The programme “Strengthening National Comprehensive Agricultural Public Expenditure in Sub-Saharan Africa” financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented by The World Bank, seeks to improve the impact of scarce public resources spent by Sub-Saharan African governments on agricultural sector development activities, thereby improving the welfare of predominantly poor rural populations.

It operates in the context of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) of the African Union’s (AU) New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) which encourages governments and development partners (DPs) to target public expenditure on the agriculture sector as the most effective way of stimulating growth in the sector, thereby reducing hunger and poverty.