Att_6_-_Ghana_FTF_Policy_Matrix_2012-11-12b.pdf

USAID/Ghana Feed the Future Policy Matrix – DRAFT for Discussion

Policy Area/ Component of CIP

Issues/ Obstacles/ Constraints Policy Objective Actions/ Measures Targets/ Timelines and Indicators

USG Support / Mechanisms Agencies

Policy Area 1:

Agricultural Inputs

CIP Component:

METASIP Program 1.1: Productivity Improvement; 2.1 Promotion of Crop, Livestock and Fishery Production for income; 5.1 Uptake of Technology along the Value Chain and Application of Biotechnology in Agriculture

Lack of sustainable, market‐ oriented seed system capable of disseminating modern varieties of staple and cash crops. Lack of capacity of formal seed sector to effectively perform the necessary procedures. Irregular variety release process, slowing commercialization of new varieties.

Certification procedures are not transparent, and the responsible division requires capacity building.

No national variety list or centralized data base on released seed varieties.

Gov’t performs too many roles that could be better performed by private sector.

Establish policy that enables the private sector to develop, commercialize and use improved inputs to increase smallholder productivity and incomes.

Policy Action 1: Seed regulations developed to implement the Plant and Fertilizer Act, specifically:

‐ Seed registry system.

‐ Protocols for variety testing, release and registration, authorization to conduct field inspections, seed sampling, and seed testing.

‐ Standards for seed classification and certification.

USG support action:

‐ TA and training to Ghana Grains and Legumes Board (GGLB) and the Seed Inspection Division (GSID) to improve to set up variety registration, release, and certification processes ‐ TA, training and limited equipment to enable the institutions such as the GSID to maintain quality of seeds as they move through the system.

Policy Action 2: New agricultural input policy for fertilizer and certified seed use developed that includes:

‐ Clearly defined role of government in fertilizer and seed marketing;

‐ Clearly defined role of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and GGLB; and ‐ Defined role of private sector in breeding.

USG support action:

‐ Policy Project TA to MOFA on development of input policy

Policy Action 3: Implementing regulations drafted and passed to implement recently passed Biosafety Bill USG support action:

‐ TA through Program for Biosafety Systems ‐ Capacity building for National Biosafety Authority (NBA) and National Biotechnology Committee (NBC)

Policy Action 4: Revise the legislative instrument (LI) for confined biotechnology field trials to be consistent with the new biosafety bill USG support action:

‐ PBS support to review the LI and propose changes to achieve these endpoints

Targets/Timelines:

Policy Action 1: met in September 2012

Policy Action 2: December 2013

Policy Action 3: TBC

Policy Action 4: TBC

Indicators:

‐ $X / x% increase in private investment in commercial production and sale of improved seed ‐ # of days for variety release of new seed varieties ‐ # of days for release of new seed varieties ‐ # of seed companies accredited by government to produce foundation seed ‐ # of private entities accredited to certify seed ‐ Volume of breeder seed produced for developing foundation seed meets demand

‐ FTF Ag Technology Transfer Project ($15m) ‐ FTF Policy Project contract ($12m) ‐ Program for Biosafety Systems ($1.25m)

‐Ministry of Food and Agriculture, PPMED

‐GSID

‐CSIR

‐ GGLB

‐ National Biotechnology Committee ‐ National Biosafety Authority (NBA) ‐ World Bank AgDPO 3‐5, 2011‐ 2013 ($157m);

‐ CIDA SFASDP

2009‐2013 ($110m)

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Component of CIP

Issues/ Obstacles/ Constraints Policy Objective Actions/ Measures Targets/ Timelines and Indicators

USG Support / Mechanisms Agencies

`Policy Area 2:

Enabling Environment for Private Sector Investment

CIP Component:

METASIP Program 3: Increased Competitiveness and Enhanced Integration into Domestic and International Markets

Insufficient private sector investment in agriculture due to unclear, risky procedures for investment and land acquisition.

Increase competitiveness and reduce barriers to stimulate private investment in agriculture that increases incomes for smallholders and firms and generates employment.

Policy Action 1: Development of clear procedures and a transparent framework to channel investor interest (including that related to value‐added or nutritional agricultural processing) to appropriate agencies completed USG support action:

‐ GCAP support to develop framework for channeling investor interest to appropriate agencies

Targets/Timelines Policy Action 1: December 2013

Indicators ‐ $/% increase in private sector investment in agriculture and nutrition

Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP):

USAID $50m grant and World Bank ‐‐ $100m loan

MOFA, Ghana Investment Promotion Center

(GIPC); MOTI;

MOFEP; SADA;

World Bank (GCAP and Small and Medium Enterprise Project

(MSME) 2006‐

2013, $119m);

IFAD, AfDB, WBk Ghana Rural and Agricultural Finance Programme (RAFIP) $42m

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Policy Area 3:

Nutrition

CIP Component:

METASIP Program 1.2 Improved Nutrition;

6.2 Inter‐ministerial

Coordination

Lack of integrated nutrition and food security policy. Weak resource allocation to nutrition. Lack of clearly defined link between food security and nutrition and between health and agriculture Ministries and their staffs. Inadequate intra/inter coordination within broader Government agencies and unclear mandate of leadership role on nutrition outside of health arena. Limited private sector interest in participation in nutrition. Conflicting data on progress on nutrition indicators.

Establish a policy environment that creates more effective nutrition and agriculture linkages for improved nutritional outcomes.

Policy Action 1: Nutrition policy to be finalized USG support action:

‐ Provide technical assistance to finalize the policy.

‐ As SUN donor convener, continue to coordinate all donor inputs to ensure a cohesive donor voice.

Policy Action 2: An intersectoral national Nutrition policy to be approved by Parliament USG support action:

‐ USG to create fact sheets on the policy and distribute to Parliamentarians.

‐ USG to speak to Parliament during hearings, as needed.

Policy Action 3: Strengthen inter‐ governmental coordination and linkage between nutrition, health, agriculture, and social welfare USG support action:

‐ Continue to provided fully seconded technical advisors to the Ghana Health Service, but expand to a regional presence in three regions to ensure nationwide coverage.

‐ Enhance linkages between SUN as a platform and CIDA’s support of REACH as an operational arm of SUN.

Targets/Timelines:

Policy Action 1: 2013 Policy Action 2: 2013 Policy Action 3: 2014

Indicators:

‐ Involvement of GHS or MOH in METASIP Joint Sector Review ‐ Integration of priority nutrition actions into annual workplans of relevant ministries/sectors, with an inclusive budget process ‐ # districts with a CMAM reference hospital

‐ USG advocacy ‐ Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA) project ‐ FTF Policy Project contract ($12m) (tent.)

‐NDPC

‐Ghana Health Service/MOH

‐MOFA PPMED

‐REACH

‐ CIDA

‐Regional Health Management Teams

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Component of CIP

Issues/ Obstacles/ Constraints

Policy Objective Actions/ Measures Targets/ Timelines and

Indicators USG Support / Mechanisms

Agencies

Policy Area 4:

Institutional Architecture for Improved Policy Formulation

CIP Component:

METASIP Program 6: Enhanced Institutional Coordination; 6.3 Partnership with Private Sector and Civil Society Organizations

Lack of quality primary agricultural data, lack of evidence‐based analyses, and disconnect between national budgeting and investment, and evidence lead to policy decisions inadequately informed decisions about agriculture and the economy.

Support stable, transparent, inclusive, evidence‐based policy formulation that leads to increased and more effective investment in agriculture.

Policy Action 1 : New Ghana Agricultural Production Survey (GAPS) stood up USG support actions:

‐ Assist GOG with strategy to improve agricultural statistics ‐ TA to broaden and deepen the Multi‐ Round Annual Crop and Livestock Surveys (MRACLS), which led to design and launch of GAPS pilot survey ‐ TA for data cleaning, analysis, and release ‐ Strengthen MoFA’s Statistics, Research and Information Directorate’s (SRID) internal organization and capacity to institutionalize GAPS for continuous use ‐ TA to assist SRID carry out the recommendations of external review regarding their readiness to scale up or move forward with the survey in some other way.

Policy Action 2: Pro‐actively include the Private Enterprise Federation (PEF), the apex representative of the private sector, in private sector related policy, legislative, and regulatory decision‐making.

USG support actions:

‐ Grant through Business Sector Advocacy Challenge (BUSAC) II project to re‐structure

PEF

‐ Support through Africa Lead project to follow up on New Alliance Letter of Intent (LOI) commitments and develop private sector advocacy platform

Targets/Timelines:

Policy Action 1:

‐ Piloted data release (July 2012) ‐ 2nd phase completed (September 2013) ‐ New national agriculture survey data released (May 2014)

Policy Action 2: TBC

Indicators:

‐ Annual publishing of GAPS data ‐Office of the Presidency and NDPC re‐affirm PEF’s role in a public forum to sort out potential conflicts between PEF’s role and that of the newly constituted Private Sector Advisory Council ‐MOFA writes in a role for PEF in its plans for writing the new seed regulations:

‐Appointments are made for PEF to meet three times a year with the Minister and Chief Director of Agriculture, Trade & Industry, Finance, Education, Mines, Environment‐ and Science & Technology, and Bank of Ghana

‐FTF Policy Project contract ($12m); ‐‐ Support to MOFEP Agriculture and Agribusiness Unit ($2.25m);

‐ Ghana Strategy Support Program (GSSP) Phase II ($17m);

‐ Support to the SAKSS node ($1m);

‐ Business Sector Advocacy Challenge (BUSAC) II ($4m) ‐ Africa Lead ($300k)

MoFA SRID;

METASIP Steering Committee; MOFEP Ag unit; NDPC

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Component of CIP

Issues/ Obstacles/ Constraints

Policy Objective Actions/ Measures Targets/ Timelines and

Indicators USG Support / Mechanisms

Agencies

Policy Area 5: Land and Natural Resources Tenure, Rights & Policy

CIP Component:

METASIP Program 4: Sustainable Management of Land and Environment

Land: Smallholders lack a key source of collateral in order to access finance and have little incentive to sustainably manage the land they farm.

High transaction costs for commercial investors to obtain secure leases and cite uncertainty over contract enforcement. Unclear and weak rights and obligations of investors, government and affected communities. Women have less de jure and de facto access to land than men.

Marine fisheries: The rapid coastal population growth and urbanization of Western Ghana has depleted marine fisheries and coastal resources, requiring that natural resource conservation and management include high levels of integration and the involvement of multiple and diverse stakeholder groups.

Promote land, marine fisheries, and coastal resource tenure and management policies that clarify and strengthen rights of users along the production continuum recognizing the importance to vulnerable groups, such as women, of secondary and tertiary rights, in order to stimulate an array of investments in both land‐based and non‐agricultural income‐generating assets.

Policy Action 1: Database of suitable land for investors established USG support action:

‐ GCAP responsible for establishing a credible land facilitation mechanism for matching interested communities with available land to interested investors

Policy Action 2: Pilot model lease agreement established USG support action:

‐ GCAP responsible for developing model lease agreement, including legal assistance and policy, social and economic analysis.

Policy Action 3: The Lands Commission Act of 1994 amended to allow for responsible, large‐scale land acquisitions for agriculture, including a more rigorous environmental, social and economic impact assessment jointly supervised by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Water Resources Commission (WRC) and a community‐based land access negotiation systemPolicy Action 4: Fisheries regulations comprehensively revised to implement the Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector Development Plan.

USG support action:

‐ Support drafting of policy/legal instrument for creation of Co‐management framework ‐ ICFG building the capacity of Western Region community organizations and government entities in effective land use planning and management of coastal and fisheries resources

Targets/Timelines Policy Action 1:

‐ 1,000 ha registered: Dec 2013 ‐ 4,500 ha registered: Dec 2014 ‐ 10,000 ha registered: Dec 2015

Policy Action 2: 5,000 ha of land in database established under model lease agreements: Dec

Policy Action 3:

‐ EPA & WRC environmental, social and economic impact assessments procedures established: TBC ‐ Community‐based land access negotiation system: TBC ‐ Revised Lands Commission Act drafted and presented for stakeholder analysis: TBC

Policy Action 4:

‐ A nested coastal and marine governance system for the Western Region proposed: 2013 ‐ Substantive Legislative Instrument published in gazette by Attorney General: 2014 ‐ Registration of the entire existing marine canoe fleet completed, and registration of new entrants to the sector closed: 2015 ‐ Establishment of district level Coastal and Marine Councils and the Western Region Coastal and Marine Authority:

2015Indicators:

‐ Numbers of Policies

FTF Policy Project contract ($12m); Ghana Commercial Agriculture Project (GCAP): USAID $50m grant and World Bank ‐‐ $100m loan;

USAID Integrated Coastal Fisheries Governance Project ($10m)

MOFA; Ghana Investment Promotion Center

(GIPC); EPA; WRC;

Western Region Fisheries Directorate; National Fisheries Commission; World Bank

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/Regulations/ Administrative Procedures in the following stages: Analyzed; Drafted and presented for public/stakeholder consultation; Presented for legislation/decree;

Passed/approved; Passed for which implementation has begun ‐ # of hectares/plots registered in land database ‐ # of hectares/deals under pilot model lease agreement ‐ # of hectares in areas of biological significance under improved management ‐ # of stakeholders participating in resource management initiatives