Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network for Southern Africa (FANRPAN)

1. Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network for Southern Africa (FANRPAN) Contact details: P. O Box 2765 Causeway Harare ZIMBABWE Telephone 263 4 792348/50 Fax 263 4 792409 Email: policy@fanrpan.org

2. Title FANRPAN PRESENTATION

3. FANRPAN Mission To coordinate, influence and facilitate policy research, analysis and dialogue at the national, regional and global levels in order to develop the food, agriculture and natural resources sector through networking, capacity building and generation of information for the benefit of all stakeholders in the SADC region

4. Why FANRPAN? • In 1994, the SADC Ministers of Agriculture adopted a recommendation from policy advisors that the empowerment of smallholder farmers through training and creation of producer associations, greater involvement of private sector actors and other stakeholders as well as the creation of policy analysis networks were key prime movers for achieving agricultural growth and eradicating food insecurity.

5. Composition of FANRPAN • An autonomous regional stakeholder driven policy research, analysis, implementation and advocacy network established in May 2001. • Designed to ensure that policy makers have continual access to well researched and analysed policy advice both at the national and regional level. • A lean regional secretariat supported by a sector wide board of governors. (two permanent secretaries as government representative, two farmer representatives, two private sector members, and two members from policy institutions, all drawn from the participating countries) • Maintains close link with SADC, donors and other institutional research collaborators working in the region. • Network operates nodes in 11 of the 14 SADC countries.

6. Member Countries Botswana Lesotho Malawi Mauritius Mozambique Namibia South Africa Swaziland Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe

7. FANRPAN Network Structure FANRPAN BOARD OF GOVERNORS Secretariat Chief Executive Officer Coordinator – Communications and Policy Advocay Coordinator – Policy Research Technical Advisory Committees Country Level Networks ADMIN UNIT HIV and ADS Project Contract Farming Project Livelihoods Project • Country Nodes - • Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Mauritius, Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Swaziland, Lesotho, • Node Coordinator • Farmer Representative • Private Sector Representative • Government Policy Maker

8. Objectives of FANRPAN ·  Promote appropriate agricultural policies in order to reduce poverty, increase food security and enhance sustainable agricultural development in the SADC region; · Improve policy analysis, research and formulating of priority SADC themes; ·  Develop human and institutional capacity for coordinated dialogue among all stakeholders; · Establish contacts with similar networks and other research collaborators ·  Collect, store and exchange information and liase with target groups in order to facilitate broad participation of stakeholders (public, private, NGO, civil society) in policy issues

9. Thematic Policy Research Divided into four major themes: • Productivity growth and Technology Development for Crops and Livestock e.g study on GMO, seed fertiliser and soil fertility • Commercialisation,trade& market competitiveness e.g studies on strategic grain reserves, contract farming • Institutional reform and capacity building e.g. study on farming organisations, HIV/AIDS • Land, water and natural resource management

10. Research Study Process • Identification & prioritising of the research topic • Drafting the necessary TOR’s and circulating them to nodes and research partners for comments • Setting out timeline and research teams through nominations from nodes, secondments from partners or competitive bidding • Setting up a steering committee to guide the research team and drawing contracts • Inception workshops if necessary or workshops to present results • Publication and circulation of synthesis papers, policy briefs, and proceedings to relevant stakeholders • Periodic review and monitoring of policy recommendations

11. FANRPAN Core Research Program Process COUNTRY ISSUES Debated at country Level REGIONAL SYNTHESES Cross-cutting Issues COMMISSION DRAFTING OF TORs and SETTING UP RESEARCH TEAMS for identified burning policy research study issues DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH RESULTS At the Country Level SADC FORUM

12. Studies HIV/AIDS-Sadc HSDU-EU CTA Annual Contract A Agric-Biotech-US Grains Council Policy F-B-O Livelihoods-USAID-RCSA Contract Farming – French Govt. NMTIP-CAADP-FAO Bots Leso Mala Maur Moza Nam RSA Swaz Tanz Zam Zim Current Studies/Programmes

13. 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Studies CONTRACT FARMING HIV/AIDS CTA POLICY F-B-O AGRIC-BIOTECH LIVELIHOODS NMTIP-CAADP 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Project Time Frame

14. Effective Networking • FANRPAN is unique because of its vertical and horizontal connectivity with stakeholders • The Network operates nodes in 11 of the 14 SADC countries • At country level the nodes operate as a network of stakeholders • Through their steering committees, the nodes spearhead policy analysis in their respective countries

15. Effective Networking Cont’d • FANRPAN links to SADC through the FANR directorate which is an ex officio member of the Board of Governors. • The CEO of FANRPAN attends the SADC Council of Ministers meetings where the network feeds back issues and research results. • Conferences and workshops are used not only for disseminating research results but also as tools to train policy analysts in making policy presentations and debates

16. Stakeholder Consultations • Country nodes implement in country stakeholder consultation meetings to define agenda • Stakeholders are involved throughout the policy process • Stakeholders are drawn from Ministries of Agriculture, NGO’s farmer organisations, agricultural institutions, relevant parastals,private sector, research institutions and extension • The FANRPAN stakeholder directory is intended to bring together network members

17. Challenges • Limited financial resources for the network for operations and research • Resulting in a weak network organisational structure • Policy analysis research capacity in the region is weak

18. New vision for sustainability • To continue to facilitate regional policy dialogues • To continue strengthening capacity of nodes to effectively communicate with all stakeholders • To introduce national stakeholder policy dialogues on topical FANR policy issues • To coordinate community driven information systems that will link rural communities to national policy processes through the nodes. • Strengthen the national level policy research nodes that form the backbone of the network • Implement relevant regional studies within two of the four defined themes • Monitor and evaluate the implementation of recommended policies