Agriculture Sector Plan 2016-2020 (Volume2: Implementation Plan and Monitoring Framework).

This Implementation Plan and Monitoring Framework supplements the governance, institutional and strategic frameworks laid out in the Agriculture Sector Plan (ASP) Volume 1. It is intended to guide the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) and its partner agencies in ASP program delivery, monitoring and evaluation and resource mobilization. It should be used in conjunction with Volume 1 of the Agriculture Sector Plan, which contains the background, rationale and description of the proposed strategic intervention areas. The Vision of the ASP is a Sustainable Agriculture and Fisheries Sector for Food Security, Health, Prosperity, Job Creation and Resilience and its Goal to increase Food, Nutrition and Income Security.
The core of the this Implementation Plan is built on 4 consolidated costed action plans to deliver the ASP End of Sector Plan Outcomes (ESPO) together with 4 monitoring frameworks. These action plans include itemized indicative costs to deliver activities leading to the outputs and intermediate outcomes in the ASP strategic policy areas. The Plan also indicates the lead and partner agencies who have roles and responsibilities for delivering the specific outputs and potential sources of funding.
With many agencies, both government and non-government, expected to be involved in delivering ASP outputs, successful implementation will require strong leadership, good coordination, sound processes and effective use of resources. The Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF) is the lead agency for the agriculture sector and thus the MAF Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is the senior responsible officer to ensure that the ASP is efficiently and effectively delivered on time and within available budget resources.
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is a critical part of the ASP management and implementation cycle. If addressed rigorously it should allow for adaptive management and improvement through the life of the ASP to support effective delivery of outputs and outcomes. It will also facilitate reporting and communication of progress to partners and other stakeholders. Effective M&E will require substantial commitment of human and financial resources, firstly, to ensure that baselines and realistic targets are established for all outputs and outcomes at intervention onset and then to make sure a workable monitoring process is established and supported throughout the implementation period. Monitoring, evaluation and reporting processes under the ASP will cover efficiency (program management and administration), effectiveness (delivery of outputs and outcomes) and impact (development change over time). An appropriate level of budget for monitoring and evaluation therefore needs to be anticipated in the ASP resource mobilization cost.
The ASP monitoring framework identifies key indicators and lines of evidence at output and outcome levels to support program performance management. This will provide the tool for guiding corrective adjustments to activities, reallocating resources, and reevaluating program objectives or underlying assumptions. The monitoring framework will also serve as the basic accountability tool for developing an annual review and evaluation approach for the ASP. The monitoring framework includes the results chain, performance indicators, and means of verification. The scheduling and responsibility for data collection is also made clear. While some baselines and targets have been set, others will need to be established early in the implementation process. Targets should be established in a participatory way with relevant key stakeholders, facilitated by the four WGs.
The Plan consists of 6 Parts as follows: Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting; Indicative Financial Resource Requirements; Strategic Policy Objective 1; Strategic Policy Objective 2; Strategic Policy Objective 3; Strategic Policy Objective 4.