{"id":434,"date":"2017-03-11T06:49:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T06:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esaff.org\/?p=434"},"modified":"2017-03-11T06:49:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T06:49:46","slug":"caadp-compact-esaff-calls-for-more-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/caadp-compact-esaff-calls-for-more-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"CAADP compact: ESAFF calls for more involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>01\/05\/2013<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/esaff.org\/images\/hakim_at_au_conference(1).jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"870\" height=\"409\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Addis Ababa<\/strong> ESAFF has underlined the need to involve all stakeholders in the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) process before signing the CAADP compact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAt the same time ESAFF want stakeholders to have a clear understanding of the Compact and what it entails.\u00a0 The assertion came about when ESAFF attended the\u00a0 9th CAADP PARTNERSHIP PLATFORM MEETING,\u00a0 held at the\u00a0 African Union Conference Centre, Addis Ababa Ethiopia last march.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAt the meeting farmers organization which are recognized by AU and NEPAD had a chance to be on the panelist of speakers.\u00a0 ESAFF and many other regional farmer organization did not make it to the panel level, thus the need for more advocacy for representation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nESAFF was represented by the General Secretary and ESAFF Uganda Coordinator, some farmers came from NASFAM Malawi,\u00a0 and ZIMSOF Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThe discussion in the three day was centered on harnessing Alternative Financing Models for Effective Agricultural Investments; Strengthening Country Leadership and Ownership; Establishing Instruments and Mechanism for Strengthening Accountability and Fostering Policy Reforms, Institutional Change and Structural Transformation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIt was noted that there has been weak involvement of all stake holders in the CAADP planning process thus there is need for POLICY Reforms, Institutional and Structural Transformation. Other important issues that were discussed include what type of agriculture should prevail in future, Taxation and land reforms, Seed breeding, post loss reduction in sub Sahara Africa.<br \/>\nIt was noted that all regional blocs had not signed their CAADP Compact and many countries in SADC have not signed their compacts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThere was over 500 participants from African ministers of agriculture, High commissioners, Ambassadors, MP from African countries, PAN African parliament, MPs from EU, CSOs in Eastern, Central, Western, Southern,\u00a0 and Northern Africa), International NGOs, all RECs representatives SADC, COMESA, EAC, ROPPA, ECOWAS, EU, NATO, WFP, FAO, IFAD IGAD and many others were part of this meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>01\/05\/2013 Addis Ababa ESAFF has underlined the need to involve all stakeholders in the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) process before signing the CAADP compact. At the same time ESAFF want stakeholders to have a clear understanding of the Compact and what it entails.\u00a0 The assertion came about when ESAFF attended the\u00a0 9th CAADP&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/caadp-compact-esaff-calls-for-more-involvement\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esaff.org\/index-php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}