A4RD Pre-PP Event by Mrs. Estherine Fotabong (Director, PICD)

1. NPCA Education And Skills Improvement Agenda
(Strategic Thrust)
NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency
A4RD Pre-PP Event
Mrs. Estherine Fotabong (Director, PICD)

2. Key challenges And Opportunities for Africa
Agriculture
What is our response to these challenges and opportunities?
Effective
today→CAADP@10
Tomorrow in the making
under OUR
mandate→Sustaining
CAADP Momentum
Next
Generation→Outcome
s Sought Under
CAADP@20 and
Higher temperatures
Changes in precipitation patterns and extreme weather
 Lower yields for crops and livestock
Food independency decreases in Africa:
Approx. 20% Cereals must be imported
Demand grows rapidly:
In 2035, 700 million Africans (50%) will live in cities
In 2015, 20 million young Africans will enter the
labour market
Today, 47% of Africans live below 1.25USD poverty line
Rising prices of agric. commodities provide incentives
Markets and
competitiveness
Rural employment
and incomes
Food security
Climate change

3. • Increased agriculture production and
productivity;
• Better functioning agriculture markets,
increased market access and trade;
• Increased availability and access to food and
building resilience; and
• Improved management of natural resources
for sustainable agriculture production.
Outcomes Sought by CAADP In The Next
Decade
Context and Background

4. Sustaining CAADP Momentum-
Strategic Thrusts for Response
Institutions,
Policies And
Leadership
Knowledge
And
Learning
Support
Financing
For
Agriculture
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5. STRATEGIC ACTIONS AND INPUTS FROM NPCA: IMPLEMENTATION GUIDELINES;
KNOWLEDGE POOLS; CAPACITY BUILDING, PEER REVIEW MECHANISMS
Level 3: Strengthening systemic capacity for effective execution and delivery of results
Assumptions: Political leadership ensure conducive and stable policy environment. Increased systemic capacity, inclusiveness and evidence based action improve
public sector planning, implementation and review. Transformational change stimulates private sector investment.
3.1 Improved
and inclusive
policy design
and
implementati
on capacity
for
agriculture
3.2 More
effective and
accountable
institutions to
drive planning
and
implementatio
n of public
policies and
investment
programmes
3.3 More
inclusive and
evidence
based
agriculture
planning and
implementati
on processes
3.4 Improved
coordination,
partnerships
and alliances
within and
across sectors
and countries
(regional
trade and
collaboration)
3.5 Increased
(public/privat
e) investment
financing in
agriculture
achieving
better value
for money
3.6 Enhanced
knowledge support
and skills
development for
agriculture through
improved S&T,
Education &
Training; Peer
learning; Analytical
capacity & strategic
thinking
Sustaining CAAPD Momentum- Our Response

6. Knowledge and knowledge support for public and business
stakeholders, including farmer and commodity
associations
CAADP CAPACITY BULDING FRAMEWORK
KIS
(Learning networks;
expert pools,
knowledge networks
linking available
information and data
to policy design;
SAKSS; Think-tanks)
Agriculture Science
Agenda
(Research capacity; research
issues; link to knowledge
networks; facilitating &
supporting innovation.
Policy and social research in
agriculture)
Agriculture
Education and
Training
(Vocational training;
private-public sector
drive in competency
development;
curricula; tertiary
education-research
links; internship)
ICT in Agricultural
Transformation
(Information support
to farmers and
practitioners;
information
packaging and
dissemination on
communicating
CAADP)

7. Capacity Strengthening and Linking
Research to Education and Skills
Development
The lack of training systems for the agricultural
and food sector in Africa has limited the growth
of the sector. This significant gap in the
innovation system uptake in many countries in
Africa is the lack of coordination between
research (the production of technology) and
extension (the transmission of knowledge and
information to the farmers) and the vocational
and technical training needs of farmers.

8. The Big
Questions-
Linking
Science And
Capacity
Building
Knowledge and
Learning Support
(Science,
Education and
Skills
Improvement in
Agriculture)
How can, Knowledge, Science and Education be pursued
to address the needs of farmers and other operators
along the value chain at different scales of operation?
What type of capacity needs and associated priority
thematic areas are needed to support the transformation
of agriculture in Africa?
What are the key policy considerations that need to be taken
into account in terms of facilitating innovation, technology
generation and transfer to end users and its utilization by them
How can the levels and sources of investment in
Knowledge, Science and Education could best make a
difference in the long-term
How do we Improve absorptive capacities of farmers and
youth in Africa by recognizing their vocational, technical
and skills training needs
How do we Improve and reform Africa Agriculture Education
Systems to train the next generation of agricultural scientist by
recognizing the training (quantity and quality) for the youth;
including women in science

9. Knowledge Information Systems-KIS
• KIS changes the process and modalities for delivering Knowledge
Information for African agricultural development from an externally driven
process to an African owned and led process.
– That greater availability of African led and owned knowledge, information and skills at the
national, regional and continental level will lead to improved agricultural planning and
policy making at the national level;
– That the application of African led and owned knowledge, information and skills at national,
regional and continental levels will lead to CAADP being more efficient as a promoter of
appropriate policy and institutional reforms
– That a more effective CAADP will lead to African government planners better able to make
the case for public investment in agriculture, in turn increasing the share of investment in
agriculture to a minimum of 10 per cent of the national budgets.
– That this increased investment will contribute to raising agricultural productivity by at least
6 per cent.

10. Agriculture Education and Training
 Agricultural Education And Skills
Improvement Framework (AESIF)
– Provide overarching visionary priorities and targets and therefore
common agenda in rallying multi-consortia private-public
partnerships on agriculture education and skills development.
– Build and ensure a continuous replenishment of the much needed
human capital to drive the agriculture transformation agenda in
Africa.
– Provide a practical set of guidelines and tools for peer sharing of
experiences and learning as well as brokering private-public
partnerships.
– The key principles that would guide the development and
implementation of the strategy would be guided by the following
principles and methodology

11. TEAM Africa
(Tertiary
Education)
Vocational and
Technical
Education and
Training (formal &
semi-formal)
Other complementary skills
development initiatives
and programmes (e.g. on
job training; foreign
training and south-south
technical exchange)
Common Agenda &
Guidelines on overarching
strategic priorities and
targets
“Agricultural Education and skills
Improvement Framework (AESIF)”
(Overarching principles and guidelines)
Tracking progress &
performance;
Sharing & learning
platforms and tools
Knowledge and
Information Hub
including capacity for
overarching analytical
studies

12. Tertiary Education for Agriculture
Mechanism in Africa (TEAM-Africa)
• Creating awareness and leverage on improving Agriculture
education system in Africa;
• Mainstreaming TAE into the framework of CAADP processes
and plans and strengthen the relationship between Education,
Research and Extension services
• Bringing greater coherence and coordination between
institutes, networks and development partners,
• improving training methods by academic reforms and access
of new learning tools to respond to the modern and dynamic
education needs.

13. Agriculture Technical and Vocational
Education and Training (ATVET)
• Core Objective of ATVET Program
– Knowledge management and survey of
approaches, information and best practices
sharing of ATVET in Africa
– Anchoring of ATVET in the AU structures and in the
CAADP-country process promotion programs
– Development and assessment of pilot qualification
measures for farmers, the youth, employed
persons and service providers at national level.

14. Target Groups: Rural Youth
Farmers, Farm workers, AEA
Short term
Upgrading
programs
Entrepreneurial
Skill training
Business
Advisory
Services
Income Generating
Services, e.g.
Production
Technology
Transfer
Certification & Diploma Programs
(10+1+2+3)
Modularized Non Formal Programs
Services provided upon demand
of private & public sector
Modern ATVET
COLLEGE
Labor Market Formal and
Non Formal
Programs
Business
Services
Links to
Universities
LONG TERM VISION

15. •Analysis of Government
Policies on Rural Futures
and Job Creation
•Gaps and Opportunities
Presented
•AUC/NEPAD Conference on
Job Creation and
Employment
Skills and Job
Creation
Initiative Gap
Analysis
• Green Jobs
•Agriculture and
Agribusiness Value Chains
•Informal and Semi-formal
economies
•Construction
•artisanal jobs
•Capacity Development,
Skills, Education and
Training
Country’s
Youth
Employment
Plan of Action • Priority Value
Chains
• Agribusiness
• Informal Jobs
• Vocational and
Technical
Education,
Incubation and
Skills
Development
Rural Futures
Development
Zone
•RFP and ATVET
Centre of
Excellence
•Best practices
on Rural Futures
program from
country level
•Meting Point
academia, civil
society and
policy makers,
private sector
and partners
Knowledge
Management,
E-Learning, K-
Products and
K-Services
CAADP+ (Linking Agriculture To Rural
Development

16. Thank You