Burundi scores 4.7/10 and is on track in implementing the Malabo Declaration on Agriculture transformation in Africa.
Highlights of the 5 key areas of strong performance of the country
100%
for CAADP Process Completion.
100%
for inclusive institutionalized mechanisms for mutual accountability and peer review.
70%
of youth engaged in new job opportunities in agriculture value chains.
30%
of farm, pastoral, and fisher households are resilient to climate and weather related shocks.
2.7%
of total agricultural research spending as a share of agriculture GDP.
Highlights of the 5 key areas that require the country's attention
-90.3%
increase of agricultural value added per agricultural worker.
-2.1%
increase of agricultural value added per arable land.
6.7%
increase of the value of intra-Africa trade of agricultural commodities and services.
39.2%
of the population is undernourished.
25%
response to spending needs on social protection for vulnerable social groups, from the government budget.
Recommendations
- Burundi to establish necessary measures to increase agricultural productivity to shift the current negative tendency, and come on track for achieving the CAADP Malabo goal of doubling productivity by 2025.
- The country should ensure the yearly 100% budget allocation to the social protection requirements for the vulnerable social groups.
- The country should increase government spending sufficiently to cater for resilience building initiatives.
COUNTRY SCORECARD
Overall country score: 4.6
2017 Country Scorecard for implementing Malabo Declaration
| Malabo Commitments Areas (T) | Commitments Categories (C) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Item | Score | Mimimum Score | progress | No. | Item | Score | Mimimum Score | progress |
| 1 | Re-committing to CAADP Process | 6.66 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Completing National CAADP Process | 10.00 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 2 | Establishing CAADP based Policy & Institutional Review/ Setting/ Support | 6.33 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 3 | Establishing CAADP based Cooperation, Partnership & Alliance | 3.65 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 2 | Enhancing Investment Finance in Agriculture | 1.43 | 6.67 | Not on Track | |||||
| 1 | Enhancing access to finance | 0.30 | 3.33 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Public Expenditure in Agriculture | 2.55 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 3 | Ending Hunger by 2025 | 2.95 | 3.71 | Not on Track | |||||
| 1 | Access to Agriculture inputs and technologies | 5.01 | 5.53 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Doubling agricultural Productivity | 0.30 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 3 | Reduction of Post-Harvest Loss | 0.00 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 4 | Strengthening Social Protection | 7.52 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 5 | Improving Food security and Nutrition | 1.92 | 1.00 | On Track | |||||
| 4 | Halving Poverty through Agriculture by 2025 | 3.88 | 2.06 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Sustaining Agricultural GDP for Poverty Reduction | 0.00 | 3.25 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Establishing Inclusive PPPs for commodity value chains | 2.00 | 1.00 | On Track | |||||
| 3 | Creating job for Youth in agricultural value chains | 10.00 | 1.00 | On Track | |||||
| 4 | Women participation in Agri-business | 3.50 | 3.00 | On Track | |||||
| 5 | Boosting Intra-African Trade in Agriculture Commodities | 3.32 | 1 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Tripling Intra-African Trade for agriculture commodities and services | 0.34 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Establishing Intra-African Trade Policies and institutional conditions | 6.30 | 1.00 | On Track | |||||
| 6 | Enhancing Resilience to Climate Variability | 7.4 | 6 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Ensuring Resilience to climate related risks | 8.12 | 2.00 | On Track | |||||
| 2 | Investment in resilience building | 6.67 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 7 | Mutual Accountability for Actions and Results | 7.37 | 4.78 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Increasing country capacity for evidence based planning, impl. and M&E | 2.31 | 1.00 | On Track | |||||
| 2 | Fostering Peer Review and Mutual Accountability | 10.00 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 3 | Conducting a Biennial Agriculture Review Process | 9.80 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||