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Boosting Value Chain Development and
Private Sector Investments to Accelerate
CAADP Implementation: an overview of NEPAD supported initiatives
NEPAD Agribusiness Team
6th CARD General Meeting 17 Nov., 2015 - Accra, Ghana
NEPAD Agribiz Strategy and Private sector
promotionCAADP addressing the challenges/issues along three result areas:
Quality of Investment Plans and Programmes
- Linking to objective and evidence based analysis
- Aligned to national development vision and priorities
- Credible budgets and financing plan (public and private)
- Viability of the programmes including cross- sectoral value
Reforms in policies and policy design processes in support of investment financing
- Linking policy design processes to credible knowledge & info support including analytical
capacity
- Inclusive participation of non-state players (e.g. empowering grassroot communities)
Institutional reforms and organizational development
- Capacity development and strengthening local leadership on agriculture (ownership and
responsibilities)
- Accountability mechanisms including tracking and data generations/analysis
systems/capacity
CAADP Investment Facilitation Platform
1. Provide capacity development support to countries with CAADP Compacts
that have developed/ are developing National Agriculture Investment
Plans (NAIPS)
2. In particular, assist in extracting from the CAADP NAIP development
process, a private investor targeted document and facilitating a related
Investor Facilitation Platform
3. CD = helping local Compact Teams understand and improve their
knowledge about how to gather information that private investors are
particularly concerned about – toward the development of practical,
comprehensive “Investor Briefs” that profile the priorities and
opportunities in the country, with a specific focus on projects
4. Support local agric entrepreneurs in developing Business / Project Plans
and investment collateral
3.2 Effective and accountable
institutions including assessing
implementation of policies and
commitments
3.3 Strengthened capacity for evidence
based planning, implementation &
review
3.5 Increased public and private
investments in agriculture
3.1 Effective and inclusive policy
design and implementation
processes
Level 3 - Strengthening Systemic capacity to deliver results
3.4 Improved multi-sectorial coordination,
partnerships and mutual accountability in sectors related to
agriculture
Added value of CAADP support to
institutional transformation and systemic capacities
Level 2 – Agricultural Transformation and Sustained Inclusive Agricultural Growth
2.1 Increased agriculture production
and productivity
2.2 Increased intra-African regional trade and better functioning of national &
regional markets
2.3 Expanded local agro-industry and value chain development inclusive of
women and youth
2.4 Increased resilience of livelihoods and improved
management of risks in the agriculture sector
2.5 Improved management of natural resources for sustainable agriculture
Changes in African agriculture resulting from the CAADP
implementation support
3.6 Increased capacity to generate, analyze and use data,
information, knowledge and
innovations
Level 1 – Agriculture’s Contribution to Economic Growth and Inclusive DevelopmentImpact to which
agriculture contributes
1.1 wealth creation 1.2 Food & Nutrition Security 1.3 Economic opportunities, poverty alleviation and shared prosperity
1.4 Resilience and sustainability
The Overall CAADP Results Framework (2015 – 2025): MALABO
Project Design and Implementation Pipeline (work in progress)
NAPIP = Flagship Projects to catalyse, demonstrate a solution, leverage investments
1. Youth in Agriculture Entrepreneurship Development
2. Women in agribusiness
3. Agriculture Financing Promotion
4. Agribusiness, value chain development
a) Agribusiness Chamber Promotion
b) Policy Dialogue and Public Private Partnerships promotion Platforms
5. Inputs development and agro dealership
a) Fertilizer value chain development
b) Seed value chain development
c) Agro dealership networks development
6. Market access and trade for regional integration
7. Agro-industries, mechanisation, agro-processing and energy in agribusiness development
8. Strategic commodities promotion for inclusive and food and nutrition security
a) Cassava
b) Cotton
c) Rice
d) Cocoa
e) Potato
f) Maize
9. Cooperatives development and business linkages
10. Securing land tenure
Translating the CAADP policy
Framework for Implementation
• Draft CAADP Private Sector Investors’
Guidelines – to be revised
• Contributing to the preparation of African Union
Commodity Strategy
• Policy briefs
• Advisory notes
• Position and Issues Papers
• Expert pool -coaching and training
• Business Plan Preparation Facility
Broker technical and financial
partnerships for implementation
• Partnerships at Continental, Regional, and
country level
• Priority on networks and alliances, focus on
Private Sector, Farmer organisations, and
technical institutions
Knowledge generation (think tank approach -> work
in progress)
• some think pieces on investment-led Transformation
of African Agriculture and CAADP implementation
• Developing internal capacity for analytical capacity
(for historical and foresight analysis ) to support the
Continent on private sector engagement
Grow Africa
Grow Africa has a catalytic role as a trusted
connector and problem-solver for governments, the
private sector, and other partners as they work
together on accelerating responsible investment into
agriculture. The partnership has to date helped
mobilise USD 10billion in new investment
commitments
Grow Africa harnesses its network to:
• Connect partners with each other and with
opportunities
• Resolve constraints by innovating, sharing best
practice, and building capacity.
• Mobilise resources by sourcing investors,
unlocking access to finance and reducing risk.
• Promote mutual accountability as partners
accelerate investment that contributes to job
creation, raised incomes, and improved food
security in line with national priorities.
An African owned, country-led
and marked based initiative
Ethiopia
Kenya
Burkina Faso
GhanaRwanda
Tanzania
Mozambique
Nigeria
Malawi
12 partner countries
per June 2015
Benin
Cote
d’Ivoire
Senegal
Increased Country FocusAccelerating investment at country level
11
Project pipeline
25-40 opportunities
Priority projects
15 projects
Strategic projects
5 key projects
Support from Grow Africa(e.g. Finance & Smallholder Working Groups, Value
Chain Platforms, links to LOIs, coordination and facilitation of PPPs)
Prioritization by Grow Africa’s 3 KPIs• LOI conversion• Job creation• Smallholder incomes
Grow Africa Country Priorities 2015Accelerating investment at country level
12
Ethiopia
• Government engagement• Engage domestic private sector
Source: Grow Africa as of March 20151
Tanzania
• Maize (patient procurement platform)• Support SAGCOT
Malawi
• Multistakeholder platform for private sector investment
• Fruit & vegetables• Maize (patient procurement platform)
Mozambique
• Cassava• Support Business Advisory
Working Group
Burkina Faso
• Support Bagré Pole • Support Agency for Investment
Promotion• Engage domestic private sector
Senegal
• Government engagement &onboarding to Grow Africa
• Fruit & vegetables• Rice
Cote d’Ivoire
• Rice• Fruit & vegetables• Support to a corridor approach
Benin
• Government engagement &onboarding to Grow Africa
• Fruit & vegetables• Multistakeholder platform for
private sector investment
Ghana
• Multistakeholder platform for private sector investment
• Cassava, maize, rice, soya• Finance working group• Seeds Nigeria
• Cassava• Rice• Support ATA leadership &
operational capacity
Rwanda
• Maize (incl. patient procurement platform)
• Potato• Engage domestic private sector
Kenya
• Post-harvest loss in maize• Fruit & vegetables (esp. potato)• Multistakeholder platform for private
sector investment• Support clusters in Lake Region• Engage domestic private sector
Fertilizer value chain development
• NEPAD Fertilizer Development Framework
• NEPAD Fertiliser Toolkit
– Jointly developed in partnership with AFAP on
– “Increasing Access and Use of Fertiliser in Africa in Support of CAADP Implementation”
• Next phase of partnership in preparation
Agribusiness Chamber Promotion
What?
Inclusive Private sector umbrella organisations
beyond FO‘s
Why?
Mobilize Agribiz players
Ideal entry point for dialogue
CD and peer learning
Mission
Enable the creation of a conducive environment
Cassava: Contact with IITA to explore the possibility of have a second phase to the NEPAD Cassava Initiative
Cotton: Pan African Roadmap is currently being aligned the CAADP Results Framework
Rice: ECOWAS rice offensive for achievement of the regional rice self-sufficiency objective in a very near future (2018)
Cocoa: The Government of Cote d’Ivoire on the possible avenues to establish a Cocoa and Chocolate University in the country
Value Chains promotion
Agriculture Finance
• Pilot initiative in 5 countries (Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, Uganda, and Zambia)
• Investment Facility Platform to:
– Mainstream agricultural finance in the CAADP process
– Foster a public-private dialogue
– Establish opportunities for SMEs along key value chains
– Create a community of practice
– Contribute to effective agricultural finance policy development
Youth Capacity Building Focus on Agriculture Technical and Vocational Education and Training (ATVET)
– Focus on training and skills development on specific VC through curriculum development along these VC in a modular approach for specific occupation
• ATVET Project in 6 countries
– Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Benin, Togo and Burkina Faso
• Ghana (Pineapple, Citrus)
• Kenya (Dairy, Aquaculture and Horticulture)
• Malawi (Horticulture, Dairy and Aquaculture)
• Togo (Rice and Aquaculture)
• Burkina Faso (Rice and Sesame, Cashew)
• Benin (Rice and Meat-Chicken, pork and goat)
Decent Jobs for Rural Areas (Rural Futures Program)
• Skills audit in 10 countries (Ghana, Uganda, South Africa, Malawi, Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Zambia)
– Results informing the development of Continental Youth Employment Framework
– National Action Plan on Youth Employment
• Promoting Decent Rural Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship in Agriculture and Agribusiness (Cameroon, Benin, Niger and Malawi)
– Implementation and/or replication of approaches for school-based formal agricultural vocation
and technical education programmes (ATVET) – targeted at students aged 15-25 years
– Facilitate a minimum of 400 internship opportunities (100 per country) for students in private sector agricultural and agribusiness companies
– Facilitate enterprise development for potential and emergent young entrepreneurs in rural areas, initially targeting 50 SME’s per country (20-35 year old)
– Provision of modular technical, vocational and business for a minimum of 500 rural youth
Women in Agribusiness
• Implemented under Gender, Climate Change and Agriculture Support Programme (GCCASP)
• Implementing Countries: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger and Rwanda
– Capacity Building of women smallholder farmers
– Creation and strengthening of women platforms
– Investments/up scaling innovative and successful practices
• Policy Dialogues
– 1st Women in Agribusiness Conference (Durban, South Africa. Oct 2014)
– 2nd Women in Agribusiness Conference (Durban, South Africa, Nov 2015)
• Focusing on women entrepreneurship.