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Report WCDI-19-053 Dawit Alemu & Irene Koomen, Amsalu Ayana & Gareth Borman, Eyasu Elias & Eric Smaling, Helen Getaw, Gertjan Becx & Monika Sopov, Geremew Terefe & Ted Schrader, Tewodros Tefera & Remko Vonk BENEFIT Partnership – 2018 Annual Report Bilateral Ethiopian-Netherlands Effort for Food, Income and Trade Partnership Dawit Alemu & Irene Koomen1 Amsalu Ayana & Gareth Borman2 Eyasu Elias & Eric Smaling3 Helen Getaw, Gertjan Becx & Monika Sopov4 Geremew Terefe & Ted Schrader5 Tewodros Tefera & Remko Vonk6 1 PCU 2 ISSD Ethiopia 3 CASCAPE 4 ENTAG 5 SBN 6 REALISE Wageningen University & Research Wageningen, February 2019 Report WCDI-19-053 Dawit Alemu, Irene Koomen, Amsalu Ayana, Gareth Borman, Eyasu Elias, Eric Smaling, Helen Getaw, Gertjan Becx, Monika Sopov, Geremew Terefe, Ted Schrader, Tewodros Tefera & Remko Vonk, 2019. BENEFIT Partnership – 2018 Annual Report; Bilateral Ethiopian-Netherlands Effort for Food, Income and Trade Partnership. 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Report WCDI-19-053 Photo cover: Mirjam Schaap Contents Executive Summary 5 1 Introduction 15 2 Collaborative BENEFIT portfolio 17 2.1 Sesame: value chain development and integration of rotational crops 18 2.2 Malt barley: deploying improved varieties and grain market linkage 19 2.3 Soya bean value chain development 21 2.4 Potato: Strengthening the value chain 22 2.5 Sorghum: value chain development 22 3 Increased quality and quantity of sustainable agricultural production 25 3.1 Outcomes achieved by BENEFIT programmes 25 4 Improved markets and trade 29 4.1 Outcomes achieved by BENEFIT programmes 29 5 Improved enabling environment for the agricultural sector 33 5.1 Outcomes achieved by BENEFIT and its programmes 33 6 Mainstreaming social inclusion and nutrition 37 6.1 Social inclusion 37 6.2 Nutrition 39 6.3 CANAG 41 7 Major challenges, opportunities, lessons learnt and way forward 43 7.1 Major challenges 43 7.2 Opportunities 44 7.3 Key lessons learnt and the way forward 44 8 Enhanced partnership for synergy 47 8.1 Alignment of programmes and collaboration 47 8.2 Collaboration and alignment with other projects and programmes 47 8.3 Mainstreaming social inclusion & nutrition 48 8.4 Fostering collaboration in BENEFIT portfolio 49 8.4.1 BENEFIT portfolio management 49 8.4.2 Finance and administration 50 8.4.3 Monitoring and Evaluation 51 8.4.4 Communication 52 Stories & Examples 53 Detailed information key performance indicators 73 ISSD Annual report 2018 79 CASCAPE Annual report 2018 105 ENTAG Annual report 2018 127 SBN Annual report 2018 149 REALISE Annual report 2018 179 List of abbreviations and acronyms 197 Executive Summary 1. Introduction The bilateral project entitled “Bilateral Ethiopian Netherlands Effort for Food, Income and Trade Partnership (BENEFIT Partnership) supported by the Dutch Government through the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands has, since 2016, been implementing four agricultural development programmes (ISSD – Integrated Seed Sector Development, CASCAPE - Capacity building for Scaling up of evidence based Practices in agricultural production in Ethiopia, ENTAG - Ethiopia-Netherlands Trade for Agricultural Growth and SBN – Sesame Business network). In 2018 a fifth programme, REALISE - Realising Sustainable Agricultural Livelihood Security in Ethiopia, joined the BENEFIT partnership in 2018. The Partnership aims at increasing food and nutrition security, brokering Dutch expertise, and stimulating trade. The focus of the 2018 activities have been (i) further demonstration of evidences for the agricultural transformation agenda and enhancing the engagement to effectively communicate the evidences for development and policy; (ii) alignment with relevant initiatives including the Agricultural Transformation Agency, the Agricultural Growth Programme, and the Productive Safety Net Programme and other public programmes for synergy; (iii) creating evidences from by scaling of product & place and thematic collaborative activities; and (iv) strengthening of the mainstreaming of crosscutting issues mainly gender and nutrition in all BENEFIT programmes. In addition, the programme was reviewed for its mid-term achievements by external consultants. The activities have been carried out together with regional partners (Universities – Addis Ababa, Bahir Dar, Haramaya, Hawassa, Jimma, and Mekelle, Regional Agricultural Research Institutes in Amhara, Oromia, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region and Tigray, and the Oromia Seed Enterprise). With the launch of the REALISE programme, the list of regional partners has increased by including Arba Minch, Arsi, Oda Bultum and Woldia Universities. The 2018 annual report presents the major achievements under each of the BENEFIT outcome indicators followed by the major challenges, opportunities and key lessons learnt and the way forward. 2. Major achievements in 2018 The major achievements of the BENEFIT partnership are summarized based on the result chain outputs (Figure 1), which are related with (i) enhancing portfolio collaboration among BENEFIT programmes, (ii) increasing quality and quantity of agricultural production, (iii) improving markets and trade, (iv) improving the enabling environment for the agricultural sector, and (v) enhancing partnership for synergy. Report WCDI-19-053 | 5 Improved sustainable food, income, trade and nutrition security of rural households in Ethiopia Impact Pillar 1: Increased quantity and quality of sustainable Pillar 2: Market Dynamics Pillar 3: Improved agricultural production enabling environment outcome # of farmers reached with # of hectares of farm # of companies with supported plan # of substantial policy increased productivity land used more eco- to invest, trade or provide services changes/ reforms contributed (ISSD, CASCAPE, SBN, efficiently (ISSD, SBN, ENTAG) to ENTAG, REALISE) (ISSD, CASCAPE, SBN, (ISSD, CASCAPE, SBN, (2018) 1.813.946 REALISE) (2018) 1.048 ENTAG) (2017) 1.740.820 (2018) 114.998 (2017) 260 (2018) 19 (2016) 910.745 (2017) 564.858 (2017) 7 (2016) 285.452 (2016) 5 utcome o indicators # of farmers reached with # of farmers reached with improved improved access to input access to output markets markets (ENTAG) (ISSD, SBN, REALISE) (2018) 4,525 (2018) 1.388.861 (2017) 1,736 (2017) 1.340.439 (2016) 62.613 output Improved stakeholders capacity in agricultural practices (knowledge and skills) # of persons reached/ trained with improved technology and # of trained farmers in sustainable agricultural production and practices skills (ISSD, CASCAPE, SBN, REALISE) (ISSD, CASCAPE, SBN, ENTAG, REALISE) (2018) 261.334 (2018) 56.982 (2017) 241.228 (2017) 86.085 (2016) 18.093 outputindicators (2016) 5.282 Figure 1 Key partnership indicators: 2018, 2017 and 2016 achievements 2.1 Collaborative BENEFIT Portfolio The 2018 overall performance in collaborative activities shows considerable improvement compared to the previous years’ implementation. This is linked with the increased engagement and linkages in the areas of technology validation and scaling, creation of market linkages, joint result based planning, monitoring and evaluation, and policy engagement for the prioritized commodities. This improvement is associated with (i) regional planning being more result based, (ii) the improved activity management esp. in terms of assignment of individual responsibilities for the different activities, and (iii) improved engagement of BENEFIT management.