At the Malabo Montpellier Panel’s event on "Mechanization and Transformation of Agricultural Value Chains in Africa" held on April 16, 2019 at the Radisson Blu Hotel, in Dakar Senegal, Dr Ousmane Badiane, Africa Director of IFPRI and Co-chair of the Malabo Montpellier Panel discussed the importance of learning from Positive Change for policy innovation in Africa's Agricultural Sector.
3. MAMO APPROACH TO POLICY INNOVATION
Policy innovation from top, Permanent Secretary and above, is more likely:
‐ to be adopted and faster
‐ to be implemented and at scale
‐ and hence to be transformative
Drivers of policy innovation from the top
‐ Failed experiments costlier, financially and politically
‐ Policy change usually gradual vs need for transformative scale
‐ Peer learning and imitation accelerates pace of innovation
4. MAMO APPROACH TO POLICY INNOVATION
Policy innovation from top, Permanent Secretary and above, is more likely:
‐ to be adopted and faster
‐ to be implemented and at scale
‐ and hence to be transformative
Drivers of policy innovation from the top
‐ Failed experiments costlier, financially and politically
‐ Policy change usually gradual vs need for transformative scale
‐ Peer learning and imitation accelerates pace of innovation
8. Source: Oehmke, J. 2017
LEARNING FROM POSITIVE CHANGE
Where there is progress, there are lessons to be learnt
Rate of Growth 1996‐2015
Africa performed better than BRICs and world average
Agricultural Value Added Food Production National Income
SSA BRIC WORLD
9. 400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
1600
1800
2000
1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 2025
Actual and 2000s trend for the future
1960‐1977 growth path
3.2% annual growth
rate
7.0% annual
growth rate
to catch up
$700
$1,200
$1,900
Source: Badiane et al (2015).
!!!! At current pace of growth
It would take decades to make up for the lost ground
THE IMPERATIVE TO LEARN
Need to make up for lost decades of slow growth and decline
11. 1. Find out where there is progress
2. Understand what works, how and why
3. Draw lessons to enhance and replicate positive
change
1. Create a space for dialogue, exchange and mutual learning
2. Engage decision makers at ministerial level
3. Disseminate and encourage adoption of best practices in
policy and program design and implementation
ROLES OF THE MAMO PANEL AND FORUM
Evidence and dialogue for policy innovation
12. 1. Find out where there is progress
2. Understand what works, how and why
3. Draw lessons to enhance and replicate positive
change
1. Create a space for dialogue, exchange and mutual learning
2. Engage decision makers at ministerial level
3. Disseminate and encourage adoption of best practices in
policy and program design and implementation
ROLES OF THE MAMO PANEL AND FORUM
Evidence and dialogue for policy innovation
13. Debisi Araba Tom Arnold Ousmane Badiane Noble Banadda Patrick Caron Sir Gordon Conway
Gebisa Ejeta Karim El Aynaoui Ashok Gulati Sheryl Hendriks Muhammadou Kah Agnes Kalibata
Wanjiru
Kamau‐Rutenberg
Ishmael Sunga Rhoda Peace
Tumusiime
Joachim von Braun
Co‐ chairs
Ousmane Badiane Joachim von Braun
MEMBERS OF THE MAMO PANEL OF EXPERTS