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FAO/PARIS21 REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE INTEGRATION OF AND ACCESS TO AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS FOR BETTER FORMULATION AND MONITORING OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES Algers, Algeria 8-9 December 2007 Back-to-back with the 20th AFCAS AW-07-03-2. Mohamed Barre RNE Regional Statistician
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FAO/PARIS21 REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE INTEGRATION OF AND ACCESSTO AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS FORBETTER FORMULATION AND MONITORING OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIESAlgers, Algeria 8-9 December 2007Back-to-back with the 20th AFCASAW-07-03-2 Mohamed Barre RNE Regional Statistician FAO Statistics Division
Outline • Concept and definition • Maputo Declaration • Why Maputo Declaration is important • Partners and Stakeholders • Accomplished and on-going activities • Future activities • Expected output • Constraints & limitations
What is government Expenditure? Data of government expenditure on agriculture refers to all “non repayable payments” whether capital or current, requited or not by government for the agriculture sector .
Maputo Declaration • In Maputo on 10-12 July 2003, African Union issued a declaration on Agriculture and Food Security in Africa and committed to allocate 10% of national budget to agriculture • Follow up meeting in Rome where NEPAD implementation Committee called FAO and other partners for the support of CAADP and help to monitor the implementation of 10% of the national budget to Agriculture • FAO/ESS delegated to establish a tracking system to monitor the 10% budget allocation
Partners and Stakeholders • FAO: • ESS – Lead Technical Unit • WB, IMF, AfDB • NEPAD, African Union member countries
Constraints • Minimal use of the concept note and guidelines; • Lack of capacity to fill the questionnaire; • Lack of systematic financial systems and classifications of institutional and functional expenditures aggregated sector wise; • Lack of coordination between various institutions or ministries that are institutionally involved and responsible some activities of the agriculture sector; • Limitations of the questionnaire.
Milestones Achieved & On-going activities • Technical meeting was called were IMF, WB, AfDB, NEPAD, and various division of FAO contributed and as result recommended certain guide. • Technical meeting to: • Gather experiences on the establishment of appropriate tools & • Identify framework needed to establish the system • Project proposals: prepared, shared for review & submitted WB through NEPAD for funding, and the World Bank already gave a grant for that project. • Survey: • Designed questionnaire • Pilot survey to pre-test questionnaire for selected 4 African • countries • Collected data from 37 AU member countries (table1)
Strategy/Future activities • Mobilize enough resource • Redesign the questionnaire to include missing components • Call three to four workshops according to region or official language • Plan ahead of the workshop what to achieve or expect from the invitees to contribute • Establish a sustainable system of collecting the data on yearly basis.