Status of CAADP Status of CAADP implementation and Agricultural implementation and Agricultural

Information Management Information Management Systems (AIMS) in the SADC Systems (AIMS) in the SADC

RegionRegion

Presented Presented

by by

Bentry Chaura – SADC FANRBentry Chaura – SADC FANR

2020thth June 2012 June 2012

Food, Agriculture and Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources (FANR)Natural Resources (FANR)

FANR Directorate has the mandate to facilitate issues related to CAADP. •Objective: To develop, promote, coordinate and facilitate harmonization of policies and programmes meant to increase agricultural and natural resources production and productivity and to promote trade, ensure food security and sustainable economic development in the region

Core Functions of the Core Functions of the DirectorateDirectorate

• Developing, promoting and facilitating the harmonization of agricultural policies, taking into account gender equity in development strategies and programmes;

• Ensuring sustainable food security policies and programmes;• Developing, promoting and harmonizing of bio-diversity, sanitary

and phyto-sanitary, crop production and animal husbandry policies;• Developing measures meant to increase agricultural output of agro-

based businesses;• Strengthening regional capacity for agricultural research;• Developing, promoting and facilitating the harmonization of policies

and programmes aimed at achieving effective and sustainable utilization of natural resources such as fisheries, forestry and wildlife;

• Developing and facilitating the harmonization of sound environmental management policies; and

• Promoting trade in agricultural products.

FANR Key Result Areas / FANR Key Result Areas / Intervention AreasIntervention Areas

• Ensuring food availability • Ensuring access to food • Promoting food safety and nutritional value

of food • Ensuring disaster preparedness and

awareness for food security • Ensure equitable and sustainable use of

environment and natural resources • Strengthening institutional frameworks and

capacity building

Ensuring Food Availability Ensuring Food Availability through:through:

• increased food production and productivity; • enhanced irrigation and water management;

enhanced conservation and management of natural resources;

• control and eradication of pests and diseases; • development of regional input market; • increased access to agricultural land; and • strengthened agricultural research and

development.

Ensuring Access to Food Ensuring Access to Food through:through:

• improved agricultural trade;

• commercializing of agricultural production;

• and enhanced agro-business including agro-processing.

Promoting food safety and Promoting food safety and nutritional value of foodnutritional value of food through: through:

• facilitating development of Regional Food Quality Standards; and

• sharing of information on best practices

Ensuring disaster preparedness Ensuring disaster preparedness and awareness for food security and awareness for food security

through:through:• development of Regional Food Reserve;

• development of Regional Early Warning System; and

• provision of information for food relief, poverty reduction and rehabilitation.

Ensure equitable and sustainable Ensure equitable and sustainable use of environment and natural use of environment and natural

resourcesresources through:through: • facilitating development of regulatory

frameworks for regional cooperation;• integration of environment and sustainable

development issues into sectoral, national and sub-national plans;

• promoting regular assessments, monitoring and reporting on Environmental conditions and Trends in the region; and

• facilitating Regional positioning in environmental negotiations.

Strengthening institutional Strengthening institutional frameworks and capacity frameworks and capacity

building through:building through: • facilitating harmonization of rules and

regulations; and

• strengthening institutional development

FANR Interventions vs CAADP FANR Interventions vs CAADP PillarsPillars

FANR Intervention Area CAADP Pillar

Food Availability Extending the area under sustainable land management and reliable water control systems

Agricultural research and technology dissemination and adoption

Increasing food supplies and reducing hunger.

Ensuring Access to Food Improving rural infrastructure and trade-related

capacity for market access

Promoting food safety and nutritional value of food

Agricultural research and technology dissemination and adoption

Ensuring disaster preparedness and awareness for food security Increasing food supplies and reducing hunger

Ensure equitable and sustainable use of environment and natural resources Extending the area under sustainable land

management and reliable water control systems

Mainstreaming of CAADP Processes Mainstreaming of CAADP Processes into FANR Interventions:into FANR Interventions:

The Directorate is working on the following:

• Development of Regional Agricultural Policy from which to develop Regional SADC Compact

• Development of Multi-donor Trust Fund (MDTF) Strategy

• Facilitating Member States to develop Investment Plans

ImplementationImplementation

- SADC completed the first 5 –years in the Implementation of RISDP in 2010;

- An internal RISDP Implementation Report produced – external awaits independent evaluators.

- Copy of the FANR programme implementation available for distribution.

Agricultural Information Management Agricultural Information Management Systems (AIMS)Systems (AIMS)

Development objectives of AIMS:

Integrate and rationalise the various information systems within the FANR into an effective, efficient and coherent system in support of revitalising agricultural growth, enhancing food security and promoting rural development in the region.

Strategic goals:

• To provide support and input into the monitoring and evaluation system of the SADC Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan RISDP;

• To meet the objective of the Dar-es-Salaam Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security with regard to a Regional Integrated Agricultural Information System.

AIMS Activities AIMS Activities

Coordination of information management within the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Directorate

Support of the regional early warning activities– Acquisition and dissemination of early warning

information– Preparation of regional agro-meteorological and food

security monthly reports

Vulnerability Assessment and Analysis

NumericalData

e.g. Production, Social,Climate, Trade, Stats

Spatial/GISInformation

e.g. Natural Resourcesuse, production, climate, disease

Directories and Information object

repositoriesInstitutions, People

Documents, Metadata

Graphical User Interface beingManaged by

ContentManagement

System

The SADC AIMS PortalThe SADC AIMS PortalA web portal was developed in 2008 for dissemination of agriculture

information and for the promotion of networking in the region. • The proposed components of the AIMS Web Portal are shown below

[some of which are still under development]

=> http://aims.sadc.int

Development of AIMS regional Development of AIMS regional database database

Regional database developed with focus on national datasets and 1st sub-national level data

Modules available Human population National food balance Food insecure /vulnerable population Crop production [area, yield, production] Livestock production (including livestock numbers +

animal health) Fish production Markets / Commodity prices Forest cover National accounts

Development of a national version of Development of a national version of AIMS databaseAIMS database

Requests for similar database application to assist with data management at national level:

SADC AIMS has developed a draft national AIMS database application based on Regional database – with facilities for data entry for all administrative levels;

A customised version has been provided to the Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security for testing;

Resource constraints have so far prevented support to Member States.

Thank you/Thank you/

Muito Obrigado/Muito Obrigado/MerciMerci