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Advocating For A Holistic Youth And Gender Agriculture Policy Framework In Southern Africa National Youth Policy Dialogue, 24 April 2013 Malawi. Sithembile Mwamakamba, Project Manager [email protected]. Presentation Outline. The FANRPAN Policy Cycle - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Advocating For A Holistic Youth And Gender Agriculture Policy Framework In Southern
Africa
National Youth Policy Dialogue, 24 April 2013Malawi
Sithembile Mwamakamba, Project [email protected]
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1. The FANRPAN Policy Cycle2. Overview of youth engagement in agriculture
in Southern Africa3. Background on FANRPAN’s work on engaging
youth in agriculture policies4. Why we are here today
Presentation Outline
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Unpacking the FANRPAN Policy Engagement Cycle
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FANRPAN Policy Engagement Cycle (cont’d)
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Youth and Agriculture in Southern Africa
• Africa is the world’s youngest continent,
• In 2010, 70 % of the region’s population was under the age of 30,
• In 2010, 20 % of the population were young people between the ages of 15 to 24.
• The large majority of the youth lives in rural areas and mostly employed in agriculture, accounting for 65% of total employment.
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• NEPAD Youth Desk– Launched in 2005 by New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) to give
youth a platform for dialogue and enable them to contribute to policy debates.
• The African Youth Charter– Adopted July 2006 at the 7th Ordinary Session of the Conference of Heads of
States and Government– Lays the pedestal for national programmes and strategic plans for Youth
empowerment
• Youth Decade Plan of Action (2009-2018)– Declared by the African Union Assembly in January, 2009, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.– Framework for multi-sectoral and multidimensional engagement of all
stakeholders towards the achievement of the goals and objectives of the African Youth Charter.
Regional Efforts in Creating Youth Policies
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Status of the African Youth Charter
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Youth Charter and Agriculture
Article 14: Poverty Eradication and Socio-economic Integration of Youth
•Train young people to take up agricultural, mineral, commercial and industrial production using contemporary systems and promote the benefits of modern information and communication technology to gain access to existing and new markets;
•Facilitate access to credit to promote youth participation in agricultural and other sustainable livelihood projects
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Article 12: National Youth Policy
• State Parties shall obliged to develop a comprehensive and coherent national youth policy as follows:– The policy shall be cross-sectoral in nature considering the
interrelatedness of the challenges facing young people;
– The development of a national youth policy shall be informed by extensive consultation with young people and cater for their active participation in decision-making at all levels of governance in issues concerning youth and society as a whole;
– The policy shall advocate equal opportunities for young men and for young women;
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FANRPAN’s Youth In Agriculture Work
• September 2011 – FANRPAN convenes a Regional High Level Multi-stakeholder Food Security
Policy Dialogue on “Advocating for the Active Engagement of the Youth in the Agricultural Value Chain”
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Background
• November 2011FANRPAN commissioned case studies in Malawi, Mauritius, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zimbabwe to assess current and emerging youth policies and initiatives with a special focus on links to agriculture.
Evodius RuttaExecutive DirectorTAYENTanzania
Calvin KamchachaExecutive DirectorFAFOTRAJMalawi
Mduduzi DlaminiPresident Swazi Youth in AgriBusinessSwaziland
Nawsheen HosenallyAgriculture GraduateMauritius
Obert MathivhaExecutive DirectorCAYCSouth Africa
Tavaka NyoniConsultantORAPZimbabwe
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Study Objectives
• Establish baseline data on youth policies and initiatives currently in place in the case study countries.
• Identify gaps and opportunities for developing national youth and agriculture policies within agricultural sector and make appropriate policy decisions.
• Investigate the current participation level and coverage of rural and urban youth in agriculture and their perceptions towards the sector
• Investigate and assess how the key institutions as well as current tools, and mechanisms and policy instruments available have mainstreamed youth agenda
• Profile investment opportunities for youth engagement in the agricultural value chains
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Methodology
COUNTRY DESK REVIEW
KEY INFORMANT INTERVIEWS
FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS
ON LINE FORUM DISCUSSIONS
SURVEYS
MAURITIUS
SOUTH AFRICA
SWAZILAND
ZIMBABWE
MALAWI
TANZANIA
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2012 FANRPAN High Level Food Security Policy Dialogue, Tanzania
• 253 delegates
• 23 countries
• Presentation of six country case study findings to a regional audience
• Launch of the Youth in Agriculture Award
The theme was “From Policy to Practice: Advocating for the Active Engagement of Youth in Agriculture Value Chains”.
H.E. Dr Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of the Republic of Tanzania
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• September 2012: USAID support in disseminating case study findings at national level
• Three national dialogues (South Africa, Swaziland, Mauritius) have been conducted to date
• Expansion of project to:– Angola, – Lesotho, – Mozambique and – Zambia
Disseminating the Findings
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Nothing for the Youth
Without the Youth
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Thank You