"Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support Systems (SAKSS) Work in Africa and Plans for 2014 and Beyond" presented by Greenwell C Matchaya at The 10th CAADP Partnership Platform Meeting 19-22 March2 014

1. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
Greenwell C Matchaya, ReSAKSS-SA Coordinator /IWMI
Presented at
The 10th CAADP Partnership Platform Meeting
19-22 March2014
Durban, South Africa
Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support
Systems (SAKSS) Work in Africa and Plans for
2014 and Beyond
Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (ReSAKSS-SA)

2. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
ReSAKSS Efforts for SAKSS
Establishment
Outline
• What a country SAKSS platform is,
• Why it is needed;
• Progress to date;
• Plans for 2014 and beyond.

3. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
• Urgency: Knowledge Gaps
– Paucity of data to guide decision making
– Absence of enough analytical work to guide decision
– Lack of capacity in generating and utilization of evidence in decision
making
– Don’t know much about how our policies and investments will achieve
our development objectives
• Vision
– Generate knowledge to facilitate evidence based planning and decision
making
Urgency & Vision for a Country SAKSS

4. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
SAKSS is a network of people and institutions that provides
timely, credible, and evidence-based knowledge and
analysis to inform agricultural and rural development
The individuals are linked
through collaborative research
(strategic analysis), capacity
strengthening, and dialogue.
Knowledge support system:
A network that serves the
evidence needs of strategy
formulation and
implementation.
What is a SAKSS?

5. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
Strategic analysis:
An integrated framework of analysis that helps identify policy
and investment options for achieving high-end development
goals.
This analysis is carried out within the context of a
knowledge support system, a network that
serves the evidence needs of strategy formulation
and implementation.
SAKSS Concepts

6. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
Strategic Components and outputs
1. Strategic analysis
• Sector-wide M&E; data collection and analysis
• Annual trends and outlook reports
• Specific strategic analysis and production (occasional
publications)
2. Capacity building
• Training members of the SAKSS network in areas of M&E
• Support to the ministry in areas of M&E and evidence
based policy implementation
3. Knowledge Support Systems –
• Publications/knowledge products
• Outputs: ATORS, Ag-sector-wide M&E databases, occasional
publications, policy briefs

7. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
SAKSS: Broker of Strategic Analysis/Knowledge
Demand Supply
Policy
Analysis
Units
Think Tanks,
Central Bank
Statistics
Bureaus, Universi
ties, FBOs
Parliament, P
S, FBOs, Don
ors, Directors
SAKSS
Oversight Body
SAKSS
Node
SAKSS Network
Credence of SAKSS in
CAADP process
Governance
Channel knowledge
and evidence to policy
makers
• …
•Identify and sensitize
knowledge gaps
•Synthesize knowledge
•Mobilize and coordinate
knowledge generation
•Facilitate training
•…
•Express interest and
buy into vision
•Align knowledge
generation activities
•Receive funding and
training
•…

8. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
• Structured network of policy-
making, analysis, and
implementation partners
– 3 distinct but interrelated parts:
Node, Network, and Oversight
Body
– institutionalised within relevant
country structures
– country-owned and country-
managed system depending on
the country’s own agenda and
capacity (including funding)
Country SAKSS Generic Architecture

9. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
Composition
Statistical bureaus
Universities
Think Tanks
NGOs and FBOs
Consultancies and Individuals
Locally-based international
organizations
Functions/Activities
Express interest in network
Buy into SAKSS agenda
Provide and update info on
expertise and capacity
Apply for research grant
Receive grants and training
Deliver on TORs (e.g. data,
analysis, training, etc.)
SAKSS Network

10. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
Composition and Funding
Coordinator: renowned knowledge
manager from the country
Accounting: for competent management
of competitive research grants
Research Assistance: follow up with
research by network
Communications: website, policy
briefs, newsletters, seminars, reports, etc
…
Key Functions/Activities
Set up and maintain active Network
Raise funds to source key
knowledge relating to NAIP
Facilitate capacity strengthening of
network (using ReSAKSS, etc.)
Provide quality control of Network
outputs
Synthesize, manage and generate
knowledge products from Network
outputs
Facilitate use of knowledge
products in decision making
processes via Oversight Body, etc.
Provide information to ReSAKSS
for regional and continental
CAADP M&E
…
SAKSS Node composition

11. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
Composition
Chair: e.g. PS of Min of
Agriculture
Members: agricultural sector
development institutions (state
and non-state actors)
Secretary: SAKSS Node
coordinator
Functions
Credence of SAKSS in
CAADP process
Governance (guidance and
oversight of SAKSS node
activities)
Channel knowledge and
evidence (recommendations)
to policy makers
SAKSS Oversight Body

12. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
Roles and Responsibilities of Others
Government/Host Institution
provides funding and
institutional support (e.g. office
space, auditing services, etc.)
Donors provide funding for
SAKSS activities, directly to
Node and/or indirectly via
Government/Host Institution
AUC provide advocacy and
fundraising for establishment
of SAKSS
REC provides advocacy and
funding and guidance for set-
up and operations of SAKSS
ReSAKSS provides TA for set-
up of SAKSS and facilitate
training of Network for region-
wide capacity development
Others in country provide
training to Node and Network
for national capacity
development

13. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
Policy
Analysis
Units
Think
Tanks, Centr
al Bank
Statistics
Bureaus,
Universities,
FBOs
Parliament, PS
, FBOs, Donor
s, Directors
OB Node Network
Level 100
Rationale and
Concepts
(CAADP; Policy
Analysis)
Level 200
Concepts and
Application
(Policy Analysis;
Report Writing)
Level 300 …
Application and
Modeling
(CGE, Econometrics,
Data Work)
SAKSS: capacity strengthening activities

14. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
SAKSS Progress to Date
ReSAKSS-
WA
Operationalized SAKSS in
Ghana
CNA studies in Togo,
Ghana, Benin, Burkina
Faso, Senegal
JSR in Burkina Faso,
Ghana and Senegal
ReSAKSS-
SA
Operationalized SAKSS in Malawi,
Mozambique and Zambia
Producing country reports and briefs in,
Malawi, Zambia, and Mozambique
Capacity Needs
Assessment studies in
Zambia, Zimbabwe,
Malawi, Mozambique
Joint Sector Reviews in
Mozambique, Malawi
ReSAKSS-
ECA
Operationalized SAKSS in Rwanda, … CNA studies in Ethiopia,
Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda:
JSR in Ethiopia and Tanzania

15. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
SAKSS effort in
Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi
and Zimbabwe
• Capacity Needs Studies finished
and published for
Malawi, Mozambique and in draft
form for Zambia and Zimbabwe
• Training workshops on M&E for
Zambia M&E teams
Key Achievements
•In East Africa, CNA
studies published for
Ethiopia and Rwanda.
•Tanzania SAKSS
proposal in good progress
•In West Africa, Ghana,
and Togo CNA studies
finalized.

16. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
Plans for the future
ReSAKSS-WA ReSAKSS-SA ReSAKSS-ECA
Intensify operations
efforts at Ghana SAKSS
node
SAKSS proposal (Niger,
Cote d’Ivoire, Gambia
and Sierra
Leone/Liberia)
Intensify operations at
the Malawi, Mozambique
and Zambia SAKSS
Produce country reports
and briefs in the
Mozambique, Malawi,
and Zambia SAKSS
Intensify operations at
Rwanda, SAKSS
SAKSS proposal
(Burundi , Djibouti &
Sudan)
Signing of SAKSS
agreement (Benin,
Burkina Faso, Senegal,
Togo, Mali)
Capacity Needs
Assessment studies in
Lesotho and Swaziland-
for SAKSS
Signing of SAKSS
agreement (DRC, Ethiopia,
Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania,
and Uganda)

17. Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System for Southern Africa (SAKSS-SA)
Thank You