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TOWARDS A ‘GREEN REVOLUTION IN AFRICA’-GOVERNANCE AND POLICY PROCESSES

TOWARDS A ‘GREEN REVOLUTION IN AFRICA’-GOVERNANCE AND POLICY PROCESSES. 1 MAY 2008, Salzburg, Austria. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda (CEO, FANRPAN) lmsibanda@fanrpan.org. Outline of Presentation. Overview of Challenges and Key Issues- WHAT

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TOWARDS A ‘GREEN REVOLUTION IN AFRICA’-GOVERNANCE AND POLICY PROCESSES

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  1. TOWARDS A ‘GREEN REVOLUTION IN AFRICA’-GOVERNANCE AND POLICY PROCESSES 1 MAY 2008, Salzburg, Austria Lindiwe Majele Sibanda (CEO, FANRPAN) lmsibanda@fanrpan.org

  2. Outline of Presentation • Overview of Challenges and Key Issues-WHAT • Making it Happen – Reforming Africa’s Governance and Policy Process- HOW • Revisiting the Architecture of Policy Development- FANRPAN MODEL & WHO DOES WHAT

  3. Wanjiku’s Dream -2015 • Land Owned - 1 hectare • Crop diversity- from maize to staples & high values crops • Productivity: Maize yield from 250kg to 2.5t/ha • Inputs: from recycled seed to highbrids & • fertilizer use: from 10 to 50% recommended levels • Implements: from hand hoe to • full span of 4 donkeys, eventually 2 oxen

  4. Wanjiku’s Question What will the African Green Revolution do for me? Governance and Policy Processes are about PEOPLE- The WHAT? The HOW? THE WHO? AFRICA’s Green Revolution must be about POOR PEOPLE and IMPROVED LIVELIHOODS How will the Green Revolution Policy and Governance processes help Wanjiku out of poverty?

  5. AFRICAN HOPE & HYPE games? MILITARIZATION HIV/AIDS FAMINE CORRUPTION GREEN REVOLUTION IMPUNITY WAR PRIVATIZATION MINIMAL STATE HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE LIBERALISATION CORPORATE CONTROL WOMENS RIGHTS ABUSES CONDITIONALITY DEBT PATRONAGE ETHNICITY

  6. AFRICA: 1970-90s SCRUBBLE 70s-90s A TIME FOR– war of words in the colonies

  7. AFRICA: 1990s- Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPS) A TIME FOR SAPS- SNAKES AND LADDERS & Yo-Yo games

  8. Living in Interesting Times: 2003-2015 SUDOKU games- Business of numbers: 10% national budgets to agric sector; 6% annual growth for sector NEPAD CAADP- Africans driving an African agenda

  9. AFRICA sets TARGETS for AGRIC. Sector(Objective Verifiable Indicators-OVIs) Continental Commitments • MDGs –vision 2015 • 2003 -NEPAD CAADP- 6% annual growth and 10% national budget for agriculture • 2006- Abuja Declaration from 8 to 50kg fertilizer/ha • 2007- AFRICA’S GREEN REVOLUTION launched- OVIs?

  10. Governance

  11. Policy Processes

  12. What does it take-Go for RED-Networks External Influences Campaigning, Lobbying Policy analysis, & research Scientific information exchange & validation Political context Politics and Policymaking Media, Advocacy, Networking Research, learning & thinking Links Evidence Source: The Rapid Framework. Research and Policy in Development Programme Briefing Paper No1, October 2004

  13. “AGR” What does it take- CSOs

  14. CSO Influence on GVT Policies

  15. “AGR’-What does it take- African Gvts?

  16. Public Service Delivery-not monitored

  17. Rule of Law

  18. “AGR” -What does it take? Cont.

  19. Learning from Success and Failures Malawi Green Rev 2004-7 Zimbabwe Green Rev.1980-90 Previous Gvt – offered subsidy Gvt intensifies extension, input supply, hybrids, produce markets New Gvt with support from IMF abandons subsidies Gvt1990 abandons subsidies, private sec. active on input, but no link to value chain Presidents makes public announcement In 2000 Gvt re-introduces subsidies National budget includes subsidy Gov. controlled interventions Limited private sector involved Can we Sustain the Success Collapse of the agric sector Legitimatize the policy

  20. Constitutional Checks

  21. Including the Excluded-9 Step Participation Model Sherry R. Arnstein. ‘A Ladder of Citizen Participation’ http://lithgow-schmidt.dk/sherry-arnstein/ladder-of-citizen-participation.html

  22. Channels for Reaching the Excluded • Local drama groups-theatre for community action • Video, television, news print, radio • Farmer field schools • Posters, stickers and banners • Local Indabas- Dialogues • Structured Multi-stakeholder Networks

  23. Policy Networks • Invest in Regional and national multi-stakeholder networks • Promote platforms for policy dialogue –African Oral Culture • Sharing knowledge interact ion with policy makers • Promote Innovation Systems Approach -Cultivate and promote interactions between research, knowledge use and policy development

  24. What value will Policy networks bring? • All inclusive multi-stakeholder platform -government, technocrats, farmers, private sector, consumers, journalists, politicians, technocrats • Build credible dialogue platforms at local level use evidence to support policy development • Facilitate linkages and partnerships between government and civil society , Linking policy supply to demand • Partnerships for building the capacity for policy analysis - regionally, North-South, South-South

  25. What value will Policy networks bring to GR • Promote peer reviews • Host high level policy events • Capacity enhancement-collation of dispersed skills • Platform for action research , knowledge production, documentation and articulation of own story, • Identifying strategic issues to amplify • Encourages solidarity with vulnerable groups without seeking to brand

  26. Example from practice- FANRPAN Regional Policy Dialogues – 2001- 2007

  27. Wanjiku’s CALL for Action • Demystify Policy Processes • Give me a VOICE • Create Space & Political cover • Provide Options & Means

  28. Key Questions for a Uniquely African Green Revolution • How can we ensure that all stakeholders and particularly the vulnerable groups and ordinary citizens have a voice in policy processes? • What role can regional policy networks play to align policies and political processes to support pro-poor growth and Africa’s green revolution? • What information should African governments provide (key indicators) as evidence of commitment to pro-poor growth and African green revolution goals? • How can donors make development assistance to the green revolution more effective?

  29. FANRPAN Regional Policy Dialogue, Lusaka Zambia THANK YOU

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