New Alliance Team Progress- New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition

1. April 28, 2015

2.  The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition is a shared
commitment by African governments, development partners and
private sector companies to achieve sustained, inclusive
agriculture-led growth to lift 50 million people out of poverty by
2022.
 Helping countries to unlock private sector investment in the
countries.
 The commitments are contained in what we call country
cooperation Frameworks-we have 10 countries with NA country
cooperation frameworks.
 The New Alliance team consists of 3 people , a senior
coordinator, program analyst, program assistant based in DREA
 The team plays coordination role.
 We closely work with the Grow Africa Secretariat based at the
NEPAD agency

3. 1. Support to Country Level NA Processes
2. Monitoring and Evaluation/Annual Review
Process
3. Knowledge Management and
Communication
4. Partnership and Relationship Building

4.  The NA team prepared terms of reference for country
missions to Ghana, Malawi and Mozambique including
tentative programs shared with the Ministries of Agriculture
and partners in the respective countries.
 The team has also made efforts to synchronize its mission
with partners Grow Africa and ReSAKSS.
 We met with key stakeholders in the NA process at country
level including NA Government leads, NA Donor Leads,
Agriculture Sector Working Group (ASWG), CAADP team, civil
society and Africa Lead II team (if available in the country).
 At the end of the missions, the AUC team drafts AIDE
MEMOIREs to share with the respective countries to follow up
on mutually agreed steps.

5.  The expected outcomes of country missions
include;
◦ NA AUC team introduced to NA stakeholders in country
Information shared to AUC team on current
implementation status of country CCF.
◦ Modalities of updating country CCF discussed with
country NA team
◦ Actions taken on expediting 2016 joint NA-GA annual
review work for the country
◦ NA AUC team better informed on the different
stakeholders involved in implementing country CCF
◦ Modalities agreed between AUC team and country NA
team on future collaboration in promoting the NA
implementation at country level

6.  The NA team undertook a mission to Ghana from
February 8 to 10, 2016.
 The AUC Delegation met with officials of the
Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA)
including the Principal Secretary (Chief Director),
Planning Program and Budget (PPB) Director, M&E
Director, Agribusiness Director, ASWG/METASIP
team, Ghana SAKSS team, Ghana USAID Mission,
Africa Lead II Regional Office, and AGRA West
Africa team.

7.  Stakeholders acknowledge the establishment of the NA Team at the
AUC in DREA
 MOFA has received the official letter and the Guidance Note from the
AUC regarding the need to launch the 2015-2016 reporting.
 Countries have taken note of the deadlines indicated in the Guidance
Note for the NA reporting, and will realize them accordingly.
 The GoG recognizes the significance of integrating the NA reporting
into the country JSR agenda. The Ministry will follow the official due
processes to ensure this proposal becomes part of the JSR agenda,
scheduled for May/June 2016.
 The Ministry takes note of the support pledged by Grow Africa,
RESAKSS, USAID (on behalf of the Donors), Africa Lead II/DAI and
AGRA and will reach out to these institutions for their support.
 Africa Lead will support GoG’s efforts to include NSA’s in the
dialogue on planning, implementation and reporting.
 AGRA is ready and willing to partner with MOFA on matters of policy,
knowledge management and up scaling of existing best practices
within the context of CAADP, Malabo and the New Alliance.
 GOG, through MOFA is making some advancement on the NA policy
commitments, including the area of seeds.

8.  NA-AUC team undertook mission to Malawi
from 23 to 25 February, 2016.
 The team met with officials of the Ministry
including the Principal Secretary, Directors of
the Ministry, NA government lead, NA Donor
lead, NA Donor Working Group, ASWAP(NAIP)
coordinator, New Alliance Policy Acceleration
Support Program (MSU/IFPRI team), CISANET
(Civil Society on Agriculture Network)

9. ◦ The NA team was introduced to stakeholders in Malawi.
◦ The NA country lead has agreed that the NA reporting in Malawi will be done as part of JSR
reporting starting from 2016. NA will be fully integrated in the JSR process.
◦ The NA team was briefed on a clear governing structure for the NA governance in Malawi which is
exemplary one and can be shared with other countries.
◦ 2016 Reporting guidelines sent by AUC to the countries was presented and discussed to NA country
leads and Donor lead and consensus was reached on the way forward in terms of domesticating
the guidelines and the gaps to be addressed in improving the guidance note.
◦ Malawi NA Government lead suggested on ways of synchronizing NA M&E framework beyond
reporting on process indicators to reporting on outcome and impact indicators and the need to
clearly align the NA M&E framework with CAADP Results Framework.
◦ The rational for revising Malawi’s CCA was explained to the AUC NA team. Malawi streamlined and
reprioritized commitments from 35+ commitments to only 15 commitments in the newly revised
CCA.
◦ With regard to status of LOI companies in Malawi, Grow Africa team who were in LOI companies
stocktaking mission during the same period made a debriefing in which they indicated that the LOI
companies in the country are very resilient despite some critical bottlenecks affecting their
investment.
◦ It was noted that some LOI companies have made adjustments in their investments shifting from
one crop to another.
◦ Problems of finance and energy supply surfaced during LOI surveys, it was revealed.

10. The key components of the joint NA-GA
reports every year include:
1.Private Sector LOI progress update
2.Government Policy Commitment Data
3.Status of Donor Financial Commitment
Data
4.Civil Society Report (?)- This came out in
recommendations from last year report. Do
we have a section for CSO/CNC reporting in
the annual reports?
5.Survey results on enabling actions (from

11. Preliminary
Report for LC
Validation at country
level
Continenta
l Report
Stock taking
Validation
at STC
Publication
R

12.  Grow Africa has presented status of Private
Sector LOI stocktaking data during recent
visit of NA team to NPCA/Grow Africa.
 Grow Africa Team are finalizing the report
and are expected to share to us preliminary
report on private sector in coming week.
 Approximately 1/3 LOI commitments have
provided feedback on progress for 2015 (to
date)
 Companies report US$ 0.5 billion invested
in 2015 (provisionary data)
 41 LOIs have been identified for
cancellation, based on the agreed criteria

13.  Lessons from last year showed inconsistencies of
donor data generated by Head quarters versus from
the countries.
 2015 continental report has not been published due
to anomalies in donor data.
(More specifically, USG and Italy indicated that the
donor data presented at the STC last year did not
show the correct disbursement figures).
 Discussions have been made between G7 DPs and AU
on how to accommodate an erratum.
 Difficulties of putting an erratum on STC approved
report has been raised as an issue by AUC
 DPs going ahead to publish their own version of the
report in their accountability reporting.

14.  France is DP data collection
 France developed a template of donor data
collection for 2016
 The template aims to also gather qualitative
information to explain donor financial
disbursement figures.
 The procedure is the same as for previous years
with 2 tentative improvements:
 Qualitative data has been asked to define better
donor commitments
 Donors will ensure that their data collected at
national level are consistent with the ones
collected for the continental report.
 DPs are expected to submit their data for France
by May 15, 2016

15.  NA government policy commitment update-
ReSAKSS
 Progress so far- (update from ReSAKSS)
 Timeline for govt. policy commitment data?
 Can data be ready before the leadership
council meeting in July 17/18, 2016
 Further update from ReSAKSS

16.  At country level,
◦ ReSAKSS will compile government policy progress
for each of the NA countries
◦ ReSAKSS will send out donor data from Head
Quarters (compiled by France) to the countries (by
when?)
◦ Grow Africa has finalized stocktaking of private
sector data from the 12 countries (including 2 of
the Grow Africa countries)
◦ ReSAKSS will receive LOI progress report from Grow
Africa by ____?______date.

17.  We have reviewed the new alliance learning
agenda.
 We have initiated conversation on how to
advance the NA M&E Framework.
 We are talking with Grow Africa on how we
collaborate in undertaking priority studies.

18.  We have produced NA communication
brochure (500 copies) in English and French.
 We have printed different banners for NA
communication in English and French which
were used during the NA side events during
the 12th CAADP PP.
 We have received orientation on how to
maintain the New Alliance website during a
side meeting in Accra.
 We can now access the NA website and
upload documents as required.

19.  We had bilateral meetings with
◦ IFPRI/ReSAKSS on Advancing mutual accountability
◦ Grow Africa/NEPAD office for introductions and
joint activities on the NA-GA agenda
◦ Engaged different partners in the countries
(Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Ghana)