The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) is an Africa-wide network of regional nodes supporting the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Africa-based centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), to facilitate the implementation of AU/NEPAD’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). The ReSAKSS nodes offer high-quality analyses to improve policymaking, track progress, document success, and derive lessons for the implementation of the CAADP agenda. The goal of the ReSAKSS Working Paper series is to provide timely access to results of preliminary research and data analysis that relate directly to strengthening ongoing discussions and critical commentaries on the future direction of African agriculture and rural development.
This report is primarily for mutual review at the continental level,vthe process that culminates in the annual CAADP Partnership Platform meeting (CAADP PP) that brings together representatives of the leading Regional Economic Communities (RECs) as well as other regional organizations dealing with agriculture, major bilateral and multilateral development agencies, and private-sector and farmers’ organizations to review overall progress in the implementation of CAADP at the Africawide level. However, the information and analysis are presented for regional aggregates in a manner that can also contribute to peer review at the regional level. Detailed data on country level trends are provided in the annexes and may be useful for those interested in the performance of a specific country relative to the performance of its respective region in the aggregate, or relative to Africa as a whole.
The report is an outcome of the overarching CAADP monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system (see Benin et al. 2010). Readers can find detailed progress related to specific components of CAADP in other publications, such as the individual CAADP pillar M&E systems2, the African Peer Review Mechanism3 (APRM), and the Mutual Accountability Framework4 (MAF). The discussion of individual pillar systems, for example, focuses on assessing performance toward achieving pillar-specific targets without necessarily considering how the pillars interact with each other, through complementary or substitution effects, to affect achievement of the overall CAADP goals and objectives.5 The APRM focuses on assessing African states’ compliance with a wide range of African and international human rights treaties and standards. The MAF focuses on the commitments between donors and governments.
The rest of the document is organized as follows. The remainder of this introductory chapter presents the data and methods used in the analysis. Chapters 2 through 6 present trends in the CAADP core indicators. Chapter 2 discusses the enabling environment to analyze the context within which the CAADP process and related policies, investments, and outcomes have been taking place. Chapter 3 presents progress in CAADP implementation process, particularly the stages of regions and countries in the roundtable process. Chapter 4 deals with the commitments and financing of the agricultural sector, while Chapter 5 looks at agricultural sector performance including productivity, growth, and trade. Chapter 6 rounds off the trend analysis with a look at the progress that has been made in achieving the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG1) of halving poverty and hunger. Chapter 7 concludes with a summary and an outlook of the analyses to be done for the 2011 report and beyond.