Institutional Strengthening and Review of Progress

Francis Halef.hale@fanrpan.org

www.fanrpan.org

Road Map

• Review of Network Status

• PIVA Results 2008 and Projections

• Review of Annual Policy Dialogue 2008

• Towards Maputo – Annual Policy Dialogue 2009

• The FANRPAN Leadership Award

• The Role of Nodes

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Status of Network

PIVA – The Tool

• Governance System• Operations and Management System• Human Resources Development System• Financial Management System • Programme and Service Delivery • External Relations and Advocacy System

Organisation Development Systems

PIVA Results 2008FANRPAN Regional Secretariat

Baseline Target by Status TargetSep-05 Sep-07 Aug-07 by Sept 2009

Governance System 30 (44%) 54 52 (76%) 68Operations and Management System 55 (50%) 93 72 (65%) 110Human Resources Development System 28 (47%) 51 34 (57%) 60Financial Management System 32 (47%) 52 50 (74%) 68Programme and Service Delivery 16 (40%) 33 24 (60%) 40External Relations and Advocacy System 47 (41%) 86 57 (50%) 114

Total score 208 (45%) 369 289 (62%) 464

Organisation Development Systems

• Constitutional amendments to governance structure

• Implementation of operations and management systems

• Financial systems and external audits

• Improved programming focus

• Network visibility and recognition from engagements and presentations

Governance Systems

2006 2007 2009 2010 201263 68

61 68 6862 65 6762 65 6753 60 6658 67 68

54 63 6844 66 68

Country

ZambiaZimbabwe

MauritiusNamibiaSwazilandTanzania

MalawiBotswana

* Assessment focused on node hosting institutions

Operations and Management System

* Assessment focused on node hosting institutions

2006 2007 2009 2010 201288 10559 85 107 112

100 110 112100 110 11273 83 9982 99 116

71 88 11268 99 116

CountryBotswanaMalawiMauritiusNamibiaSwazilandTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe

Human Resources Development System

* Assessment focused on node hosting institutions

2006 2007 2009 2010 201251 6036 40 58 60

46 51 5846 51 58

45 49 5541 54 60

42 54 6038 54 60Zimbabwe

Namibia

SwazilandTanzaniaZambia

CountryBotswanaMalawiMauritius

Financial Management System

* Assessment focused on node hosting institutions

2006 2007 2009 2010 201229 3621 32 38 40

29 35 3826 35 3825 32 3825 34 40

25 34 4020 34 40

TanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe

MalawiMauritiusNamibiaSwaziland

CountryBotswana

External Relations and Advocacy System

* Assessment focused on node hosting institutions

2006 2007 2009 2010 201278 10263 81 103 111

62 81 10862 81 10866 80 9167 98 116

78 87 10467 99 116

SwazilandTanzaniaZambiaZimbabwe

BotswanaMalawiMauritiusNamibia

Country

Programme and Service Delivery

• Assessment focused on node hosting institutions

• Focus going forward

2006 2007 2009 2010 201263 6747 60 67 68

56 63 6756 63 6757 61 6249 61 67

48 63 6837 54 57

ZambiaZimbabwe

MauritiusNamibiaSwazilandTanzania

CountryBotswanaMalawi

Group Discussion

What positive developments have taken place in the nodes ?

What are the areas of improvement?

Which nodes are ready for evaluation in 2009?

PIVA Projections 2009+

The Role of Nodes

The Annual Stakeholder Policy Dialogue

Towards Maputo

What role must the Nodes play?

Review of Annual Policy Dialogue 2008

RATINGS/SCALE: 1 = poor; 2 = could have been better; 3 = average; 4 = good; 5 = excellent

Summary of Evaluation on 2008 Dialogue

5 4 3 2 1

How do you rate the organization in general? 18% 46% 29% 7% 0%

How do you rate the venue of the conference/ workshop? 18% 54% 21% 7% 0%

Relevancy of the activity in relation to your present function? 54% 29% 14% 4% 0%

Degree to which you received information that you didn’t have? 14% 61% 18% 0.00% 0%

Usefulness of the information that was shared during the conference? 27% 54% 18% 0.00% 0%

Degree of two-way flow of information exchange between the speakers and the audience?14% 46% 36% 4% 0%

Management of the debates? 29% 36% 21% 14% 0%

Measure in which you felt at ease to participate in the discussion? 11% 46% 36% 7% 0%

Measure in which you feel satisfied with the responses to questions? 47% 61% 36% 0.00% 0%

Was enough time allocated to presentation of the topics? 61%

Was enough time allocated for discussions? 32%

Was the time allocated for breaks adequate? 96%AVERAGE 35.08 36.08 19.08 3.58 0.00

QUESTIONS RATING

Review of Annual Policy Dialogue 2008

• Nodes and node hosting institutions activities and roles in different countries. More information about agriculture situation in different countries• Interface between subsidy and marketing• Impact assessment of FANRPAN• Food systems, agro-industry, food safety• Linkages between population and food security policy• Research findings, how to trickle them down to the farmers• Country stage in relation to food security• Adaptation of food systems and food security policies to climate change and variability

What the delegates wanted in future dialogues

Review of Annual Policy Dialogue 2008

What the delegates wanted in future dialogues

• The voucher / subsidy system• New technologies of information / communication to advocate for agricultural policy• Market driven production• Sustainable input subsidies for Africa• Cooperative for sustaining success in each country• Water harvesting and food crisis• Direct discussion with farmers and visit of infrastructures in rural areas• Urban food security and food systems

Review of Annual Policy Dialogue 2008

What the delegates wanted in future dialogues

• Sharing of best practices• Food production in relation to nutrition and livelihood in a comprehensive way• Biofuels• The Malawi green revolution • Post-harvest innovations and commercial innovations for food security• HVI - this should be discussed seriously

Towards Maputo – Annual Policy Dialogue 2009

• Venue

- VIP Hotel and Conference Centre, Maputo, Mozambique

• Important Dates- Arrival of Delegates - Monday 31 August 2009

- Opening Ceremony - Tuesday 1 September 2009

- Country Day/Field Visit - Wednesday 2 September 2009

- Closing Day - Friday 5 September

Review of Annual Policy Dialogue 2008

GROUP ACTIVITY What did we learn?

What should we START?What should we STOP?

What should we CONTINUE?

Towards Maputo – Annual Policy Dialogue 2009

Planned in - Country Activities

• Initiate and sustain media campaigns up to and beyond Maputo

• Possible threads

-“The true contribution of Agriculture to economic growth” and derivatives

- What is FANRPAN? What is the role of FANRPAN in agricultural development

- FANRPAN, CAADP and Maputo Declaration

- FANRPAN and Climate Change

- FANRPAN and Water

- National Food Security Policies – who makes them and what is the impact?

- National Policy Dialogues

• Media Tracking

- What are the new policy positions? What do they mean to FANR?

Towards Maputo – Annual Policy Dialogue 2009Planned in - Country Activities

• Convene and conduct national dialogues

- Dialogue proceedings

- Policy Advisory Notes

• Networking and Communications

- Membership drive across all stakeholder groups

- Engagement of local media fraternity

- Regular distribution/bulletin

- Population of Institutional and country page on FANRPAN website

• Brand Building and Custodianship

- Acknowledgement, association and reference to FANRPAN

- Activation of venues with FANRPAN materials

Towards Maputo – Annual Policy Dialogue 2009

Planned in-Country Activities

• Determination of Country Delegation

- Stakeholder representation and level

- Ongoing in-country research staff

- Sponsored and self-sponsored delegates

• Development of country package for annual dialogue

• The FANRPAN Policy Leadership Award

• Compilation of issues for AGM

Towards Maputo – Annual Policy Dialogue 2009

Group Activity and Feedback

Development of National Action Plans

Towards Maputo – Annual Policy Dialogue 2009

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