The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Biennial Review (BR) was established under the 2014 Malabo Declaration as a continental mutual accountability mechanism for tracking countries’ progress toward CAADP commitments and targets. Five BR cycles were conducted under the Malabo framework, and going forward, the BR will be implemented under the Kampala CAADP Declaration, with the first Kampala-aligned BR expected in 2027, providing an opportunity to strengthen the framework and align it with the priorities of the new CAADP Kampala agenda.
The BR mechanism provides a platform for:
- Monitoring progress by African Union Member States against agreed CAADP commitments and targets;
- Promoting mutual accountability and peer learning;
- Strengthening evidence- and outcome-based agricultural policy planning, implementation, and decision-making;
- Identifying areas requiring policy, institutional, programmatic and investment action; and
- Supporting countries to accelerate progress towards agricultural and agrifood system transformation goals.
Every two years, AU Member States report on their progress against BR indicators to the African Union Commission (AUC) through the Regional Economic Communities. The data is analyzed and results are consolidated into a continental BR report that is presented to the Heads of State and Government for adoption. The five Malabo BR cycles have provided important evidence on country performance, implementation challenges, data gaps, policy responses, and emerging priorities.
The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS), a program of AKADEMIYA2063, provides data and knowledge products to support CAADP benchmarking, monitoring, review, dialogue, and mutual accountability processes at continental, regional, and national levels. In collaboration with the AUC Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment (AUC-DARBE), relevant RECs, national governments, and development partners, ReSAKSS provides technical support to the CAADP BR process including the preparation and dissemination of knowledge products based on the BR data and findings.
AKADEMIYA2063 is seeking a Consultant to support the preparation of a regional CAADP BR brief for ECOWAS and country briefs for four ECOWAS Member States, drawing on the data, findings, and results of the 5th CAADP BR.
The briefs will synthesize findings from the Fifth CAADP BR, compare performance across relevant previous BR cycles, document lessons and policy responses, and identify priority actions for accelerating implementation of CAADP commitments under the new Kampala CAADP agenda.