Integrating and alignment of policy commitments:
Lessons from an assessment of country NAIPs
Sheryl Hendriks, Moraka Makhura, Nic Olivier, Nokuthula Vilakazi and Nosipho Mabuza, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Contributi dei parlamentari del PD - Contributi L. 3/2019
Integrating and alignment of policy commitments: Lessons from an assessment of country NAIPs
1. Title goes here
Integrating and alignment of policy
commitments:
Lessons from an assessment of country NAIPs
Sheryl Hendriks, Moraka Makhura, Nic Olivier, Nokuthula Vilakazi and
Nosipho Mabuza, University of Pretoria, South Africa
2. Introduction and Overview
• A deeper understanding of:
i. Trends in policy and programme change
ii. The scope and extent of the translation of
international policy into national policies and
programmes with regard to food security and
nutrition into performance mechanisms
iii. Institutional changes to accommodate the policy
changes and the increasing need coordination
among sectors and stakeholders.
3. The NAIPs as vehicles for
domesticating Malabo
• Performance Themes
1. Commitment to the CAADP process
2. Investment finance in agriculture
3. Ending hunger
4. Eradicating poverty through agriculture
5. Intra-African trade in agricultural commodities
and services
6. Resilience to climate variability
7. Mutual accountability.
5. Overview of session
• Overview of the insights, lessons learnt and
innovations with regard to NAIP indicator sets
related to
i. CAADP Commitments, Mutual Accountability
and Investment in Agriculture
ii. Ending hunger
iii. Poverty
iv. Intra-African Trade and Resilience to Climate
Change
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Overview of the insights, lessons learnt and
innovations with regard to NAIP indicator sets
related to CAADP commitments, mutual
accountability and investment in agriculture
7. Theme 1: Commitment to the CAADP
process
47%
48%
100%
50%
36%
100%
57%
53%
52%
50%
64%
43%
Togo
Nigeria
Niger
Malawi
Liberia
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea
Cote d'Ivoire
Burkina Faso
Benin
CAADP based
cooperation,
partnership and
alliance
CAADP –based
policy and
institutional
review
8. Key Findings
• Niger had the most indicators under this
component.
• No indicators pertaining country CAADP process.
• Mixed commitment to CAADP: Niger & Togo
• Countries aligned with Agenda 2063 Goal 12
(Capable institutions)
9. Innovations and idea for improvement
• Niger and Togo monitor the number of policy
and programme reforms implemented.
• Malawi included coordination of services at all
levels.
• Guinea-Bissau had indicators on the existence
of inter-ministerial committee for oversight.
11. Key Findings
• Most focus was on Public expenditure/total expenditure
and Access to finance.
• No differentiation between domestic and foreign private
investment.
• Only Burkina Faso and Togo included ODA indicators.
• Only Cote d’Ivoire included indicators on public
expenditure/agriculture GDP.
• Few aligned with Agenda 2063 Goal 20: Africa financing
her development
12. Innovations and idea for improvement
• Liberia included innovative agro-financing
indicators.
• Benin, Burkina Faso, Malawi and Togo included
execution rate of the budget.
• Benin included capacity to spend.
• Togo included time for awarding contracts.
13. Theme 7: Mutual accountability
67%
43%
50%
20%
29%
50%
100
22%
50%
41%
33%
57%
50%
60%
71%
50%
56%
50%
52%
20%
22%
7
Togo
Nigeria
Niger
Malawi
Liberia
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea
Cote d' Ivoire
Burkina Faso
Benin
Total
Index capacity to
generate and use
ASCI
Institutionalised
mechanism for mutual
accountability
Biennial
Report
submission
14. Key findings
• It had the lowest number of indicators (5%).
• Countries generally ready for ASCI & inclusive
mechanism.
• Few indicators focusing on quality reporting for
the BR.
• Most indicators relate to the rate of execution of
projects and programmes.
• This component aligns with SDG 17 and Agenda
2063, goal 3.12.2.
15. Innovations and ideas for improvement
• Togo included an indicator for agricultural
census report.
• Burkina Faso, Benin, Guinea-Bissau included
number of joint sector reviews.
• Liberia included indicators on quality of the
country management team.
• Improvement is needed to align this section
with the Malabo objectives.
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Overview of the insights, lessons learnt and
innovations with regard to NAIP indicator sets
related to ending hunger
19. Key gaps
• BR includes several measures for child
nutrition and dietary diversity
• Agenda 2063 includes diversification,
commercialisation and WASH
• SDGs includes Food Insecurity Experience
Scale (FIES) and measures sustainable
production and consumption practices
20. Innovations and ideas for improvement
• BR should rename performance area as food
security and nutrition
• Niger included micronutrient deficiencies, levels of
food insecurity, breastfeeding (not BR indicators)
• Malawi included number of people requiring food
assistance
• Togo included biofortification and fortification (not
BR indicators)
• BR should include WASH
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Overview of the insights, lessons learnt and
innovations with regard to NAIP indicator sets
related to poverty
23. Key findings
• Aligned with SDG 1, 5, 8 & Agenda 2063 Goal 1
• BR must strengthen focus on economic diversification
(Agenda 2063)
• Need for more smallholder farmer involvement
• Wholesale, farm gate price gap influence on differential
• National vs international poverty line
• Youth and women empower
24. Innovations and ideas for improvement
More needs to be done:
• Smallholders
• Unemployment rate by sex, age and
persons with disabilities
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Overview of the insights, lessons learnt and
innovations with regard to NAIP indicator sets
related to intra-African trade and resilience to
climate change
26. Theme 5: Intra-African trade in agricultural
commodities and services
100%
67%
43%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
89%
33%
43%
9%
14%
2
Togo
Nigeria
Niger
Malawi
Liberia
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea
Cote d'Ivoire
Burkina Faso
Benin
Total
Domestic Price
Value of agric
trade within
Africa
Trade Facilitation
Index
28. Innovations and ideas for improvement
• Guinea-Bissau - diversification index of the
exported products as well as number of
exporters.
• Niger - indicator on number of agreements
and trade negotiations.
• Country NAIPs should include Domestic Price
volatility.
• Continental Free Trade Agreement.
30. Key Findings
• Some countries included indicators not found in
the BR but related to this theme.
Niger - carbon mobilization rates.
Togo - indicators on renewable energy.
• Most of the NAIP indicators align with:
SDG 2.4.1, SDG 13 (climate action) and 15 (life on
land) and
Agenda 2063, target 1.7.3 and goal 7.
31. Innovations and ideas for
improvement
• BR should include a broader definition of
resilience.
• Monitoring - deaths, missing and persons
affected by disasters.
• Integrated policy for climate change.
The SGDs only include two direct measures of food insecurity – the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) and the proportion of undernourished people. The SDGs include monitoring of the number of countries that mainstream and prioritise sustainable production and consumption practices. This goes beyond the monitoring of sustainable land use and postharvest losses contained in the BR and reflected in the NAIPs. This is an example of an area of contemporary focus in food security and nutrition discourses that is gaining increasing attention in the global domain. This concept has yet to be captured in the NAIPs.
One specific example of where the indicator set for Agenda 2063’s First 10-year Implementation Plan (2014 – 2023) is reflected in some NAIPs is in the area of diversification. Agenda 2063’s First 10-year Implementation Plan (2014 – 2023) includes a target for economic diversification and resilience, setting a target for increasing the diversification index of 2013 by at least 20 percent by 2023. This diversity is essential for production, environmental stability, agricultural enterprises as well as sustainable livelihoods. Other examples where the NAIPs and BR could borrow ideas from Agenda 2063’s First 10-year Implementation Plan (2014 – 2023) indicator set include: The First 10-year Implementation Plan (2014 – 2023) indicator set elaborates on the kinds of basic services available to citizens, including mention of water, sanitation, electricity, transportation and internet connectivity. All of these services are important elements for agricultural transformation and improving the income opportunities and livelihoods of people in Africa. Internet access is a means for accessing information for agricultural development and nutrition knowledge. The current drive to harness big data for development planning and early warning systems is dependent on internet access
The First 10-year Implementation Plan (2014 – 2023) specifically sets a target for 10 percent of agricultural GDP generated by commercial farmers. This is a significant shift from many of the NAIP plans that focus attention on smallholder agriculture as the driver of agriculture-led development. The focus on commercialisation in a couple of NAIPs draws attention to the need to shift production from smallholders to commercialisation. This is perhaps an area where more discussion is necessary to align not only the indicator sets but also the vision of CAADP and Agenda 2063.
Most of the countries indicators monitored the growth rate of agriculture value added (4.1i)
The least monitored performance indicator was reducing the gap between the wholesale price and the farm gate price (Only Guinea Bissau) & reduction rate of poverty headcount ratio at international poverty line (Cote d'Ivoire and Malawi)
Percentage of youth that is engaged in new job opportunities in agriculture value chains was the next most monitored with Cote d'Ivoire having the most indicators
Even though women empowerment in agriculture was among the least monitored
Benin and Guinea included women’s participation in governance
Cote d’Ivoire included proportion of female farm managers.
Overall, Cote d’Ivoire included the highest number of indicators and Togo had the least
SDG
Goal 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere
Goal 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls
Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment
and decent work for all
Agenda 2063
Goal 1. A high standard of living, quality of life and well-being for all