Strategy for agricultural transformation in africa

Agricultural Statistics and Monitoring and Evaluation: 
to act as an 
effective coordinator of activities and investments across the African region, 
the Bank will need to be able to provide a depth of analysis that goes beyond 
supporting its own decision-making, and is authoritative enough to influence 
and guide the decisions of other organizations; sophisticated agriculture and 
agribusiness technical analysis capability to support individual investment 
decisions, as well as providing the Bank with a rigorous platform to act as a 
major advocate for agribusiness in the continent will need to be developed. It 
can leverage its current Global Program for Improving Agricultural Statistics 
and Rural Development housed in ESTA to both source the necessary date 
from monitoring and evaluation and enhance the capabilities of RMCs to 
collect and provide quality data to guide strategic decision-making.
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Agro-Industry and Agribusiness Expertise: 
as a financial institution poised 
to catalyze lending to the agro-industry and agribusiness sectors, the Bank will 
need to ensure that it is equipped with sufficient in-house expertise to critically 
evaluate its approaches and ensure that these two areas are appropriately 
understood in depth as related but separate from on-farm production.
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A review of the human resources implications to address the above areas 
indicates that there will be a requirement for 18-20 people, in the following roles.
These gaps can be filled by either hiring new FTEs, replacing existing FTEs, or 
repurposing roles of existing FTEs
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. Hiring all of these FTEs would imply a UA1.4-1.5m 
annual increase to the OSAN budget. 
Figure 19: Bank required capabilities for the implementation of the Strategy 
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A more detailed capabilities assessment can be found in Annex V. 

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