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This project provides technical, analytical, and capacity building support to enable African Union (AU) Member States and Regional Economic Communities (RECs) to domesticate the Kampala Declaration on Africa’s Food Systems Transformation and Resilience under the 2026–2035 Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Strategy and Action Plan.

Led by IFPRI in partnership with AGRA, the project supports evidence-based policy design and investment planning through the development of a results framework, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems, economywide modeling, policy reviews, and political economy analyses. The work focuses on defining harmonized indicators, benchmarks, and milestones for tracking progress on Kampala CAADP commitments; developing digital databases and dashboards for real-time monitoring; and generating actionable policy and program opportunities to guide national and regional agrifood investment plans.

Project duration: 2025 – 2026

Contact

John M. Ulimwengu

Funders

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

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African Union

AUDA-NEPAD

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

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Lessons Learned from Implementing the CAADP Biennial Review Process Under the Malabo Declaration

2025Makombe, T.; Ulimwengu, John M.; Matchaya, Greenwell C.
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Lessons Learned from Implementing the CAADP Biennial Review Process Under the Malabo Declaration

The Biennial Review (BR), launched under the 2014 Malabo Declaration, serves as the African Union’s (AU) primary mutual accountability tool for tracking Member States’ progress in implementing the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). This brief, drawing lessons from four BR cycles, aims to inform the next phase of BRs in preparation for the domestication and implementation of the 2025 Kampala CAADP Declaration. While the BR has prompted policy and programmatic changes in several countries, its full impact is hindered by persistent challenges such as underfunding, weak monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacities, and data quality issues. Despite these hurdles, innovations like the eBR and national data clusters have led to improvements in data quality and reporting rates. Still further improvements in data systems, capacities, and stakeholder engagement are urgently needed to strengthen the Biennial Review (BR) process. Key recommendations include adopting coherent data governance policies, promoting BR awareness and data utilization, refining the BR scorecard methodology, expanding data clusters to more countries, strengthening M&E capacities, ensuring inclusive BR validation, and integrating the BR database with M&E systems at both national and regional levels. Sustained political leadership, technical support, and domestic funding are critical to institutionalizing a robust, timely, high-quality, and impactful BR process that supports evidence-based decision-making and accelerates progress toward achieving the CAADP agrifood system transformation goals under the Kampala Declaration.

Year published

2025

Authors

Makombe, T.; Ulimwengu, John M.; Matchaya, Greenwell C.

Citation

Makombe, T.; Ulimwengu, John M.; Matchaya, Greenwell. 2025. Lessons Learned from Implementing the CAADP Biennial Review Process Under the Malabo Declaration. Kigali, Rwanda: AKADEMIYA2063. 16p. (Kampala Policy Brief Series 04). doi: https://doi.org/10.54067/kpbs.04

Keywords

Africa; Agricultural Development; Data Quality; Stakeholders; Monitoring and Evaluation; Agrifood Systems

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open Access

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https://doi.org/10.54067/kpbs.04 Source record

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Brief

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2024 annual trends and outlook report: Advancing the climate and bioeconomy agenda in Africa for resilient and sustainable agrifood systems

2024Tadesse, Getaw; Glatzel, Katrin; Savadogo, Moumini
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2024 annual trends and outlook report: Advancing the climate and bioeconomy agenda in Africa for resilient and sustainable agrifood systems

The 2024 edition of the Annual Trends and Outlook Report (ATOR) explores the challenges posed by the climate crisis to agrifood systems and the opportunities offered by a transition to a bioeconomy to mitigate and adapt to the adverse impacts of climate change. This ATOR seeks to support the ongoing development and the subsequent implementation of a new 10-year Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) strategy by the African Union through the renewed and updated post-Malabo CAADP agenda.

Year published

2024

Authors

Tadesse, Getaw; Glatzel, Katrin; Savadogo, Moumini

Citation

Tadesse, Getaw; Glatzel, Katrin; and Savadogo, Moumini, eds. 2024. 2024 annual trends and outlook report: Advancing the climate and bioeconomy agenda in Africa for resilient and sustainable agrifood systems. Kigali, Rwanda; and Washington, DC: AKADEMIYA2063; and International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.54067/9798991636902.

Keywords

Africa; Agrifood Systems; Bioeconomics; Climate Change; Resilience; Sustainability

Language

English

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Open AccessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

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https://doi.org/10.54067/9798991636902 Source record

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Tracking key CAADP indicators and implementation processes [In the 2024 ATOR]

2024Tefera, Wondwosen; Guthiga, Paul; Collins, Julia; Makombe, Tsitsi
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Tracking key CAADP indicators and implementation processes [In the 2024 ATOR]

In this chapter we review Africa’s progress in CAADP process implementation and on the CAADP RF indicators to highlight areas of strong performance that need to be sustained or accelerated as well as areas of weak performance that require urgent attention to enable the continent to meet its Malabo Declaration agricultural transformation goals. The chapter examines progress on 27 of the 38 CAADP RF indicators for which cross-country data are available (Table 13.2). Details of the indicators and aggregate statistics are available in the data tables in Annexes 1–3 of this report. Progress on the RF indicators is discussed across different aggregated geographic and economic groupings of African countries by comparing trends in the RF indicators during the first five years after the adoption of CAADP (2003–2008) with later subperiods (2008–2014 and 2014–2023), with a particular focus on the Malabo Declaration period of 2014–2023.

Year published

2024

Authors

Tefera, Wondwosen; Guthiga, Paul; Collins, Julia; Makombe, Tsitsi

Citation

Tefera, Wondwosen; Guthiga, Paul; Collins, Julia; and Makombe, Tsitsi. 2024. Tracking key CAADP indicators and implementation processes. In Advancing the climate and bioeconomy agenda in Africa for resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, eds. Getaw Tadesse, Katrin Glatzel, and Moumini Savadogo. Chapter 13, Pp. 191-211. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155095

Keywords

Africa; Caadp; Agriculture

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

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Book Chapter

Funders

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)

Team members

John M. Ulimwengu

John M. Ulimwengu

Senior Research Fellow, Africa,
Development Strategies and Governance

John M. Ulimwengu

John M. Ulimwengu

Senior Research Fellow, Africa,
Development Strategies and Governance

James Thurlow

James Thurlow

Director, Foresight and Policy Modeling (FPM), Foresight
and Policy Modeling

Steven Were Omamo

Steven Were Omamo

Director, Development Strategies and Governance (DSG); Director for Africa, Development
Strategies and Governance

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