Transcript Agriculture Policy Exchange and Learning Event

WELCOME
Agriculture Policy Exchange and
Learning Event
King Fahd Hotel
Dakar, Senegal
13-16 May 2013
Country & Regional Team
Orientation 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
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Learn from other country / regional experiences how policy system can be
strengthened
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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)
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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 Orientation
PLENARY
• Common Building Blocks for Country &
Regional Policy Plans
• Setting the Context for the Week
• Policy Systems & Components
• Introduction to Policy Action Planning Tool
Country & 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)
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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 System
1. 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
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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?
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Who are the clients/ constituents / beneficiaries of this policy
change?
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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
Level 1:
i.e. Overall National Agriculture
Investment Plan (NAIP)
coordination structure
responsible for policy and
investment actions established
and functional
Specific Tasks
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
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
1.2 i.e. Roles and responsibilities
Who
Timeframe
Key Elements of Policy System
1. Action Plan for Policy Agenda
Example: types of steps and actions needed at 2 levels
Step / Action
Specific Tasks
Level 1:
i.e. Develop
prioritized policy
agenda (if not
already done)
1 – i.e. Agriculture inputs
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
2 – i.e. Agriculture enabling environment
for private sector
3 – i.e. Nutrition policy area
Who
Timeframe
Key Elements of Policy System
2. Action Plan for Institutional Architecture
EXAMPLE: types of steps and actions required at 3 levels
Step / Action
Specific Tasks
Level 1:
i.e. Complete and confirm diagnostics to
clarify components and status of
institutional architecture
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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
Who
Timeframe
Key Elements of Policy System
3. Action Plan for Mutual Accountability
EXAMPLE: types of steps and actions needed at 3 levels
Step / Action
Level 1:
i.e. Frame and define the
Joint Development
Agreement (JDA) and related
commitments (if not already
done)
Level 2:
i.e. Collect, analyze, publish
findings reviewing progress in
meeting commitments and
achieving objectives of JDA
Specific Tasks
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
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:
1.1.1 i.e. Clarify dates for JSR
i.e. Implement Joint Sector
1.1.2 i.e. Organize public JSR meeting
Review (JSR) – measure progress 1.1.3 i.e. produce JSR report including
on commitments, performance, recommendations /adjustments in plans and
impacts and facilitate adjustment conclusions
to plans as needed
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 Meetings
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 4:00 – Team Meetings
4:00 – 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