Agriculture Policy Exchange and Learning Event

King Fahd HotelDakar, Senegal

13-16 May 2013

WELCOME TO THE AFRICAN UNION

AGRICULTURE POLICY EXCHANGE & LEARNING EVENT (APLE)

TuesdayTheme: Identifying and Addressing Policy

and Institutional Constraints to Agriculture Transformation

One Request

• Please mute cell phone

• If you must take a call, please go outside of meeting room or break-out room

• THANK YOU

AU Welcome – Setting the Stage

Boaz Blackie Keizire, Technical Advisor/CAADP Implementation Specialist,

AUC

KeynoteDr. Kimseyinga Savadogo

Professeur UFR-SEG Ouaga II, Directeur du LAQAD-S

Laboratoire d'Analyse Quantitative, Appliquée au Développement-Sahel

Who is Attending

Where• Ethiopia• Ghana• Mozambique• Rwanda• Senegal• Tanzania• Sector you represent (government, private sector,

civil society, donor, other)

Who is Attending Sector• Government

• Private sector

• Civil society

• Sponsors /Donors– AU

– IFPRI

– Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

– DfID – UKAID

– World Bank

– USAID

Resources

• FAO MAFAP

• FAC

• ReSAKSS

• AGRA

• AFAP

• IFDC

• MSU

• USDA

• Others?

Agriculture Policy Exchange and Learning Event: Objectives

• Teams from Tanzania, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Ghana, and Senegal and the West Africa Regional Team will

– Share examples of systemic policy constraints preventing achievement of goals / targets of national agriculture & food security investment plans

– Explore lessons, experiences, evidence to overcome constraints

– Initiate action planning process (to be completed after the event) leading to more sustained, robust policy systems in each country and the West Africa region

Expected Outcomes

• Agreement on major elements that need to be addressed to strengthen each country and the region’s policy system

• Initiation of country and regional action planning process

• Formation of country and regional teams to advance the action plans

• Formation of a continental action plan

• Input for training material and approaches to strengthen policy systems throughout CAADP countries as part of the revision of CAADP implementation guidelines

Action Plan Tool for Implementation of County CAADP Policy Plan

Concept and Building Blocks for Strengthening Policy Systems and Ensuring

Effective Implementation of Policy

Importance of Event• Not ad hoc meeting– Part of process that feeds into / frames a way of

doing business– Will help teams identify ways to deal with critical

operational issues to advance policy work– Opportunity for teams to • Meet • Lay groundwork for future collaboration • Prepare follow-up on issues of relevance identified this

week

Week’s AgendaTuesday • Theme – Identifying and Addressing Policy and Institutional

Constraints To Agriculture Transformation • Cross-Cutting Group Discussions on Institutional

Architecture Constraints – Government reps– Civil Society reps– Business Reps– Donor Reps

• Continental Working Group

Week’s Agenda Wednesday • THEME:

– Building the Policy Agenda

– Framing Key Technical Policy Areas

• CONCURRENT SESSIONS – Agriculture Inputs

– Agriculture Trade Policy

– Land

– Political Governance / Economy Issues

• Country & Regional Group Meetings

• Continental Working Group

Week’s Agenda Thursday

THEMES: – OVERCOMING POLICY CONSTRAINTS– MUTUAL ACCOUNTABILITY– ACTION PLANNING • Country • Regional • Continental Group Meetings

– TEAM REPORTS

Break

20 min

Addressing Key Agriculture and Food Policy Constraints

CHAIR: Boaz Keizire

Session objectives • Define and discuss the importance of policy to national

action plans• Identify constraints and opportunities to overcome

those constraints• Review country and region specific policy matrices and

progress being made / constraints faced

Setting the Context for the Week

Why is policy important to CAADP

Ousmane Badiane

IFPRI

Country & Regional Team Policy Matrix Presentations (10 minutes each)

• Brief list /description of National Structures currently in place to facilitate coordination

• Current Policy Matrix (picture)

• Progress / Status Report

• Overarching Constraints

• Private Sector Constraints

• Why these issues are important to the country / region

Country & Regional Team Policy Matrix Presentations

• Tanzania • Mozambique• Ethiopia• Ghana• Rwanda • Senegal • Regional team

Reactions / Summary

Buffet Lunch

1 hour

Key Elements of a Policy System1. Policy Agenda

– Linked to and prioritized by national investment plans

2. Institutional Architecture for Implementation of Policy

– Ensuring predictable, evidence based, transparent, inclusive policy formulation / implementation

3. Mutual Accountability

– Ensuring public review of progress on commitments, performance, the impact of investment plan and policy on poverty and hunger

Institutional Architecture for Improved Policy Outcomes

Chair: Suresh Babu, IFPRI

Session Objectives:

• Review and discuss the components / building blocks of institutions for effective policy

• Take stock of work now going on to build and strengthen various institutional components

• Review status of current Institutional Architecture Assessments

KEYNOTE

Overview of Institutional Architecture Synthesis of what is being learned about building analytical capacity

David Callahan (15 min)Africa Lead

Panel: Opportunities / Models for Strengthening Capacities

• RESAKSS research and networks to support policy decision-making –example – Godfrey Bahiigwa, IFPRI-Addis Ababa (10 min)

• Systems for data collection and statistics – key capacity building initiatives – Christophe Duhamel, Economic and Social Development Department (ESS) / FAO (10

min)

• Building Inclusive Policy Systems – Colin Poulton, Research Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS),

University of London (10 min)

• Country Partnerships – country perspective – Baba Dioum (Senegal) (10 min)

BREAK – 20 min

Group Discussions: Affinity Groups30 min

• Group 1 – Government Officials

• Group 2 – Business Representatives

• Group 3 – Civil Society Representatives

• List major institutions (policy coordination, research entities, data collection, others) you deal with when developing agr policy

• Share examples of how the “Institutional Architecture” in your country or the region hinders the formation of joint partnerships and the passage and implementation of agriculture policy

• Identify some specific ideas for what you can do in your country or the region to address these institutional constraints (ideas that can be incorporated into the initial action plan being prepared by your country and regional team)

Group Discussions: Affinity Groups30 min

Group 4: Resources (policy think tanks, advisors, supporters, researchers and practitioners)

– Based on your experiences in the field, what makes for healthy, performing institutional architecture for policy development and implementation?

– How would your own work benefit from stronger, better institutional architecture in the areas where you work?

– (Optional, if time allows): Are there things that you – as respected resources in the policy process in Africa – can do to strengthen country institutional architecture? What might you be able to influence?

Continental Working GroupChair: Boaz Objective: During the week, shape an Action Plan at the Continental Level to advance policy work

Who should attend this session: • Donor representatives

Topics:• Discuss development of an AU/NPCA guide on Policy Formulation

and Implementation • What role can Continental Working Group play to support this effort

Wrap-up

• One take-away on Institutional Architecture from today

• Update on World Bank & AU perdiem • Tonight – Reception – 6pm

• Wednesday – 9am– Building Policy Agenda– Key Technical Policy Areas– Concurrent Sessions – Country / Regional / Continental Groups