The CAADP XP4 Review and Planning meeting

1 - 5 February 2022. The CAADP XP4 Review and Planning meeting

Nairobi, Kenya -  FARA, AFAAS, ASARECA, CCARDESA & CORAF joint review and planning meeting within the context of the CAADP-XP4 Programme

Group discussions: Institutional reflection towards achieving the outcomes and goals of the CAADP-XP4 project; lessons, challenges and recommendations.

CAADP-XP4 Programme promotes joint capacity strengthening initiatives. This was informed by Capacity Gaps Assessment. Capacity strengthening in terms of infrastructure, human resource development and and institutional arrangements play a critical role in ensuring effectiveness of AR4D. Women and men respond differently to the effects of climate change. CAADP-XP4 Project promotes equity and capacity strengthening in this context.

Knowledge management is increasingly recognized as a critical AR4D factor for innovation and decision making, which requires urgent investment to rescue volumes of explicit and tacit knowledge at a risk of being lost. There is need to therefore mobilize more resources within and outside CAADP- XP4 to support SRO and Naris to expand investments in knowledge management. 

The impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on implementation demonstrated the need to in-build emergency response at project design for CAADP-XP4. Going forward, the partners are committed to in-build risk mitigation and adopt virtual meetings. 

• Dr. Malu Ndavi, IFAD Task Manager for the CAADP XP4 Program, advised the CAADP-XP4institutions to check if their business models are enabling them to perform their mandate. "We should not lose sight of the project focus. The focus is strengthening the capacity of each institution to deliver the mandates."
• Jerry Tingle Egesa, the Monitoring and Evaluation specialist at AFAAS,  presented the mid-term performance in the CAADP XP4 Program,me. "We have jointly developed 57 knowledge products in collaboration with 21 countries and over 1500 Knowledge products published by various CAADP-XP4 partners".
• Dr.Baitsi Podisi CAADP XP4 coordinator at CCARDESSA made a presentation on the key achievements during the CAADP XP4 review and joint planning meeting.
  
• Ms. Julian Barungi Program officer ASERECA: "CAADP-XP4 Programme should support member countries to prepare for the coming CoP 27 which will be held in Egypt."
• Aggrey Agumya, Director of Research and Innovation of FARA, presented the FARA's mid-term performance in the CAADP-XP4 Programme. "CAADP XP4 has been able to attract additional investments (ie AIRTEA project, GFAR, FAO, NORAD, PARI, TAAT, ARIFA. "