New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition

Overview and Guiding Information December 2015

By: Dr. Nalishebo Meebelo and Samson Jemaneh Mekasha

What is the New Alliance contd. The AU Heads of State and Government adopted the Malabo

Declaration on Accelerated Africa Agriculture Growth and Transformation with commitments to:

Enhancing investment finance in agriculture

Ending hunger in Africa by 2025

Halving poverty by the year 2025

Tripling intra-African trade in agricultural commodities and services by the year 2025

Enhancing resilience of livelihoods and production systems to climate variability and other related risks

Committing to mutual accountability to actions and results

The New Alliance Cooperation Agreements (CCAs) are instruments for contributing to the realization of the Malabo commitments.

What is the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition

The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition is a shared commitment by African governments, development partners and private sector companies to achieve sustained, inclusive agriculture-led growth to life 50 million people out of poverty by 2022.

The New Alliance includes the commitments of:

• Africa’s leadership to drive effective country plans and policies for food security

• Private sector partners to increase investments where the conditions are right

• Donors to expand Africa’s potential for rapid and sustainable agricultural growth

New Alliance Countries (10 countries)

Who are the partners?

AU Member States

Development Partners African and Global Private

Sector

• Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom , the United States and European Union

• Non-G8 countries

• More than 190 companies including both large and small African and International companies

NEW ALLIANCE

Country Cooperation Agreements(CCAs)

Country Cooperation Agreements

• New Alliance commitments are captured in the Country Cooperation Agreements (CCAs) for each country

• 10 countries have the CCAs.

• The implementation of CCAs is supported by a package of Enabling Actions.

Country Cooperation Agreements (CCAs)• CCAs are a powerful tool for galvanizing concrete action from cross-

sector partners behind CAADP implementation at country-level, and realizing the ambitions of Malabo continentally.

• In 10 countries, they have drawn together companies, governments and donors to make concrete commitments that practically operationalize the strategic intent of CAADP National Agricultural & Food Security Investment Plans-particularly with regard to achieving market-based growth within priority value chains.

• The CCAs are particularly relevant to achieving the Malabo targets of doubling productivity, reducing post harvest loss, sustaining 6% ag.growth rate, establishing and strengthening PPP for priority agricultural commodity value chains in every country, create job opportunities for at least 30% of youth in agricultural value chains and tripling intra-African trade in agricultural commodities.

Inside the Country Cooperation Agreements (E.g. Tanzania)

• New Alliance builds on G8 commitments made at L’Aquila in 2009

• Support of CAADP Country Compacts• Financial and technical support aligned with Tanzania Agriculture and

Food Security Investment Plan (TAFSIP)

• Supports the development of the Government of Tanzania’s priority area of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor (SAGCOT)

• Key Policy Commitments• Government of Tanzania committed to pursue policy goals set

out in the Cooperation Framework in order to build domestic and international private sector confidence. • Increasing transparency in trade policy, improving incentives for

private sector, implementing transparent land tenure policy, developing and implementing domestic seed policy and other commitments

Inside the Country Cooperation Agreements (E.g. Tanzania) contd.

Private Sector Engagement

• 20 companies have prepared and signed letters intent (LOI) to invest in the agricultural sector in Tanzania in support of TAFSIP.

• LOIs describe their investment intentions in Tanzania under the New Alliance for Food and Nutrition Security.

Inside the Country Cooperation Agreements (E.g. Tanzania) contd.

• Shared Responsibilities

• Develop pilot implementation programs for;

• The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National Food Security adopted by the Committee on World Food Security in May 2012.

• The Principles of Responsible Agricultural Investment (PRAI)

• Coordination and Collaboration

• Existing in-country consultation groups and structures are used for coordination mechanism without setting up parallel or duplicative structures. In Tanzania, the Tanzania agriculture sector working group plays coordination role, facilitating collaboration among the different stakeholders.

Inside the Country Cooperation Agreements (E.g. Tanzania) contd.

Results

Consistent with the New Alliance goal of improving food security and nutritional status by helping 50 million people in sub-Saharan Africa emerge from poverty by 2022, the participants intend their combined actions in Tanzania to help 6.7 million people emerge from poverty.

Mutual Accountability

• G8 members, the Government of Tanzania, and the private sector intend to review their performance towards jointly determined goals indicated in the Cooperation Framework Agreements through an annual review process to conducted within the existing broader CAADP-donor Joint Sector Review of TAFSIP implementation.

• The annual review will also take into account of the shared responsibilities related to the Voluntary Guidelines and the PRAI.

What progress has the

New Alliance made ?

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Total number of investments Commitments 301 LOIsTotal private sector planned investment 10.2 billion USDInvestment expenditure to-date 1.8 billion USDTotal number of small holders reached 11,689,034

Private Sector Letters of Intent Progress

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• Private companies provided progress

reports for 56% of the 292 Letters of

Intent (LOIs).

• Through these LOIs, companies

intend to invest close to $10.2

billion, of which over $ 684 million

was reported invested in 2014 in 12

partner countries

• Overall, the majority of LOIs (80

percent) were either on plan or

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• Overall, 3% of LOIs were

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Only 7 percent of LOIs had major

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Progress on Government Policy Commitments

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PROGRESS AGAINST POLICY AREAS DUE BY JUNE 2015

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PROGRESS AGAINST POLCIY AREAS DUE AFTER 2015

Complete Some Progress No progress

• Overall, the results show that governments across the continent are committed to making policy reforms in agriculture.

• Overall, 33 percent of policy commitments were complete, 59 percent had made good progress.

• For policy commitments that were due by June 25, 37 percent were complete and 54 percent had made significant progress.

• For policy commitments due after June 2015, 20 percent were complete and 72 percent made some progress.

Progress on Development Partners Financial Commitments

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• Donors for which disbursement data is provided included the G8 Donors: Canada, France, Germany, Italy , Japan, United Kingdom and the United States of America and the European Union.

• Non G8 Donors included AfDB, Belgium, Ireland, Norway and the World Bank.

• Total Disbursement (including G8 and non-G8 donors) reached 86% of Prorated funding intentions. This accounts 50% of original funding intentions.

• The actual amounts are indicated on the graph

Total Donor Funding Intentions and

Disbursements in 2014

The leadership Council• The leadership council provides a forum for mutual accountability

and works to address high level issues.

• The LC is founded upon and seeks to advance the spirit of partnership among diverse stakeholders to achieve this shared goal. In particular the group seeks to align and coordinate the work of the New Alliance and Grow Africa partnership to support implementation of country investment plans developed through the CAADP process.

• The LC is anchored in the African institutional leadership of the CAADP Process, and includes in its scope the work of the New Alliance and Grow Africa.

• The LC is a flexible, informal group providing strategic direction and advice. It does not provide operational governance or oversight to either New Alliance or Grow Africa, each of which have their own coordination structures.

• The LC seeks to highlight progress and challenges of New Alliance & Grow Africa and encourages mutual accountability between all partners, in alignment with CAADP processes and reporting frameworks.

Alignment with AUC-DREA Clusters • AUC/DREA is currently configuring the following 8 clusters within

the Department that closely align with the Malabo Commitment areas to support the implementation of Malabo: 1. Climate change, desertification, land, forestry, and DRR

2. Rural Infrastructure and services cluster

3. Food and nutrition security

4. Research, innovation and knowledge services

5. Rural infrastructure and services

6. Empowerment of women, youth and smallholder agricultural producers (farmers, pastoralists and fisher folks)

7. Water and sanitation

8. Agro-industry, markets and trade cluster

• In addition a Program Support Facility is being established to strengthen DREA’s capacity to communicate about Malabo and establish monitoring and evaluation mechanisms that will feed into the Biennial Review process.

New Alliance Priorities for 2016

1. Dissemination of the 2014-2015 Report

2. Establish clear roles and responsibilities of the various partners going forward: AUC DREA NA Team, Grow Africa, NAWG, Africa Lead II, RESAKSS etc.• 2016 Progress Reporting

• Organization/Facilitation of the Leadership Council Meeting (Kigali –May 2016)

• Reporting to the Specialized Technical Committee Meeting

• Data collation and analysis roles, including who will provide:

• Update on Government policy commitment data

• Update on donor financial commitment data

• Update on private sector commitment data

3. Review of CCAs (document lessons learnt, identify best practices etc. Ethiopia, Malawi)

4. Rwanda and Kenya to become members of the NA

New Alliance Priorities for 2016 contd. 5. Review and revise the various NA-GA documents: Guidance Notes,

Criteria for member ship, communications tools (e.g. FAQ) etc.

6. Establish available budget for 2016 and beyond (sources of finance)

7. Align NA Team work plan to the Global DREA work plan

8. Strategize concretely for 2017 and beyond. What is our plan for NA-GA beyond 2016? What is the way forward on membership of Non-NA-GA member states

9. Effectively link CAADP Country Process to the NA processes towards realizing Malabo targets, including how to align NA-GA reporting to the JSRs at country level, biennial reporting etc.

10. How to advance the regional level dimensions/commitments

11. Unlocking the AU Agribusiness Strategy towards strengthening domestic private sector (NA as a tool to enable this?)

12. Leverage on existing partner efforts (e.g. refer to AfDB agenda for Agribusiness in Africa) to upscale current NA-GA initiative/progress

Thank You