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

2. Existence of an up to date national agricultural strategy

3. Realistic medium term resource allocations in strategy

4. Separate budgets for departments

5. Explicit arrangements for managing weather risk in budget

6. Recurrent and capital budget jointly managed

7. Expenditure constrained by budget not cash negotiation

8. Use of performance indicators by department

9. Estimation of benefits of major initiatives

10. Feedback from farmers and stakeholders to government