Madagascar scores 3.1/10 and is not on track in implementing the Malabo Declaration on Agriculture transformation in Africa.
Highlights of the 5 key areas of strong performance of the country
43%
for CAADP Process Completion.
80%
for evidence based policies, supportive institutions and corresponding human resources.
12%
of youth engaged in new job opportunities in agriculture value chains.
44%
of rural women have access to productive assets in agriculture (empowered).
6.4
for domestic food price volatilty.
Highlights of the 5 key areas that require the country's attention
1.9%
of public agriculture expenditure as a share of total public expenditure.
-0.1%
annual growth of the agriculture value added (agricultural GDP).
9.7%
response to spending needs on social protection for vulnerable social groups, from the government budget.
47%
prevalence of stunting among children under 5 years old.
33.0%
of the population is undernourished.
Recommendations
- Madagascar should increase its spending in agriculture sector to meet the CAADP Malabo target of 10%, and increase on social protection of the vulnerable social groups, and resilience building initiatives.
- The country should improve on nutrition interventions to reduce undernourishment and the prevalence of stunting among children under 5 years old.
- The country should strengthen agriculture data collection and management systems to inform missing indicators so as to improve its performance level in the next round of the Biennial Review Reporting.
COUNTRY SCORECARD
Overall country score: 2.84
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 | 4.41 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Establishing CAADP based Cooperation, Partnership & Alliance | 0.95 | 3.33 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Completing National CAADP Process | 4.29 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 3 | Establishing CAADP based Policy & Institutional Review/ Setting/ Support | 8.00 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 2 | Enhancing Investment Finance in Agriculture | 2.32 | 6.67 | Not on Track | |||||
| 1 | Enhancing access to finance | 1.28 | 3.33 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Public Expenditure in Agriculture | 3.35 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 3 | Ending Hunger by 2025 | 0.49 | 3.71 | Not on Track | |||||
| 1 | Access to Agriculture inputs and technologies | 1.41 | 5.53 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Doubling agricultural Productivity | 0.07 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 3 | Reduction of Post-Harvest Loss | 0.00 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 4 | Strengthening Social Protection | 0.97 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 5 | Improving Food security and Nutrition | 0.00 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 4 | Halving Poverty through Agriculture by 2025 | 3.53 | 2.06 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Sustaining Agricultural GDP for Poverty Reduction | 0.10 | 3.25 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Establishing Inclusive PPPs for commodity value chains | 0.00 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 3 | Creating job for Youth in agricultural value chains | 4.02 | 1.00 | On Track | |||||
| 4 | Women participation in Agri-business | 10.00 | 3.00 | On Track | |||||
| 5 | Boosting Intra-African Trade in Agriculture Commodities | 3.44 | 1 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Tripling Intra-African Trade for agriculture commodities and services | 0.20 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Establishing Intra-African Trade Policies and institutional conditions | 6.68 | 1.00 | On Track | |||||
| 6 | Enhancing Resilience to Climate Variability | 4.1 | 6 | Not on Track | |||||
| 1 | Ensuring Resilience to climate related risks | 1.52 | 2.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Investment in resilience building | 6.67 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 7 | Mutual Accountability for Actions and Results | 3.39 | 4.78 | Not on Track | |||||
| 1 | Increasing country capacity for evidence based planning, impl. and M&E | 0.00 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Fostering Peer Review and Mutual Accountability | 0.56 | 3.33 | Not on Track | |||||
| 3 | Conducting a Biennial Agriculture Review Process | 9.61 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||