Food systems > Development of The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Regional Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) CompactDevelopment of The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Regional Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Compact Donor The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Contract amount US$ 175,700.00 Project objective
To finalise the COMESA CAADP regional concept papers for all the 4 pillars
To design and facilitate implementation of programme
Take inventory of key stakeholders in the region that COMESA should work with successfully implementing CAADP
Take inventory of existing regional projects and programmes which COMESA CAADP Team should take into consideration
Finalise the design of COMESA Early Action Programmes
To design institutional arrangements for the implementation of CAADP in COMESA
Focus countries COMESA Project overview Project Milestones
Reviewed COMESA concept papers and reference materials (COMESA treaty and draft COMESA agriculture policy
Database of youth and women organisations under development
Inventory of key stakeholders and existing regional projects and programmes undertaken
Classified projects based on CAADP pillars to assess relevance and avenues for linkages with CAADP
Reviewed COMESA institutional set up and its linkages with pillars
Conducted regional CAADP consultative meeting (Livingstone, Nairobi, Maputo)
Country consultations up to end-March
Drafting the COMESA regional CAADP compact
COMESA Regional compact signing in May 2010 Swaziland
Project Deliverables
COMESA Regional CAADP Compact (draft) submission end of March
Country Updates on CAADP processes
Rwanda, Burundi and Ethiopia signed compact now on post compact activities
Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Uganda, Kenya and Sudan to sign end of March
Other countries expected to sign by close of 2010
Knowledge systems, management and information sharing
Role of node hosting institution
Hosting Dialogues
Maintaining Stakeholders Database
Information and Knowledge Dissemination
News New deal to empower women farmers in East Africa 2013-04-02 , Coastweek Kenya African women benefit from jobs in agricultural supply chains 2013-03-31 , Supply Management Time for recognition: Building on the progress at CSW57 to empower women in agriculture 2013-03-27 , Huffington Post Africa: Women key in global growth 2013-03-18 , allAfrica.com Airtel Africa partners with UN women 2013-03-05 , AfricanBrains Engaging youth in agriculture 2013-02-05 , Spore We Want Agriculture to be part of the deal we are getting out of Qatar 2012-12-04 , Simba Radio Farmers face new climate risks 2012-11-29 , The Zimbabwean Taking the Knowledge of Doha Back to Kenya’s Rural Communities 2012-11-29 , Inter Press Service (IPS) Delegates feel the heat as food prices sour 2012-11-28 , The Zimbabwean
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