Boosting Value Chain Development and

Private Sector Investments to Accelerate

CAADP Implementation: an overview of NEPAD supported initiatives

NEPAD Agribusiness Team

6th CARD General Meeting 17 Nov., 2015 - Accra, Ghana

NEPAD Agribiz Strategy and Private sector

promotionCAADP addressing the challenges/issues along three result areas:

Quality of Investment Plans and Programmes

- Linking to objective and evidence based analysis

- Aligned to national development vision and priorities

- Credible budgets and financing plan (public and private)

- Viability of the programmes including cross- sectoral value

Reforms in policies and policy design processes in support of investment financing

- Linking policy design processes to credible knowledge & info support including analytical

capacity

- Inclusive participation of non-state players (e.g. empowering grassroot communities)

Institutional reforms and organizational development

- Capacity development and strengthening local leadership on agriculture (ownership and

responsibilities)

- Accountability mechanisms including tracking and data generations/analysis

systems/capacity

CAADP Investment Facilitation Platform

1. Provide capacity development support to countries with CAADP Compacts

that have developed/ are developing National Agriculture Investment

Plans (NAIPS)

2. In particular, assist in extracting from the CAADP NAIP development

process, a private investor targeted document and facilitating a related

Investor Facilitation Platform

3. CD = helping local Compact Teams understand and improve their

knowledge about how to gather information that private investors are

particularly concerned about – toward the development of practical,

comprehensive “Investor Briefs” that profile the priorities and

opportunities in the country, with a specific focus on projects

4. Support local agric entrepreneurs in developing Business / Project Plans

and investment collateral

3.2 Effective and accountable

institutions including assessing

implementation of policies and

commitments

3.3 Strengthened capacity for evidence

based planning, implementation &

review

3.5 Increased public and private

investments in agriculture

3.1 Effective and inclusive policy

design and implementation

processes

Level 3 - Strengthening Systemic capacity to deliver results

3.4 Improved multi-sectorial coordination,

partnerships and mutual accountability in sectors related to

agriculture

Added value of CAADP support to

institutional transformation and systemic capacities

Level 2 – Agricultural Transformation and Sustained Inclusive Agricultural Growth

2.1 Increased agriculture production

and productivity

2.2 Increased intra-African regional trade and better functioning of national &

regional markets

2.3 Expanded local agro-industry and value chain development inclusive of

women and youth

2.4 Increased resilience of livelihoods and improved

management of risks in the agriculture sector

2.5 Improved management of natural resources for sustainable agriculture

Changes in African agriculture resulting from the CAADP

implementation support

3.6 Increased capacity to generate, analyze and use data,

information, knowledge and

innovations

Level 1 – Agriculture’s Contribution to Economic Growth and Inclusive DevelopmentImpact to which

agriculture contributes

1.1 wealth creation 1.2 Food & Nutrition Security 1.3 Economic opportunities, poverty alleviation and shared prosperity

1.4 Resilience and sustainability

The Overall CAADP Results Framework (2015 – 2025): MALABO

The NAPIPin the overall CAADP

implementation support

Project Design and Implementation Pipeline (work in progress)

NAPIP = Flagship Projects to catalyse, demonstrate a solution, leverage investments

1. Youth in Agriculture Entrepreneurship Development

2. Women in agribusiness

3. Agriculture Financing Promotion

4. Agribusiness, value chain development

a) Agribusiness Chamber Promotion

b) Policy Dialogue and Public Private Partnerships promotion Platforms

5. Inputs development and agro dealership

a) Fertilizer value chain development

b) Seed value chain development

c) Agro dealership networks development

6. Market access and trade for regional integration

7. Agro-industries, mechanisation, agro-processing and energy in agribusiness development

8. Strategic commodities promotion for inclusive and food and nutrition security

a) Cassava

b) Cotton

c) Rice

d) Cocoa

e) Potato

f) Maize

9. Cooperatives development and business linkages

10. Securing land tenure

Translating the CAADP policy

Framework for Implementation

• Draft CAADP Private Sector Investors’

Guidelines – to be revised

• Contributing to the preparation of African Union

Commodity Strategy

• Policy briefs

• Advisory notes

• Position and Issues Papers

• Expert pool -coaching and training

• Business Plan Preparation Facility

Broker technical and financial

partnerships for implementation

• Partnerships at Continental, Regional, and

country level

• Priority on networks and alliances, focus on

Private Sector, Farmer organisations, and

technical institutions

Knowledge generation (think tank approach -> work

in progress)

• some think pieces on investment-led Transformation

of African Agriculture and CAADP implementation

• Developing internal capacity for analytical capacity

(for historical and foresight analysis ) to support the

Continent on private sector engagement

Our value addition

On-going initiatives

and projects

Grow Africa

Grow Africa has a catalytic role as a trusted

connector and problem-solver for governments, the

private sector, and other partners as they work

together on accelerating responsible investment into

agriculture. The partnership has to date helped

mobilise USD 10billion in new investment

commitments

Grow Africa harnesses its network to:

• Connect partners with each other and with

opportunities

• Resolve constraints by innovating, sharing best

practice, and building capacity.

• Mobilise resources by sourcing investors,

unlocking access to finance and reducing risk.

• Promote mutual accountability as partners

accelerate investment that contributes to job

creation, raised incomes, and improved food

security in line with national priorities.

An African owned, country-led

and marked based initiative

Ethiopia

Kenya

Burkina Faso

GhanaRwanda

Tanzania

Mozambique

Nigeria

Malawi

12 partner countries

per June 2015

Benin

Cote

d’Ivoire

Senegal

Increased Country FocusAccelerating investment at country level

11

Project pipeline

25-40 opportunities

Priority projects

15 projects

Strategic projects

5 key projects

Support from Grow Africa(e.g. Finance & Smallholder Working Groups, Value

Chain Platforms, links to LOIs, coordination and facilitation of PPPs)

Prioritization by Grow Africa’s 3 KPIs• LOI conversion• Job creation• Smallholder incomes

Grow Africa Country Priorities 2015Accelerating investment at country level

12

Ethiopia

• Government engagement• Engage domestic private sector

Source: Grow Africa as of March 20151

Tanzania

• Maize (patient procurement platform)• Support SAGCOT

Malawi

• Multistakeholder platform for private sector investment

• Fruit & vegetables• Maize (patient procurement platform)

Mozambique

• Cassava• Support Business Advisory

Working Group

Burkina Faso

• Support Bagré Pole • Support Agency for Investment

Promotion• Engage domestic private sector

Senegal

• Government engagement &onboarding to Grow Africa

• Fruit & vegetables• Rice

Cote d’Ivoire

• Rice• Fruit & vegetables• Support to a corridor approach

Benin

• Government engagement &onboarding to Grow Africa

• Fruit & vegetables• Multistakeholder platform for

private sector investment

Ghana

• Multistakeholder platform for private sector investment

• Cassava, maize, rice, soya• Finance working group• Seeds Nigeria

• Cassava• Rice• Support ATA leadership &

operational capacity

Rwanda

• Maize (incl. patient procurement platform)

• Potato• Engage domestic private sector

Kenya

• Post-harvest loss in maize• Fruit & vegetables (esp. potato)• Multistakeholder platform for private

sector investment• Support clusters in Lake Region• Engage domestic private sector

Fertilizer value chain development

• NEPAD Fertilizer Development Framework

• NEPAD Fertiliser Toolkit

– Jointly developed in partnership with AFAP on

– “Increasing Access and Use of Fertiliser in Africa in Support of CAADP Implementation”

• Next phase of partnership in preparation

Agribusiness Chamber Promotion

What?

Inclusive Private sector umbrella organisations

beyond FO‘s

Why?

Mobilize Agribiz players

Ideal entry point for dialogue

CD and peer learning

Mission

Enable the creation of a conducive environment

Cassava: Contact with IITA to explore the possibility of have a second phase to the NEPAD Cassava Initiative

Cotton: Pan African Roadmap is currently being aligned the CAADP Results Framework

Rice: ECOWAS rice offensive for achievement of the regional rice self-sufficiency objective in a very near future (2018)

Cocoa: The Government of Cote d’Ivoire on the possible avenues to establish a Cocoa and Chocolate University in the country

Value Chains promotion

Agriculture Finance

• Pilot initiative in 5 countries (Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal, Uganda, and Zambia)

• Investment Facility Platform to:

– Mainstream agricultural finance in the CAADP process

– Foster a public-private dialogue

– Establish opportunities for SMEs along key value chains

– Create a community of practice

– Contribute to effective agricultural finance policy development

Youth Capacity Building Focus on Agriculture Technical and Vocational Education and Training (ATVET)

– Focus on training and skills development on specific VC through curriculum development along these VC in a modular approach for specific occupation

• ATVET Project in 6 countries

– Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Benin, Togo and Burkina Faso

• Ghana (Pineapple, Citrus)

• Kenya (Dairy, Aquaculture and Horticulture)

• Malawi (Horticulture, Dairy and Aquaculture)

• Togo (Rice and Aquaculture)

• Burkina Faso (Rice and Sesame, Cashew)

• Benin (Rice and Meat-Chicken, pork and goat)

Decent Jobs for Rural Areas (Rural Futures Program)

• Skills audit in 10 countries (Ghana, Uganda, South Africa, Malawi, Cameroon, Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Zambia)

– Results informing the development of Continental Youth Employment Framework

– National Action Plan on Youth Employment

• Promoting Decent Rural Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship in Agriculture and Agribusiness (Cameroon, Benin, Niger and Malawi)

– Implementation and/or replication of approaches for school-based formal agricultural vocation

and technical education programmes (ATVET) – targeted at students aged 15-25 years

– Facilitate a minimum of 400 internship opportunities (100 per country) for students in private sector agricultural and agribusiness companies

– Facilitate enterprise development for potential and emergent young entrepreneurs in rural areas, initially targeting 50 SME’s per country (20-35 year old)

– Provision of modular technical, vocational and business for a minimum of 500 rural youth

Women in Agribusiness

• Implemented under Gender, Climate Change and Agriculture Support Programme (GCCASP)

• Implementing Countries: Cameroon, Ethiopia, Malawi, Niger and Rwanda

– Capacity Building of women smallholder farmers

– Creation and strengthening of women platforms

– Investments/up scaling innovative and successful practices

• Policy Dialogues

– 1st Women in Agribusiness Conference (Durban, South Africa. Oct 2014)

– 2nd Women in Agribusiness Conference (Durban, South Africa, Nov 2015)

• Focusing on women entrepreneurship.

Thank you