OVERVIEW OF EU – GoM CO-OPERATION

NSA Consultation meeting

27th April 2006

Capital Hotel, Lilongwe

MAIN EU FUNDS

European Commission Budget (BUDGET)

1. Annual programming

2. Contributions from EU 25

3. EC is the contracting Authority

European Commission Budget (BUDGET)

European Development Fund (EDF)

1. Five year programming

2. Contributions from EU 15

3. GoM is the contracting Authority

COTONOU AGREEMENT 2000-2020

• Signed by 15 EU Member States and 79 ACP states

POLITICAL CONTEXT

2. PRINCIPLES• Partnership• Participation • Pivotal role of dialogue • Differentiation

1. OBJECTIVES• Overall aim: Fight poverty • Support democracy• Promote economic growth• Sustainable development

3. ROLE OF NON-STATE ACTORS• Advocacy

• Implementers

MAIN ACTORS

Ministry Lands

Ministry NREA

Ministry Agriculture

Ministry Health

NAONAO support unit

MoFMinistry Transport

Ministry Education

Ministry EP&D

European CommissionDelegation

GOM BRUSSELS

ECHO

DG RELEX

DG DEV

DG AIDCO

DG TRADE

NGOs

FIDP MPP FNSP

IDAF PWP

SGR

SNRP

FSBL 2001-2006 € 98 mTOTAL €230 m (+ €35 m MPP 4)

INFRASTRUCTURE € 75.5 m

NON FOCALAGRI & RD€ 79.8 m

MALAWI COUNTRY STRATEGY PAPER 2001-2007A ENVELOPE € 276 M / B ENVELOPE € 63.8 / 21.3 M

COTONOU AGREEMENT 2000-2020EDF FUNDS

POLITICAL CONTEXT

RD PROGRAMME FS PROGRAMME

BUDGET - FOOD SECURITY

FOOD SECURITY BUDGET LINE 2004-6 (€ 45 MILLION)

1. Implementation of Food and Nutrition Security Policy (15%)Better decision making; coordination; civil society; monitoring; financial

management

2. Efficient management of Strategic Grain Reserve (18%)ISO 9000; rules respected; financial and administrative management of NFRA.

3. Improve institutional capacity in trade policy (6%)Coordination GoM + private sectors; improve capacity of GoM trade agreements

4. Increase farm and non-farm incomes (36%)Diversification, production, gender, infrastructure improved + cash transfers

5. Improve nutritional status of vulnerable groups (26%)Improve recognition + prevention of malnutrition; supplementary feeding; facilities

ALL FOR PROPOSALS TO BE LAUNCHED SOON!

EDF - RURAL DEVELOPMENT1. Farm Income Diversification Programme (€36.5 m, phase 1 €16.2)Soil conservation, diversification, business development, marketing

2. Income Generating Public Works Programme (€25 m, phase 1 €15.5)Cash for work/assets, income generating, roads, forestry and irrigation components

3. Improved forestry management for sust. livelihoods (€14.9 m phase 1 €9)Local-level governance of forest resources, empowering, sustainable use

4. Institutional Development across the Agri-Food sector (€8 m)Growth in agri-food chain, implement core function analysis of MoA + MoTPSD

5. Sustainable nutrition rehabilitation programme (€6.5)Ownership + capacity at national and community level

6. Fourth Micro Projects Programme 4 (€35 m)Bottom up, average cost €10,000, health, education, boreholes, environment more?

7. National Initiative for Civic Education (€8.9 m)Stabilise democratisation and social&economic development

8. STABEX (€21 m)Diversification, coffee, tea + paprika, research new varieties, organisational support

• Democracy and Human Rights

• Elections • Migrations• Co-financing with NGOs• Food Security• Environment and Forests

• Antipersonnel landmines• Gender• Health• Drugs• ACP-EU Water Facility• ACP-EU Energy Facility• ACP-EU Microfinance

EC Thematic Budget Lines

•NGO projects

10 food security projects (€14.9 m)

7 projects (€4.5 m) co-financing BL (water, sanitation and health) &

2 projects sexual and reproductive health BL (€3.6 m)

CONCLUSIONS

1. NON STATE ACTORS, INCLUDING NGOs – IMPORTANT PART OF

COTONOU AGREEMENT

2. RURAL DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD SECURITY IS A KEY AREA OF

GOM / EU COOPERATION

3. NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR NGOs WITH EDF PROGRAMMES

USING CALL FOR PROPOSALS

WEBSITE FOR COTONOUhttp://europa.eu.int/comm/development/body/cotonou/index_en.htm

MALAWI STRATEGY PAPER

http://europa.eu.int/comm/development/body/csp_rsp/csp_en.cfm

Current EDF Programmes

Those operating in fields related to food security

Farm Income Diversification ProgrammeFIDP

(€36.5 m, phase 1 €16.2 m)

• Will build on the PROSCARP project

• Encourage business development farming as a business

• Income generation for smallholders/rural population

• Crop diversification (including horticultural crops)

• Improvement of marketing of produce

• Development of grassroots extension service

• Soil conservation – use of organic fertilizer

• Setting up farmers associations/organisations

• Development of market information systems

Income Generating Public Works ProgrammeIGPWP

(€25 m, phase 1 €15.5 m)

• Safety net activities

• Components :road maintenance, small-scale irrigation and forestry

• Provides an alternative to food aid through cash transfers

• Roads component: Improves accessibility to/from rural areas

• Irrigation component: Improves agricultural production

• Forestry component: Helps develop sustainable fuel wood and timbre

supplies

Improved Forestry Management for Sustainable LivelihoodsIFMSL

(€14.9 m phase 1 €9 m)

• Addresses issues of local governance of forest reserves

• Promotes more effective and accountable institutions

• Empowers the poorer sections of society in equitable and transparent

manner

• Sustainable management of natural resources for those dependent on

them for their livelihoods

Institutional Development across the Agri-Food sector IDAF

(€8 m)

• Institutional capacity building

• Create enabling environment for development and growth across the

agri-food chain (production, processing, marketing and trade)

• Development of capabilities of public and non-public actors

• Review functions of MoA and MoT&PSD (CFA implementation)

• Support to DAs and Farmers Organisations to capitalise on market

opportunities

• Strengthen partnerships between public and private sector

• Appropriate production and processing technologies

• Exports of agri-food products

Sustainable Nutrition Rehabilitation Programme SNRP

(€6.5 m)

• Aims to address widespread poverty and high levels of chronic

malnutrition

• Lack of reliable data and its analysis on chronic and acute malnutrition

• Interrelation between malnutrition and HIV/AIDS

• Strengthen capacity and ownership of both national and community

level to recognise and react to malnutrition

• CfP for national and community level components

Fourth Micro Projects Programme 4 MPP4

(€35 m)

• A bottom up approach: community-based initiatives

• Average cost of projects 10,000€

• 75% EC and 25% from community (in cash or kind)

• Education, health, agriculture, environment and income generation

• Capacity building of the District level authorities and NGOs

National Initiative for Civic Education NICE

(€8.9 m)

• Strengthen capacity of local structures to disseminate and embed

principles, values and benefits of a democratic society

• 5 thematic areas used as entry points: local democracy, food security,

gender, environmental protection and HIV/AIDS

• Provides information

• Every district has a NICE office

• Organise training, seminars and awareness workshops on issues

identified by the communities as “priority areas”

• Quarterly newspaper Tilime (4 languages)

STABEX

(€21 m)

• Stabilisation of Export Earnings

• Coffee, tea and paprika

• Organisational support

• Research on new varieties of tea, replanting of tea

• Training and formation of credit co-operatives for coffee growers

• Support to PAMA, paprika production has increased

Orientation

For possible future CfP from the FSBL

General orientation

• Actions should complement and build synergies with existing interventions

• Amount available would be up to 10.7MEUR

• Timing for launch – tentatively May 2006 is being considered

• Minimum of 90 days for submission of proposals

• Lead applicant would have to be a legally recognised NGO/organisation

• Action would have to be non-profit and non-commercial

• Partners could have different eligibility criteria to lead applicant

• Involvement of private sector, cooperatives, FOs would be encouraged

Objectives

• CfP would seek to address food insecurity in Malawi

• Addressing 2 pillars of food security: availability & accessibility at

household, local and national level

• In line with F&NSP and MGDS, however not covering nutrition (SNRP)

• Overall objective: “to increase food security at household, local and

national level by either stimulating increased smallholder production, or

through improved smallholder’s accessibility to food by raising rural

incomes”

Tentative orientation

• Minimum and maximum amounts – variation between the lots

• Geographical coverage: tentatively nationwide but with good justification for

chosen area

• CfP most likely be broken down into lots

• Length of projects: cannot exceed 60 months – thinking of different lengths

depending on lots

• Tentative lots: information, awareness raising, communication, support

to vulnerable groups, diversification (non crop), food preservation (crop

storage and processing)

Reaction from audience

• Added value of NSAs (comparative advantage vs.

GoM/no NGO programmes)

• What are priorities that NSAs have in FS sector?

• What interventions have worked/failed?

• What areas need to be concentrated on?

• Lesson learnt, problems encountered

Thank you for your attention

• CfP would be launched locally – by EC Delegation

• The resulting contracts would be managed by the EC Delegation

• “Watch the space” in the local press, EC Delegation website and also

the Europe Aid website

• E-mail will also be sent out

• Guidelines will be specific – READ THEM when they are published

Websites

Europe Aid:

http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/index_en.htm

EC Delegation:

http://www.delmwi.cec.eu.int/