AUC, RECS and civil society agree with development partners to boost African agriculture through CAADP programme / Closing of the fifth CAADP PP meeting
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, November 13, 2009/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The two day meeting of the 5th Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme Partnership Platform (CAADP-PP), which was organized by the African Union Commission (AUC), in collaboration with the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) and the Economic Commission for West African States (ECOWAS) ended on Tuesday, 10 November 2009, in Abuja, Nigeria.
Organised by the Department of Rural Economy and Agriculture of the African Union Commission, the closing session of the 5th CAADP PP meeting took place under the chairmanship of Professor Richard Mkandawire, Agriculture Advisor of the NEPAD Secretariat, in the presence of H.E Mrs. Tumusiime Rhoda Peace, AUC Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture; and H.E Mr. Salifou Ousseini, Commissioner in charge of Environment Agriculture and Water Resources at ECOWAS.
Speaking during the closing ceremony, Commissioner Tumusiime said that “the Abuja 5th Partnership platform meeting has taken place at the time when there is growing global and continental interest around agriculture and food security, to the extent that this time round we are putting in place mechanisms, actions, principles and targets for results”
Meanwhile the meeting discussed and reached consensus on the following, amongst others:
Development partners to intensify their support for countries that have signed the compact and for those who are lined up
To finalise the work on the CAADP Mutual Accountability Framework to be endorsed at the next Partnership platform
AUC and NEPAD to devise and/or strengthen mechanisms to support the engagement of NGOs and Civil Society Organizations within the CAADP agenda
AU-NEPAD to prepare a statement on CAADP and African Agriculture for the World Food Summit
Participants at the 5th CAADP PP meeting were drawn from AUC, NEPAD, RECs, development partners, private sector organisations, farmers’ organisations, and Civil Society Organisations.
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African Union Commission (AUC)
