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What is CAADP?
How is FAC engaging with CAADP?
Future Agricultures is very much behind the CAADP agenda. We follow up progress towards the Compact and encourage the three partner countries to actively and effectively engage with the programme. We have encouraged the Government of Ethiopia (through MoARD) to accelerate the CAADP process which led to the Compact signing in August 2009.
Future Agricultures is using the Partnership Platform as a mechanism for informing the CAADP process. The Ethiopia team, on behalf of the Consortium, has attended and contributed to 3 CAADP Partnership Platform meetings so far (2nd in Addis Ababa, 3rd in Seychelles, 4th in Pretoria). It has also attended technical meeting of the Ministers of Agriculture and Land in Addis Ababa.
The highlight of our engagement so far is the Ethiopia CAADP Compact signing event in August 2009. This was triggered by the Green Revolution Conference in May 2008. At the invitation of Future Agricultures, Dr. Abera Deresa, the State Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, attended the conference and realised that African countries and prominent individual such as Kofi Annan are committed to CAADP. Upon returning home, he immediately issued a statement that Ethiopia is committed to CAADP and will accelerate the Compact signing process. Within a year of this statement, Ethiopia passed through all the stages and signed the Compact. {jathumbnail off}
Opportunities for FAC to engage with CAADP Process
Following the 3rd CAADP review and partnership platform meeting, March 2008, four engagement opportunities for Future Agricultures in the CAADP process were identified.
Engagement Opportunity No. 1: Emphasis on farmer organizations is a potential area for Future Agricultures contribution to CAADP in view of the recent scoping study for the Gates Foundation. CAADP also has shown interest to engage the Gates Foundation with a view to expanding its donor base.
Engagement Opportunity No. 2: Align Future Agricultures thematic areas with CAADP pillars to cross fertilize knowledge and experience. This should include hooking www.future-agricultures.org to ReSAKSS website (and vice versa) to share evidence from Future Agricultures work with the CAADP process (and vice versa).
Engagement Opportunity No. 3: Here is a clear opportunity for Future Agricultures to bring the Ministry up to speed and help it facilitate the round table. We have already established good rapport with the Ministry and have developed consultation techniques that the Ministry has appreciated. COMESA has also indicated they need help to move things in Ethiopia!
Engagement Opportunity No 4: Link up the CAADP focal person and Future Agricultures Malawi country coordinators to share experience. Wherever possible invite CAADP focal persons to Future Agricultures meetings/forums.
ReSAKSS - Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System
The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) is an Africa-wide network established to provide readily available analysis, data, and tools of the highest quality. It promotes evidence-based decision-making, improves awareness of the role of agriculture for development in Africa, fills knowledge gaps, promotes dialogue, and facilitates the benchmarking and review processes associated with the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) agenda of the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) and African Union (AU) and other regional agricultural development initiatives in Africa.
Integrating FAC Themes with CAADP pillars
Future Agricultures has attempted to align its thematic areas with CAADP pillars.
For example, the Policy Process theme is a perfect complement to the pillars since none of them explicitly address policy formulation. This weakness was in fact raised during the discussion.
The Growth and Social Protection theme is also a perfect complement to the pillars. CAADP focuses on growth and says very little on social protection. The current thinking is there must be a balance between growth policies and social policies to bring about development. The trickle down theory has almost become irrelevant. Even if countries achieve high levels of growth, there are millions who fall out of the net. These citizens need protection!
2009 CAADP Africa Forum
On November 30 in Nairobi, more than 160 delegates from across Africa met for the fourth CAADP Africa Forum, organized by the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) from 30 November-4 December 2009. The Forum’s theme is ‘The Bottom of the Pyramid: Agricultural Development for the Vulnerable’.
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