ReSAKSS-SA and Africa Lead Capacity Building Workshop in Pretoria, June,20-22 2012.

1. Overview of SAKSS Concepts
and Components
Emmanuel Musaba
ReSAKSS-Africa Lead Training Workshop
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20th June 2012
Birchwood Hotel
Johannesburg, South Africa
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2. Urgency & Vision for a Country SAKSS
• Urgency: Knowledge Gaps
– Don’t know much about how our policies
and investments will achieve our
development objectives
– If we raise subsidies by 10%, how many
hungry people will be fed?
– How much more should we invest in
AgR&D in order to reduce the poverty rate
by 10%?
• Vision
– Policies and investments that achieve the
development objectives
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3. What is a SAKSS?
SAKSS is a network of people and institutions that provides timely,
credible, and evidence-based knowledge and analysis to inform
agricultural and rural development(ARD) strategies in Africa.
The individuals are linked Knowledge support system:
through collaborative research
A network that serves the
(strategic analysis), capacity
evidence needs of strategy
strengthening, and dialogue.
formulation and
implementation.
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4. SAKSS Concepts
Strategic analysis:
An integrated POLICY: A set of principles or
framework of analysis rules to guide decisions and
that helps identify actions. Policies are often
policy and investment legislated and enacted. Several
options for achieving policies, as well as programs, may
high-end development fit into the larger strategy
goals.
Strategy: A long term plan of action designed to achieve
a particular goal
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5. SAKSS: Broker of Strategic Analysis/Knowledge
Demand Supply
Parliament, PS, Policy
Think Tanks, Statistics Bureaus,
FBOs, Donors, Analysis
Central Bank Universities, FBOs
Directors Units
SAKSS SAKSS SAKSS Network
Oversight Body Node
Credence of SAKSS in •Identify and sensitize •Express interest and
CAADP process knowledge gaps buy into vision
Governance •Synthesize knowledge •Align knowledge
Channel knowledge •Mobilize and coordinate generation activities
and evidence to policy knowledge generation •Receive funding and
makers •Facilitate training training
•… •… •…
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6. Country SAKSS Generic Architecture
• Structured network of policy-
making, analysis, and
implementation partners
– 3 distinct but interrelated parts:
Node, Network, and Oversight
Body
– institutionalised within relevant
country structures
– country-owned and country-
managed system depending on
the country’s own agenda and
capacity (including funding)
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7. SAKSS Network
Composition Functions/Activities
Statistical bureaus Express interest in
Universities network
Think Tanks Buy into SAKSS agenda
NGOs and FBOs Provide and update info
Consultancies and on expertise and capacity
Individuals Apply for research grant
Locally-based Receive grants and
international training
organizations Deliver on TORs (e.g.
data, analysis, training,
etc.)
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8. SAKSS Node (x number of people)
Composition and Funding Key Functions/Activities
Coordinator: renowned knowledge Set up and maintain active Network
manager from the country Raise funds to source key
Accounting: for competent management knowledge relating to NAIP
of competitive research grants Facilitate capacity strengthening of
Research Assistance: follow up with network (using ReSAKSS, etc.)
research by network Provide quality control of Network
Communications: website, policy briefs, outputs
newsletters, seminars, reports, etc.
Synthesize, manage and generate
$xx-xx/yr for salaries and basics
knowledge products from Network
o Funded by: Government (up to xx%)
and REC (up to xx%)
outputs
Minimum of $xx/yr for competitive Facilitate use of knowledge
Government component products in decision making
grants
of budget captured in
o Funded by: Donors (up to xx%), processes via Oversight Body, etc.
Government related toand REC
NAIP (up to xx%) M&E Provide information to ReSAKSS
(up to xx%) for regional and continental
e.g. CAADP M&E
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9. SAKSS Oversight Body
Composition Functions
Chair: e.g. PS of Credence of SAKSS
Min of Agriculture in CAADP process
Members: Governance
agricultural sector (guidance and
development oversight of SAKSS
institutions (state node activities)
and non-state Channel knowledge
actors) and evidence
Secretary: SAKSS (recommendations)
Node coordinator to policy makers
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10. Roles and Responsibilities of
Others
Government/Host Institution Donors provide funding for
provides funding and SAKSS activities, directly to
institutional support (e.g. office Node and/or indirectly via
space, auditing services, etc.) Government/Host Institution
ReSAKSS provides TA for set-
AUC/NPCA provide advocacy up of SAKSS and facilitate
and fundraising for training of Network for region-
establishment of SAKSS wide capacity development
REC provides advocacy and Others in country provide
funding and guidance for set- training to Node and Network
up and operations of SAKSS for national capacity
development
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11. SAKSS: capacity strengthening activities
Parliament, PS, Policy
Think Tanks, Statistics Bureaus,
FBOs, Donors, Analysis
Central Bank Universities, FBOs
Directors Units
OB Node Network
Level 100
Rationale and
Concepts
(CAADP; Policy Level 200
Analysis) Concepts and
Application Level 300 …
(Policy Analysis; Application and
Report Writing) Modeling
(CGE, Econometrics, Data
Work)
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12. Thank You
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