Platform for African – European Partnership in Agricultural Research for Development

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Assessment of the CAADP partnership structure

11-12 February 2016. Bonn. The chairmanship of the secretariat of the CAADP DPTT, from April 2013 to December 2015 assumed by the European Commission, has been taken over by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development since January 2016.

The aim of the meeting was to discuss amongst other topics the results of the recent assessment of the CAADP partnership structure and priority topics during German DPTT chairmanship.

Related:
Independent Assessment of the CAADP Multi-Donor Trust Fund
February 2014

ECDPM, ESRF, LARES. 2014. Independent assessment of the CAADP Multi-Donor Trust Fund. (ECDPM Discussion Paper 158). Maastricht: ECDPM.

This report finds that the Multi Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) supporting the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) has played a key role in building the capacity of institutions tasked with advancing CAADP at continental and regional level and in improving coordination around CAADP. Nevertheless, it identifies important shortcomings in the way this support has translated to impact on the ground at the national level. Such shortcomings could be addressed during the ongoing design for a future MDTF. Making the MDTF more effective requires improving the governance of the Fund and clarifying its role vis-à-vis the CAADP structures and other types of CAADP support. But also a stronger role of national stakeholders in continental CAADP, better mainstreaming of CAADP in official AU-RECs organs and stronger subsidiarity, seem to be preconditions for such MDTF improvements to work.

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