Improving Land Governance for Inclusive

and Sustainable Agriculture Transformation

Joint work by LPI, FAO and NEPAD Agency24 March 2015

Outline of The Presentation

Introduction

Joint efforts in improving land governance

Overview of Malabo Declaration

Monitoring and Evaluation Framework and Land Governance

Proposed common sets of indicators/Joint Efforts CAADP-LPI in MEF

Next Steps and Way Forward

Introduction• Food Security for billions of people in the

world depends on their land tenure security

• Land rights and tenure security with equitable access to land and other natural resources are fundamental to food security and a foundation to sustainable agriculture transformation, economic development and the elimination of poverty

• Tenure security often depends on the quality of land governance

Joint Efforts in Improving Land Governance

• LPI and FAO are working closely to improve land governance in Africa through VGGT and F&G’s principles as globally and regionally consensual accepted guiding tools

• Joint implementation through awareness raising and advocacy, capacity development, knowledge generation and technical assistance to Institutions and Countries and through monitoring and evaluation framework

• LPI and CAADP-NPCA with common indicators

Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity

and Improved Livelihoods

The African vision for

agriculture transformation

AU Malabo Declaration (June 2014)

1. Recommitment to the Principles and Values of the CAADP Process

• Application of principles of evidence-based planning, policy efficiency,

dialogue, review, and accountability, shared by all NEPAD programs;

2. Recommitment to enhance investment finance in Agriculture

• Uphold 10% public spending target

• Operationalization of Africa Investment Bank

3. Commitment to Zero hunger and ending hunger in Africa by 2025

• At least double productivity with access to quality and affordable inputs

(for crops, livestock, fisheries, amongst others) and reliable and affordable

mechanization and energy supplies

• Efficient and effective water management systems notably through

irrigation;

• Supply of appropriate knowledge, information, and skills to users;

AU Malabo Declaration (continued)

4. Commitment to Halving Poverty by 2025, through inclusive Agricultural

Growth and Transformation

• Sustain Annual sector growth in Agricultural GDP at least 6%

• Establish and/or strengthen inclusive public-private partnerships for at

least 5 priority agricultural commodity value chains with strong linkage to

smallholder agric.

• Create job opportunities for at least 30% of the youth in agricultural value

chains.

• Preferential entry & participation by women and youth in gainful and

attractive agribusiness

AU Malabo Declaration (continued)

5. Commitment to Boosting Intra-African Trade in Agricultural Commodities

& Services

• Triple intra-Africa trade in agricultural commodities

• Fast track continental free trade area & transition to a continental

Common External tariff scheme

6. Commitment to Enhancing Resilience of Livelihoods & Production

Systems to Climate Variability and Other Shocks

• Ensure that by 2025, at least 30% of farm/pastoral households are

resilient to shocks due to climate variablility

7. Commitment to Mutual Accountability to Actions and Results

• Through the CAADP Result Framework – conduct a biennial Agricultural

Review Process

AU Malabo Declaration (continued)

8. Strengthening the African Union Commission to support delivery on

these commitments

9. A Call for Action

a) the AU Commission and NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA)

to develop an implementation strategy and roadmap that facilitates

translation of the 2025 vision and goals of Africa Accelerated Agricultural

Growth and Transformation into concrete results and impacts

b) AU Commission to fast-track the operationalization of the African

Investment Bank;

c) The AU Commission and RECs to facilitate the acceleration of economic

integration to boost intra-Africa trade in food and agriculture

d) Through the CAADP Result Framework – conduct a biennial Agricultural

Review Process

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Monitoring and Evaluation Framework and Land Governance

• Effective monitoring is central to ensuring changes in land governance

• Commitment to support greater transparency in land transactions and in release of data for improved land tenure governance.

• Malabo “Special commitment” to “Mutual Accountability, Actions and Result” (Commitment VII).

• Better knowledge and understanding of:

a) the extent to which people benefit from secure land and property rights; and

b) the effectiveness of land-related policies and land administration systems in helping to deliver tenure security for all and in achieving sustainable utilization of land resources

LPI and CAADP-NPCA have developed MEF for measuring progress towards improved conditions in sustainable development and agriculture transformation

… is the instrument for systematic regular review of

the progress made in implementing the provisions of

the Malabo Declaration

The CAADP Results Framework

. Common focus on land governance and land

management issues • Multi-level implementation approach, and• Shared responsibility for periodic reports to the AU Summit

The CAADP Results Framework and LPI MEF alignment

Scoping Land Issues• Land as factor of production: land insecurity low

investments in land low ag. pdn food insecurity

• Lack of productive assets (land): - a major cause and consequence of poverty esp. in poor rural areas;

• With increasing pop. growth decline in farm size and grazing land increasing poverty in rural areas

• Appropriate land governance and management a prerequisite for improvements in agric. Performance:

HENCE THE NEED FOR TRACKING INDICATORS ON LAND GOVERNANCE AND AGRICULTURE TRANSFORMATION

Good Land Gov. & Mgt

+Agric. Production & Productivity

Food Security

Secured land access/Land rights

Enhanced food availability

More investments in land/land husbandry and Agriculture

THE LINKAGES

Thematic area Proposed indicator/outcome statement

Indicator formulation

1. Land tenure security

- Formal recognition of legitimate rights to land including customary, religious, etc.- Formal recognition of women’s right to inherit and own land

Number of countries with legal and institutional framework that provides men and women equal rights to inherit land

% of rural households with protected (documented/perceived) land and land resource rights (ownership, access, transfer, etc.)

2. Land use planning and management

- Land use plans in place at devolved administrative level (district, county, etc)- Legal framework for governing land use conversion and institutional framework for enforcement in place

Number of countries with land use plan in place at devolved administrative level (district, county, etc.)

% of all agricultural land converted within the legal framework

3. Land conflict management

- Potential agricultural land in Africa devoid of conflict and dispute- Capacity of institutions to manage and resolve land conflict

Number of land and land resource related conflicts recorded per year in the country

% of land related cases (formal/traditional mechanisms) resolved of all total cases filed within a year

4. Large Scale Land Based Investments

- LSLBIs comply with the provisions of the Guiding Principles- Transactions on LSLBIs are transparent and publicly accessible

% of LSLBIs which adhere to GPs based on independent, holistic assessment of economic, financial, social and environmental costs and benefits associated with the proposed investment, throughout its time period

Number of households displaced without fair and timely compensation in compliance with existing national laws and relevant international instruments

NEPAD Agency-LPI M&E Joint Work

• Articulation of land management & land governance indicators in the CAADP RF;

• Defining protocols for data generation & reporting on land matters to organs eg. the AU;

• Joint trainings on M&E for land-related entities

• Enhancing land-related indicators in results frameworks of National Ag. Investment Plans

• Building partnerships with entities (eg. statistics bureaus) to harvest and manage data on land

Next Steps and Way Forward

• Joint implementation programme: LPI/FAO/CAADP-NPCA on awareness raising and advocacy for political buy in and on MEF

• Joint capacity development activities for constituencies (EU/SDC/FAO- LGP, CAADP, RECs…)

• Joint working group on Global land indicators for post 2015

• Assessing the potential for replication beyond the pilots (Scaling up, Best practices)

• Harmonization and alignment of the reporting processes (AU)

• Further work on data harvesting (ACS)

• Piloting a set of core land indicators within countries or targeted initiatives

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