April 28, 2015

The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition is a shared commitment by African governments, development partners and private sector companies to achieve sustained, inclusive agriculture-led growth to lift 50 million people out of poverty by 2022.

Helping countries to unlock private sector investment in the countries.

The commitments are contained in what we call country cooperation Frameworks-we have 10 countries with NA country cooperation frameworks.

The New Alliance team consists of 3 people , a senior coordinator, program analyst, program assistant based in DREA

The team plays coordination role. We closely work with the Grow Africa Secretariat based at the

NEPAD agency

1. Support to Country Level NA Processes

2. Monitoring and Evaluation/Annual Review Process

3. Knowledge Management and Communication

4. Partnership and Relationship Building

The NA team prepared terms of reference for country missions to Ghana, Malawi and Mozambique including tentative programs shared with the Ministries of Agriculture and partners in the respective countries.

The team has also made efforts to synchronize its mission with partners Grow Africa and ReSAKSS.

We met with key stakeholders in the NA process at country level including NA Government leads, NA Donor Leads, Agriculture Sector Working Group (ASWG), CAADP team, civil society and Africa Lead II team (if available in the country).

At the end of the missions, the AUC team drafts AIDE MEMOIREs to share with the respective countries to follow up on mutually agreed steps.

The expected outcomes of country missions include; ◦ NA AUC team introduced to NA stakeholders in countryInformation shared to AUC team on current implementation status of country CCF. ◦ Modalities of updating country CCF discussed with

country NA team◦ Actions taken on expediting 2016 joint NA-GA annual

review work for the country◦ NA AUC team better informed on the different

stakeholders involved in implementing country CCF◦ Modalities agreed between AUC team and country NA

team on future collaboration in promoting the NA implementation at country level

The NA team undertook a mission to Ghana from February 8 to 10, 2016.

The AUC Delegation met with officials of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) including the Principal Secretary (Chief Director), Planning Program and Budget (PPB) Director, M&E Director, Agribusiness Director, ASWG/METASIP team, Ghana SAKSS team, Ghana USAID Mission, Africa Lead II Regional Office, and AGRA West Africa team.

Stakeholders acknowledge the establishment of the NA Team at the AUC in DREA

MOFA has received the official letter and the Guidance Note from the AUC regarding the need to launch the 2015-2016 reporting.

Countries have taken note of the deadlines indicated in the Guidance Note for the NA reporting, and will realize them accordingly.

The GoG recognizes the significance of integrating the NA reporting into the country JSR agenda. The Ministry will follow the official due processes to ensure this proposal becomes part of the JSR agenda, scheduled for May/June 2016.

The Ministry takes note of the support pledged by Grow Africa, RESAKSS, USAID (on behalf of the Donors), Africa Lead II/DAI and AGRA and will reach out to these institutions for their support.

Africa Lead will support GoG’s efforts to include NSA’s in the dialogue on planning, implementation and reporting.

AGRA is ready and willing to partner with MOFA on matters of policy, knowledge management and up scaling of existing best practices within the context of CAADP, Malabo and the New Alliance.

GOG, through MOFA is making some advancement on the NA policy commitments, including the area of seeds.

NA-AUC team undertook mission to Malawi from 23 to 25 February, 2016.

The team met with officials of the Ministry including the Principal Secretary, Directors of the Ministry, NA government lead, NA Donor lead, NA Donor Working Group, ASWAP(NAIP) coordinator, New Alliance Policy Acceleration Support Program (MSU/IFPRI team), CISANET (Civil Society on Agriculture Network)

◦ The NA team was introduced to stakeholders in Malawi. ◦ The NA country lead has agreed that the NA reporting in Malawi will be done as part of JSR

reporting starting from 2016. NA will be fully integrated in the JSR process. ◦ The NA team was briefed on a clear governing structure for the NA governance in Malawi which is

exemplary one and can be shared with other countries. ◦ 2016 Reporting guidelines sent by AUC to the countries was presented and discussed to NA country

leads and Donor lead and consensus was reached on the way forward in terms of domesticating the guidelines and the gaps to be addressed in improving the guidance note.

◦ Malawi NA Government lead suggested on ways of synchronizing NA M&E framework beyond reporting on process indicators to reporting on outcome and impact indicators and the need to clearly align the NA M&E framework with CAADP Results Framework.

◦ The rational for revising Malawi’s CCA was explained to the AUC NA team. Malawi streamlined and reprioritized commitments from 35+ commitments to only 15 commitments in the newly revised CCA.

◦ With regard to status of LOI companies in Malawi, Grow Africa team who were in LOI companies stocktaking mission during the same period made a debriefing in which they indicated that the LOI companies in the country are very resilient despite some critical bottlenecks affecting their investment.

◦ It was noted that some LOI companies have made adjustments in their investments shifting from one crop to another.

◦ Problems of finance and energy supply surfaced during LOI surveys, it was revealed.

The key components of the joint NA-GA reports every year include:

1.Private Sector LOI progress update

2.Government Policy Commitment Data

3.Status of Donor Financial Commitment Data

4.Civil Society Report (?)- This came out in recommendations from last year report. Do we have a section for CSO/CNC reporting in the annual reports?

5.Survey results on enabling actions (from Grow Africa)

Preliminary Report for LC

Validation at country level

Continental Report

Stock taking

Validation at STC

Publication

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Grow Africa has presented status of Private Sector LOI stocktaking data during recent visit of NA team to NPCA/Grow Africa.

Grow Africa Team are finalizing the report and are expected to share to us preliminary report on private sector in coming week.

Approximately 1/3 LOI commitments have provided feedback on progress for 2015 (to date)

Companies report US$ 0.5 billion invested in 2015 (provisionary data)

41 LOIs have been identified for cancellation, based on the agreed criteria

Lessons from last year showed inconsistencies of donor data generated by Head quarters versus from the countries.

2015 continental report has not been published due to anomalies in donor data.(More specifically, USG and Italy indicated that the donor data presented at the STC last year did not show the correct disbursement figures).

Discussions have been made between G7 DPs and AU on how to accommodate an erratum.

Difficulties of putting an erratum on STC approved report has been raised as an issue by AUC

DPs going ahead to publish their own version of the report in their accountability reporting.

France is DP data collection France developed a template of donor data

collection for 2016 The template aims to also gather qualitative

information to explain donor financial disbursement figures.

The procedure is the same as for previous years with 2 tentative improvements:

Qualitative data has been asked to define better donor commitments

Donors will ensure that their data collected at national level are consistent with the ones collected for the continental report.

DPs are expected to submit their data for France by May 15, 2016

NA government policy commitment update-ReSAKSS

Progress so far- (update from ReSAKSS)

Timeline for govt. policy commitment data?

Can data be ready before the leadership council meeting in July 17/18, 2016

Further update from ReSAKSS

At country level, ◦ ReSAKSS will compile government policy progress

for each of the NA countries

◦ ReSAKSS will send out donor data from Head Quarters (compiled by France) to the countries (by when?)

◦ Grow Africa has finalized stocktaking of private sector data from the 12 countries (including 2 of the Grow Africa countries)

◦ ReSAKSS will receive LOI progress report from Grow Africa by ____?______date.

We have reviewed the new alliance learning agenda.

We have initiated conversation on how to advance the NA M&E Framework.

We are talking with Grow Africa on how we collaborate in undertaking priority studies.

We have produced NA communication brochure (500 copies) in English and French.

We have printed different banners for NA communication in English and French which were used during the NA side events during the 12th CAADP PP.

We have received orientation on how to maintain the New Alliance website during a side meeting in Accra.

We can now access the NA website and upload documents as required.

We had bilateral meetings with◦ IFPRI/ReSAKSS on Advancing mutual accountability

◦ Grow Africa/NEPAD office for introductions and joint activities on the NA-GA agenda

◦ Engaged different partners in the countries (Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Ghana)