Feed The Future Senegal Agricultural Policy Activity (PAPA)

The Project ( Feed the Future Senegal Agricultural Policy Project / Feed the Future Senegal Projet d'Appui aux Politiques Agricoles (PAPA)) aims to increase the level of public and private agricultural investments in Senegal by helping the government to strengthen the policy and enabling environment for agricultural sector investments.

This goal will be accomplished by facilitating the creation of a system for formulating, implementing and monitoring sound agricultural policies within the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Equipment (MARE) and other relevant government of Senegal (GoS) agencies. The project will create capacities to establish and link three essential elements of this system: 1.

A dialogue and consultation platform that enables an inclusive and open policy process with participation by all key state and nonstate stakeholder groups in the formulation, implementation, evaluation, and long-term orientation of government policies and programs in the agricultural sector; 2.

A network of local centers of expertise that will identify knowledge needs for more effective policy design and implementation and generate the evidence to meet that need through data collection and analysis; and 3.

An infrastructure and tools that support decentralized policy planning, implementation, and monitoring and serve as a repository of relevant data, analytical results and findings of the highest quality, and policy and strategy documents, and make these available to the broad community of all stakeholders.