AGRA, with support from its partner the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has created the Hub for Agricultural Policy Action (HAPA), which is designed as a distinct service offering by AGRA to provide evidence consolidation and translation advisory services to governments seeking to reform, refine or develop a more clearly defined policy direction. This will strengthen policy implementation, improve public investments, and leverage more broadly the work of AGRA.

The HAPA approach recognizes the urgent need for timely policy support to the agriculture sector, which plays an important role in ensuring inclusive growth. It recognizes the demands for political expediency and the need to ensure that a particular policy direction is anchored in evidence. HAPA will partner with local research actors in participating countries to collate existing data and evidence, expertise and best practices that respond to a government request for policy support and package these into a set of actionable policy recommendations. As HAPA is designed as an on-demand service, government commitment to using the evidence generated by HAPA to improve the enabling environment for agriculture will be required prior to engaging with the initiative.