Swaziland scores 4.0/10 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
57%
for CAADP Process Completion.
2%
prevalence of wasting among children under 5 years old.
100%
of men and women engaged in agriculture having access to financial
services.
services.
50 out of 100
increase of the value of intra-Africa trade of agricultural commodities and services.
83%
for inclusive institutionalized mechanisms for mutual accountability and peer review.
Highlights of the 5 key areas that require the country's attention
3.3%
of public agriculture expenditure as a share of total public expenditure.
-28.4%
annual growth of the agriculture value added (agricultural GDP).
0.5%
of total agricultural research spending as a share of agriculture GDP.
58%
response to spending needs on social protection for vulnerable social
groups, from the government budget.
groups, from the government budget.
18%
for domestic food price volatility.
Recommendations
- Swaziland should increase its public expenditure into agriculture to further boost the sector development in line with the CAADP target of 10% of national budget.
- The country should improve on the budget allocation to social protection to meet total budget requirements for coverage of the vulnerable social groups.
- The country should strengthen agriculture data collection and management systems (monitoring and evaluation) to ensure that missing indicators are reported in the next round of the Biennial Review.
COUNTRY SCORECARD
Overall country score: 3.68
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 | 5.14 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Completing National CAADP Process | 5.71 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 2 | Establishing CAADP based Cooperation, Partnership & Alliance | 3.85 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 3 | Establishing CAADP based Policy & Institutional Review/ Setting/ Support | 5.87 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 2 | Enhancing Investment Finance in Agriculture | 8.07 | 6.67 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Public Expenditure in Agriculture | 6.14 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Enhancing access to finance | 10.00 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 3 | Ending Hunger by 2025 | 2.72 | 3.71 | Not on Track | |||||
| 1 | Access to Agriculture inputs and technologies | 4.04 | 5.53 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Doubling agricultural Productivity | 0.00 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 3 | Reduction of Post-Harvest Loss | 0.00 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 4 | Strengthening Social Protection | 5.84 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 5 | Improving Food security and Nutrition | 3.71 | 1.00 | On Track | |||||
| 4 | Halving Poverty through Agriculture by 2025 | 1 | 2.06 | Not on Track | |||||
| 1 | Sustaining Agricultural GDP for Poverty Reduction | 0.00 | 3.25 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Establishing Inclusive PPPs for commodity value chains | 4.00 | 1.00 | On Track | |||||
| 3 | Creating job for Youth in agricultural value chains | 0.00 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 4 | Women participation in Agri-business | 0.00 | 3.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 5 | Boosting Intra-African Trade in Agriculture Commodities | 1.54 | 1 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Tripling Intra-African Trade for agriculture commodities and services | 0.62 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Establishing Intra-African Trade Policies and institutional conditions | 2.45 | 1.00 | On Track | |||||
| 6 | Enhancing Resilience to Climate Variability | 3.34 | 6 | Not on Track | |||||
| 1 | Ensuring Resilience to climate related risks | 0.00 | 2.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Investment in resilience building | 6.67 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 7 | Mutual Accountability for Actions and Results | 6.16 | 4.78 | On Track | |||||
| 1 | Increasing country capacity for evidence based planning, impl. and M&E | 0.64 | 1.00 | Not on Track | |||||
| 2 | Fostering Peer Review and Mutual Accountability | 8.33 | 3.33 | On Track | |||||
| 3 | Conducting a Biennial Agriculture Review Process | 9.50 | 10.00 | Not on Track | |||||