WELCOMEAgriculture Policy Exchange and Learning Event

King Fahd HotelDakar, Senegal

13-16 May 2013

WELCOME TO THE AFRICAN UNION

AGRICULTURE POLICY EXCHANGE & LEARNING EVENT (APLE)

Country & Regional TeamOrientation Day

AU Welcome

Boaz Blackie Keizire, Technical Advisor/CAADP Implementation Specialist,

AUC

Today’s Objectives

• Get Acquainted

• Overview the learning event and specific expected outcomes

• Summarize country and regional team member expectations for the learning event

• Take stock of the status of the policy agenda in each country and the Regional team

One Request

• Please mute cell phone

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

• THANK YOU

Introductions

By Country / Region• Name

• Job title

• Organization

• Sector you represent (government, private sector, civil society, donor, other)

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

Importance of Today’s Orientation • APLE is 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

Team Expectations • Learn from other country / regional experiences how policy system can be

strengthened

• Share information on

– New Alliance

– Experiences on implementing policy matrices

– Successes & best practices

– Commonalities and differences in agricultural policy challenges among countries

– Policy formulation

• Share experiences

– Private sector involvement

– Private investment promotion

– Land policies

– Subsidies

• Build Actions on What Exists (not reinventing anything or creating something new that competes with what has already been done)

• See Handout / thumb drive for complete list

Overview of Week

Agenda in Binder

Week’s Agenda• Monday – Country Team Orientation Day

• Tuesday – Official event begins– THEME: IDENTIFYING and ADDRESSING POLICY and INSTITUTIONAL

CONSTRAINTS to AGRICULTURE TRANSFORMATION / Group Meetings

• Wednesday – THEME: BUILDING THE POLICY AGENDA & TECHNICAL INPUTS /

CONCURRENT SESSIONS / Country & Regional Group Meetings

• Thursday– THEMES: OVERCOMING POLICY CONSTRAINTS; MUTUAL

ACCOUNTABILITY; ACTION PLANNING (Group Meetings)

Big Picture Questions for Teams to Consider this Week

• How to improve your country and regional policy framework to implement the National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plans over 1-3 years

• Issues / constraints to be resolved

• Help needed (follow-up analysis, partnership meetings, formation of working groups or committees)

• Partnerships (with donors, private sector, government) needed to ensure success

• Priority discussions / briefings for senior officials, business reps, advocacy groups after event

• Roles of different team members over next year

Today’s OrientationPLENARY• Common Building Blocks for Country &

Regional Policy Plans• Setting the Context for the Week• Policy Systems & Components• Introduction to Policy Action Planning ToolCountry & Regional Team Meetings– Review status of country assessments – Final Prep for tomorrow’s presentations

Common Building Blocks

Session Objective: • Review and discuss systemic policy challenges

blocking effective implementation of National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plans

Setting the Context for this week’s work • Ousmane Badiane, Director for Africa, IFPRI (20

min)•

Setting the Context for the Week

Ousmane Badiane, Director for Africa, IFPRI (20 min)

Policy System and Components – some common terminology

Jim Oehmke, USAID (15 minutes)

Action Plan Tool for Implementation of County CAADP Policy Plan

Concept and Building Blocks for Strengthening Policy Systems and Ensuring

Effective Implementation of Policy

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

Key CAADP Principles Advanced through Country Policy Plans

• Evidence based• Inclusivity• Transparency • Predictability• Good Governance• Efficient Markets• Coordination and Partnership

Key Elements of Policy Action Plan

1. Policy Agenda

• Steps and actions needed at 2 levels:

– Level 1: Develop prioritized policy agenda (already done)

– Level 2: Implement each priority policy agenda item to achieve purpose / goal / intent of the overall policy

Key Elements of Policy Action Plan

2. Institutional Architecture

• Steps and actions needed at 3 levels – Level 1: Complete and confirm diagnostics to clarify

components and status of institutional architecture

– Level 2: Build a support program and partnerships to strengthen the institutional architecture

– Level 3: Establish coordination mechanisms to support / facilitate implementation of your support program / partnership

Key Elements of Policy Action Plan

3. Mutual Accountability• Steps and actions needed at 3 levels – Level 1: Frame and define the joint development

agreement (JDA) and related commitments

– Level 2: Collect, analyze, publish findings reviewing progress in meeting commitments and achieving objectives of JDA

– Level 3: Jointly review progress made on commitments, performance and impacts and adjust plans as needed

Context for Policy Action Plan

When developing a Policy Action Plan, planners need to also consider

1. Who will be interested in this policy change?

– Who are the clients/ constituents / beneficiaries of this policy change?

• Minister? Farmers groups? Private sector?

2. Who will you report back to in order to carry policy actions forward? Who will “champion” the policy action?

3. Do you need to do something to create more “demand” for your team’s policy engagement?

Policy Action Plan Tool

Country and Regional Teams can use this tool to identify real steps needed to

implement policy changes for CAADP plan

Big Picture: Coordination Mechanisms to Support Country Investment Plan and Policy Plan – EXAMPLE of steps and tasks

Step / Action Specific Tasks Who Timeframe

Level 1: i.e. Overall National Agriculture Investment Plan (NAIP) coordination structure responsible for policy and investment actions established and functional

1. i.e. Inter-ministerial Committee established

2. i.e. Roles and responsibilities clarified

Level 2: i.e. Mechanisms / groups across policy areas for coordination established and functional

1.1 i.e. Establish a policy steering committee / coordination group

1.2 i.e. Roles and responsibilities

Level 3:i.e. Groups for each policy area established and functional

1.1.1 – i.e. Input policy group established and includes

2.1.1 i.e. Trade policy group established and includes

3.1.1 i.e. Land policy group established and includes

Step / Action Specific Tasks Who Timeframe

Level 1: i.e. Develop prioritized policy agenda (if not already done)

1 – i.e. Agriculture inputs

2 – i.e. Agriculture enabling environment for private sector

3 – i.e. Nutrition policy area

Level 2: i.e. Steps needed to implement each priority policy agenda item to achieve the purpose / goal / intent of the overall policy

1.1 – i.e. Develop matrix of priority policy actions for each policy area that are key to success of investment plan

1.2 – i.e. Develop workplan to complete and implement each policy actions

Key Elements of Policy System1. Action Plan for Policy Agenda

Example: types of steps and actions needed at 2 levels

Step / Action Specific Tasks Who Timeframe

Level 1: i.e. Complete and confirm diagnostics to clarify components and status of institutional architecture

1

2

3

4

Level 2: i.e. Build a support program and partnerships to strengthen the institutional architecture

1.1

1.2

1.3

Level 3: i.e. Establish coordination mechanisms to support and facilitate implementation of your support program / partnership

1.1.1

1.2.1

1.3.1

Key Elements of Policy System2. Action Plan for Institutional Architecture

EXAMPLE: types of steps and actions required at 3 levels

Step / Action Specific Tasks

Level 1: i.e. Frame and define the Joint Development Agreement (JDA) and related commitments (if not already done)

1. i.e. Develop national agriculture investment plan (NAIP)

2. i.e. Develop inventory of commitments made to support your NAIP, including letters of intent and commitments from donors, civil society, government policy and government finance groups

Level 2: i.e. Collect, analyze, publish findings reviewing progress in meeting commitments and achieving objectives of JDA

1.1 i.e. Establish technical working group to collect data

1.2 i.e. Clarify products to be produced MA/ technical review group

1.3 i.e. Define roles and responsibilities

1.4 i.e. Define workplan and timeline to complete the work

Level 3: i.e. Implement Joint Sector Review (JSR) – measure progress on commitments, performance, impacts and facilitate adjustment to plans as needed

1.1.1 i.e. Clarify dates for JSR

1.1.2 i.e. Organize public JSR meeting

1.1.3 i.e. produce JSR report including recommendations /adjustments in plans and conclusions

Key Elements of Policy System3. Action Plan for Mutual Accountability

EXAMPLE: types of steps and actions needed at 3 levels

Clarifications?

Remainder of Day

• Team Meetings for remainder of day– Review RESAKSS and IA assessments

• Discuss results of assessments

– Finalize country presentations– Select members to attend concurrent sessions (Wed pm)– Resources list (Speed Dating) – who does team want to meet during

the week (Handout)

Now – 1:00 – Team Meetings1:00 – 2:00 Lunch2:00 – 4:00 – Team Meetings4:00 – Reconvene in Plenary

Team Presentations

• 10 min / 5-6 slides• NEW: brief list /description of National Structures

currently in place to facilitate coordination• Current Policy Matrix (picture)• Progress • Overarching Constraints• Private Sector Constraints• Why these issues are important

Break

15 minutes – Move to Team Rooms