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Capacity Development for Market Oriented
Agricultural Advisory Services in Sub-Saharan
Africa
Draft Proposal for a Partnership Programme
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Content
Background and Rationale Consultation Process
and Outcome Proposed Programme
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Background and rationale
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Background and Rationale
Creating new dynamics and accelerating rural
development in Sub-Saharan Africa NEPAD CAADP
setting rural development targets Addressing
insufficient access to knowledge and markets in
the agricultural sector in Africa through Market
Oriented Agricultural Advisory Services (MOAAS)
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Background and Rationale
CAADP pillar 2 Increasing market access for
farmers Component for strengthening farmer
organisation Important for demand and market
orientation of AAS CAADP pillar 4 Agricultural
research, technology dissemination and
adoption Framework for Africas Agricultural
Productivity (FAAP) Advancing effective MOAAS
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Consultation Process and Outcome
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Consultation
Consultation initiated between
partners Neuchatel Initiative International
dynamic network and think-tank concerning MOAAS
in transition African Forum for Agricultural
Advisory Services (AFAAS) New initiative of
networking for advancing AAS Forum for
Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) FAAP 4
Regional Farmer Organisations ROPPA, PROPAC,
EAFF, SACAU
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Consultation
Aims

• Exploring the possibilities and interest by
  African AAS stakeholders in elaborating a needs-
  and demand-based proposal for future
  collaboration between NI and African AAS actors
• Identifying how this can contribute to the
  revitalisation and improved performance of MOAAS
  in Africa
• Identifying potential collaboration partners and
  ensuring integration with ongoing regional
  processes such as CAADP, FAAP and regional
  agricultural productivity programmes

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Consultation
Process
1. Start-up meeting in Brussels TOR 2.
Meeting in Accra, Ghana design and test of
country consultations 3. Consultations in
Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Malawi and Uganda 4.
Meeting in Frankfurt Design of proposal 5.
Writing of draft proposal 6. Now we are here
with the resulting draft proposal..
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Consultation

• Financing
• SDC
• Sida
• GTZ
• RFOs organised the country consultations
• AFAAS carried out the consultation in Uganda
  together with EAFF

Core group Daniel Roduner, Agridea Sanne Chipeta,
DAAS Agnes Gerold, GTZ Ian Christoplos, Glemminge
Development Research AB Adewale Adekunle,
FARA Max Olupot, AFAAS
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Consultation
Common vision for AAS
Farmer- or end-user-driven with a clientele of
empowered and enlightened farmers well organised
and with the capacity to meet the demands of the
growing agricultural sector and networked from
local to continental level where learning is
effectively taken into improved practises
Actors and their future roles envisioned
Farmers Fos Research institutions Training
institutions Governments Private enterprises NGOs
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Consultation
Outcomes across the countries

• AAS are in very high demand, but the demand has
  drastically changed strongly oriented towards
  markets and value chains
• Capacities for delivery are extremely low 10 to
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• Inadequate institutional structures
• Inadequate number of competent staff at all
  levels
• Inadequate resources
• Lack of documented knowledge of how to strengthen
  MOAAS (for policy makers and for advocacy
  organisations)
• Institutional set-up
• Methodologies

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Consultation
Conclusion Way forward
Proposed mechanism for collaboration and pooling
of competencies in MOAAS among stakeholders in
Africa and provision of international expertise
to support this

• Addressing the overall demand formulated for
  development in the three areas
• Competent human resources for delivery of MOAAS
• Capacity of farmer organisations to engage in
  MOAAS,
• Collection of lessons learned from initiatives of
  AAS reforms and pilot projects in African
  countries
• Moreover demand from FAAP on expertise to
  formulation of National Compacts in terms of
  MOAAS

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Proposed programme
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Proposed programme
Goals and objectives

• Overall goal
• Increased agricultural productivity and market
  access of African small scale farmers
• Immediate objective
• Institutions and organisations in Africa use
  their increased capacity to facilitate small
  scale farmers access to effective demand led and
  market oriented agricultural advisory services
• Specific objectives
• Increased knowledge on best practices and
  consequences of choices of delivery systems and
  methodologies for MOAAS in Africa
• Strengthened capacity to advocate and demand
  effective MOAAS
• Strengthened capacity to effectively respond to
  MOAAS demands
• Increased attention to and investments in
  appropriate MOAAS in Africa

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Proposed programme
Target groups

• End users Small scale farmers and agribusinesses
• Immediate target groups
• Institutions involved in MOAAS and their staff of
  advisers
• Farmer organisations at regional and national
  level
• Policymakers in national governments and regional
  development programmes
• National and international research institutes
  and their networks

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Proposed programme
Approach

• Demand drive, market orientation and pluralism
• Learning

• Collaboration platform to
• Connect stakeholders and institutions for
  learning and pooling competencies
• Deliver expertise services on demand
• Facilitate knowledge development to support
  policy development
• - directly to policy makers
• - by strengthening capacity for lobby and
  advocacy

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Proposed programme
Four Components

• Human resources development through education of
  individuals engaged in AAS Knowledge and skills
  of individuals
• Capacity Development of Farmer Organisations and
  other AAS organisations Capacity and quality of
  organisations
• Enhancement of an enabling environment through
  greater capacities for analysis and advocacy
  Enabling environment (institutional)
• Strengthening of AFAAS Country Chapters for
  national coordination

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Proposed programme
Component 1

• AA institutions and organisations at national
  level successfully implement their strategies for
  increased know-how and skills of advisers
  regarding market led and market oriented AAS
• Provide opportunities for
• Facilitation of the strategic planning processes
  for Human Resource Development (HRD)
• Methodological advice to assess the needs for HRD
• Advice in developing the corresponding
  educational programme
• Facilitation of regional linkages between HRD
  programmes and institutions in interested
  countries.

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Proposed programme
Component 2

• Farmer organisations are successfully lobbying
  and advocating for MOAAS and have developed
  strategies and corresponding action plans for
  provision of MOAAS to clients
• Support RFOs in
• Stock taking of experiences in NFOs regarding
  provision of MOAAS
• Development of overall strategic frameworks for
  RFOs to engage in MOAAS
• Development of capacity in RFOs for developing
  policy positions regarding MOAAS and
  dissemination of this to member organisations

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Proposed programme
Component 3

• Stakeholders in MOAAS and CAADP have sufficient
  knowledge regarding best practises and which
  policies are required for MOAAS to effectively
  contribute to increased productivity and market
  access for small scale farmers. This knowledge is
  reflected in policies and investment priorities.
• Support for example the three areas
• Development of monitoring and evaluation systems
  for MOAAS that can ensure continuous learning
• Collection and documentation of practical MOAAS
  models through joint evaluation and collection of
  lessons learned
• Research to support adaptation of AAS to the
  changing environment in terms of food security,
  climate change and globalisation of markets
• Expertise to develop MOAAS as part of the CAADP
  National Compacts

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Proposed programme
Component 4

• The continental network of AFAAS is strengthened
  and functional
• Activities will be
• Assessment of existing CCs and their strength and
  functioning
• Sensitisation of countries, which have not yet
  joint the AFAAS network
• Promote and facilitate establishment in the
  countries, which are interested

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Proposed programme
Implementation
AFAAS Secretariat
NI
Component 4
AFAAS Country Chapters
AFAAS Country Chapters
AFAAS Country Chapters
AFAAS Country Chapters
AFAAS Country Chapter
RFO
RFO
RFO
RFO
Virtual Network
Component 1
Component 3
Component 2
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Proposed programme
NI Contact Point

• NI Contact Point will work closely with AFAAS to
  provide the required services of expertise
• Factors for effective service provision to the
  programme
• Demand driven and market oriented
• Have access to world competencies in MOAAS
• Lean and flexible
• Can work without/with limited core funding

The Draft Proposal presents two options there
may be othersThe NI group will make a decision!