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Agriculture & Food Security Working Group of DPG (A-WG) Briefing note for the DPG Meeting 4th December 2006 by Johann HESSE (European Commission). Membership.

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  1. Agriculture & Food Security Working Group of DPG (A-WG)Briefing note for the DPG Meeting4th December 2006by Johann HESSE (European Commission)

  2. Membership Danish Embassy, DFID, Irish Aid, Japan Embassy, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), World Bank, World Food Programme, European Commission (current chair) International Fund for Agricultural Development (current co-chair), Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (current secretariat). Other potential members are more than welcome!!

  3. Activities • Retreat in May to identify key activities for the year • Regular monthly meetings • Sub groups / contact persons on: • Agriculture Sector Development Program (ASDP) • PER / Sector Policy Dialogue • Private Sector Development • Food Security • Monitoring and Evaluation • Harmonization: • ASDP basket fund: joint implementation, monitoring, etc. • Sharing on DPs portfolios, trends, studies, missions, etc. • Updating DP matrix

  4. Activities (cont’d) • Dialogue with Government • Participation in new 'Agriculture Consultative Forum' for Government, DP's and non state actors • Field visits / joint learning and reality checks: One trip to Mbeya, Iringa and Morogoro on ASDP implementation and second field visit to Shinyanga on food security. SomeFindings: • Vast geographic area, weather, road conditions hampers timely delivery of services and goods; • Challenge of targeting the neediest without manipulation from district committees; • Effectiveness of strategy: forcing Sorghum cultivation through by laws is questionable. No incentives for Sorghum cultivation!! • Problem: seeds of drought resistant varieties.

  5. Funding • ASDP Basket:Joint program, links up to local government grants Launched in July 2006

  6. Funding(cont’d) 2. Other: • District Agricultural Sector Investment Program (DASIP) by African Development Bank: 60 million US$ in North Western Tanzania; • Planned project on rural infrastructure by AfDB: ($ 60 million); • Bilateral grants projects by Belgium, Denmark, EC, FAO, Irish Aid, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, USAID; • Other (in directly) related , e.g. $ 30 million for land administration in World Bank funded Private Sector Competitiveness project and $ 150 million WB Tanzania Social Action Fund; Rural Finance Project (20 million IFAD and Switzerland), Agric. Marketing System Development (40 million IFAD, AfDB, Irish Aid)

  7. Funding 2. Other (cont’d): • Other outgoing: Participatory Agriculture Development (PADEP) with $ 56 million from Worldbank and Participation Irrigation Development with $ 25 million from IFAD, Irish Aid and WFP; • Local Government Support (LGRP, LGSP etc); • Other thematic support on rural development (e.g. Finnida), research (e.g. Norad), avian flu (regional funds, e.g. WB and EC), commodities (WB, EC), other ?? Conclusion:-ASDP basket is right development,-there are (still) more funds outside the basket than inside, -harmonization still a challenge and transaction costs yet to be reduced,

  8. Policy dialogue Sector Review 2006 conclusions (selected issues): • Need to improving producer incentives • Resolve licensing issues, taxation and reform CBs • Re-model farmer support to comprehensive intervention packages • Develop new sources of agricultural growth: • PPP for Out-grower/Contract Farming with Irrigation & mechanization • Buttress it with post-harvest technology and agro-processing links • Increasing farm productivity • Crops: need to complement government with private extension, farmer training, improved technology etc. • Livestock: ‘Commercialize’ livestock production • Improving agricultural marketing • improved farmer organizations & better regulations

  9. Policy dialogue (cont’d) Public expenditure review (selected issues) • Overall budget allocation to the sector is small in relation to the sector’s contribution • Sector performance is affected by inadequate budget allocations to the districts, especially operational costs (OC); • Capacities of local governments to manage increased level of public expenditure allocations are limited; • Significant deviations between what is approved by Parliament and Proposals and submitted by RCC and DCs. This undermines the consultative bottom –up approach • Co-existence of various parallel routine data systems and little guidance from the national level which include the Local Government Monitoring Database launched in 2002 by PO-RALG, reporting requirements under Plan Rep and specific obligations from the ASLMs, that tends to undermine the value for monitoring and reporting

  10. There is room for overall quality of sector dialogue. Sector review and PER were good events in 2006 and we hope to keep the momentum

  11. thank you

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