Chairman of the European Union (EU) Development Partners
Task Team, represented by the Head, Operations at EU Delegation to African
Union, Ms Anna Burylo, has described the Malabo Declaration as a reference
point for all African development stakeholders for the next decade, reports
NaijaAgroNet.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Specialised
Technical Committee (STC) on Agriculture, Rural Development, Water and
Environment at the African Union headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, assured
of their support to Malabo Declaration, stressing that Comprehensive Africa
Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) agenda is articulated into the new
context created by the Malabo Declaration.
As said by her, the CAADP Results Framework (RF) along with
the Malabo Implementation Strategy and Roadmap (IS&R) as well as its
related programme of work are key documents demonstrating African leadership
and framing Development Partners (DPs) and all other Malabo stakeholders action
at continental, regional and national level, in particular through a set of
headline indicators.
“All partners should adopt and adapt to these documents,”
the EU Development Partners chair declared.
Pointing out that how DPs could align and tract their
actions against such documents is a key issue of partnership.
This is because, they
would be able to frame the mutual accountability system which DPs will adhere
too along with all other African CAADP and Malabo stakeholders, especially
those seeking to coordinate and harmonise projects and programmes across
Africa, by way of ensuring that food security and agriculture actions in global
processes such as G8 and G20 align with African priorities and needs.
+Remmy Nweke (ITRealms) in Addis Ababa
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