Transcript Africa Partnership Forum

Tracking development commitments
through the UNECA-OECD Mutual
Review of Development Effectiveness
in Africa
What lessons for tracking investments in AR4D?
GFAR Stakeholder Workshop
Berlin, 20 January 2012
Karim Hussein, Technical Advisor
Africa Partnership Forum Support Unit/OECD
www.africapartnershipforum.org
[email protected]
Background to the APF
• High level forum launched in 2003 following G8 Evian Summit to:
- broaden the dialogue between G8 and NEPAD, to include non-G8
development partners & international development agencies
- catalyse action to support Africa’s development
• The APF meets twice a year to discuss:
- key policy issues for Africa in regional/global processes
- implementation of development commitments
• Supported by OECD-hosted Support Unit and NEPAD Agency
All APF documents available at: www.africapartnershipforum.org
UNECA/OECD Mutual Review of Development
Effectiveness in Africa (MRDE)
• Joint UNECA / OECD Report – one of the main mutual accountability
exercises in Africa, endorsed by African / NEPAD leaders
• First edition in 2006; 2010 Report launched at MDG Review Summit 2010
• Interim 2011 report prepared for African/G8 summits to complement self
assessments on commitments and mutual accountability
• Latest: Main 2011 report launched last October
• Interim 2012 report, with new data, to be launched in May
to feed into G8 / G20 and other regional and global policy processes
About the MRDE report
A key exercise in mutual accountability to ‘track’ actions
and results against commitments, drawing on a range of sources,
official data and policy analysis
Four questions addressed:
1. What commitments have been made by Africa and its partners?
2. Have these been delivered?
3. What have the results been?
4. What are the key future priorities?
Four ‘clusters’ of topics:
(i) Sustainable economic growth (incl. agriculture);
(ii) Investing in people (incl. food security);
(iii) Good governance;
(iv) Financing for development (incl. domestic resources, ODA, FDI, external
debt, climate finance)
Types of data monitored in the MRDE
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GDP growth
Agricultural GDP growth compared to GDP growth – trends over time
ODA trends to Africa
ODA to Africa by sector
Public (national) revenues compared to ODA / DRM
Development finance to Africa
Evolution of numbers of undernourished
MDG implementation progress in Africa
Multiple official sources:
OECD DAC & AEO / World Bank / IMF / FAO / UN / IFPRI / ReSAKSS…….
Investment in Agriculture and AR4D
•Key conclusion
Agricultural growth improving in Africa, but below CAADP 6% target
More effort needed on investment, policy reform and trade
• Continuing challenges
- Agricultural growth slower than overall growth in recent years: production increases
dependent on increase in land cultivated
- Fertiliser use less than 10% world and less than 10% arable land irrigated
- 60-80% of production by smallholders - but smallholder access to productive land under
increasing pressure and access to technology / innovation limited
- Africa’s share of global agricultural exports remains at 2%
• Pointing to key future priorities
Africa: Accelerate CAADP implementation; continue to deepen regional
integration; increase public and private investment in agricultural value chains; mainstream
environmental sustainability and climate change; remove duties on inputs; increase market
transparency and create a predictable policy framework to foster private investment, and
secure smallholder access to land
Development partners: Deliver sustained assistance to African agriculture; promote
responsible investment in line with G20 principles; increase African producer access to
markets, reduce subsidies and remove barriers to trade at national, regional and global levels
Food Security
• Key conclusion:
Food prices remain high and volatile. Need to scale up regional cooperation and
safety nets
•Continuing challenges
Volatile global economic environment, increasing concerns on agriculture and food security
• Pointing to key future priorities
Africa: Accelerate regional coordination on early warning; develop food security information
systems, safety nets and emergency food reserves; develop market mechanisms to manage
risks; increase investment in agricultural value chains and productivity; open markets to allow
food to flow from surplus to deficit areas; improve technology generation, dissemination and
innovation, particularly for smallholders and vulnerable groups; integrate climate change /
variability into food security strategies
Development partners: Deliver AFSI commitments; seek a successful outcome to global
negotiations on trade and climate change; remove production distorting subsidies and trade
barriers; implement G20 recommendations on price volatility
Implications for tracking investment in AR4D
• MRDE process: an example of a regular joint monitoring process of development
commitments, delivery, results and identification of priorities. Some lessons to help
develop a tracking system tailored to AR4D across regions
• Undertake tracking in consultation with key stakeholders and prepare regular updates validates conclusions and helps ensure they inform policy / investment decisions
• Develop a clear, simple common framework: start simple, improve with experience
• Analyse AR4D investment trends at global, regional, national levels + link between these
• Monitor major commitments on funding AR4D and comparable data from several (official)
sources; investment impact review at national level needs diverse data and sources
• Complement official sources with academic, PS, and civil society information
• Identify key priorities for the future of AR4D – clearly linked to tracking
and development effectiveness agenda
• Engage key actors, producers and users in the sector in data collection, results
analysis and identification of research priorities (e.g. partnership, demand driven….)