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Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) Project Funded by the United States Agency for International Development FY 2016 Annual Report Reporting Period: 1 October 2015 – 30 September 2016 Submitted to: AOR: Dubale Admasu, USAID/Ethiopia Country Contact HQ contact Program Summary Michael J. Jacobs Nate Oetting Award No: AID-663-A-12-00014 Chief of Party Senior Program Officer Box 14319 Mercy Corps Start Date: October 15, 2012 Addis Ababa 45 SW Ankeny Ethiopia Portland, Oregon 97204 End Date: October 14, 2017 Phone:+251-(11) 416-9337 Total Award: $56,772,799 Fax: +251-(11)416-9571 503.896.5000 [email protected] [email protected] Report Date: October 31, 2016 1 I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PRIME is a five-year, USAID-funded initiative designed to support resilience among pastoralist communities in Ethiopia, and thus enhance prospects for long-term development in Ethiopia’s dryland landscape where the pastoralist livelihood system prevails. Financed through Feed the Future (FTF) and Global Climate Change (GCC) facilities, PRIME was designed to be transformative and innovative, and to achieve scale through market-driven approaches to livestock production and livelihood diversification that simultaneously support dryland communities to adapt to a changing climate. In order to achieve its overall goal of increasing household incomes and enhancing resilience to climate change through market linkages, the program works to meet the following five major objectives (intermediate results): 1) Improve productivity and competitiveness of livestock and livestock products; 2) Enhance pastoralists’ adaptation to climate change; 3) Strengthen alternative livelihoods for households transitioning out of pastoralism; 4) Ensure enhanced innovation, learning and knowledge management; and 5) Improve nutritional status of targeted households through targeted, sustained and evidence-based interventions. Highlights from Year 4: This report summarizes the key activities implemented, and the associated accomplishments for PRIME between 1 October 2015 and 30 September 2016. Major accomplishments for this Year 4 include: PROGRESS AGAINST OVERALL GOALS Key findings in the Midline Survey (2015) when compared to the Baseline Survey (2013) indicated that with the implementation of PRIME, annual household income increased on average by $194.09 /hh. Measures of poverty did not improve and remained unchanged despite the increased household income. However, the midline measurements were made at the peak of the El Niño drought and two of PRIME’s operational areas were deeply affected by this drought. The midline survey also found that household vulnerability to drought had declined, on average, by 29% when measuring the probability of suffering from moderate or severe hunger. In addition, there were increases in the percentage of children (from 0.5% to 5.2%) and women (from 2.2% to 2.7%) eating 4 or more food groups. Household access to veterinary products also increased from 9% to 35% and access to financial services increased for an estimated 174,556 beneficiaries since the start of the project. The Annual Household Survey found that all targets for 2015 were achieved for annually measured indicators. Moreover, some end-of-project targets, such as the one related to the percentage of women reporting meaningful participation in decision-making and the percentage of farmers who practice supplementary feeding for animals, have already been achieved. 2 During this reporting year, PRIME reached 74,513 vulnerable households. According to PRIME FY2016 Annual Household Survey report, 45,542 people implemented risk-reducing practices/actions to improve resilience to climate change. The number of farmers and others who have applied new (improved) technologies or management practices as a result of PRIME activities during FY2016 is 45,542. PRIME also leveraged total of $1,734, 969 PS capital investments and achieved a total $10,876,924.82 incremental sales. INTERMEDIATE RESULT 1: IMPROVED PRODUCTIVITY AND COMPETITIVENESS OF LIVESTOCK AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTS: The focus of the activities for achieving the Intermediary Result 1- Improved productivity and competitiveness of livestock and livestock products during PRIME year 4 continued to be on improving productivity in key livestock market systems, improving market linkages, improving enabling environment and providing effective emergency response to protect pastoralist assets. During Year 4 the IR1 team, in concert with other IRs and IIF continued implementing activities initiated in the previous project quarters, focused on development of the live animals trade, meat, dairy and livestock inputs (animal health products and services and feed/fodder) value chains. These activities consisted of: 1) support to local lead SMEs in completing their business expansions and improving business capacity, including business soundness, marketing and business management practices, adoption of new technologies, increasing employment, and expanding market consolidation for commodities (milk and livestock) produced by pastoral and agro-pastoral households; 2) market linkage events, trainings, technical assistance interventions and exposure visits for value chain operators, suppliers and local public development agents in the value chains; and 3) livestock productivity improvement events, trainings and information dissemination. Additionally, in response to the drought conditions existing in the eastern operational areas of PRIME (Afar and Siti Zone of ESRS) the IR1 team, in collaboration with the IR3 and IR5 teams focused on developing and implementing emergency and crisis modifier activities. The emergency response activities worked towards preventing negative drought effects on livestock and livestock marketing, and protecting resilience improvement and development gains. Several activities such as destocking (stimulating commercial livestock off-take), restricted value veterinary vouchers interventions, fodder transportation interventions, as well as initiation of support for improved feed and fodder accessibility. The combined emergency market activities as they relate to the IR1 objectives brought increased access to veterinarian products and services for over 21,000 households in Afar Zone 3 and the Siti Zone. An additional estimated 12,000 households were able to sell over 38,200 small ruminants during the destocking activities, and another 22,000 have benefited from improved local access to supplemental feed and fodder for livestock. INTERMEDIATE RESULT 2: CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: PRIME’s Intermediate Result 2 focuses on enhancing pastoralists’ adaptation to climate change by improving availability and access to climate information services, supporting the 3 strengthening of early warning systems, and strengthening the capacity of local institutions for improved resource governance and management practices in climate adaptation. This includes improving livelihood-related decision-making processes towards climate change adaptation under Intermediate Results 1 and 3 that focus on livestock productivity and livelihood diversification, respectively. The natural resource management activities (NRM) focused on ensuring the continuity of the rangeland councils’ role, through continued support of regular dialogues and review meeting events between rangeland councils and local-level government partners. NRM activities also included facilitation of community rangeland management planning and endorsement processes by local government stakeholders. Other activities included support of rangeland restoration activities, development and/or rehabilitation of selected water points (ponds and birkads), selective bush thinning/prosopis clearing activities, and hay making trainings to encourage communities to harvest and store surplus grass for the following dry season. The major accomplishments under the NRM activities include supporting regular rangeland council meetings held in all 24 rangeland systems in the three clusters, facilitating community rangeland management planning processes at 16 rangeland systems and the endorsement of 10 rangeland system plans. Nine water points were rehabilitated or developed in addition to the restoration of 6,322.5 hectares of rangeland, via selective clearing of prosopsis, area closures and soil & water conservation techniques – including soil bunds and check dams. Similarly, trainings were offered on Basic Data Collection and Dissemination Techniques for Early Warning Committee Members in Afar. Participatory Scenario Planning (PSP) workshops took place in all the three clusters, and led to the dissemination of advisories to communities in all three clusters. Support was provided to the multi-agency assessment of the Belg rainy season in Afar and Southern clusters, and ongoing support went to the local SAA groups’ discussions and meetings in Afar and Southern clusters. PRIME promoted the expansion of Improved Supplementary Fodder Production activities in Afar based on the results of the piloting work conducted in the previous year, and material support went to the Afar regional Disaster Prevention Food Security Projects Coordination Office (DPFSPCO) to strengthen their disaster response capacities and coordination. INTERMEDIATE RESULT 3: STRENGTHENED ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOODS FOR HOUSEHOLDS TRANSITIONING OUT OF PASTORALISM (TOPS) Over 1,230 TOPs graduated and attending Short-term vocational training in Different TVETs: New cohorts of TOPs are