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Quarterly Report #21 Helping Address Rural Vulnerabilities and Ecosystem Stability (Harvest) Program Prepared by Fintrac Inc. QUARTERLY REPORT #21 HELPING ADDRESS RURAL VULNERABILITIES AND ECOSYSTEM STABILITY (HARVEST) PROGRAM January – March 2016 This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. It was prepared by Fintrac Inc. under contract # AID-442-C-11-00001 with USAID/Cambodia. HARVEST ANNUAL REPORT #1, DECEMBER 2010 – SEPTEMBER 2011 1 Fintrac Inc. www.fintrac.com [email protected] US Virgin Islands 3077 Kronprindsens Gade 72 St. Thomas, USVI 00802 Tel: (340) 776-7600 Fax: (340) 776-7601 Washington, D.C. 1400 16th St. NW, Suite 400 Washington, D.C. 20036 USA Tel: (202) 462-8475 Fax: (202) 462-8478 Cambodia HARVEST No. 34 Street 310 Sangkat Beong Keng Kang 1 Khan Chamkamorn, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Tel: 855 (0) 23 996 419 Fax: 855 (0) 23 996 418 QUARTERLY REPORT #21 HELPING ADDRESS RURAL VULNERABILITIES AND ECOSYSTEM STABILITY (HARVEST) PROGRAM January – March 2016 The author’s views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Agency for International Development or the United States government. CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY......................................................................................................... 1 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................ 2 1.1 Program Description ...................................................................................................................................... 3 1.2 Geographic Focus ............................................................................................................................................ 3 1.3 Client and Partner Portfolio ......................................................................................................................... 4 1.4 Implementing Partners ................................................................................................................................... 4 2. PROGRAM COMPONENTS ............................................................................................... 7 2.1 Food Availability Increased............................................................................................................................ 7 2.1.1 Agriculture Input and Production Systems Enhanced ..................................................................................... 7 2.1.2 Improved Crop Varieties and Modern Agricultural Techniques Introduced .......................................... 10 2.1.3 Rural Production Systems Diversified ............................................................................................................... 10 2.1.4 Policy Framework Strengthened ......................................................................................................................... 11 2.2 Increased Food Access through Rural Income Diversification........................................................... 14 2.2.1 Value of Incremental Sales Increased at Farm and Small-and Medium-Enterprise Levels .............. 14 2.3 Natural Resource Management and Resilience to Climate Change Improved .............................. 14 2.3.1 Environmental Monitoring and Management Improved............................................................................. 14 2.4 Capacity of Public, Private, and Civil Society to Address Food Security and Climate Change .. 16 2.4.1 Capacity for Adaptive Research and Extension Enhanced ......................................................................... 16 2.5 National and Special Events ........................................................................................................................ 17 3. ACTIVITIES PLANNED FOR NEXT QUARTER ........................................................... 19 3.1 Food Availability Increased.......................................................................................................................... 19 3.2 Natural Resource Management and Resilience to Climate Change .................................................. 19 3.2 Cambodia HARVEST Close Out and Activities ..................................................................................... 19 ANNEX I: YEAR FIVE PERFORMANCE WORK PLAN .................................................. A1 ANNEX II: CLIENT INFORMATION ............................................................................... A10 ANNEX III: SNAPSHOTS .................................................................................................. A37 ANNEX IV: PROVINCIAL MAPS ..................................................................................... A40 ANNEX V: PROCUREMENT PROGRESS REPORT....................................................... A44 ANNEX VI: FINANCIAL SUMMARY ............................................................................... A50 Quarterly Report #21 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Cambodia HARVEST is a five-and-a-half-year food security program focused on increasing incomes for 100,000 rural Cambodian households as part of the US government’s Feed the Future and Global Climate Change initiatives. This is the program’s twenty-first and last quarterly report with highlights of major achievements and activities for January to March 2016. A final report covering the program’s five-and-a-half-years of major achievements and results will be submitted to USAID within 60 days of the contract end date of June 21, 2016. March 31st was the last day of technical assistance for all client field activities for the Cambodia HARVEST program. In the remaining three months (April, May, and the first three weeks in June), the program’s administrative and remaining technical staff will concentrate on tasks related to the program’s close out plan. This quarter Cambodia HARVEST met or exceeded 91 percent of its indicators and added 15,834 people who benefited from program activities, bringing the total to approximately 345,804 to date. The program has realized $8.6 million in incremental sales from farm-level crops, input suppliers, and other assisted small- and medium-scale enterprises (MSMEs). At the end of March, the program graduated the remaining 3,482 demonstration clients in the rice, aquaculture, and commercial horticulture value chains as well as 4,125 household vegetable demonstration clients. Also in March the horticulture extension training program for 47 government technicians ended, and technical assistance was completed for 340 retail and wholesale input suppliers. Additionally in this quarter, the program finalized technical assistance to all 30 partner community forestry (CF) sites, including 13 CFs that have adopted sustainable forest management practices on a commercial basis. Further, the Ministry of Environment launched two new policies developed by Cambodia HARVEST to improve national biodiversity management, and the program completed its biodiversity monitoring initiative at the Central Cardamoms Protected Forest (CCPF). In Community Fisheries (CFi), the program completed construction of two additional watchtowers, bringing the total to eight, which will improve the protection of wild fish stocks and directly benefit 5,570 people. At this year’s National Farmer Competition, held annually by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), Cambodia HARVEST aquaculture partner hatcheries won first and second place along with two rice seed clients winning second and fourth place for their activities with the Rice Seed Producer Associations in their respective provinces. All of the program’s technical component results this quarter were affected to some degree by the effects of El Niño in Southeast Asia, which has resulted in reduced rainfall during the 2015 wet season followed by a prolonged drought into 2016. For Cambodian farmers across the agriculture sector, and in particular the rice, horticulture and fisheries value chains, many water sources are now running dry for the first time in decades. With Cambodian government forecasts predicting no significant rainfall in many areas until July, the drought is anticipated to be the most severe in 50 years. The lack of water means that aquaculture farmers are unable to stock their ponds, and the upcoming rice planting season could be delayed by as many as three months. Although Cambodia HARVEST clients are better prepared than most through the implementation of climate adaption measures such as the adoption of diversified crops, short cycle and drought-tolerant rice varieties, and efficient drip irrigation systems, the month of March saw many farmers putting production on hold as they wait for conditions to improve. Highlights this quarter include: . The remaining 579 dry-season demonstration clients and 13,421 beneficiary farmers harvested their fields, resulting in yield increases of 35 percent and income increases of 15 percent over baseline. Approximately 26,000 commercial horticulture and household vegetable farmers collectively increased yields by 195 percent, resulting in income increases of 175 percent over baseline. Prepared by Fintrac Inc. 1 Quarterly Report #21 . Mobile kitchens trained 14,117 participants this quarter on nutrition and hygiene for a total of 158,564 participants to date, exceeding the total program target of 117,477. Community-based savings funds provided 381 loans, many of them to poor households, worth $34,646. Three rice seed cooperatives earned $10,129 in sales this quarter, bringing the total value of sales to date to $63,263 - an increase of 454
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