Transcript Mozambique Status

Status of the CIP and Policy
Commitments
AU/NEPAD Agriculture Policy
Exchange and Learning Event
May 14, 2013
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Structure of Presentation
I. Status of Country Investment Plan
II. Institutional Architecture
III.Policy Objectives
IV.Status of Implementation of
Commitments
V. Constraints
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I. Status of Investment Plan
• Country Investment Plan (PNISA) & the New
Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
launched in April 2013.
• PNISA’s overarching goals:
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Agriculture growth: 7% per annum
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Malnutrition reduction: from 44% in 2010
to 20% in 2020
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II. Institutional Architecture
Levels:
1)National:
a) Political (Ministers): Comité de Coordenação do Sector Agrário
(CCSA):
b) Technical (National Directors): Comité Técnico (CT)
2)Local: Development Corridors
Members:
• Ministries of Agriculture (head), Planning & Development,
Finance, Fisheries, Industry & Commerce, Public Works &
Housing, Environment, Science & Technology, Women &
Social Affairs, Transport & Communications, and Energy;
• Private sector, civil society and development partners.
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II. Institutional Architecture (cont.)
Agriculture Development Corridors
Challenge:
Six corridors for the
PNISA
Cabo
Delgado
Niassa
Nampula
Tete
Pemba Lichinga
Zambezia
Nacala
Manica
Sofala
Vale do Zambeze
Corridors go
across many
districts and
ten provinces,
requiring
greater
coordination
Beira
Gaza
Inhambane
Limpopo
Maputo
Maputo
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(>3000km of
coastline)
III. Policy Objectives
Currently, five policy objectives with 16 commitments
between Government, Private Sector and Development
Partners were developed to accelerate implementation of
the PNISA.
1. Policies and Regulations on Inputs
2. Land Use Rights
3. Liberalization and Facilitation of Trade for Agricultural
Products
4. Availability of and Access to Credit
5. Multisectoral Implementation of the Nutrition Action
Plan
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IV. Status of the Implementation of Commitments
1. POLICIES AND REGULATIONS ON INPUTS
SEEDS AND FERTILIZERS New regulations approved
• Drafted in an inclusive and
participatory manner;
• Harmonized with the SADC
protocol;
• Allowed private sector
accreditation;
• Stopped Free distribution of
seeds (except in emergency
situations).
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IV. Status (cont.)
2. LAND USE RIGHTS
• The system for the management of land information
designed and piloted in rural areas;
• Simplification of procedures for the transfer of DUATs in rural
areas produced and published;
• Directives for strengthening land tenure security in rural
communities, and for partnerships between communities
and investors being drafted;
• The systematic registration of land occupied by good-faith
occupiers is underway.
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IV. Status (cont.)
CULTURAS
3. LIBERALIZATION
ALIMENTARES
OF TRADE FOR
AGRICULTURE
• Revision of the tax system to improve
access to market for smallholders
4. ACCESS TO AND
AVAILABILITY OF
FINANCE
• Drafting of regulations on mobile
finance services and private credit
bureaus
5. MULTISECTORAL
ACTION PLAN FOR
NUTRITION
• Created National
Food Fortification
• Drafting of
fortification
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Committee
legislation
for
for
food
V. Constraints
1. Capacity (human, financial, social, institutional) to
implement policy and regulations
2. Coordination challenges among actors for policy
change
3. Land regulation reform in Mozambique is an
extremely emotive issue touching the core of
political and social ideology
Remember:
Regulatory reform takes time, operating within
existing processes and laws
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“For Agricultural Productivity, Food Security and Nutrition, and the Production of
Wealth”
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