Chairperson of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee, President Macky Sall of the Republic of Senegal

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1 Results-based Performance Report of the NEPAD Agency Presented to 32 th NEPAD HSGOC by Dr. Ibrahim Assane Mayaki, Chief Executive Officer, NEPAD Agency 29 January 2015 Excellences, Chairperson of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee, President Macky Sall of the Republic of Senegal Chairperson of the African Union, President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania Heads of State and Government, Members of the NEPAD Orientation Committee Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Dr. Nkozasana Dlamini Zuma; Commissioners; Members of the NEPAD Steering Committee; Chief Executives of the Regional Economic Communities and Heads of African regional institutions, AfDB, UNECA, UNDP and UN-OSAA; Ladies and Gentlemen, 1 P a g e

2 On behalf of the NEPAD Agency, I am honoured to present the major programmatic activities of the Agency for 2014 to the 32th Meeting of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee. En 2014, nous sommes intervenus dans 52 pays sur le Continent dans le cadre de l ensemble de nos thématiques ((i) Agriculture, Sécurité alimentaire et Nutrition, (ii) Changement Climatique et Gestion des Ressources Naturelles, (iii) Intégration régionale et Infrastructure ; (iv) Développement humain-science et Technologie, santé, éducation-,(v) La thématique transversale (Genre, Développement des Capacités, Jeunesse) Dans le cadre des thématiques Agriculture, Sécurité Alimentaire et Nutrition et Changement Climatique et Gestion de Ressources Naturelles, deux innovations sont à noter: 1. The Agency has established the Agriculture, Climate Change Framework Initiative with a target of at least 25million small scale farmers practising climate smart agriculture by The Initiative has two programs: 1.1 Gender Climate Change Agriculture Support Programme aimed at improving the capacity and capabilities of government departments and women small holder farmers to respond to the impacts of climate change. The programme has been operationalized in 5 countries and specifically supports creation and strengthening of national platforms to increase the voice of women in decision making in all aspects of the agriculture value chain; Capacity building to increase productivity, improve the quality of their commodities; and receive technical support to organize themselves in cooperatives. 2 P a g e

3 1.2. We have also developed. The NEPAD-iNGO Alliance, is a partnership between the Agency and 5 International NGOs to targets reaching and build the capacity of 6 million small scale farmers to use of climate smart technologies for better productive yields along the valuechain. 2. The NEPAD Climate Change Fund has supported through financial grants and technical assistance, measures aimed at strengthening resilience and adaptation to climate change. The first call of the Fund is supporting 10 country projects and a regional project (COMESA). These projects are being implemented within the nexus of climate, agriculture and poverty eradication. Dans le cadre du PIDA, quatre (4) résultats majeurs doivent être signalés : 1. The first ever financing Summit targeting trans-boundary and regional infrastructure projects held under the leadership H.E President Macky SALL, African leaders endorsed the Dakar Agenda for Action. The Dakar Agenda for Action focuses on the identified sixteen (16) Infrastructure programs and projects of the PIDA Priority Action Plan. To this effect the NEAPD Agency has developed the PIDA Implementation Acceleration Strategy and the Service Delivery Mechanism (SDM) to support early-stage project preparation and development. 2. We have also provided technical support to the Presidential Infrastructure Initiative (PICI) under the continued strategic guidance of H.E. President Jacob ZUMA of South Africa. The Agency was 3 P a g e

4 proud in supporting the recently held ministerial meeting on PICI implementation. 3. Furthermore, Infrastructure Skills for Development (IS4D) initiative was developed with the core objective to facilitate the implementation of priority PIDA projects by capacitating the project personnel at the country level. 4. Regarding the Energy issue, the NEPAD Agency signed an MoU with USAID and is leading the way in facilitating the implementation of Power Africa Initiative and the realization of Africa High Priority Energy Projects. In this regards, the Agency has produced the Africa Power Vision (APV) From Vision to Action. Sur la thématique relative au Développement Humain (Science, Technologie, Education et Santé) ; 1. We will work with the African Academy of Sciences to establish and operationalise and alliance for excellence in Science in Africa, a funding platform that will support African scientists to carry out research that will address challenging problems in health. 2. Our African Medicines Regulatory Harmonization (AMRH) Initiative continues to set and improve standards and requirements for regulation and access to quality and safe drugs for African citizens. The Agency has worked with the East African Community to harmonize the technical requirements for regulation of Medicines 4 P a g e

5 within the EAC. Plans have commenced to undertake similar joint exercises in ECOWAS and SADC. 3. The NEPAD Agency has also joined in the fight against Ebola through the coordinated efforts of Chairperson of the Commission, especially in providing oversight in evaluation of clinical trials for candidate vaccines and other therapies against Ebola Virus Diseases. Regarding our cross-cutting thematic areas namely Gender and Capacity development, 1. The Agency has empowered vulnerable women through financial assistance, agriculture education and training, micro credit entrepreneurship and skills development in agribusiness value chain 2. We conducted an institutional capacity development assessment in all 8 AU recognized RECs under Capacity Development support programme and designed RECs Capacity Development Implementation Plan to support the realization of the 2nd Decade of NEPAD, the Post-2015 Agenda and the first 10 years of Agenda 2063 Strengthening Accountability and Optimal Implementation 1. In % of the budget was for the operations of the Agency and 77 % was for programme development and implementation. 2. The Yearly audit is carried out by external and internal auditors with perfect track record 5 P a g e

6 Excellences, Conformément aux orientations que vous avez fixes, nous avons renforcé notre capacité de mise en œuvre. Nous la reflétons aujourd hui par la mise en place d un tableau de bord, élaboré avec SAP, qui permettra à chaque citoyen Africain de voir les résultats que nous obtenons dans chacun des pays où nous intervenons et sur l ensemble de nos thématiques d interventions. I thank you. 6 P a g e