African Agricultural Planning Scorecard: Feedback Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Kenya, Botswana, Niger, South Africa, Senegal and Burkina Faso

Existence of an up to date national agricultural strategy

Realistic medium term resource allocations in strategy

Separate budgets for departments

Explicit arrangements for managing weather risk in budget

Recurrent and capital budget jointly managed

Expenditure constrained by budget not cash negotiation

Use of performance indicators by department

Estimation of benefits of major initiatives

Feedback from farmers and stakeholders to government