Assembly/AU/Decl.2(XIII) Rev.1 Page 5 term competitiveness, and encourage the youth to participate in the agriculture sector. 11. Establish a “South to South Forum for Agricultural Development in Africa” and expand engagement with the Diaspora through Commission’s Citizens and Diaspora Directorate (CIDO) to unlock additional sources of technology and investment financing in African agriculture; 12. Develop an African Agricultural-based climate change mitigation and adaptation framework providing strategic guidance and tools to national and regional level initiatives along programmatic approaches on technology transfer, knowledge management and financing to scale up adoption of sustainable land and agricultural water management; 13. Rally expert input and scientific knowledge to advance the recognition and integration of carbon sequestration on agricultural landscapes and carbon financing in global climate change mitigation and adaptation measures through the Post-Kyoto negotiations and other global and regional dialogue; 14. Establish an inter-Ministerial mechanism bringing together Ministries of Agriculture, Environment, and Water to advance inter-sectoral approach in addressing the climate change agenda; 15. Facilitate analytical support to member states on integration of gender in agriculture development agenda. URGE Member States to: 16. Recommit to the Maputo Declaration of allocating at least ten (10) percent of their annual national budgets to the agriculture sector by 2015 to articulate the important role of agriculture in national development strategies for adequate resource allocation; 17. Scale up efforts to accelerate the implementation of the CAADP agenda at the country level, in particular the organization of country roundtables and the signing of CAADP compacts. CALL UPON International Development Partners, and regional and non-regional stakeholders to: 18. Harmonise and align their investment support to African Agriculture through and along national and regional CAADP priorities, and in particular, join member Adopted by the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly in Sirte, Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya on 3 July 2009