ReSAKSS
MOTIVATION
The efforts under CAADP to promote evidence-based policy planning and implementation require a mechanism that incorporates peer review, benchmarking, and learning, as well as mutual accountability. IFPRI, along with the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), and in partnership with the three leading economic communities, ECOWAS, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, and the South African Development Community, launched the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS) in 2006.Endorsed by the African Union Commission as the main platform for CAADP monitoring and evaluation, and with support from USAID, ReSAKSS tracks nearly 30 core indicators of countries’ progress in implementation of CAADP and overall economic performance. The information is widely and freely available to African policymakers and development partners via the ReSAKSS website as well as the Annual Trends and Outlook Report, the system’s flagship publication. By 2013, 15 country-level Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support Systems (SAKSS) will be set up throughout Africa, most of them in the West and Central Africa region, building capacities and mobilizing local centers of expertise to meet the future analytical needs of the CAADP agenda.
OUTCOMES
- ReSAKSS developed the framework that is used by the African Union Commission to monitor and evaluate progress on CAADP. The framework was formally endorsed by the 6th CAADP Partnership Platform meeting in April 2010. Its research has beenan important source of comparative data on the progress of CAADP implementation.
- ReSAKSS’ Annual Trends and Outlook Report is the official CAADP monitoring and evaluation report, which is submitted to the African Union Commission and the NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency for discussion and eventually receives formal endorsement at the annual CAADP Partnership Platform meeting.
- In 2007, ECOWAS launched ECOAGRIS, a countrybased platform to monitor agricultural information in West Africa by integrating the ReSAKSS and SAKSS as core components.
