Presented by Stella Clara Massawe at the CGIAR-CSI Annual Meeting 2009: Mapping Our Future. March 31 - April 4, 2009, ILRI Campus, Nairobi, Kenya

1. Overview of ReSAKSS
CSI Annual meeting-2009
Stella Clara Massawe
ReSAKSS-ECA

2. Introduction - What is ReSAKSS?
Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge
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Support System
Initiative of five CGIAR centers – ILRI, ICRISAT,
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IFPRI, IITA, and IMWI
Information and knowledge management system
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 Africa-wide initiative organized in three nodes
ReSAKSS-ECA based at ILRI for COMESA region; ReSAKSS-
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SA based at IMWI for SADC region; and ReSAKSS-WA based
at IITA for ECOWAS region. Africa –wide coordination is by
IFPRI

3. Objectives of ReSAKSS?
Aim it to promote and support effective and
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sustainable agricultural and rural development in
Africa
By providing analytical and knowledge support to
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RECs, governments, donors, etc in the
implementation, monitoring and evaluation of
agricultural development strategies across Africa
Form of policy-relevant analysis, data, and tools
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to improve policy making, fill knowledge gaps,
promote dialogue, and facilitate the benchmarking
and review processes associated with
development strategies

4. How does ReSAKSS Work?
 Common agenda defined across all the three
ReSAKSS nodes
 Strategic analysis
 Knowledge management
 Capacity building
 Consultative process with stakeholders driven by
respective RECs – who serve as Chairs of Steering
Committees
 Wide range of collaborative networks of users and
suppliers of knowledge and research products

5. ReSAKSS & CAADP
CAADP- common framework for agricultural
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development and growth for African countries
CAADP principles: Agriculture-led growth as a main
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strategy to achieve the MDG goal of poverty reduction;
the pursuit of a 6% average annual sector growth rate at
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the national level;
the allocation of 10% of national budgets to the
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agricultural sector;
the exploitation of regional complementarities and
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cooperation to boost growth;
the principals of policy efficiency, dialogue, review, and
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accountability, shared by all NEPAD programs;
the principles of partnerships and alliances to include
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farmers, agribusiness and civil society communities;

6. On-going activities – Strategic Analysis
1)Impact of non-tariff trade barriers (NTBs) in
the East African Community (EAC)
2) Assessing the impact of the Common
External Tariff (CET) in COMESA region
3) Vulnerability Analysis in Eastern Africa
4) Investment Analysis in ASARECA region
5) Responding to Food Price Crisis in ESA

7. Knowledge Management and M&E
Development of a web-based regional information
1)
and knowledge platform – data sharing,
communications and outreach
Presentations-ASARECA, COMESA, EAC,Agri.
2)
Ministries, dev agencies,private sector etc
2) Other knowledge platforms e.g. development
domain tool, data compact discs
3) Monitoring and Evaluation
a. Annual trends and outlook analysis reports
b. M&E Framework for CAADP and other regional
strategies
Capacity building is cross cutting

8. Spatial Information
targeting –CAADP & other initiatives
Intervention
Bench marking and M&E

9. CAADP pillars
Extending the area under sustainable land
1.
management and reliable water control systems;
Improving rural infrastructure and trade-related
2.
capacities for market access
Increasing food supply and reducing hunger;
3.
Agricultural research, technology dissemination
4.
and adoption; and
Critical areas that cut across the above four
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pillars. (additional)
Various indicators for each pillar-spatial analysis and information useful here

10. Fertiliser Intensity in COMESA is low

11. Proportion of children under 5 with moderate
and severe malnutrition -1996-2005

12. Maize Productivity (tonnes/ha) in Tanzania
2002/2001
Sub national
level productivity
vary across the Source: Crop Monitoring and Early Warning
country Unit: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security

13. Percentage of the population requiring food aid
between November, 2006 and February, 2007.

14. Conclusions
 How you would want to use: ReSAKSS network of policy
makers, policy analysts, and other stakeholders in RECs,
governments, donors, farmers’ organizations, business
federations, national, regional and international
organizations, etc to get your messages across.
(Dissemination of already existing outputs )
 Collaborative activities and synthesis and briefs of your
work, to distill messages for the policy making community.
 ReSAKSS website: www.ReSAKSS.org & presentations
 Collaborative Analysis-to respond to policy questions-value
addition not repetition

15. THANK YOU

16. www.mapmaker.google.com/datadownload
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