Country Initiatives

Core elements of successful initiatives

While each initiative is different, Grow Africa finds the following common elements underpin all successful multi-stakeholder initiatives and targets its support to strengthen these:

1. Leadership and alignment:

• Public leadership by senior policy shapers e.g. President or Minister
• Platform for active co-creation and ownership by leaders from private sector, public sector and civil society

2. Strategy & priorities:

• Initiative goals defined by the country’s comparative advantages and accessible market opportunities
• Rooted in broader national strategy for the agricultural sector

3. Investment and entrepreneurship pipeline:

• “Bankable” investment opportunities defined across the chain
• Engagement of the right groups and organizations to participate in these opportunities, with incentives to motivate them

4. Finance and risk management:

• Innovative catalytic and patient capital as required by the long-term horizon of agriculture development
• Crop insurance and risk reduction mechanisms to catalyze further investment

5. Hard and soft infrastructure:

• Improvements to physical infrastructure, policy and regulations, and human and institutional capacity as key enablers for transformation

6. Hard and soft infrastructure:

• Designing, managing, and monitoring implementation of activities to drive change at scale.
• Dedicated unit given mandate for coordination

Further Information

Further information is available from the WEF report Putting the New Vision for Agriculture into Action.