African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services Mr. Martin Eweg Presentation Ministry of Agriculture , Madagascar Country Forum Planning Meeting Madagascar 22 April 2014 www.afaas-africa.org African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services Overview of AFAAS and AAS Country Forum
African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services. Overview of AFAAS and AAS Country Forum. Mr. Martin Eweg Presentation Ministry of Agriculture , Madagascar Country Forum Planning Meeting Madagascar 22 April 2014 www.afaas-africa.org. Outline NEPAD- CAADP - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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African Forum for AgriculturalAdvisory Services
Mr. Martin EwegPresentation
Ministry of Agriculture , Madagascar Country Forum Planning Meeting
Outline• NEPAD- CAADP• Challenges in AAS and role of
AFAAS • AFAAS – Mission and Vision• How AFAAS strives to achieve its
Vision & Mission • Experience • Strategic Plan• Achievements • Country Fora
African Forum for AgriculturalAdvisory Services
Africa’s Development “Most African countries cannot significantly reduce poverty, increase per capita incomes, and transform into modern economies without focusing on agricultural development”
(Diao et al. 2006. The role of development: implications for Sub-Saharan Africa. DSGD Discussion Paper No. 29, IFPRI, Washington).
• NEPAD aims to increase agricultural output by 6% per year by 2015
• CAADP is NEPADs framework for agricultural development
• CAADP has set out 4 interdependant pillars to promote interventions that best respond to African Development
Pillar IV: Agricultural research and technology Dissemination and Adoption
NEPAD- CAADP
Challenges Facing Agricultural Advisory Services (AAS) in Africa
Inappropriate funding
approaches
Inability to target poverty and
gender
Ineffective demand for AAS
Poor Market Orientation
Farmers who are not empowered
Widening scope of AAS
Inappropriate AAS delivery
approaches
Unsupportive Policies
Environmental degradation and climate change
Low organisational &
Institutional Capacities ?!
• No continent-wide framework for supporting institutional development of AAS
• Lack of mechanisms to develop synergies in AAS between countries
• Information exchange not adequate• Low capacity of AAS to address current
challenges and future opportunities
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM?
Some Lessons learned• Extension has been influenced by state’s
main policies• Public extension has suffered from lack of
extension agents at grassroots acting solely on providing or facilitating information / innovation
• Public extension in the ministry is viewed by production-oriented departments as a divided extension system in each organization rather than a unified organization
• Agriculture and public extension has suffered from financial deficiencies.
• Limited linkage of extension, research and other actors of innovation system
AFAAS VISION AND MISSIONAfrican Forum for Agricultural Advisory
Service
• Vision: Agricultural Advisory Services that effectively and efficiently contribute to sustained productivity, profitability and growth of African agriculture for poverty reduction
• Mission: Promote lesson learning and add value to initiatives in agricultural advisory services through sharing of information and increased professional interaction
AFAAS strives to achieve its Vision & Mission by
• serving as a platform for debate and the exchange of experiences on critical issues affecting AAS;
• commissioning studies on topical issues in AAS;
• formulating a data base on best practices;
• organizing seminars and symposia for the purposes of sharing experiences and lessons;
AFAAS strives to achieve its Vision & Mission by;
• enhancing professional development and growth of AAS providers;
• promoting capacity strengthening;• influencing policies and programs
favorable to agricultural advisory services;
• lobbying for and coordinating donor efforts and input into agricultural advisory services
Sub-Saharan African Network on
Agricultural Advisory Services (SSANAAS),
First networking Symposium and General Assembly
Kampala, 2004 (7 countries)
Second Symposium & General Assembly
Kampala, 2006 (14 countries)
Third Symposium & General Assembly
Accra, 2011 (36 countries)
Strategic Plan
Constitution
African Forum for Agricultural
Advisory Services (AFAAS)
Experience (cont): Sustained Demand
5. A continental African Organisation that can sustainably support
national AAS to continuously enhance their contribution to
national, regional, continental and global
development objectives established
1. AAS are integral part
of CAADP roundtables
and post-compact CAADP
processes
2. Information and knowledge
management system capable of networking
AFAAS stakeholders
and embedding them into global knowledge hubs
developed
3. Country level multi stakeholder fora with capacity to act as a
platform for information and
knowledge sharing amongst actors involved in AAS
established
4. Partnerships between AAS
service providers and other relevant
institutions with similar mandates
and interests established
Results/Outputs
AAS providers have sufficient capacity to effectively support value chain actors towards increasing agricultural productivity and food security in a sustainable manner
Purpose/Outcome
Enhanced utilization of improved knowledge and technologies by agricultural value chain actors for improving productivity oriented towards their individual and national
development objectives
Goal
AFAAS Strategic Plan (2011-2016)
Achievements
1. Engagement with CAADP
• Strategy for AAS engagement in CAADP embedded in the strategic plan for CAADP Pillar IV developed jointly with FARA
• Developed capacity of eight AAS experts who shall backstop the CAADP process from an AAS perspective
• Guidelines for AAS to engage with country CAADP
Achievements (cont:)
2. Information and Knowledge Management• Three Symposia organised;
• A website, and a virtual social networking platform;
• A conceptual framework for lesson learning developed;
• A guide for Piloting Market Oriented AAS;
• Study on targeting Women Advisory Service Providers in Capacity Development Programmes;
• Study on how issues of Climate Change are being addressed in AAS
Achievements (cont:)
3. Country Fora
• Guidelines on how to engage with AAS stakeholder in a country to bring about the emergence of CF that are aligned with CAADP.
• Country Fora established in seven countries (Benin, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda)
• Six countries in the process of developing their own Strategic Plans aligned with that of AFAAS
Achievements (cont.)
4. Partnerships
• A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between FARA and AFAAS signed in June 2008
• Partnership with CORAF, ASARECA to be established at sub regional level
• GFRAS – Advocacy and Inter-continental networking
• ICRA – Country Fora• NRI – Climate change• National Systems e.g. NAADS, MoA Malawi;
national AAS capacity strengthening
Research Systems and Institutions
Professional Associations
Agricultural Training
Institutions
Agri-business
Financial Services
Social ServicesPublic sector
AAS Strategic partners ……..
AAS
Farmer Organisation
Who are the Stakeholders in AAS• AAS providers and agencies• Ministries of agriculture (and related ministries)• Farmer organizations and commodity associations• Civil society groups • Private agribusiness firms providing AAS• Agricultural research institutions• Agricultural extension education institutions• End users (farmers, pastoralists, agro-pastoralists and
agribusinesses)• Professional associations• Mass media organizations involved in dissemination of
agricultural information• Microfinance institutions and banks• Development partners• Policy makers
CF establishment Process The process of engaging with AAS
stakeholders in a country to facilitate the emergence of a CF is expected as follows:
• Interest expressed from AAS stakeholders in the country to engage with AFAAS
• Sensitisation and awareness raising• Assessment of status of organisational and
institutional status of AAS stakeholders
CF establishment Process
• Identification of existing entity for country forum or setting up a new entity if this does not exist
• Facilitation of the process of establishing a country forum
• Facilitation of a CF to develop a strategic plan• Validation of the CF strategic plan with national
stakeholders• Facilitation of a CF that has a strategic plan to
develop an operational plan
• Chairperson • Vice Chairperson • Secretary General • Treasurer / Finance Secretary • Publicity and Mobilization Academia Ministry of Agriculture – Policy development Public extension – directorate of extension Farmer Organisations NGOS Private Sector EX Officio - DPs, etc