Strategy for agricultural transformation in africa

Figure 15: High-level setup of 'Partnership for Agricultural Transformation in Africa' 
 

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The PATA will leverage existing CAADP mechanisms.
A key aim of the PATA is 
to bring together actors from across governments, development institutions, private sectors, 
and civil society with a focus on coordinating and financing strategies for a specific AVC in a 
specific region. This does not directly overlap with the purpose of most CAADP coordinating 
mechanisms. The most comparable body is GrowAfrica; thus, the PATA will not replicate 
commodity working groups in regions where GrowAfrica already has a functioning relevant 
group. As mentioned earlier, another key aim of the PATA is to track and hold organizations 
accountable to commitments and reflect on learnings around implementation. While the PATA 
continental and regional steering committees will meet independently on matters related to 
PATA steering groups, they will seek to participate in the same continent and region-wide 
annual and biennial meetings convened by CAADP (e.g. of the CAADP Partnership Platform 
and its related business meeting) to review commitments rather than convening separate 
meetings in parallel. The PATA will also engage coalitions and task forces that have organized 
to participate in the CAADP process, including the Non-State Actors Coalition of farmers’ 
groups, civil society organizations and private sector actors as well as others. 
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To complement the work of the PATA, the Bank can also play an important role 
in supporting and scaling up pan-African agriculture leadership initiatives.
Strong 
leadership and political will are key for the successful implementation of all of the activities 
discussed thus far. African leaders, both those responsible directly to the agricultural sector as 
well as those responsible for other areas or overall development more generally, must work 
together to set strategic direction and feel accountable to one another for pursuing this agreed 
upon direction. The AfDB can reinforce and ensure this by supporting programs such as 
Leadership 4 Agriculture (L4Ag), a network of current and former African Ministers of 
Finance and Agriculture that provides technical and financial assistance to other Ministers 
working to transform Africa’s Agricultural sector into a commercial enterprise. L4Ag was 
inaugurated in July of 2014, publically launched in February of 2015, and poised to mobilize 
more Ministers of Finance to begin delivering on activities discussed thus far.
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