The CAADP Biennial Review: Challenges, Lessons, and Plans for the 4th Biennial Review

1. Senior Researcher, ReSAKSS Eastern & Southern
Africa Coordinator, IWMI/AKADEMIYA2063
Email: g.matchaya@cgiar.org
THE CAADP BIENNIAL REVIEW: CHALLENGES, LESSONS, AND
PLANS FOR THE 4TH BIENNIAL REVIEW
Greenwell Matchaya, PhD

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Outline
• CAADP Biennial Review
• Performance overview
• Challenges
• Lessons
• Plans for the 4th BR

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CAADP Biennial Review
• The CAADP is the overarching framework for
Agricultural development in Africa
• In 2014 the African Heads of State agreed
• to strengthen the CAADP framework
• by defining 7 further commitments to aid
Agriculture transformation
• Within Commitment number 7 on
Strengthening Mutual Accountability to
Actions and Results,
• They also committed to conducting a review
of the agriculture Sector
• Every two years (hence Biennial Review (BR))
• To track the progress towards achieving the
targets within the 7 commitments.

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Performance overview
• First BR reporting started in 2017 (BR1)
• Repeated in 2019 (BR2) and 2021 (BR3)
• In practice, the BR assesses each country’s
Agricultural Sector progress
• against the targets set for each of the indicators
developed to track performance for each
commitment
• The BR data collection tools track ~46
indicators spread across the 7 commitment
areas (themes)
• Performance on each indicator is scored and
judged using set criteria and scores are
aggregated all the way to the Theme level
• Theme scores are also aggregated into an
overall composite score and this forms the
basis for country rankings
• Many of these data analysis steps are
implemented by the electronic system termed
the eBR
• Results have varied over time and across countries.
• Continentally though, the key statistics of performance
are as follows:
• The First BR: 47 out of 55 countries participated fully
• 17 out of the 47 were on track to achieving the targets in
2025 (threshold was 3.94)
• Rwanda (1st), Mali (2nd) and Morocco (3rd) were the top
performers.
• The Second BR: 49 out of 55 countries participated fully
• 4 countries were on track (threshold was 6.66)
• Top performers: Rwanda (7.24), Morocco (6.96), Mali
(6.82) and Ghana (6.67). 36 made tremendous progress
from BR2
• The Third BR:51 out of 55 AU countries participated
• Rwanda was on Track (passed the threshold of 7.28)
• 21 countries are regarded as progressing well (scored 5
and above, but less than the 7.28 benchmark)
• So far Africa as a continent scores just 4.32 ie not on track

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Challenges
• Process challenges
• (i) the (un)timely collection, cleaning, and analysis of the data;
• (ii) the limited resources to support the multi-stakeholder validation of the draft national BR
reports; and
• (iii) the impacts of, and restrictions imposed in some Member States due to the COVID-19
pandemic.
• Limited trained personnel within countries to carry out data collection timeously
• Data Challenges
• Low quality of data for some indicators eg post-harvest loss,- still a challenge
• Missing data for other indicators
• eg food safety, trade in services and other commodities, resilience households, women empowerment
etc

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Lessons Learnt
• Coordination Between RECs and countries and within countries increases likelihood of countries collecting better
data
• Data clusters important: Countries which created data clusters along the 7 Malabo themes were more likely to
reduce areas of missing data
• The Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, Togo, Burkina Faso, Uganda, Botswana and Benin
• Review of past performance and early planning eg Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, Togo, Burkina Faso,
Uganda, Botswana and Benin
• While they cost resources, validation meetings at both national and regional level are critical for improving data quantity
and quality
• Training more national and regional experts is important for improving data quality and quantities
• Strengthening the role of Joint sector reviews (JSR) in BRs by incorporating BR indicators in JSRs can advantage the BR
• eBR has proven to be very useful for improving data quality and for time saving.

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The BR process and support activities in some countries
Source: Benin, Karugia, Matchaya and Mbaye, 2020
Notes: ASWG = agriculture sector working group. eBR = electronic or online BR system. RECs = Regional
Economic Communities. AUC-TWG = African Union Commission-Technical Working Group.

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The 4th Biennial Review

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Plans for the 4th Biennial Review
• The process for the 4th Biennial Review has already started
• Led by the African Union and AUDA, a series of meetings involving many technical partners
have taken place thus far to look back and plan ahead
• Critical analysis of the recent BR cycles has been carried out

10. Activity Deadline
1) Critical analysis reports, draft reviews and new proposals of old and new indicators were presented by BR
Technical Working Groups in Yaoundé
8th –12 th August
2022
2) .– Integration of the final comments and updating of the BR reporting tools by Team Leaders 8th August - 27th
Sept 2022
3) Meetings with RECs and each Team Leader of TWG to look at all the new indicators under each commitment:
13th Sept 2022
4) Complete re-design of reporting tools / Update the BR reporting tools: Technical Guidelines, Country Reporting
Template including the questionnaire on the impact of Covid-19, and the e-BR system.
27th – 30th
September 2022
5) Share the revised BR reporting tools with the Task Force Team Leaders (last feedback update) 1st October 2022
6) e-BR team meeting with RECs to discuss on the interoperability e-BR at regional level and other related issues on
the eBR system
3th October 2022
7) Completed Technical documents for the 4th BR cycle 20th October 2022
8) Translation of the E-BR system ….. October 2022
9) Stakeholder learning and feedback sessions:
a) Malabo Policy Learning Event (MAPLE)
b) 18th CAADP Partnership Platform
c) CAADP Permanent Secretaries retreat – Advocacy, multi-sectoral engagement
28 – 29 Nov 2022
30 Nov – 02 Dec
2022
….. Dec 2022
10) Training of Trainers (ToT) on the updated CAADP BR reporting tools (Technical Guidelines, Country reporting
templates):
05 – 09 December
2022
Draft schedule of activities for the 4th BR Cycle 2022/2023

11. 11) Complete re-design of reporting tools – any changes to e-BR, Reporting Templates and Technical Guidelines.
12th – 16th
December 2022
12) Mobilization of Member States (to participate in BR trainings and other activities)
12th Dec 2022 –
20th Jan 2023.
13) Continental Training of National Experts on the updated CAADP BR reporting tools
last week of
January 2023
(23 – 27 January
2023)
14) Communication and Advocacy – Media campaign. Media Training and awareness creation on the 4th BR cycle
30th January – 1st
February 2023
15) Data collection at national level
2nd February – 30th
April 2023
16) Data cleaning and assessment for completeness and accuracy – includes technical backstopping by BR trainers
01st – 15th May
2023
17) Data validation at country level (invite all key stakeholders including NSAs, civil society, private sector, farmer
organizations, Development partners, )
15th May - 15th
June 2023
18) Policy dialogues with the PAP parliamentarians on the BR, drive visibility, advocate and commitment (PAP
Committee on Rural Economy, Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment
21-23 March 2023
19) Stakeholder learning and feedback sessions:
a) Permanent Secretaries Retreat
b) Malabo Policy Learning Event (MAPLE) – focused on the BR
c) 19th CAADP Partnership Platform
June – July 2023
20) Final Last Day for submission all national data entry into the e-BR system 15th July 2023

12. 21) Data Validation at REC level
a) Review of each country reporting template submitted and e-BR submission.
b) Crosscheck each data (i.e. data source verification to the specific indicators)
30th July 2023
22) Final fourth Country BR report and Data Submission via e-BR (with PS letter attached) 01st – 04th August 2023
23) Cleaning process at Continental level 07th – 11th August 2023
24) Provide comments related to data issues raised back to MS through RECs for official submission of corrected
data by MS.
14th – 18th August 2023
25) Workshop to finalize data cleaning process at Continental level 28th – 31st August 2023
26) Report writing of the draft 4th BR Report
04th – 08th September
2023
27) Workshop to finalize the draft 4th BR Report, Communications tools and Knowledge Products (factsheets,
infographics, briefs etc) –
11th – 20th September
2023
28) Translation of the Report to all AU languages
20th September – 18th
October 2023.
29) Presentation of the 4th BR Report to the REC Principals and STC Technical Bureau( Technical review)
10th – 12th October
2023
30) Reports submission to MS for consideration by the STC 20th October 2023
31) Report presented to the Assembly of Heads of State and Government for endorsement Jan/Feb 2024
32) Launch of the fourth (4th) Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Biennial
Review (BR) Report, at the side-lines of the summit
Jan/Feb 2024

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