1. New Alliance for Food Security
and Nutrition
Overview and Guiding Information
December 2015
By:
Dr. Nalishebo Meebelo and
Samson Jemaneh Mekasha
2. What is the New Alliance
contd.
The AU Heads of State and Government adopted the Malabo
Declaration on Accelerated Africa Agriculture Growth and
Transformation with commitments to:
Enhancing investment finance in agriculture
Ending hunger in Africa by 2025
Halving poverty by the year 2025
Tripling intra-African trade in agricultural commodities and services
by the year 2025
Enhancing resilience of livelihoods and production systems to
climate variability and other related risks
Committing to mutual accountability to actions and results
The New Alliance Cooperation Agreements (CCAs) are instruments for
contributing to the realization of the Malabo commitments.
3. What is the New Alliance for
Food Security and Nutrition
The New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition is a shared
commitment by African governments, development partners
and private sector companies to achieve sustained, inclusive
agriculture-led growth to life 50 million people out of poverty
by 2022.
The New Alliance includes the commitments of:
• Africa’s leadership to drive effective country plans and policies
for food security
• Private sector partners to increase investments where the
conditions are right
• Donors to expand Africa’s potential for rapid and sustainable
agricultural growth
5. Who are the partners?
AU Member States
Development Partners
African and Global Private
Sector
• Canada, France,
Germany, Italy,
Japan, the United
Kingdom , the United
States and European
Union
• Non-G8 countries
• More than 190
companies
including both
large and small
African and
International
companies
NEW ALLIANCE
7. Country Cooperation Agreements
• New Alliance
commitments are
captured in the
Country
Cooperation
Agreements (CCAs)
for each country
• 10 countries have
the CCAs.
• The
implementation of
CCAs is supported
by a package of
Enabling Actions.
8. Country Cooperation Agreements
(CCAs)
• CCAs are a powerful tool for galvanizing concrete action from cross-
sector partners behind CAADP implementation at country-level, and
realizing the ambitions of Malabo continentally.
• In 10 countries, they have drawn together companies, governments
and donors to make concrete commitments that practically
operationalize the strategic intent of CAADP National Agricultural &
Food Security Investment Plans-particularly with regard to achieving
market-based growth within priority value chains.
• The CCAs are particularly relevant to achieving the Malabo targets of
doubling productivity, reducing post harvest loss, sustaining 6%
ag.growth rate, establishing and strengthening PPP for priority
agricultural commodity value chains in every country, create job
opportunities for at least 30% of youth in agricultural value chains
and tripling intra-African trade in agricultural commodities.
9. InsidetheCountryCooperation
Agreements(E.g.Tanzania)
• New Alliance builds on G8 commitments made at L’Aquila in 2009
• Support of CAADP Country Compacts
• Financial and technical support aligned with Tanzania Agriculture and
Food Security Investment Plan (TAFSIP)
• Supports the development of the Government of Tanzania’s priority
area of the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor (SAGCOT)
• Key Policy Commitments
• Government of Tanzania committed to pursue policy goals set
out in the Cooperation Framework in order to build domestic
and international private sector confidence.
• Increasing transparency in trade policy, improving incentives for
private sector, implementing transparent land tenure policy,
developing and implementing domestic seed policy and other
commitments
11. InsidetheCountryCooperation
Agreements(E.g.Tanzania)contd.
• Shared Responsibilities
• Develop pilot implementation programs for;
• The Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of
Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of
National Food Security adopted by the Committee on World
Food Security in May 2012.
• The Principles of Responsible Agricultural Investment (PRAI)
• Coordination and Collaboration
• Existing in-country consultation groups and structures are used
for coordination mechanism without setting up parallel or
duplicative structures. In Tanzania, the Tanzania agriculture
sector working group plays coordination role, facilitating
collaboration among the different stakeholders.
12. InsidetheCountryCooperation
Agreements(E.g.Tanzania)contd.
Results
Consistent with the New Alliance goal of improving food security and
nutritional status by helping 50 million people in sub-Saharan Africa
emerge from poverty by 2022, the participants intend their combined
actions in Tanzania to help 6.7 million people emerge from poverty.
Mutual Accountability
• G8 members, the Government of Tanzania, and the private sector
intend to review their performance towards jointly determined
goals indicated in the Cooperation Framework Agreements through
an annual review process to conducted within the existing broader
CAADP-donor Joint Sector Review of TAFSIP implementation.
• The annual review will also take into account of the shared
responsibilities related to the Voluntary Guidelines and the PRAI.
14. Status of Private Sector Commitments
41
37 37 36
29 26 25
21 19 16
9
5
0
10
20
30
40
50
Mozambique
Senegal
Nigeria
Tanzania
Malawi
Benin
Coted'Ivoire
Ghana
BurkinaFaso
Ethiopia
Kenya
Rwanda
Number of private sector
investment Commitments
Number of
investment
Commitments
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
5000
Senegal
Mozambique
Coted'Ivoire
Benin
Ghana
Malawi
BurkinaFaso
Ethiopia
Tanzania
Kenya
Rwanda
Nigeria
Planned investment versus actual invested
Investment expenditure to-date
Planned Investment (Million USD)
0
2000000
4000000
Smallholders Reached to-date
by country
Smallholders
Reached to-date
Total number of
investments
Commitments 301 LOIs
Total private
sector planned
investment 10.2 billion USD
Investment
expenditure to-
date 1.8 billion USD
Total number of
small holders
reached 11,689,034
15. Private Sector Letters of Intent Progress
3%
12%
43%
37%
7%
Letters of Intent
Implementation
Progress
Complete
(%)
Performing
well/ ahead
of schedule
(%)
On plan (%)
Minor
problems
(%)
• Private companies provided progress
reports for 56% of the 292 Letters of
Intent (LOIs).
• Through these LOIs, companies
intend to invest close to $10.2
billion, of which over $ 684 million
was reported invested in 2014 in 12
partner countries
• Overall, the majority of LOIs (80
percent) were either on plan or
facing minor implementation
problems.
• Overall, 3% of LOIs were
successfully completed in 2014; 12
% of LOIs were performing well, 43
% were on plan, while 37 % faced
minor implementation problems.
Only 7 percent of LOIs had major
implementation challenges.
16. Progresson GovernmentPolicy Commitments
17%
22%
27%
37%
43%
50%
50%
62%
83%
72%
73%
54%
57%
50%
50%
38%
6%
9%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Trade and Markets
Nutrition
Land and Resource Rights…
Enabling Environment for…
Resilience and Risk…
Other
Policy Institutions
Inputs Policy
PROGRESS AGAINST POLICY
AREAS DUE BY JUNE 2015
Complete Some Progress
11%
11%
28%
33%
100%
100%
89%
78%
61%
67%
11%
11%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Nutrition
Infrastructure Development
Land and Resource Rights and Policy
Policy Institutions
Enabling Environment for Private…
Inputs Policy
PROGRESS AGAINST POLCIY
AREAS DUE AFTER 2015
Complete Some Progress No progress
• Overall, the results show that governments across the continent are
committed to making policy reforms in agriculture.
• Overall, 33 percent of policy commitments were complete, 59 percent
had made good progress.
• For policy commitments that were due by June 25, 37 percent were
complete and 54 percent had made significant progress.
• For policy commitments due after June 2015, 20 percent were
complete and 72 percent made some progress.
17. Progress on Development Partners
Financial Commitments
6,249
3,587
3,0
$0
$1,000
$2,000
$3,000
$4,000
$5,000
$6,000
$7,000
Original Funding
Intention
Prorated
Funding
Intention
Disbursement to
Date
MillionUSD
• Donors for which disbursement
data is provided included the
G8 Donors: Canada, France,
Germany, Italy , Japan, United
Kingdom and the United States
of America and the European
Union.
• Non G8 Donors included AfDB,
Belgium, Ireland, Norway and
the World Bank.
• Total Disbursement (including
G8 and non-G8 donors) reached
86% of Prorated funding
intentions. This accounts 50% of
original funding intentions.
• The actual amounts are
indicated on the graph
Total Donor Funding Intentions and
Disbursements in 2014
18. The leadership Council
• The leadership council provides a forum for mutual accountability
and works to address high level issues.
• The LC is founded upon and seeks to advance the spirit of
partnership among diverse stakeholders to achieve this shared goal.
In particular the group seeks to align and coordinate the work of the
New Alliance and Grow Africa partnership to support
implementation of country investment plans developed through the
CAADP process.
• The LC is anchored in the African institutional leadership of the
CAADP Process, and includes in its scope the work of the New
Alliance and Grow Africa.
• The LC is a flexible, informal group providing strategic direction and
advice. It does not provide operational governance or oversight to
either New Alliance or Grow Africa, each of which have their own
coordination structures.
• The LC seeks to highlight progress and challenges of New Alliance &
Grow Africa and encourages mutual accountability between all
partners, in alignment with CAADP processes and reporting
frameworks.
19. Alignment with AUC-DREA
Clusters
• AUC/DREA is currently configuring the following 8 clusters within
the Department that closely align with the Malabo Commitment
areas to support the implementation of Malabo:
1. Climate change, desertification, land, forestry, and DRR
2. Rural Infrastructure and services cluster
3. Food and nutrition security
4. Research, innovation and knowledge services
5. Rural infrastructure and services
6. Empowerment of women, youth and smallholder agricultural producers
(farmers, pastoralists and fisher folks)
7. Water and sanitation
8. Agro-industry, markets and trade cluster
• In addition a Program Support Facility is being established to strengthen
DREA’s capacity to communicate about Malabo and establish monitoring
and evaluation mechanisms that will feed into the Biennial Review process.
20. New Alliance Priorities for 2016
1. Dissemination of the 2014-2015 Report
2. Establish clear roles and responsibilities of the various
partners going forward: AUC DREA NA Team, Grow
Africa, NAWG, Africa Lead II, RESAKSS etc.
• 2016 Progress Reporting
• Organization/Facilitation of the Leadership Council Meeting (Kigali –
May 2016)
• Reporting to the Specialized Technical Committee Meeting
• Data collation and analysis roles, including who will provide:
• Update on Government policy commitment data
• Update on donor financial commitment data
• Update on private sector commitment data
3. Review of CCAs (document lessons learnt, identify best
practices etc. Ethiopia, Malawi)
4. Rwanda and Kenya to become members of the NA
21. New Alliance Priorities for 2016
contd.
5. Review and revise the various NA-GA documents: Guidance Notes,
Criteria for member ship, communications tools (e.g. FAQ) etc.
6. Establish available budget for 2016 and beyond (sources of finance)
7. Align NA Team work plan to the Global DREA work plan
8. Strategize concretely for 2017 and beyond. What is our plan for NA-
GA beyond 2016? What is the way forward on membership of Non-
NA-GA member states
9. Effectively link CAADP Country Process to the NA processes towards
realizing Malabo targets, including how to align NA-GA reporting to
the JSRs at country level, biennial reporting etc.
10. How to advance the regional level dimensions/commitments
11. Unlocking the AU Agribusiness Strategy towards strengthening
domestic private sector (NA as a tool to enable this?)
12. Leverage on existing partner efforts (e.g. refer to AfDB agenda for
Agribusiness in Africa) to upscale current NA-GA initiative/progress
