A Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Program, CAADP partnership platform meeting has been held in Accra between the 9th and 12th of April 2016 at the Holiday Inn Hotel under the theme, ‘Renewing Partnerships and Commitments Towards Maximizing Non-State Actors’ Impact To Achieve CAADP-Malabo Targets.’ The meeting which drew participation from some African countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Senegal, Nigeria and Ghana was to share and reflect on the progress of specific Non-state actors, NSA and their commitments at national, regional and continental levels and their engagement on the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Program (CAADP)/Malabo, and also to inform action planning.
It also aimed at reflecting collectively on the thematic focus of the 12th CAADP Innovative financing and renewed partnership to accelerate the CAADP Implementation to inform deliberations at the April 12th CNC side meeting and other partnership platform sessions.
The event was also used to review progress made by the CNC and its NSA members on strengthening the coalition’s structure and systems for effective leadership at continental and regional levels and affirm the commitment of NSAs to achieving the CAADP/Malabo objectives. This is to be achieved through joint action planning and strengthening of partnerships and collaboration on implementation.
The four day event on the theme: Renewing Partnerships and Commitments towards Maximizing Non-State Actors impact in actualizing the CAADP Malabo targets on day one tried to find out what the various countries have been doing over the years under the CAADP COMPACT which Ghana and other African countries signed in 2010.
The event after knowing the progress, lessons learnt and institutional strengthening, sought to work on aggregating the NSAs commitments and recommendations towards actualizing the CAADP –Malabo commitments and targets. The stakeholders also brainstormed on the CNCs engagement beyond the CAADP Partnership Platform (PP).
Even though CAADP aims to achieve an agriculture –led socio-economic growth that will create wealth, tackle poverty and reduce hunger which requires broad and inclusive coalitions committed to acting in concert to improve the sector’s policy, programming and institutions, the big question remains; are all African states committed to investing 10% of the individual member states’ budget to the Agric Sector and be able to end hunger in Africa by 2025?
The event organized by Africa Lead and sponsored by the United States Agency International Development, USAID (from the American People) hoped that these engagements will create awareness on sustained, improved CAADP implementation through effective partnership of NSAs at all levels and also advocate for policy reform towards the CAADP implementation in line with the Malabo Declaration.
Source: ritefmonline.org
