PROIntensAfrica's side event on June 13th 2016 at the AASW7, presentation by Dr Shadrack Moephuli / ARC

1. Developing the Governance
and management framework
for IntensAfrica
Dr Shadrack Moephuli – 13 June 2016

2. PROIntensAfrica
• Emerged from a joint CIRAD-WUR proposition to FARA
– African sub-regional organisations
– 13 European institutions involved in agri research with African
institutions
• Develop a proposal long term research and innovation
partnership between Europe and Africa:
– improving food security and livelihoods of farmers through
sustainable intensification of agri-food systems.
• Integrated approach the basis as well as pooling of
resources
– where instruments of joint programming like ERA-NET, JPI and
– article 185 aim to accomplish synergy and increase the
effectiveness of resources.

3. PROIntensAfrica
• Builds on earlier initiatives and is very well
aligned with the Horizon2020 Call in terms
of:
– the problems being addressed and the
establishment of strong and
– durable African-European research and
innovation partnerships.
• Balanced between both continents with 23
partners overall
• Seven work packages

4. Work Package 5
• To develop a concerted, effective and
efficient bilateral African-Europe
governance structure to support the
implementation of an EU-AU joint
programming Research and Innovation
partnership, e.g. an ERA-NET (like
ERAfrica), an article 185 initiative, or other
relevant modalities.

5. Tasks and activities
• Task 5.1: Rules and regulations on governance
aspects of joint programming activities
• Activity 1: Analysis existing governance
mechanisms – process and update
• Task 5.2: Dialogue with selected key actors
• Activity 2: Interviews with selected key resource
persons
• Activity 3: Workshop in Pretoria on governing
issues
• Activity 4: Governance options for future
partnership

6. Key deliverables – WP 5
• D 5.1: A review of governance structures
used in other article 185 or other large-
scale partnership programmes (month 6).
• D 5.2: Proposed guidelines for efficient and
effective governing structures (considering
various alternatives, with their pros and
cons) that will serve the proposed long-
term research and innovation partnership
(month 20)

7. Context
• The European Union (EU) and Africa have engaged in multilateral
relations that stretch back to the very launch of the European
Economic Community in 1957.
• For decades, these relations were mostly circumscribed by the
Lomé Convention – a trade and aid framework between the EU and
the Africa Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP) .
• Since the 2000s a separate multilateral relationships have
developed between the EU and African Union (AU), binding both
sides to heads of government summit meetings every three years
and expanding regular engagement between the organs of both
regional institutions.
• The areas of engagement between the two sides have also been
vastly increased to include, among others, science and technology,
political dialogue, human rights and good governance. The
framework guiding the EU-AU (or EU-Africa, to include AU non-
member Morocco) is the Joint Africa-EU Strategy (JAES).

8. Context
• The fourth EU-Africa Summit in 2014 bound the two
sides to an updated JAES and a new “Roadmap”.
• The Roadmap includes promises of cooperation on
“sustainable and inclusive development and growth and
continental integration” including comprehensive and
joint cooperation in a range of areas pertaining to
agriculture.
• Most of the cooperative plans are to be conducted
through NEPAD’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture
Development Programme (CAADP) or else a recently
formed Contact Group on Agriculture between the EU
and AU Commissions (Report of the Contact Group on
Agriculture, Food Security and Food Safety).

9. Survey of existing and past relationships
• To gauge the “state of play”, assessing multilateral
partnerships between the EU and Africa highlighting their
internal governance structures.
• Analysis looks at EU-Africa continent-wide programmes
and then proceed to investigate other initiatives in Sub-
Saharan African on a geographic basis (South, West,
Central and East).
• Recognising that various definitions of agricultural
governance and global governance are broad, we a
broad brush as we assess the range of multilateral
partnerships between Africa and Europe in existence
today.

10. EU-Africa Partnerships (beyond ACP)
• The EU’s “Advancing Agriculture in Africa”
Communication provides an initial sketch of the EU’s
ambitions in this area. The AU and NEPAD, along with
the continent’s Regional Economic Communities were
targeting as partners for the implementation of
cooperation. Coordination was set to work at three
levels:
– with African institutions, within the framework of the CAADP. The AU
Commission and NEPAD will play a key role at this level;
– with other donors, through the Global Donor Platform for Rural
Development (GDPRD), which includes the Commission and several
Member States;
– within the EU, by improving the exchange of information and by
developing joint assistance initiatives for African agriculture.

11. EU-Africa Partnerships (beyond ACP)
• The JAES was updated at the 4th EU-Africa Summit in
2014; the eight partnerships were replaced by a
Roadmap containing five similarly themed priorities.
They are:
– Peace and Security
– Democracy, Good Governance and Human Rights
– Human development
– Sustainable and inclusive development and growth and
continental integration
– Global and emerging issues
• Science, Technology and Innovation
• CAADP
• SPS

12. Other collaborative partnerships of relevance
– CAAST-Net Plus (2013-2016)
– MED-SPRING (2013-2016)
– Partnership for Research and Innovation in
the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA)
– EAU4Food project
– European & Developing Countries Clinical
Trials Partnership (EDCTP)
– Global Strategic Alliances for the Coordination
of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases
of Animals and Zoonoses (STAR-IDAZ)

13. e.g. CAAST-Net Plus (2013-2016)
• The Network for the Coordination and Advancement of sub-Saharan Africa-EU
Science and Technology Cooperation (CAAST-Net) (2008-12) will continue as
CAAST-NET Plus with a special focus on food security, climate change and health.
CAAST-Net Plus aims to:
• Encourage more and better bi-regional STI cooperation for enhanced outcomes
around topics of mutual interest, and particularly in relation to the global societal
challenges of climate change, food security and health.
• Foster discussion among stakeholders for gathering informed opinion and experience
about the bi-regional cooperation process, formulating and disseminating it in such a
way as to be admissible to the formal bi-regional STI policy dialogue process and to
programme owners.
• Internal governance: CAAST-Net Plus is funded by the European Union's Seventh
Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. It is running
from 2013 to 2016. The network consists of 22 participants (11 European and 11
African participants).

14. EU-ACP Partnerships
• Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
• Economic Partnership Agreements
• Farm Risk Management for Africa (FARMAF)
• Technical Assistance Facility of the African Agriculture Fund
• Support to Farmers’ Organizations in Africa Programme (SFOAP)
• FARA
• Platform for African-European Partnership on Agricultural Research
for Development (PAEPARD) (Phase II)
• Programme PIP Quality and Conformity Fruits and Vegetables -
Phase 2
• Strengthening Food Safety Systems through Sanitary and
Phytosanitary Measures (EDES)
• Consolidation of the Action Framework for the EU-Africa Partnership
on Cotton

15. Sub-regional partnerships
• Southern Africa-EU Partnerships
– Southern Africa Network for Biosciences (SANBio)
– BIOTA Africa
– Wellcome Trust’s African Institutions Initiative
– Southern Africa Innovation Support (SAIS)
• Central Africa-EU Partnerships
– Regional Indicative Programme
• East Africa-EU Partnerships
– ASARECA
– Partnership Agreement For Sustainable Development Of Lake
Victoria Basin
– East Africa Agricultural Productivity Project (EAAPP)
• West Africa-EU Partnerships
– EU funds good economic governance in the UEMOA

16. Preliminary results
• The survey revealed that the bulk of the big budget
cooperative projects between the EU and Africa at the
pan-African level were EDF funded, though a significant
number benefited from FP7 (and now H2020) funding.
• At the level of regional cooperation, partnerships often
included strong funding from a particular country (e.g.
Finland in the case of Southern Africa Innovation
Support programme) or other international organisation
(e.g. World Bank and ASARECA).
• Different funding sources also differ in terms of reporting
expectations and the level of public transparency
required.

17. Going forward
• Interviews with the relevant authorities of the
partnerships to seek clarification on governance
mechanisms and best practices.
• Detailed information about ongoing initiatives
– Protocols: bilateral (separate agreements between states)? Multilateral
(agreements between organisations)? Designated lead country/group?
– Composition of Executive: President , Vice-president, Secretariat?
– General Assembly: membership? Associate members?
– Committees and boards: Scientific Advisory Board/Scientific communities?
Monitoring committee? Steering committee? Support unit? Strategic advisory
committee?
– Focal Points: Programme director? Regional coordinator?
– Other stakeholders:

18. Workshop
• Stakeholder Workshop on ProIntensAfrica Governance
Mechanisms
• To solicit views of different stakeholders on an effective
and efficient governance mechanism for the proposed
long-term partnership between the European and African
organisations.
• The specific objectives are:
– To create awareness about the ProIntensAfrica programme
– To obtain inputs/comments and other information about similar governance
mechanisms for effective and impactful ProIntensAfrica
– To share the results of the desk study done on alternative governance
mechanisms for EU/Africa partnerships under WP5
– To explore synergies with WP4 partners in developing the funding and
governance details of such mechanism
– To engage relevant stakeholders with the view to facilitate their contribution
towards identifying an effective and efficient governance mechanism for
ProIntensAfrica.

19. Expected workshop outcomes
• Increased awareness about the PROIntensAfrica
programme
• Guidelines for efficient and effective governing structures
(considering various alternatives, with their pros and
cons) that will serve the proposed long-term research
and innovation will be jointly developed with
stakeholders.
• Development of a new governance mechanism for the
effective, efficient and impactful PROIntensAfrica
partnership.
• Entwine funding and governance details that will serve
the proposed long-term research and innovation.
• Date: 20 - 21 July 2016
• Venue: ARC, Pretoria, South Africa

20. Some key issues
• Development of strong research partnership (Europe
and Africa) on agricultural intensification pathway and
cross exchange among research partners in the two
continent.
• Fostering high level policy and political engagement
for resource commitment to advance the development
of the desired future for Africa agriculture and the walk
for its attainment through research and development
efforts.
• Engendering civil society consciousness to
sustainability issues and other trade-off from current
pattern of agricultural production assets use versus
current and future needs.
• Sustaining effective livelihood from agriculture.

21. Conclusion
• The WP5 exercise for PROIntensAfrica will
provide details about past, current and future
governance mechanisms for EU-Africa
agriculture projects.
• This exercise will serve as a basis for discussion
about possibilities and best practices in
partnership governance based on the number of
partnerships already existent at the EU-Africa
level.
• The development of a coherent scientific
program to harmonies knowledge and develop
sustainable agricultural intensification pathway
for Africa and Europe.