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Next steps for implementing CARD

Next steps for implementing CARD. from 4 th CARD Steering Committee Meeting submitted for consideration by 3 rd CARD General Meeting. Agenda 6: Next steps for implementing CARD. Member countries:

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Next steps for implementing CARD

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  1. Next steps for implementing CARD • from 4th CARD Steering Committee Meeting • submitted for consideration by • 3rd CARD General Meeting

  2. Agenda 6: Next steps for implementing CARD Member countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea Conakry, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Uganda & Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Central African Republic, DR Congo, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Liberia, Rwanda, Togo and Zambia • Complete needs–resource matching • Identify priorities to be handled at national, sub-regional and regional levels • Develop action plans to boost the rice sector through national, sub-regional and regional level interventions • Coordinate with the CAADP processes to ensure that investment priorities of NRDS are reflected in CAADP Investment Plans

  3. Agenda 6: Next steps for implementing CARD Member countries (cont.): • Create awareness about the NRDS and the action plans at government level and with donors • Embed NRDS in PRSPs and other planning and financial instruments at national, sub-regional and regional level • Establish links with REC representatives and keep them informed and involved in advancing CARD interests • Actively look for ways to connect with research institutions working on rice-based systems to enable large-scale diffusion of promising rice technologies  

  4. Agenda 6: Next steps for implementing CARD Supporting Partners: Aga Khan Foundation, BRAC, Brazil, CRS, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, USAID, Viet Nam • Take stock of south-south collaboration on rice value chains in Sub-Saharan Africa • Contribute to the establishment of a south-south rice value chain platform • Task Force for reducing post harvest losses • Task Force for human and institutional capacity strengthening NB: This will be facilitated by AfricaRice, IRRI, JICA & FARA

  5. Agenda 6: Next steps for implementing CARD Steering Committee technical members: (AfricaRice, AGRA, FARA, IRRI, JIRCAS, CARD Secretariat) • Assist 2nd Group member countries with NRDS development (AfricaRice, AGRA, FARA, IRRI, CARD secretariat) • Actively pursue linking rice research and development activities in Africa under the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) with CARD to ensure wide-scale dissemination of sustainable rice technologies (AfricaRice, IRRI, JIRCAS) • Finalize baseline study through the Rice Statistics Project (AfricaRice) • Explore the use of all five FARA Networking Support Functions to support CARD (FARA, AfricaRice) • Create awareness about CARD at the Regional Economic Communities (AfricaRice, FARA, NEPAD and CARD Secretariat)

  6. Agenda 6: Next steps for implementing CARD Steering Committee development partner members: (African Development Bank, AGRA, IFAD, JICA, World Bank) • Actively pursue possibilities to fund NRDS implementation and south-south collaboration • Coordinate funding and establish synergies to avoid duplications and gaps • Draw up investment plans on key factors such as, capacity building, post harvest and infrastructure • Create awareness about CARD activities with other donors, such as the European Union, etc. • Support CARD’s three pan-African member institutions, i.e., NEPAD, FARA and AfricaRice to promote rice amongst their stakeholders

  7. Agenda 6: Next steps for implementing CARD CARD secretariat: • Assist member countries in Group 2 with NRDS development (AfricaRice, AGRA, FARA, IRRI, CARD secretariat) • Continue keeping track of NRDS development and implementation (‘GPS’ of rice-related activities in Africa) • Pro-actively pursue possibilities to establish public-private sector involvement, especially in the post-harvest sector (also through south-south collaboration) • Develop evidence based materials about the importance of the rice sector in Africa to help convince donors and countries to provide budget support • Monitor donor support to CARD and to CAADP to identify synergies • Create awareness about CARD with the regional economic communities (AfricaRice and CARD Secretariat)

  8. Agenda 6: Next steps for implementing CARD CARD secretariat (cont.): • Organize steering committee meetings • Organize the next CARD General Meeting in October 2011 in Uganda and invite RECs • Conduct M&E to produce quantitative information about rice sector development and measure impact of CARD • Report at the next General Meeting on the status of rice production in Africa and present an assessment of progress towards achieving the target of doubling rice production by 2018

  9. Steps taken will be reported at next CARD GM THANK YOU

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