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WELCOME Agriculture Policy Exchange and Learning Event

WELCOME Agriculture Policy Exchange and Learning Event. King Fahd Hotel Dakar, Senegal 13-16 May 2013. Welcome to the African Union Agriculture Policy exchange & Learning event (APLE). Country & Regional Team Orientation Day. AU Welcome.

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WELCOME Agriculture Policy Exchange and Learning Event

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  1. WELCOMEAgriculture Policy Exchange and Learning Event King Fahd HotelDakar, Senegal13-16 May 2013

  2. Welcome to the African Union Agriculture Policy exchange & Learning event (APLE) Country & Regional Team Orientation Day

  3. AU Welcome Boaz Blackie Keizire, Technical Advisor/CAADP Implementation Specialist, AUC

  4. Today’s Objectives • Get Acquainted • Overview the learning event and specific expected outcomes • Summarize country and regional team member expectations for the learning event • Take stock of the status of the policy agenda in each country and the Regional team

  5. One Request • Please mute cell phone • If you must take a call, please go outside of meeting room or break-out room • THANK YOU

  6. Introductions By Country / Region • Name • Job title • Organization • Sector you represent (government, private sector, civil society, donor, other)

  7. Agriculture Policy Exchange and Learning Event: Objectives • Teams from Tanzania, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Ghana, and Senegal and the West Africa Regional Team will • Share examples of systemic policy constraints preventing achievement of goals / targets of national agriculture & food security investment plans • Explore lessons, experiences, evidence to overcome constraints • Initiate action planning process (to be completed after the event) leading to more sustained, robust policy systems in each country and the West Africa region

  8. Expected Outcomes • Agreement on major elements that need to be addressed to strengthen each country and the region’s policy system • Initiation of country and regional action planning process • Formation of country and regional teams to advance the action plans • Formation of a continental action plan • Input for training material and approaches to strengthen policy systems throughout CAADP countries as part of the revision of CAADP implementation guidelines

  9. Importance of Today’s Orientation • APLE is not ad hoc meeting • Part of process that feeds into / frames a way of doing business • Will help teams identify ways to deal with critical operational issues to advance policy work • Opportunity for teams to • Meet • Lay groundwork for future collaboration • Prepare follow-up on issues of relevance identified this week

  10. Team Expectations • Learn from other country / regional experiences how policy system can be strengthened • Share information on • New Alliance • Experiences on implementing policy matrices • Successes & best practices • Commonalities and differences in agricultural policy challenges among countries • Policy formulation • Share experiences • Private sector involvement • Private investment promotion • Land policies • Subsidies • Build Actions on What Exists (not reinventing anything or creating something new that competes with what has already been done) • See Handout / thumb drive for complete list

  11. Overview of Week Agenda in Binder

  12. Week’s Agenda • Monday – Country Team Orientation Day • Tuesday – Official event begins • THEME: IDENTIFYING and ADDRESSING POLICY and INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS to AGRICULTURE TRANSFORMATION / Group Meetings • Wednesday • THEME: BUILDING THE POLICY AGENDA & TECHNICAL INPUTS / CONCURRENT SESSIONS / Country & Regional Group Meetings • Thursday • THEMES: OVERCOMING POLICY CONSTRAINTS; MUTUAL ACCOUNTABILITY; ACTION PLANNING (Group Meetings)

  13. Big Picture Questions for Teams to Consider this Week • How to improve your country and regional policy framework to implement the National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plans over 1-3 years • Issues / constraints to be resolved • Help needed (follow-up analysis, partnership meetings, formation of working groups or committees) • Partnerships (with donors, private sector, government) needed to ensure success • Priority discussions / briefings for senior officials, business reps, advocacy groups after event • Roles of different team members over next year

  14. Today’s Orientation PLENARY • Common Building Blocks for Country & Regional Policy Plans • Setting the Context for the Week • Policy Systems & Components • Introduction to Policy Action Planning Tool Country & Regional Team Meetings • Review status of country assessments • Final Prep for tomorrow’s presentations

  15. Common Building Blocks Session Objective: • Review and discuss systemic policy challengesblocking effective implementation of National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plans Setting the Context for this week’s work • Ousmane Badiane, Director for Africa, IFPRI (20 min)

  16. Setting the Context for the Week Ousmane Badiane, Director for Africa, IFPRI (20 min)

  17. Policy System and Components – some common terminology Jim Oehmke, USAID (15 minutes)

  18. Action Plan Tool for Implementation of County CAADP Policy Plan Concept and Building Blocks for Strengthening Policy Systems and Ensuring Effective Implementation of Policy

  19. Key Elements of a Policy System • Policy Agenda • Linked to and prioritized by national investment plans • Institutional Architecture for Implementation of Policy • Ensuring predictable, evidence based, transparent, inclusive policy formulation / implementation • Mutual Accountability • Ensuring public review of progress on commitments, performance, the impact of investment plan and policy on poverty and hunger

  20. Key CAADP Principles Advanced through Country Policy Plans • Evidence based • Inclusivity • Transparency • Predictability • Good Governance • Efficient Markets • Coordination and Partnership

  21. Key Elements of Policy Action Plan 1. Policy Agenda • Steps and actions needed at 2 levels: • Level 1: Develop prioritized policy agenda (already done) • Level 2: Implement each priority policy agenda item to achieve purpose / goal / intent of the overall policy

  22. Key Elements of PolicyAction Plan 2. Institutional Architecture • Steps and actions needed at 3 levels • Level 1: Complete and confirm diagnostics to clarify components and status of institutional architecture • Level 2: Build a support program and partnerships to strengthen the institutional architecture • Level 3: Establish coordination mechanisms to support / facilitate implementation of your support program / partnership

  23. Key Elements of Policy Action Plan 3. Mutual Accountability • Steps and actions needed at 3 levels • Level 1: Frame and define the joint development agreement (JDA) and related commitments • Level 2: Collect, analyze, publish findings reviewing progress in meeting commitments and achieving objectives of JDA • Level 3: Jointly review progress made on commitments, performance and impacts and adjust plans as needed

  24. Context for Policy Action Plan When developing a Policy Action Plan, planners need to also consider • Who will be interested in this policy change? • Who are the clients/ constituents / beneficiaries of this policy change? • Minister? Farmers groups? Private sector? • Who will you report back to in order to carry policy actions forward? Who will “champion” the policy action? • Do you need to do something to create more “demand” for your team’s policy engagement?

  25. Policy Action Plan Tool Country and Regional Teams can use this tool to identify real steps needed to implement policy changes for CAADP plan

  26. Big Picture: Coordination Mechanisms to Support Country Investment Plan and Policy Plan – EXAMPLE of steps and tasks

  27. Key Elements of Policy System • 1. Action Plan for Policy Agenda Example: typesof steps and actions needed at 2 levels

  28. Key Elements of Policy System • 2. Action Plan for Institutional Architecture EXAMPLE: types of steps and actions required at 3 levels

  29. Key Elements of Policy System • 3. Action Plan for Mutual Accountability EXAMPLE: types of steps and actions needed at 3 levels

  30. Clarifications?

  31. Remainder of Day • Team Meetings for remainder of day • Review RESAKSS and IA assessments • Discuss results of assessments • Finalize country presentations • Select members to attend concurrent sessions (Wed pm) • Resources list (Speed Dating) – who does team want to meet during the week (Handout) Now – 1:00 – Team Meetings 1:00 – 2:00 Lunch 2:00 – 4:00 – Team Meetings 4:00 – Reconvene in Plenary

  32. Team Presentations • 10 min / 5-6 slides • NEW: brief list /description of National Structures currently in place to facilitate coordination • Current Policy Matrix (picture) • Progress • Overarching Constraints • Private Sector Constraints • Why these issues are important

  33. Break 15 minutes – Move to Team Rooms

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