The Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) is an Africa-wide network of regional nodes supporting the Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), in collaboration with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Africa-based centers of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), to facilitate the implementation of AU/NEPAD’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). The ReSAKSS nodes offer high-quality analyses to improve policymaking, track progress, document success, and derive lessons for the implementation of the CAADP agenda. The goal of the ReSAKSS Working Paper series is to provide timely access to results of preliminary research and data analysis that relate directly to strengthening ongoing discussions and critical commentaries on the future direction of African agriculture and rural development.
The purpose of this document is to develop a framework to be used in monitoring progress towards the successful implementation of CAADP to support mutual, peer and progress reviews at the continental, regional and national levels, respectively, and to provide a conceptual basis for impact assessment of CAADP. This is done by: (1) identifying a set of key indicators that are consistent with the underlying logic of CAADP to track progress in resource allocation and achieving stated targets and help answer questions related to the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the program; (2) identifying the data required, sources, and methods for estimating values of the indicators; and (3) laying out a plan for implementing the framework in terms of collecting, managing and analyzing the data, reporting results of the analysis, and obtaining and incorporating feedback for further improvement of the system.
The core of the document, as with any M&E framework on what to monitor, is based on the underlying logic of CAADP to show how the investments and outputs associated with any one pillar of CAADP interact with (i.e., affects and is affected by) the investments and outputs associated with the other pillars through complementarity or substitutability of investments (or through price effects, for example) to affect achievement of the overall CAADP goals and objectives. Furthermore, the framework shows how the investment decision and realization of the various outputs and outcomes are influenced by several conditioning factors such as governance and trade and macroeconomic policies. Such factors can have greater impact on the performance of the agriculture sector and, consequently, on achieving the overall CAADP goals and objectives, compared to investments and policies that directly target the agricultural sector.