MAFAP delivers training to Kenyan officials to strengthen policy monitoring skills
The Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme delivered a two-day training in Nairobi on MAFAP Policy Monitoring Methodology for officials who are working on the monitoring and analysis of public policy support to the food and agriculture sector in Kenya.
The capacity-building sessions were centred around price incentives analysis, and public expenditure analysis. Both sessions included presentations on two methodologies for policy monitoring, how to produce the indicators, as well as how to interpret the trends. There was also a presentation on how MAFAP activities will be implemented at country level in the coming months and years.
The hybrid training days, held on 9 and 10 February 2023, were attended by 22 officials from key Kenyan institutions for each policy area and delivered by the MAFAP Kenya team – Valentina Pernechele, Thibault Meilland and Anne Chele.
For the public expenditure session, attendees included the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD), the Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA), as well as other partners such as the Cereal Growers’ Association, and the Agriculture Sector Network (ASNET), and Akademiya 2063. For the price incentives training, the MAFAP team was joined by representatives from MoALD, the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) and the Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA).
Speaking at the training days, Nyando V. Violet of the Cereals Growers’ Association (CGA) of Kenya said: “One of the strategic pillars of the CGA is evidence-based advocacy and effective advocacy requires facts based on analysis of existing and emerging trends and scenarios. MAFAP contributes valuable data that the CGA can make reference to in its advocacy endeavours. CGA is appreciative of the collaboration with the FAO MAFAP programme”.
The training sessions were just one activity under the third, 5-year phase (2022–2027) of the MAFAP programme in Kenya, which is one of eight sub-Saharan African countries to benefit from policy support for inclusive agricultural transformation.
See photos of the training session by the Cereal Growers’ Association on Kenya on Twitter here.
Read about the launch of MAFAP III (2022–2027) in Kenya here and a FAO Kenya Twitter thread here.
Consult the two MAFAP Policy Monitoring methodologies here (price incentives) and here (public expenditure).