The implementation of the FNSSA Roadmap is expected to be improved through a ‘Platform’ of an alliance of stakeholders (including funders) with a long-term and sustainable governance and funding mechanism, and a knowledge management and communication system that will inform policy makers and other major FNSSA actors.
Next step: FARA will use his PAEPARD community network to communicate and disseminate IRC platform vision and objectives. (page 40)
Annex 1: Summary of main causes underlying the fragmentation problem
Lack of knowledge management
- Different quality standards and strategies
- Lack of infrastructural and educational capacities and knowledge
- Lack of interconnectedness
- Lack of long-term investments
- Conflicting decision making/ conflict of interest
- Negative and poor or unfriendly policy decision making environments
- Prevailing Prejudice that may hinder progress and limit the scope of operation.
- Unstable Policy framework due to frequent change in policy makers and portfolios
Lack of communication mechanisms and
frameworks
- Lack of clusters and cluster networks and their coordination
- Lack of a sufficient information basis for funders and donors in their prioritization- and decision-making processes for investing in R&I and capacity building
- Lack of mechanism and infrastructure for long-term multilateral prioritization and investment processes
- Lack of mechanism and coordination infrastructure for long-term Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) processes
- Lack of a long-term subsidiary finance mechanism to maintain a coordination infrastructure and its services for the AU-EU member states in an AU-EU Platform for R&I on FNSSA
Related:
- The new AU-EU International Research Consortium (IRC) is meant to become the long-term bi-continental platform for research and innovation, connecting existing structures, such as regional and sub-regional organisations or partnerships on R&I with the aim of increasing their coherence and impact.
- The AU-EU IRC zero draft identifies the absence of coordination infrastructure and lack of knowledge management mechanisms and frameworks on food-related R&I as the premise of the need to be addressed by the IRC.
- Yet the zero draft lacks a thorough analysis of already existing platforms, nor does it elaborate upon the opportunities for seeking synergies with and between existing platforms and initiatives.
- Such an incomplete assessment is unfortunate, since singling out the lack of platforms and initiatives as the reason for weak implementation of FNSSA goals risks ignoring other structural constraints that may impede already existing initiatives from achieving joint EU-Africa objectives.(page 41)
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