DECISION ON FAST TRACKING CAADP-MALABO COMMITMENTS FOR
ACCELERATING AGRICULTURE TRANSFORMATION IN AFRICA THROUGH
BIENNIAL REVIEW MECHANISM AND AFRICA AGRICULTURAL
TRANSFORMATION SCORECARD
The Assembly,
RECALLS Decision Assembly/AU/Decl.1 (XXIII) adopting the Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods in Africa, which also calls on the Commission and NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency (NPCA), in collaboration with partners, to conduct on a biennial basis, an Agricultural Review Process, and report on progress to the Assembly;
TAKES NOTE of the Second CAADP Biennial Review Report on the Implementation of the June 2014 Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared prosperity and Improved Livelihoods, and the highlights of its findings on “Resilience and Livelihoods”',
RECOGNISES the efforts of the Commission in mobilizing key stakeholders and development partners to build partnerships with Member States and the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) for establishing a mechanism for monitoring, evaluation and reporting, in a more aligned manner, on the progress made in implementing the commitments of the Malabo Declaration;
COMMENDS the efforts of the Commission in supporting member states to use the biennial review report as a planning tool to accelerate achievement of the commitments made in the Malabo Declaration, and RECOGNIZES Rwanda, Morocco and Mali for being the First, Second and Third Best Performers, respectively, in progressing towards the achievement of the CAADP Malabo goals and targets;
NOTES with satisfaction the efforts invested by some Member States in domesticating the Malabo commitments in National Agriculture Investment Plans and URGES Member States that have not, to do so before the third biennial review report in 2022;
RECOMMITS to take further actions in implementing the Africa Agriculture Transformation Agenda within the CAADP framework by increasing investment finance for agriculture, strengthening institutional capacity for implementation, improving coordination mechanisms to achieve concrete results and impacts leading to shared prosperity and improved livelihoods for African citizens;
CALLS UPON all Member States to mobilize adequate technical and financial resources in supporting agricultural data systems, monitoring and evaluation systems and strengthen mutual accountability structures to trigger evidence based planning for agriculture transformation;
REQUESTS the Commission to work closely with Member States, technical and financial development partners, to mobilize the required support to strengthen mutual accountability, agricultural data systems and knowledge management, institutionalize the biennial review mechanisms and the Africa Agricultural Transformation Scorecard to ensure peer learning and scaling up of Agriculture Transformation Agenda embedded in the Malabo Declaration.