Review of Initiatives to Assemble Data on Agricultural Public Expenditures
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This document summarizes a review of initiatives that collect data on agricultural public expenditures (AgPE) across countries. It finds that while there are many efforts, it was unclear how they relate and what gaps remain. The objective is to provide an overview of the different initiatives to identify complementarities, challenges, and how collaboration could be improved. It analyzes initiatives by geographic scope, sectors covered, and types of data. The review finds some depths like disaggregation are more limited and proposes strategic options like strengthening coordination, collaboration, data access, and analytical capacity to better track AgPE globally. Next steps include finalizing the report and convening discussions on implementing recommendations.
Review of Initiatives to Assemble Data on Agricultural Public Expenditures
- 1. RESAKSS Annual Conference 2013 Theme: Achieving the Maputo Declaration Target and Prioritising Public Agricultural Expenditures 12-13 November, 2013 A Systematic Review of Data and Analytical Initiatives on Agricultural Public Expenditures Presented by Tewodaj Mogues (Project Manager), IFPRI Paper produced by Richard Anson (Consultant) (w/ assistance from Tsegaye Anduanbessa & Eduardo Zegarra)
- 2. Background to the Review • Importance of public expenditures in agriculture in Africa (and beyond), including by catalysing private ag. investments • This in turn points to importance of properly measuring quantity (e.g. the CAADP 10%) and quality of such public spending—including in standardised ways that allow comparison across countries and over time • Various organisations have recognised need for compiling disaggregated and cross-country public expenditure datasets: FAO, IDB, IFPRI, IMF, OECD, UN, WB, etc. • Lots of tremendous efforts undertaken in this regard, but: Until this review, unclear how these efforts related to each other, what the complementarities and remaining gaps are, how the methodologies compare
- 3. Motivation for and Objective of the Review • What are the key features of each effort? Do they produce different AgPE data/statistics because of different methods? Same data, in that case is there duplication? Which dataset/ study is useful for what purposes and for which users? • Discussion in June 2013 at an IFPRI-OECD organised workshop on agricultural policy metrics brought these concerns to the surface • Objective of this review: • produce a structured, systematic overview of the different initiatives that capture Ag. PE data across countries, to begin to answer above questions • identify the key complementarities, challenges, and value-additions of each data initiative, so that initiative managers can collectively chart out a way for a „community of practice‟, for efficient collaboration and crossfertilisation of the different initiatives
- 4. State of the Review • IFPRI / PIM (CRP2) commissioned a study to produce such a review • Study carried out by Dr. Richard Anson (external consultant, deep earlier experience with AgPE issues) • Very valuable input by managers of each data initiative • Currently in draft form (copy shared with you), plans to use it as a tool for improved and increased coordination and information flow regarding cross-country AgPE data compilation feedback from you very welcome! • Criteria for inclusion: • For Data initiatives: Ongoing; AgPE data for at least 10 countries • For Analytical initiatives: Ongoing; large-scale, closely tied to data
- 5. Overview of the Initiatives: Name & Managing Organisation
- 6. Overview of the Initiatives: Geographic, Temporal, and Sectoral Scope
- 7. The Initiatives within a Typology Specific indicator: Data on producer support estimates REPEAA PSE-OEE PSE-LAC BOOST Analytical tools MAFAP SNAPE RESAKSS APE-LAC ASTI GFS FAOSTAT-GEA SPEED WDI Data on Ag. Publ. Exp. CRS FAOSTAT-ODA Specific funding source: Data on dev‟t aid
- 8. Potential Feasibility-Tradeoff between Depths Along Different Dimensions Number of countries GFS: countries APE-LAC: 10 countries SPEED: Total ag. PSE-OEE: Type of transfer; commodity group; etc. Level of ag. PE disaggregation
- 9. Where to Go from Here? • Difficult (perhaps even unrealistic and undesireable) to try to achieve all types of depth in one single data initiative • Each type of depth has its distinct value for different types of policy analysis • But there is scope for improving each DAI—given its purpose and ambitions • Some DAIs are also relatively similar to each other—here, benefits from going beyond individual improvement of each DAI, to joint collaboration • Sustainability of cross-country Ag PE database compilation: 6 of 14 initiatives are dependent on funds for time-bound projects • Finally, some “depths” are clearly more underprovided than others— need for more work to enable tracking ag. PE along these depths
- 10. Strategic Options: Strengthening DAIs, and Coordination among Them Information DAI Feedback • Intra- and inter-agency co-ordination and collaboration DAI • First step—Co-ordination: Standards Resource generation Datasets • • • • • • making methodologies transparent making datasets publicly available information flow seeking external feedback from experts and users mutual feedback / peer review through creation of Ag PE community-ofpractice • Possible second step—Collaboration: • developing shared standards • pooling expertise, resources and data for efficient creation of joint databases and analytical studies • generate new funds together for joint efforts • to be considered: an Africa-focused subgroup?
- 11. Strategic Options: Strengthening “Backward and Forward Linkages” Min. of Agric. etc. Min. of Fin.; Planning Users: Countrylevel analysts Crosscountry DAIs Users: Analysts, Donors; Supranational policymakers; etc. Civil Society; Media; etc. • Strengthening country-level expenditure reporting systems—What ongoing support is already being provided? How can it be improved? Strengthening agriculture-specific versus general reporting systems? • Analytical capacity support for „frontline‟ users of country-level data • Building demand for cross-country databases on the part of countrylevel policy analysts and decisionmakers
- 12. Some Next Steps Planned • Finalise the review report (including based on your feedback!) • Follow-up meeting to the June workshop will take place this December, to discuss putting in place the „community-of-practice‟ based on the recommendations of this review report and the outcomes of the December meeting • Possible first-step outputs from the coordination of the group: • • • Better and clearer data documentation across DAIs More easily accessible data (perhaps through joint website linking to datasets and studies in respective organisations) Easily digestible comparison of commonalities and differences in the methodologies of the DAIs • Would an Africa sub-group be useful / add value? We will take your views to the December meeting Thank you!