1. The Kigali Movement:
Origins, Progress & Prospects
By
Ojijo, Nelson K. Olang’o
FARA

2. The Rugged African Terrain
• FAO - sustained food crisis and
listing in low-income-food-deficit
countries
• UNDP – three temporal stages
based on intervention needs
• 22 countries subscribe to 2PC;
80% of in SSA (FAO, 2010);
Somalia, The
Sudans, Guinea, Congo
Brazzaville, and DRC
• Prospects of more above the
Sahara in the wake of the Arab
Spring

3. Why Focus on 2PC Countries?
• Violence and hostilities under conflict situations
engender:
– Loss of human life, displacement and emigration
– Destruction of livelihood support systems, physical
infrastructure, the environment
– Impairment of social, economic, governance and
political institutions
– Dysfunctional markets, uncertainties and lack of
organized productive activities

4. Why Focus on 2PC Countries?
• These circumstances inevitably lead to
deprivation of basic human needs such as:
– shelter, food, and opportunities for self growth and
development
• Conflicts and crises thus perpetuate dependency
and loss of human dignity and are a setback to
the achievement of UN’s MDGs

5. Why Focus on 2PC Countries?
• The immediate role of the international
community must be to:
–avert conflicts and crises
–provide humanitarian assistance
–broker peace agreements
–mediate reconstruction
–promote sustenance of peace through
demonstrable ‘peace dividends’

6. Social, economic, political, governance
institutions
Productive activities and enterprise
Post-conflict environment

7. Agriculture in the 2PC environment
• Resettling populations depend on agriculture
for livelihoods, nutrition and food security
• Source of employment e.g. for resettling rural
folk
• Provide raw materials for agro-industries
• Enable foreign exchange from exports of
produce

8. Agriculture in the 2PC environment
• Internal conflicts may be along ethnic
lines, and government interventions may not
always be impartial.
• Extension agents can help organize farmer
groups to address shared problems
• This provides an opportunity for using
independent and neutral extension agents to
embed peace-building capacity deep in rural
communities

9. FARA’s actions in 2PC countries
• SCARDA:
–2007 – 2010; funds from DfID, Sterling ₤
8,746,000
–Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Congo Brazzaville
–Strengthening agricultural research
management capacity (organizational
mentorship
–Strengthening human capacity (MSc training
and individual mentorship)

10. FARA’s actions in PC countries
• Brokering mentorship engagements between
African agricultural institutions
–Redesigning the strategy and research
programming of Sierra Leone’s agricultural
research system (SLARI) by Kenya’s KARI
• Organized with GFAR the first ‘global’ workshop
on strengthening agricultural innovation capacity
in PC&PC countries, Kigali, Rwanda, September
2012: The Kigali Movement

11. The Kigali Movement - Outcomes
• Attendance:
–45 delegates - 14 countries;12 African plus
Afghanistan and Tajikistan
• Presented:
–Regional (SROs and networks) and country
perspectives on PC situations and attendant
actions

12. The Kigali Movement - Outcomes
• Agreed:
–Insights on the enabling environment for 2PC
country agricultural capacity development
–Imperatives for successful development of
agricultural innovation capacity in 2PC
countries
–Avenues for developing agricultural innovation
capacity in 2PC countries

13. The Kigali Movement - Targets
• A consultative learning platform for
cooperation and joint learning between 2PC
countries in Africa and Asia established
• Adequate policy frameworks for short-
, medium-, and long-term capacity
development for agricultural innovation
established
• Regional integration of agricultural innovation
strategies established

14. The Kigali Movement - Targets
• Support strategy for value chain development
and market access in 2PC developed
• Adequate skilled human resources and
infrastructural capacity developed

15. The Kigali Movement
Rome, Italy: High Level
Expert Forum on Protracted
Crises 13-14 Sept 2012
Kigali, Rwanda
6-8 Sept 2012
Punta Del
Este, Uruguay
: GCARD Conf
29 Oct-1Nov
2012

16. The Kigali Movement - Prospects
• Formidable advocacy platform to keep the
agricultural rehabilitation of 2PC issues on the
agenda at high-level forums
• Promoting shared vision and facilitating
exchanges for joint learning amongst actors and
practitioners involved in agricultural
development in 2PC situations
• Resource mobilization platform to enable
implementation of agreed actions at country and
regional levels

17. The End