice

• Taking account of prevailing local capacity
  needs
• Sequencing and connectivity of capacity-building
  efforts
• Assessing and monitoring progress
• Role as honest broker
• Market distortions
• Political support

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Conclusions

• Can identify areas of good practice across the
  six case studies
• Key role of project design in context of donor
  policies
• Can identify some general principles of good
  practice
• Some traditional modes of assistance remain.
• Challenge is to employ good practice more
  generally
• Biggest challenge relates to higher-order
  impacts
• Bringing about real change
• Identifying measuring that change
• Key role of coincidence of interest