Agriculture sector to implement investment plan
The agriculture sector will implement the National Agriculture Investment Plan (NAIP) over the next six years.
This was discussed at a recent national validation workshop for the NAIP.
The workshop consisted of representatives from all sectors within agriculture to validate, authenticate and make sure that the final document contains all key priority activities that were proposed during consultation rounds, both national and regional.
The NAIP is based on four key pillars: production, productivity and agri-business; food, nutrition and human capacity; sustainable resource management and, lastly, an enabling environment and responsive institutions.
Streamline activities
Agriculture executive director Ndiyakupi Nghituwamata said the workshop was crucial to ensure that the final NAIP would serve as a reference point to streamline public-private partnership activities for a meaningful and mutually-owned transformation process in the agriculture sector.
“Simply, NAIP as the agri-sector strategy should enable us all, as stakeholders and players in the sector, to pull together in the same direction, Harambee style.”
In terms of the way forward, the preparatory committee will incorporate all inputs into the document and ensure that all gaps identified in the document are filled, she explained.
“After this, we will organise the ceremony where the representatives of various stakeholders will be invited to come and sign the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Compact, which will serve as a memorandum of understanding between public and private actors in the agriculture sector agreed mutually to implement the National Agriculture Investment Plan.”
Nghituwamata said it is only after the signing that they will be able to submit the NAIP document to the African Union Commission.
This was discussed at a recent national validation workshop for the NAIP.
The workshop consisted of representatives from all sectors within agriculture to validate, authenticate and make sure that the final document contains all key priority activities that were proposed during consultation rounds, both national and regional.
The NAIP is based on four key pillars: production, productivity and agri-business; food, nutrition and human capacity; sustainable resource management and, lastly, an enabling environment and responsive institutions.
Streamline activities
Agriculture executive director Ndiyakupi Nghituwamata said the workshop was crucial to ensure that the final NAIP would serve as a reference point to streamline public-private partnership activities for a meaningful and mutually-owned transformation process in the agriculture sector.
“Simply, NAIP as the agri-sector strategy should enable us all, as stakeholders and players in the sector, to pull together in the same direction, Harambee style.”
In terms of the way forward, the preparatory committee will incorporate all inputs into the document and ensure that all gaps identified in the document are filled, she explained.
“After this, we will organise the ceremony where the representatives of various stakeholders will be invited to come and sign the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Compact, which will serve as a memorandum of understanding between public and private actors in the agriculture sector agreed mutually to implement the National Agriculture Investment Plan.”
Nghituwamata said it is only after the signing that they will be able to submit the NAIP document to the African Union Commission.
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