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In early 2020, African governments adopted a wide range of containment and confinement measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 in the continent. The measures included border closures, suspension of international flights, closures of markets and schools, state-of-emergency declarations, total and partial lockdowns, restrictions on internal movement, imposition of curfews, and closures of nonessential businesses (UN-Habitat 2020; IMF 2020). To mitigate the adverse economic effects of these health measures, governments implemented various emergency economic supports and regulations. Several institutions have tracked the type and size of policy responses by African countries to ease the adverse impacts on agricultural development, food security, finance, and trade (Laborde and Parent 2020; Bisson and Hambleton 2020). These studies have explored the incidence and impacts of emergency responses with the objective of estimating the costs of COVID-19. Similarly, AKADEMIYA2063 has established analytical workstreams to monitor the impacts of COVID-19 on food production, markets, trade, and households (Badiane and Collins 2020). However, these studies have evaluated the overall impact of COVID-19 without disentangling the impacts of the health measures from those of the economic measures. ; PR ; IFPRI4; 1 Fostering Climate-Resilient and Sustainable Food Supply; 2 Promoting Healthy Diets and Nutrition for all; Feed the Future Initiative; ReSAKSS ; AFR

In the 2003 Maputo Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security, African heads of state and government resolved to urgently implement the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)—a continent wide framework for reducing poverty, food insecurity, and hunger and revitalizing agriculture through increased investments (AU 2003). Early on, the two main CAADP targets were allocating 10 percent of national budgets to the agricultural sector and achieving a 6 percent agricultural growth rate at the national level. In 2014, African leaders reasserted their commitment to CAADP and broadened the agenda by adopting the Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods. Through seven broad commitments in the Malabo Declaration, the leaders resolved to uphold CAADP principles and values, increase investment in agriculture, end hunger and halve poverty by 2025, boost intra-African agricultural trade, enhance resilience to climate variability, and strengthen mutual accountability for actions and results by conducting a continental Biennial Review (BR) of progress made in achieving the commitments (AUC 2014). ; PR ; IFPRI4; 1 Fostering Climate-Resilient and Sustainable Food Supply; 2 Promoting Healthy Diets and Nutrition for all; Feed the Future Initiative; ReSAKSS ; AFR

In line with the role of the ATOR as the official monitoring and evaluation report for CAADP, Chapter 12 monitors progress on CAADP indicators outlined in the CAADP Results Framework 2015–2025. The chapter also reviews progress in the CAADP implementation process across the continent, including a look at trends in government social protection expenditures. ; PR ; IFPRI1; ReSAKSS; IFPRI4; 4 Transforming Agricultural and Rural Economies; 5 Strengthening Institutions and Governance ; AFR; DSGD

The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) is a continentwide framework for accelerating broad-based economic growth and progress toward poverty reduction and food and nutrition security through an agriculture-led growth strategy. It was officially adopted by the African Union (AU) heads of state and government in the 2003 Maputo Declaration on Agriculture and Food Security with two main targets: achieving a 6 percent annual agricultural growth rate at the national level and allocating 10 percent of national budgets to the agriculture sector. In 2014, the AU heads of state and government reaffirmed their commitment to CAADP by adopting the Malabo Declaration on Accelerated Agricultural Growth and Transformation for Shared Prosperity and Improved Livelihoods. In the Malabo Declaration they made seven broad commitments, including upholding the CAADP principles and values; enhancing investment in agriculture; ending hunger and halving poverty by 2025; boosting intra-African agricultural trade; enhancing resilience to climate variability; and strengthening mutual accountability for actions and results by conducting a Biennial Review (BR) of progress made in achieving the commitments. ; PR ; IFPRI1; ReSAKSS; CRP4 ; AFR; A4NH ; CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH)

The commitment to mutual accountability to results and action raises a fundamental question about the role of mutual accountability (MA) processes and mechanisms in enhancing the capabilities of governments to implement the vision and strategies that will deliver quick results and foster agricultural growth and transformation on the continent. This chapter addresses this fundamental question and related issues using as background information the inaugural CAADP BR report and the accompanying Africa Agricultural Transformation Scorecard (AATS) that was launched at the 30th ordinary session of the AU assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in January 2018 (AUC, 2016). ; ReSAKSS; IFPRI5 ; AFR ; PR