Eugene Rurangwa, UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Presentation to the 11th CAADP Partnership Platform Meeting Side event on Improving Land Governance for Inclusive and Sustainable Agricultural Transformation Convened by the AU/AfDB/UNECA Land Policy Initiative Johannesburg 24 March 2015

1. Improving Land Governance for Inclusive
and Sustainable Agriculture Transformation
Joint work by LPI, FAO and NEPAD Agency
24 March 2015

2. Outline of The Presentation
Introduction
Joint efforts in improving land governance
Overview of Malabo Declaration
Monitoring and Evaluation Framework and
Land Governance
Proposed common sets of indicators/Joint
Efforts CAADP-LPI in MEF
Next Steps and Way Forward

3. Introduction
• Food Security for billions of people in the
world depends on their land tenure security
• Land rights and tenure security with equitable
access to land and other natural resources are
fundamental to food security and a
foundation to sustainable agriculture
transformation, economic development and
the elimination of poverty
• Tenure security often depends on the quality
of land governance

4. Joint Efforts in Improving Land Governance
• LPI and FAO are working closely to improve land
governance in Africa through VGGT and F&G’s
principles as globally and regionally consensual
accepted guiding tools
• Joint implementation through awareness raising
and advocacy, capacity development, knowledge
generation and technical assistance to
Institutions and Countries and through
monitoring and evaluation framework
• LPI and CAADP-NPCA with common indicators

5. Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural
Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity
and Improved Livelihoods
The African
vision for
agriculture
transformation

6. AU Malabo Declaration (June 2014)
1. Recommitment to the Principles and Values of the CAADP Process
• Application of principles of evidence-based planning, policy efficiency,
dialogue, review, and accountability, shared by all NEPAD programs;
2. Recommitment to enhance investment finance in Agriculture
• Uphold 10% public spending target
• Operationalization of Africa Investment Bank
3. Commitment to Zero hunger and ending hunger in Africa by 2025
• At least double productivity with access to quality and affordable inputs
(for crops, livestock, fisheries, amongst others) and reliable and affordable
mechanization and energy supplies
• Efficient and effective water management systems notably through
irrigation;
• Supply of appropriate knowledge, information, and skills to users;

7. AU Malabo Declaration (continued)
4. Commitment to Halving Poverty by 2025, through inclusive Agricultural
Growth and Transformation
• Sustain Annual sector growth in Agricultural GDP at least 6%
• Establish and/or strengthen inclusive public-private partnerships for at
least 5 priority agricultural commodity value chains with 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

8. AU Malabo Declaration (continued)
5. Commitment to Boosting Intra-African Trade in Agricultural Commodities
& Services
• Triple intra-Africa trade in agricultural commodities
• Fast track continental free trade area & transition to a continental
Common External tariff scheme
6. Commitment to Enhancing Resilience of Livelihoods & Production
Systems to Climate Variability and Other Shocks
• Ensure that by 2025, at least 30% of farm/pastoral households are
resilient to shocks due to climate variablility
7. Commitment to Mutual Accountability to Actions and Results
• Through the CAADP Result Framework – conduct a biennial Agricultural
Review Process

9. AU Malabo Declaration (continued)
8. Strengthening the African Union Commission to support delivery on
these commitments
9. A Call for Action
a) the AU Commission and NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA)
to develop an implementation strategy and roadmap that facilitates
translation of the 2025 vision and goals of Africa Accelerated Agricultural
Growth and Transformation into concrete results and impacts
b) AU Commission to fast-track the operationalization of the African
Investment Bank;
c) The AU Commission and RECs to facilitate the acceleration of economic
integration to boost intra-Africa trade in food and agriculture
d) Through the CAADP Result Framework – conduct a biennial Agricultural
Review Process
• ,

10. Monitoring and Evaluation Framework and
Land Governance
• Effective monitoring is central to ensuring
changes in land governance
• Commitment to support greater transparency
in land transactions and in release of data for
improved land tenure governance.
• Malabo “Special commitment” to “Mutual
Accountability, Actions and Result”
(Commitment VII).

11. • Better knowledge and understanding of:
a) the extent to which people benefit from secure
land and property rights; and
b) the effectiveness of land-related policies and
land administration systems in helping to deliver
tenure security for all and in achieving sustainable
utilization of land resources
LPI and CAADP-NPCA have developed MEF for
measuring progress towards improved conditions
in sustainable development and agriculture
transformation

12. … is the instrument for
systematic regular review of
the progress made in
implementing the provisions of
the Malabo Declaration
The CAADP Results Framework

13. .Common focus on land governance and land
management issues
• Multi-level implementation approach, and
• Shared responsibility for periodic reports to
the AU Summit
The CAADP Results Framework and
LPI MEF alignment

14. Scoping Land Issues
• Land as factor of production: land insecurity  low
investments in land low ag. pdn food insecurity
• Lack of productive assets (land): - a major cause and
consequence of poverty esp. in poor rural areas;
• With increasing pop. growth decline in farm size
and grazing land increasing poverty in rural areas
• Appropriate land governance and management  a
prerequisite for improvements in agric. Performance:
HENCE THE NEED FOR TRACKING INDICATORS ON LAND
GOVERNANCE AND AGRICULTURE TRANSFORMATION

15. Good Land
Gov. & Mgt
+Agric. Production & Productivity
Food
Security
Secured land
access/Land rights
Enhanced food
availability
More investments in
land/land husbandry
and Agriculture
THE LINKAGES

16. Thematic area Proposed indicator/outcome
statement
Indicator formulation
1. Land tenure
security
- Formal recognition of legitimate
rights to land including customary,
religious, etc.
- Formal recognition of women’s
right to inherit and own land
 Number of countries with legal and institutional
framework that provides men and women equal rights
to inherit land
 % of rural households with protected
(documented/perceived) land and land resource rights
(ownership, access, transfer, etc.)
2. Land use
planning and
management
- Land use plans in place at
devolved administrative level
(district, county, etc)
- Legal framework for governing
land use conversion and
institutional framework for
enforcement in place
 Number of countries with land use plan in place at
devolved administrative level (district, county, etc.)
 % of all agricultural land converted within the legal
framework
3. Land conflict
management
- Potential agricultural land in
Africa devoid of conflict and dispute
- Capacity of institutions to
manage and resolve land conflict
 Number of land and land resource related conflicts
recorded per year in the country
 % of land related cases (formal/traditional
mechanisms) resolved of all total cases filed within a
year
4. Large Scale
Land Based
Investments
- LSLBIs comply with the
provisions of the Guiding Principles
- Transactions on LSLBIs are
transparent and publicly accessible
 % of LSLBIs which adhere to GPs based on
independent, holistic assessment of economic,
financial, social and environmental costs and benefits
associated with the proposed investment, throughout
its time period
 Number of households displaced without fair and
timely compensation in compliance with existing

17. NEPAD Agency-LPI M&E Joint Work
• Articulation of land management & land
governance indicators in the CAADP RF;
• Defining protocols for data generation &
reporting on land matters to organs eg. the AU;
• Joint trainings on M&E for land-related entities
• Enhancing land-related indicators in results
frameworks of National Ag. Investment Plans
• Building partnerships with entities (eg. statistics
bureaus) to harvest and manage data on land

18. Next Steps and Way Forward
• Joint implementation programme:
LPI/FAO/CAADP-NPCA on awareness raising and
advocacy for political buy in and on MEF
• Joint capacity development activities for
constituencies (EU/SDC/FAO- LGP, CAADP, RECs…)
• Joint working group on Global land indicators for
post 2015
• Assessing the potential for replication beyond the
pilots (Scaling up, Best practices)

19. • Harmonization and alignment of the reporting
processes (AU)
• Further work on data harvesting (ACS)
• Piloting a set of core land indicators within
countries or targeted initiatives

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