Strategy for agricultural transformation in africa

3.
 
Lack of 
coordination 
between partners 
An important component of the ATA will be the ‘Partnership for 
Agricultural Transformation in Africa’, which will serve as a 
coordination platform for the overall strategy. The AfDB will 
play a direct role in convening partners and facilitating them to 
hold each other accountable for agreed-upon targets. The PATA 
will be a forum through which partners can translate high-level 
commitments into concrete strategies to transforming specific 
agricultural value chains and agro-ecological zones. The AfDB 
will build internal capabilities to track and monitor progress 
against these collective commitments. 
4.
 
Lack of 
accountability from 
RMCs and 
partners 
5.
 
Mismatch between 
current AfDB 
capabilities and 
those required for 
implementation 
The ATA implementation plan includes a detailed assessment of 
the capabilities required to execute against the strategy relative 
to the current capabilities at the Bank. It also provides 
recommendations for how to address identified gaps, whether 
through building in-house expertise or leveraging key 
partnerships. 
The Bank will not execute the strategy alone; target partners have 
been identified for each of the initiatives under the Bank’s 
enablers, and as a result, the Bank will be drawing on a broad 
spectrum of expertise in order to drive execution. Coordination 
of such partnerships inevitably involves a trade-off between risks 
associated with capabilities at the Bank, versus the complexity of 
coordination, and as a result, the coordination platform of PATA 
is critical, while the Bank will also work with multiple alternative