Transcript Global and regional trends – Population growth

Managing for Results
Regional Project Implementation Workshop
Accra, Ghana
1-4 December 2009
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Global and regional trends
Regional responses
Challenges/Opportunities
Way forward for IFAD
How are we supporting these new approaches?
What kinds of indicators does IFAD use?
To conclude..
Global and regional trends – Agricultural production
Good news: rapid increase in agricultural production
Global and regional trends – Population growth
Continued but slowing population growth
This constitutes a challenge in meeting basic education
and health needs of the young
Global and regional trends - Decentralization
• Increasing local empowerment but much of WCA is lagging rest of
Africa
Global and regional trends - Communications technology
• New communications technology – cell phones covering the region
Global and regional trends – ODA Commitments
• ODA commitments to agriculture beginning to increase after several
years of decline compared to other sectors
Regional responses – R&D
• However, increased ODA is not yet reflected in increased
agricultural R&D expenditures in most of Africa
Regional responses – National budgets
• West and Central Africa countries are gradually meeting Maputo
Declaration commitment to allocate at least 10 percent of national
budget to agriculture.
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Regional responses – CAADP compacts
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Ghana
Liberia
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Sierra Leone
Togo
Three more are likely to join this year:
• Burkina Faso
• Senegal
• Guinea
Challenges/Opportunities
• Continued global/regional barriers to agricultural trade
• Large land investments, at expense of smallholder farmers
• Food prices down but expected to remain high and volatile due to:
Shift in diets (meat)
Climate change
Market structure
Biofuels
Challenges/Opportunites – cont’d
• Youth issue:
34% of the population in WCA is aged 10-24 yrs
the medium % of people under 14 yrs is 43%
the population from 15-64 yrs is 53%
• Political instability and conflict
Way Forward for IFAD
Agriculture is again the focus but with new challenges and approaches
 Strive for access to markets
 Ensure that poor youth and women participate in agricultural opportunities
 Promote institutions and policies that are public/private and owned by rural
institutions
 Adapt to climate change
 Increase funding
 Innovative private/public partnerships
 Strengthen programme in quality
 Mainstream local empowerment process
How are we supporting these new approaches?
• CPMT approach supported by:
Results Based-Country Strategic Opportunities Papers (6 to be presented to IFAD’s
Executive Boards in 2010)
Projects (8 to be presented to Executive Boards in 2010)
Strengthened quality at entry review
• Direct Supervision
34 of 47 projects currently directly supervised;
All projects to be directly supervised by 2010
Project implementation and financial management trainings
• KM, innovation and scaling-up
Regional knowledge sharing (FIDAfrique)
Innovation Fair in 2010
Thematic knowledge products for NRM and climate change in 2101
What kinds of indicators does IFAD use?
Indicators monitored quarterly:
Better country programme management (Corporate Management Result 1)
Better project design (CMR 2)
Better supervision and implementation support (CMR 3)
• Avg time from project approval to 1st disbursement
• Pro-activity index
• IFAD performance rated 4 or better out of 6
• % of problem projects on the ongoing portfolio
• % of time overrun for ongoing projects
• Avg days for processing Withdrawal Applications
Better financial resource management (CMR 4)
Better human resource management (CMR 5)
Better results and risk management (CMR 6)
Better administrative efficiency (CMR 7)
Projects which perform well against these indicators
Satisfactory project performance over last two years
• Niger – PPILDA
• Mali – PIDRN
• Ghana – RTIMP
• Benin – PDRD
• Mauritania – PASK
• Senegal – PRODAM II
However, we must remember that we are not working
together for indicators but for results!
What do we do as CPMTs to obtain
stronger, faster and more results?