CAADP experts work on Roadmap for Agricultural Growth
Kigali – Looking ahead in the new decade of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), the major task now is how to accelerate the pace of implementation of CAADP to realise the 2025 vision and goals that the Heads of States and Government of the African Union made at the 23rd Ordinary Session of the AU Assembly in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
The 2014 Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods expresses a firm recommitment towards attaining an agriculture revolution in Africa. This recommitment arose as aresult of the progress made and lessons learned from the implementation of earlier AU Decisions and Declarations, most notably the 2013 Maputo Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security in Africa.
Based on this resolve, African leaders, meeting in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on 26-27 June 2014, re-committed to the Maputo target of allocating at least 10 percent of national budgets to the agriculture sector. The Heads of States also committed, amongst others to “Mutual Accountability, Actions and Results”. Under this commitment, the focus is on the biennial review of progress through the processes of tracking, monitoring and reporting.
The NEPAD Agency and the African Union Commission convened a joint planning meeting in Kigali, Rwanda on 15-16 June to develop the roadmap for mutual accountability in the biennial review. The first report of the Biennial Review will be presented at the AU Summit in January 2018. Also present at the meeting were participants from Regional Economic Communities, FAO, GIZ, Africa Lead, the World Bank, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa and non-state actors.
The CAADP experts meeting reflected on the various guidelines and tools, including the strategic guidelines for the biennial reporting to the AU Assembly on progress made in achieving the Malabo Declaration goals. A Joint Roadmap for rolling out the National Agriculture Investments Plans, the Biennial Review reporting and the internal monitoring and evaluation plans on CAADP implementation was developed.
Source: NEPAD