Transcript Southern Africa Group

Southern Africa Group
Common areas of progress
1. Enactment of relevant/ evidence based policies
and strategies at national level fostered attention
of all stakeholders on agriculture and created an
enabling environment
2. CADDP has provided and strengthened
institutional architecture for dialogue (JSR, ADWG,
TWGs)
3. Partnership and alliances growing is increasingly
recognized as important
Priority issues
1. Operationalize the mutual accountability framework
and implement joint sector reviews at country level
– All partners to pledge
– All partners to report into one system
2. Budget allocations to proven effective areas/
programs. Eg. Research and development and
extension
3. Clearly define private sector to fine tune to different
segments
4. Policy environment
youth, private sector, inputs, access to finance