Strategy for agricultural transformation in africa

Climate-Smart 
Agriculture 
Some experts, but scale-up required:
The 
ClimDev-Africa Special Fund group within 
OSAN and other climate actors at the AfDB 
do some work around climate adaptation.
The Bank will need to ensure that the agricultural organization has expertise 
focused exclusively on climate-smart agriculture and best practices. More 
specifically, these team members will need to display a deep understanding of 
previous and current trends in CSA as well as how to adapt these to different 
local African contexts and career in climate change issues that spans the past 10-
15 years significant developments in the space. They will need to convene 
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AfDB. 2012. “The preferred partner – a client assessment of the AfDB.” 

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Skill 
Assessment
Required resources 
FTE 
require-
ment 
(OSAN) 
platforms and forums for demonstrating CSA approaches and exchange ideas on 
practice. They will also need to possess the technical skills to evaluate proposals 
for the design and development of agriculture climate risk tools and products. 
These FTEs will work with the existing OSAN climate team as well as the 
broader group working on climate resilience across the Bank.
Gender 
Some expertise, but scale-up required:
While there a Bank-wide Special Envoy on 
Gender, there is only one gender expert on the 
OSAN team.
The Bank will require agriculture-focused gender expertise to ensure that all 
aspects—both in terms of implementation and M&E—of the ATA are as gender-
responsive as possible. The required FTE must have previous experience 
working specially at the intersection of gender and agriculture, with particular 
consideration given to access to productive resources and finance, as well as 
inclusive political and institutional representation. 
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