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.
To help fill these knowledge gaps, and particularly help build the capacity for undertaking related public investment analyses, this document lays out a conceptual and empirical framework for a holistic assessment of the economy-wide, growth and poverty reduction impacts of public investments in agriculture and rural areas; and shows how the framework and results of the analysis can be used for budgeting, monitoring and evaluating public investments and poverty reduction strategies to achieve stated development objectives.