10 March 2022. The 3rd Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Biennial Review (BR) Report was endorsed by the assembly of African Heads of State and Government during 35th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union Heads of State and Government in February 2022. In the 3rd BR cycle, 51 countries (out of 55) reported performance across 46 indicators.

1. 3rd BIENNIAL REVIEW:
THE PROCESS AND
NEXT STEPS
Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and
Sustainable Environment

2. ABOUT CAADP
Comprehensive Africa Agriculture
Development Programme (CAADP)
• Africa's policy framework for
agriculture-led development and
transformation since 2003.
• Aimed at reducing poverty and
increasing food security and nutrition
on the continent.
• Reinforced in 2014 through the Malabo
Declaration on Agricultural
Transformation

3. v
AFRICA’S AGRICULTURE
TRANSFORMATION GOALS
Aspiration 1
A prosperous Africa
based on inclusive
growth and
sustainable
development
Healthy and
well-nourished
citizens
Modern Agriculture
for increased
productivity and
production
Environmentally
sustainable and
climate resilient
economies and
communities
UN Sustainable Development Goal #2

4. Recommitment to the
Principles and Values of
the CAADP process
Enhancing Investment
Finance in Agriculture
Ending Hunger by 2025
Halving Poverty through
Agriculture by 2025
Boosting Intra-African Trade in
Agricultural Commodities & Services
Enhancing Resilience to
Climate Variability
Enhancing Mutual
Accountability for Actions and
Results

5. THE 7 CAADP MALABO COMMITMENTS
Recommitment to the Principles
and Values of the CAADP
Process
• Pursue agriculture-led growth strategy to
achieve targets on food and nutrition security
• Boost growth through regional cooperation
and implementation of CAADP
• Apply evidence-based planning, policy,
dialogue review and accountability
• Use of partnerships and alliances including
farmers, agribusiness, and civil society
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Enhancing Investment Finance
in Agriculture
• Uphold 10% public spending target
• Create and enhance policy and institutional
systems for private investment in agriculture,
agri-business and agro-industries (priority to
local investors)
• Operationalization of Africa Investment Bank
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6. THE 7 CAADP MALABO COMMITMENTS
Ending Hunger by 2025
• At least double agricultural productivity
(focusing on Inputs, irrigation, mechanization)
• Reduce Post-Harvest Losses at least by half by
2025
• Improve Nutrition: reduce stunting to 10% and
underweight to 5% by 2035
Halving Poverty through
Agriculture by 2025
• Sustain annual agricultural GDP growth of at
least 6%.
• Establish / strengthen inclusive public-private
partnerships for at least 5 priority agricultural
commodity value chains w/ strong linkage to
smallholder agric.
• Create job opportunities for at least 30% of the
youth in agricultural value chains
• Preferential entry & participation by women
and youth in gainful and attractive agribusiness
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7. THE 7 CAADP MALABO COMMITMENTS
Boosting intra-African Trade in
Agricultural Commodities &
Services
• Triple intra-Africa trade in agricultural
commodities and services by 2025
• Policy: Fast track Continental Free Trade Area
(CFTA) & transition to a continental Common
External Tariff (CET) scheme
• Policy: Facilitate agriculture-related trade
negotiations and partnership agreements
Enhancing Resilience to Climate
Variability
• Ensure that by 2025, at least 30% of
farm/pastoral households are resilient to
shocks
• Enhance investments for resilience initiatives
• Mainstream resilience and risk management
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8. THE 7 CAADP MALABO COMMITMENTS
Enhancing Mutual
Accountability for Actions and
Results
Through the CAADP Result Framework:
• Conduct a biennial Agricultural Review Process
• Foster alignment, harmonization and
coordination for peer review and mutual
accountability
• Strengthen capacities for knowledge and data
generation
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9. THE CAADP MALABO CALL FOR ACTION
We commit to an expedient process of translation of these commitments into results; and
to this end we call upon:
The AU Commission and NPCA, in collaboration with partners:
• to develop mechanisms that enhance Africa’s capacity for knowledge and data
generation and management to strengthen evidence based planning and
implementation;
• to institutionalize a system for peer review that encourages good performance on
achievement of progress made in implementing the provisions of this Declaration and
recognize biennially exemplary performance through awards;
• to conduct on a biennial basis, beginning from year 2017, Agricultural Review Process,
and report on progress to the Assembly at its January 2018 Ordinary Session

10. CAADP BIENNIAL REVIEW: REPORTING YEARS
Report Years
Data Years 2015 - 2018
2017 2021 2025
2015 - 2020
2015 - 2016 2015 - 2024
2019
Reporting Years to
AU Assembly
2018 2022 2026
2020
2015 - 2022
2023
2024
3rd BR

11. THE 3RD CAADP MALABO BR PROCESS: CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE 2ND BR CYCLE
by the BR Task Force.
Issues :
• Data Quality
• silent or unutilized indicators;
• New indicators
• The e-BR, the web-based tool for data entry and management;
by AUC, AUDA-NEPAD and RECs
Issues:
• Role and responsibility
• Coordination
• Challenges

12. THE 3RD CAADP MALABO BR PROCESS: CRITICAL ANALYSIS
by stakeholders
Malabo Policy Learning Event (MAPLE).
Nearly 200 participants (Public Sector, Private Sector, farmer groups, civil society, youth, academia and media
explored the lessons from the two previous cycles.
The main topics of discussion,
i) Implications of country and regional performance according to the second BR report ;
ii) Highlights of examples of how Member States are using the BR to inform programming and policy
practices;
iii) Learning and sharing of information about available policy tools, tips, and resources;
iv) Improving country data systems.

13. THE 3RD CAADP MALABO BR PROCESS CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Outcomes :
I. The BR Technical Guidelines, the BR Reporting Template, and the BR Technical Notes were updated.
II. Out of the 3 silent or unutilized indicators 2 were included in the analysis and 1 removed from the data
collection;
III. New indicators were not accepted because more technical work was still be needed;
IV. Change of the 2021 benchmark from 7.66 to 7.28
V. The e-BR, the web-based tool for data entry and management, was improved to identify errors by flagging
unusual entries. It was also improved to accommodate information on source of data to improve data
traceability;
VI. Common data errors and gaps were identified which require additional investments by the AU and
Member States in building capacity for collecting and managing data.

14. THE 3RD CAADP MALABO BR PROCESS CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Outcomes :
Theme: “Accelerating CAADP Implementation for a Resilient African Food System”
Need for additional data
I. Policy responses to mitigate COVID-19
II. Impact of the covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown on the food system? (e.g. decreased a lot,
decreased moderately, decreased a little, no change, increased a little, increased moderately, increased a
lot): Inputs access; Food production; Food transportation and distribution; Food processing; Food markets
and trade; Food prices; Food consumption; Food waste
III. Government, private sector, and development partners responses and how it help reduce its impact?

15. THE 3RD CAADP MALABO BR PROCESS: CRITICAL ANALYSIS
Outcomes :
Inclusion of a brief report on the implementation of AU decisions related to Agriculture transformation using
BR data or other credible sources if and only if not collected in the BR
• Fertilizer Consumption in Africa
• Access to Seed and Biotechnology
• Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization in Africa
• Irrigation Development and Agricultural Water Management (IDAWM) in Africa
• Livestock Development
• Fisheries and Aquaculture
• AU SPS Policy Framework
• Land Policy Decisions
• Ecological Organic Agriculture in Africa
Development of thee Roadmap for the third BR process

16. THE 3RD CAADP MALABO BR PROCESS: TRAINING OF EXPERTS
Training of trainers
Training of Trainers (TOT) workshop was organized virtually on 24-26 February and 4 March,
2021.
64 experts participated in the TOT sessions which covered technical elements of the BR and
planned for the BR continental training workshop for country experts.
Training of national experts
• March 15-19, 2021: The first was the continental training of national experts;
• April 7-9, 2021 was the "make-up training"
• June1-3, 2021) specifically for the Comoros

17. THE 3RD CAADP MALABO BR PROCESS: DATA COLLECTION AND VALIDATION
BR is a self reporting exercise and RECs played a central role in:
• Mobilizing MS
• Supporting MS
• Validating data at regional
• Submitting Data
Seven RECs are involved in the BR process:
1. COMESA
2. EAC
3. ECCAS
4. ECOWAS
5. IGAD
6. SADC
7. UMA
MS are grouped in the 5 AU regions
An allocation of MS to RECs is consensual

18. THE 3RD CAADP MALABO BR PROCESS: DATA COLLECTION AND VALIDATION
Region RECs Countries
Central Africa ECCAS Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, DR Congo,
Gabon, and São Tomé and Príncipe
EAC Burundi
Eastern Africa EAC Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and South Sudan.
IGAD Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea
SADC Madagascar, Mauritius
COMESA Seychelles, Comoros
Northern Africa UMA Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia
Direct Support
from AUC Sahrawi Republic
Southern Africa SADC Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South
Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe
Western Africa ECOWAS Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-
Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo

19. THE 3RD CAADP MALABO BR PROCESS DATA COLLECTION AND VALIDATION
• Development of regional Roadmap
• Data collected by national BR team
• Multistakeholder national validation
• Data Submitted to RECs through the e-BR and an official letter
from the PS
• Data verification and validation at Regional level and Submitted to
AUC

20. THE 3RD CAADP MALABO BR PROCESS: TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Technical Support:
Strategic partners: A2063/RESAKSS, IFPRI, FAO, AGRA
Independent Experts from
• Agence nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie;
• Biovision Africa Trust;
• Centre National de Recherche Agronomique (CNRA), Cote d'Ivoire;
• Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management, Egerton University;
• General Directorate of Studies and Sector Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, Burkina Faso;
• Institute of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone; International Livestock Research
Institute (ILRI);
• International Water Management Institute (IWMI);
• Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich;
• Network of Excellence on Land Governance in Africa;
• Policy Research Network for Fisheries & Aquaculture in Africa (PRNFAA);
• The African Post Harvest Loss Information System (APHLIS);
• The African Seed Access Index (TASAI Inc.);
• Université Nazi Boni, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso;
• the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria; the University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria;

21. THE 3RD CAADP MALABO BR PROCESS: REPORT WRITING
1. Data cleaning and consolidation;
2. Generation of results
i. AATS Scorecard
ii. Regional profile
iii. Country profile
iv. Scores by parameter and commitment
3. Drafting the report

22. THE 3RD CAADP MALABO BR PROCESS: OUTLINE OF THE REPORT
1. ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
2. FOREWORD
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
4. INTRODUCTION
5. THE 2021 BIENNIAL REVIEW REPORT PREPARATION PROCESS AND METHODOLOGY
• The Process
• The Methodology
• Data Quality Issues
6. KEY FINDINGS
• Progress in Achieving Commitments – Continental Performance
• Developments in Performance of Member States between the Three Rounds of the Biennial Review Process
7. REGIONAL AND CONTINENTAL PERFORMANCE
8. HIGHLIGHTS ON “ACCELERATING CAADP IMPLEMENTATION FOR A RESILIENT AFRICAN FOOD SYSTEM”
• “Accelerating CAADP Implementation for a Resilient African Food System”
• COVID-19 and African Food System
9. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
• Conclusions and Main Highlights of the 2021 Biennial Review Report.
• Recommendations
10. PERFORMANCE AND SCORECARDS
11. PROGRESS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF KEY AFRICAN UNION DECISIONS

23. THE 3RD CAADP MALABO BR PROCESS: COMMUNICATION TOOLS
• The 3rd Specialized Technical Committee (STC) on ARDWE, requested the STC Bureau and
AUC to hold consultations with RECs on the two communication and advocacy tools (the
CAADP Biennial Review Dashboard and CAADP Biennial Review Toolkit) that had been
developed to facilitate utilization of the findings of the second BR report.
• 05 consultations were virtually organized for Central Africa, Southern Africa, Eastern
Africa, Northern Africa, and Western Africa and chaired by the representative of the
region in the STC Bureau.
• Participants included experts from the region, the AUC, AUDA-NEPAD, and development
partners.
• The consultations generated a broader consensus and ownership of these BR
communication and advocacy tools with strong recommendations to improve the tools.

24. THE 3RD CAADP MALABO BR PROCESS: NEXT STEPS
TECHNICAL REVIEW MEETING 17-20 November 2021
Objectives:
• Review and validate the recommendations
• Enhance ownership by RECs and Member States
• Review and validate the revised CAADP communication and advocacy tools
• Review and validate the workplan to enhance the use of the BR report
• Design strategies to accelerate the domestication of the CAADP Malabo Commitments
SUBMISSION TO THE STC ARDWE 13-17 December 2021
SUBMISSION TO THE AU ASSEMBLY January/February 2022
March 2022
• Start Implementation of activities to enhance the use of the results of the 3rd BR report
• Development of a Roadmap for the 4th BR cycle

25. Thank you
Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and
Sustainable Environment