The Comprehensive
African Agriculture Programme (CAADP) Non State Actors Coalition (CNC) has said
it contributed actively in the Malabo declaration, reports NaijaAgroNet.
This was made known by
one of the leading light of anchors of CNC and Livelihoods Thematic Manager at
a member organization, the Association for Cooperative Operations Research and
Development (ACORD), Ms Fatou Mbaye at the general assembly of the Rural Women
Farmers Forum (RWFF) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
She said that so far,
CNC has five strategy and 18 months action plans in place.
CNC, she
also said has a joint work-plan between Africa Lead II and CNC which is being
finalized, even as they held an official launch of CNC which was inaugurated by
African Union Commission (AUC) leadership led.
Mbaye
further said that the coalition has developed Memorandum of Understandings (MOUs)
between the AUC and CNCs and another one for the CNC membership.
These, she
said, still waiting for AUC feedback as it is undergoing some internal
processes.
She
explained that CAADP aims to achieve an agriculture-led socio-economic growth
that will create wealth, tackle poverty and reduce hunger which requires broad
and inclusive coalitions committed to acting in concert to improve the sector’s
policies, programming and institutions.
Equally, Mbaye
said, CAADP recognizes the need to transform African agriculture as imperative
to building broad and inclusive coalitions of state and non-state actors.
The Non-State
Actors (NSAs), she said, are actors outside of the government, who share the
vision and objectives of CAADP.
Some of the
NSAs, she listed to include, the private sector, farmer organizations,
associations and networks, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), women
organisations, academic and research organizations, faith-based organizations, Community-Based
Organizations (CBOs), media, labour unions and youth organisations.
She
therefore urged aforementioned stakeholders to join forces with CNC and
particularly, the Rural Women Farmers Forum (RWFF) to key into the benefits and
objectives of CNC to promote agriculture and specifically farming on the
continent as it concerns women in rural areas.
“Join the
CNC for inclusive agriculture, food policies and more actions to end hunger and
malnutrition in Africa by 2025,” she said, enjoining them to contact another
CNC top notch, Ms Constance Okeke of ActionAid International who is in-charge of membership.
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