The workshop focused on enhancing the capacity for strategic agricultural policy and investment planning in Africa, emphasizing the need for effective design, implementation, and evaluation of agricultural sector investments. Key activities include strategic analysis to identify investment priorities, regular stakeholder dialogue, and developing knowledge-sharing platforms for evidence-based policymaking. The overarching goal is to ensure successful implementation of national agricultural investment plans to achieve development objectives related to poverty reduction and food security.

1. Country SAKSS:
Architecture and Activities
Workshop on Strengthening Capacity for Strategic Agricultural Policy
and Investment Planning and Implementation in Africa
Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi, June 25th- 26th 2012
Joseph Karugia

2. Why?
 Strategies and investment plans
 to mobilize domestic and external resources
 Effective design and implementation requires:
 Identification of investment priorities
 Studies to establish high quality indicator baselines
 Measure and track progress in implementation
 Assess achievement of outcome targets

3. Why?
 Effective design and implementation requires:
 Regular evaluation – to review progress and impact studies
to assess efficiency and effectiveness of programmes
 Regular dialogue and review by stakeholders – progress;
harmonization; coordination

4. Objectives
 provide strategic knowledge products
 facilitate better policy design and implementation
 ensure successful implementation of the country’s
agricultural sector investment plan
 inform national dialogue and progress review
 Transition to evidence and outcome based strategy planning
and implementation
 Growing demand for analytical capacity, high quality knowledge
tools and products
 Mobilize available in-country expertise and build/strengthen
future capacities

5. …Vision
 Vision
 Policies and investments that
achieve the development
objectives

6. SAKSS: Broker of Strategic
Analysis/Knowledge
Demand Broker Supply
Parliament, Statistics
Policy
PS, NGOs, Think Tanks, Bureaus,
Analysis
Donors, Central Bank Universities,
Units
Directors NGOs
SAKSS SAKSS SAKSS Network
Oversight Body Node
• Identify and sensitize • Express interest and
• Credence of
knowledge gaps buy into vision
Knowledge System in
• Synthesize knowledge • Align knowledge
the national process
• Governance • Mobilize and coordinate generation activities
knowledge generation • Receive funding and
• Channel knowledge
• Facilitate training training
and evidence to policy
•… •…
makers
•…

7. Ministerial NAIP
Steering Committee
Policy Dialogue Group
(Stakeholders’ Group from across
the country)
Steering Committee
Coordinated by the Permanent Secretary
KS Node
Program
Coordination and Coordinator
Implementation
Team
Planning
Director
M&E ICT Economist
Knowledge and
operational gaps
identification Planning
ICT and
M&E
Collabo- Other Departments
research ration and Agencies in
(core) division
division division the agriculture
ministry
Thematic KS Network: National Statistical
Bureau; National Ag research System
working including Universities; Statistics and
groups Planning divisions of Ministries
involved in agriculture; Poverty
Monitoring Units; locally-based int’l
research orgs; …

8. Activities and Outputs…
 Strategic analysis to fill knowledge gaps
 What level on investment is needed to meet
national poverty reduction and food and
nutrition security targets?
 Which agricultural subsectors can generate the
most pro-poor growth?
 Special studies on priority and strategic issues
that a country faces

9. Activities and Outputs…
 M&E of Agricultural Sector Development and
Investments
 Overall agriculture sector performance
 Agricultural investments
 Agricultural growth
 Agricultural trade
 Poverty and food and nutritional security
 Published as an Annual M&E Report
 Studies on impact of investments and policies against
goals and targets

10. Activities and Outputs…
 KM, Communications, and Policy Dialogue
 Platform for sharing information in consistent
formats
 Easy access - for dialogue, evidence-based policy
making, review and learning
 Platform can be in the form of dialogue forums and ICT
based e.g. Website, newsletters, USB keys, CDs, and
other media (social networking tools)

11. Capacity Strengthening is important…
Parliament, Statistics
Policy
PS, FBOs, Think Tanks, Bureaus,
Analysis
Donors, Central Bank Universities,
Units
Directors FBOs
OB Node Network
Level 100
Rationale and
Concepts
(NAIPs; Policy Level 200
Analysis)
Gra Concepts and
dua Application
tion Level 300 …
o(Policy Analysis;
vert
ime Application and
Report Writing)
Modeling
(CGE, Econometrics,

12. THANK YOU
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