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EAC Agricultural Investment Plan (RAIP)
(East African Community, 2022-03) Wangwe, Samuel
Agriculture is one of the major vehicles for regional market integration, it plays a determining role in the fight against food insecurity and poverty. Agricultural systems in the EAC partner States are very diversified and complementary to one another due to diverse agro-ecological conditions and agricultural specialization, the food crisis resulting from the increase in world food prices has demonstrated the need to base food security in East Africa on utilization of the region’s agricultural potential. The Regional Agriculture Investment Plan (RAIP) Implementation Action Plan was developed following the adoption and approval of RAIP by the 11th SCAFs that were held in 2018. The implementation plan was developed to operationalize the RAIP whose objectives are: sharing review on the performance of the agriculture sector in EAC; identifying the challenges that hinder sustainable agricultural transformation in the EAC region; prioritizing and formulating strategic interventions that would catalyze sustained agricultural transformation in the region; focusing on thematic areas highlighted in the EAC CAADP Compact; and undertaking costing of the strategic interventions and proposing mechanisms for implementing the RAIP. This involves identification of opportunities for resource mobilization and recommending an implementation framework for operationalizing the RAIP.