CAADP Joint Action Group on Regional Trade and Infrastructure

1. CAADPJoint Action Group onRegional Trade and Infrastructure Geneva, 3 July 2012

2. What is CAADP? • Adopted in 2003 • Objective: to achieve economic growth through agriculture-led development • Committing states to: • adopt sound agriculture policies to boost agricultural production, fight hunger and improve food security in Africa • allocate at least 10% of the national budgetary resources to agricultural investments to reach the overall objective of 6% agricultural growth rate by 2015.

3. CAADP priorities To ease implementation, priorities are aligned along four areas of intervention : • Sustainable land and water management • Rural infrastructure and market access • Food supply & hunger • Agricultural research

4. CAADP Process – main steps CAADP is manly to be implement at a country level. • Pre-talks: preliminary exchanges between NEPAD, RECs and countries to enter the process. • CAADP Compact: a “contract” signed by the country to adhere to CAADP’s goals and commitments, and to define a general strategy on how to achieve these. It marks the formal entrance of a country in the process • Investment Plan (IP): converts compact’s general strategy and commitments into a list of activities with the relative costs, an overall budget, a system of M&E, an evaluation of available and missing resources, and a state of the art of the stakeholders already operating in the country. • Technical ReviewReport: a group of independent experts chosen by the AUC/NEPAD to review the IP in order to assess whether it is its operationally realistic, and consistent with CAADP overall vision, principles and strategy, and with country specific commitments. • Country business meeting: country-based meeting to validate the IP, confirm funding commitments and agree on implementation. • GAFSP Proposal: a request for funding to cover a part of the IP costs

5. Status of implementation

6. Stakeholders • Countries:to date Compacts have been signed in 29 countries. • Regional Economic Communities:guide their member countries in the implementation of the programme and can sign regional Compacts. • NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA): is responsible for the processimplementation • African Union Commission (AUC): provides policy and strategic guidance at continental level • Development Partners Task Team (DPTT):regroups donors, international agencies and other partners in support of the CAADP process.

7. Stakeholder Platforms • CAADP Partnership Platform (PP) • a forum for policy dialogue for all CAADP stakeholders. It was launched in 2005 and meets on a plenary meeting once a year around March. • a smaller form of meeting, called “Business Meeting” is also organized twice a year, one as a side event of the PP meeting, and one around October. • Grow Africa (private sector engagement platform) • launched in November 2011 • aiming to include the private sector in the CAADP process • globally coordinated by AUC and WEF, with membership from both DPs and multinational companies (mainly agribusiness and food sector) • 7 countries already established national platforms • Implementation focussing on corridors and selected value chains • USD 3.5 bl private sector commitment at the last G8 Summit

8. Financing mechanisms • Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF): • created in September 2008 • managed by WB and funded by USAID, The Kingdom of Netherlands, the European Commission, Ireland, France and the UK. • finances the process and the African stakeholders, but not IP implementation. • Global Agriculture Food Security Program (GAFSP): • launched in April 2010 • multi-donor trust fund (issued from L’Aquila Food Security Initiative), it groups also funds from G20 countries. • led by WB, and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, South Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, Australia, Canada and the United States. • finances country level implementation. • African Agribusiness Fund of Funds: • Just launched • Managed by AfDB • Source to leverage new investments linked to Grow Africa • Bilaterals and multilaterals at national level • ….more financing mechanisms are being created, especially to support increasing investment flows into the agribusiness sector

9. CAADP Joint Action Groups Regional Trade and Infrastructure

10. Joint Action Groups Objective • to promote policy dialogue around key thematic areas and informing CAADP-based national and regional investment plans and programs • to provide a common platform to facilitate coordination among key African stakeholders and Development Partners on CAADP implementation • to encourage coordinated action on the ground through the development and implementation of projects at national and regional levels.

11. JAG Regional Trade and Infrastructure • Especially aims to promote policy dialogue and to support the implementation of projects on Regional Trade and Infrastructure development responding to the specific need of the agricultural sector => Looking at regional trade and infrastructure to meet sustainable agricultural development needs. • Activity clusters • Policy dialogue: activities aiming to support the identification of regional trade and infrastructure related needs within CAADP, and to “bridge” CAADP and AfT; • Technical assistance and project development: activities aiming to support the identification of concrete projects to improve country competitiveness, and which could be implemented at both regional and national level; • Capacity building: activities aiming to enhance the capacity of CAADP stakeholders to tackle trade related issues.

12. Organization and membership • Participation is open to all CAADP DPTT members, as well as to new partners interested in this thematic area in contributing to the development of concrete projects. • Partners may choose to participate based on two levels of memberships: • Core Team: partners with clear tasks and responsibilities to make the JAG-RTI operational; • JAG-RTI member: other institutions who would like to follow the process.

13. Recommendations to AfT institutions Potential contributions of AfT institutions to JAG-RTI implementation • WTO ITTC • capacity building activities to improve capacity of CAADP stakeholders to tackle trade related issues • WTO AfT Unit • raise awareness about agricultural trade challenges in Africa through the AfT Global Reviews, and the organization of joint events, and publications • WTO LDCs Unit • enhancing communications with CAADP stakeholders through the Global Donor Platform on Rural Development (GDPRD) e.g. by organizing joint presentations at the yearly annual general assembly on relevant topics of common interest • Supporting efforts to coordinate EIF and CAADP implementation at national level in LDCs • STDF Secretariat • support activities with RECs to identify challenges and opportunities to address SPS issues • organize policy dialogue on • provide technical expertise for project development and implementation in the area of SPS

14. Focus on the EIF • EIF Secretariat and EIF Donor Group EIF has a parallel structure to CAADP led by trade ministries.

15. Donors Trade Units ARDUnits AfT development partners ARD development partners EIF CAADP National Dev. Plans Ministry of Commerce Ministry of Agriculture

16. Recommendations to the EIF Working together to “bridge” EIF and CAADP national structures: • Alignment of DTIS/Action Matrix and of CAADP Compacts/IPs, to enhance consistency of the trade priorities identified in the DTIS and in the Compacts (i.e. DTIS to inform the Compact design/update and viceversa) which will include comparative analysis between DTIS/AM and Compacts/IP, as well as national consultations to fill the gaps. • Based on the DTIS/Compact alignment countries will be able to identify and develop agriculture value chain and PPP projects which simultaneously contribute to EIF and CAADP implementation which could be co-financed by GAFSP-EIF-Private sector