Finale Report

FINALE REPORT

PROJECT: EMERGENCY AGRICULTURAL LIVELIHOODS SUPPORT TO SEVERELY FOOD INSECURE HOUSEHOLDS IN YEMEN

OSRO/YEM/806/JPN

LOA FOR: "PROVISION OF BENEFICIARY VERIFICATION AND DISTRIBUTION SERVICES OF LIVESTOCK INPUTS TO TARGETED BENEFICIARIES IN THE TARGETED DISTRICTS OF TAIZ GOVERNORATE ''

REPORT BY GHADAQ FOR DEVELOPMENT

SUBMITTED TO: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UN (FAO)

Letter of Agreement number (refrence) OSRO/YEM/806/JPN Date of entry into force of LoA 1 July 2019 End date of LoA 31 Dec 2019 Reporting period May - Dec 2019 Submitted by Dr. Abdul Gabbar Al-Kirshi Sana'a, February 2019

Contents Page

1. INTRODUCTION ...... 3 2. PURPOSE, OBJECTIVE AND DELIVERABLE OUTPUTS ...... 4 2.1. PURPOSE ...... 4 2.2. OBJECTIVE ...... 4 2.3. OUTPUTS...... 4 2.4. ACTIVITIES ...... 4 2.5. DELIVERABLE ...... 5 3. TARGETED BENEFICIARIES ...... 5 4. IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIVITIES ...... 6 4.1. SEQUENCE OF THE PREPARATION FOR IMPLEMENTATION THE ACTIVITIES ...... 6 4.2. CONDUCTING THE ACTIVITIES ...... 7 4.3. DISTRICT COVERAGE ...... 8 5. DOCUMENTATION ...... 15 6. CHALLENGES ENCOUNTERED THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ACTIVITIES AND LESSONS LEARNED: ...... 16 6.1. DISTRIBUTION OF GOATS IN HAIFAN DISTRICT SHORT NOTES ...... 16 6.2. TECHNICAL TEAM ...... 17 6.3. AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS ...... 18 6.4. THE GOATS ...... 18 7. CONTRIBUTION OF GHADAQ ORGANIZATION TO THE PROJECT ...... 19

1. INTRODUCTION GHADAQ for Development and FAO/YEMEN signed a Letter of Agreement (LoA) for "the Provision of Beneficiary Verification and Distribution services of livestock inputs to targeted beneficiaries in the targeted districts of Taiz Governorate '. The targeted districts are AL MAWASIT AND HAYFAN of Taiz Governorate. This LoA is under the framework of the project "Emergency agricultural livelihoods support to severely food insecure households in Yemen" OSRO/YEM/806/JPN and implemented by FAO/YEMEN with NGOs partners. The target beneficiaries consist of poor rural households living in selected communities with a focus on stressed host communities, women-headed households and Youth. Men and women with disabilities will also targeted. The project includes verification and distribution services of livestock inputs. The characteristics, location and number of targeted beneficiaries have been specified according to the Letter of Agreement document. Under the LoA conditions signed between the FAO and GHADAQ the activities have targeted poor and food-insecure households as well as beneficiaries affected by the conflict. The following groups have been given priorities:  Poor rural households;  Sharecroppers and causal workers;  Youth. Men and women with disabilities;  Women-headed households;  Conflict affected households, returnees and IDPs.

2. PURPOSE, OBJECTIVE AND DELIVERABLE OUTPUTS 2.1. PURPOSE The purpose of the activities is to restore and increase the use of productivity and nutrition enhancing agricultural practices in targeted project areas of AL MAWASIT AND HAYFAN districts. This will be realized through livelihood assistance in terms of training, awareness building and technical support by distribution of livestock inputs.

2.2. OBJECTIVE The Services contribute to the following organizational objective: To support 1250 households/community in the targeted district(Al Mawasit and Hayfan) through provision of various livestock inputs during the period July- Dec 2019 and engage in livelihood diversification activities and adoption of appropriate technologies to improve their food security resilience. 2.3. OUTPUTS The Service Provider will produce, achieve or deliver the following outputs: Verification and Distribution of livestock inputs to targeted beneficiaries in targeted 2 districts (Al Mawasit and Hayfan) of Taiz Governorate. The inputs are:  1250 households supported with 3750 head of live animals, 125 MT of feed concentrate, 6.25 MT of Mineral blocks and 40 MT of Feed blocks.  Training and capacity development sessions to the heads of community committees (One day training session) and one day awarness session for each HH beneficiary through heads of committees and on topics related to animal husbandry (to be identified by FAO national consultants). Monthly reports and final report.

2.4. ACTIVITIES The following activities have been undertaken: 1. Conducted the verification process of the benificiaries, which is in the provided list and ensured all beneficiaries are fufilling the selection criteria; recorded the telephone number and other significant personal data (village, ID, sex, etc) using the excel file provided by FAO . 2. Establishment of 41 community committees (each committee contains not more than 30 representatives from each targeted HH beneficiary. 3. Carried y-out one set of training sessions on the areas of livestock to the heads of established community committees (based on the input each HH is receiving). 4. Made the necessary arrangements to contact all beneficiaries informing them of criteria for distribution 5. Coordinated with the suppliers to identify the places in each district as distribution points for livestock inputs.

6. In coordination with supplier, local authorities at district, Director of agricultural office in governorate Ghadaq prepareed distribution plan of all inputs to the targeted benficiaries. The distribution lists contained the same names of verified beneficiaries and included the following data: o The name of beneficiary, o the village name, o Sub-district (Ozlah) name, o District name, o Quantity of livestock inputs received, o Stamp (Fingerprint) In addition, the bottom of each list included the signature and stamp of director of local authority, director of agricultural office in the district. 7. Ensured distribution activities were covered by media and photos for the activities made showing the animals, delivery of all inputs to the beneficiaries and a banner with the FAO, Government and JPN logos and name of the activities. 8. Implement M&E activities including field visits and inter-agency coordination.

2.5. DELIVERABLE The following inputs have been delivered 1. 1250 households supported with 3750 head of live animals, 125 MT of feed concentrate, 6.25 MT of Mineral blocks and 40 MT of Feed blocks. 2. Awareness session for each HH beneficiary through specialists on topics related to animal husbandry.

3. TARGETED BENEFICIARIES Table 1 reflects the targeted Beneficiaries and livestock inputs distributed.

Mineral Blocks Live Animals Feed Concentrate Feed Blocks Amou Amo Total Ratio Ratio Governor # per Total Ratio Quant nt Quant unt District HHs Amou per per ate HH Amount per HH ity (MT) - ity (MT) nt HH HH (head) (heads) (kg) (pcs) 1blck/ (pcs) 1blck (MT) (pcs) (pcs) 5kg /8kg Al 1 750 3.75 3 2 250 100 75.000 4 3 000 24 Taiz Mawasit 750 1 500 2.5 Hayfan 500 3 1 500 100 50.000 4 2 000 16 1250 6.25 Total 1250 3750 125 5000 40

4. IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIVITIES 4.1. SEQUENCE OF THE PREPARATION FOR IMPLEMENTATION THE ACTIVITIES  After signing the LoA Ghadaq has to prepare and submit a project file for SCEMCHA contains cover letter, targeted governorate, targeted districts, kind of activities and targeted BFs, requesting a license for conducting the activities in AL MAWASIT AND HAYFAN districts;  After receiving the approval license GHADAQ appointed a technical supervisor, general coordinator and awareness supervisor;  Selection and contract the district coordinators for AL MAWASIT AND HAYFAN with the following main tasks: (a) Help by contacting of local authorities and explain to them the purpose of the ongoing activities; (b) Help by selection of the surveyors teams in both districts; (c) Help by training the selected teams on how to deal with the questionnaires; (d) Day by day follow up the field work and receiving the forms filled and coming from every member of the field team, archive the forms, entering the data in the due lists; (e) Weakly report to the general coordinator and training supervisor.  Selection of surveyors (including females);  Training the selected surveyors and giving them clear instructions on how to start the work, what of lists of beneficiaries every surveyors should take with him and to which villages he should go;  Giving the surveyors the contacts of the head of every village "A'qel" to contact and inform them about the purpose.

Figure 1: The verification of the BFs

4.2. CONDUCTING THE ACTIVITIES After completion of the verification activities and fixing final lists of the beneficiaries, GHADAQ staff and volunteers have continued to conducting the following activities:  Starting by the coordination with the FAO team to ensure that the verification of the beneficiaries were in line with the standard selection and targeting criteria’s set and implemented during the selection process;  Prepare plans for the training, awareness building and distribution in each location complete with names of the beneficiaries according to list of beneficiaries provided by FAO;  Make the necessary arrangements to contact all beneficiaries informing them of criteria for distribution;  Coordinate with the suppliers to identify the places in each district as distribution;  In coordination with supplier, local authorities at district, director of agricultural office in governorate prepare distribution plan of all inputs to the targeted beneficiaries. The distribution lists contain the same names of agreed beneficiaries and containing the following data:  the name of beneficiary;  the village name;  Sub-district (Ozlah) name and district name;  quantity of live animals received, stamp (Fingerprint)  and the bottom of each list should include the signature and stamp of director of local authority, director of agricultural office in the districts per governorate  Ensured distribution activities are well covered by media and made photos for the activities showing the delivery of all inputs to the beneficiaries  Banners containing the FAO, Government and EU logos and name of the activities have been prepared.

4.3. DISTRICT COVERAGE The district coverage of GHADAQ team activities for both districts are reflected in table 3 and table 4. We can see in table 3 that 7 sub districts and 17 villages and have been visited to check the beneficiaries' lists, to train the targeted HHs and to distribute agri. items received from the FAO.

Table 2: Targeted sub districts, villages and total number of BFs in Hayfan district

No. District Sub-District Village NO. Beneficiaries 1 Aabos 3 2 Albawadieah 6 3 Altabaiea 9 4 Aldemnah 6 5 Althira 5 6 Alraam 7 7 Alsabed 15 8 Alsabed Asaq 6 9 Alsawamerah 12 10 Alothaeer 7

11 Algholeebah 8

12 Alfareen 5 13 Alfadarim 20

ABOOS

14 AYFAN Almahrabi 6

H 15 L Almerkab 1 16 A Almerkp 6 17 Bani Ahmad Alshabi 5 18 Bani Ahmad Haseemah 4 19 Bani Ali 4 20 Harat 17 21 Alaboos Daan 8 22 Doman 7 23 Dabie 11 24 Karnah 8 25 Mashawz 10 26 Mashar 5 27 201 28 Alanjood 9 29 Algebal 8 30 Alhabterah 18

31 Alkhtwah 2

32 Alkhtwah Alzobeia 1 33 Alkhtwah Almodahwar 1

ROOQ

34 AYFAN Alskarenah 11

L 35 H Alsharyah 7

A 36 Aladanah 12 37 Alareen 9 38 Alghabeeb 9 39 Alkelah 7

Table 2 continued: No. District Sub-District Village NO. Beneficiaries

40 Allams 9 41 Almerar 8 42 Almazaj 6 43 Alnotk 7 44 Alnobah 8

45 Barh Asfel 7 46 Barh Aala 9

47 AYFAN Harf Alamoor 3

48 H Thowab 9 49 Kob Alda 18 50 Masaher 14 51 Makraah 9 52 Hajzi 9 53 Walan Alashar 8 54 Walan Alsafiha 2 55 220 56 Alashab 9

57 Alhoreem 15

58 Alaweesah 7 59 Alkoblah 9

60 AYFAN Alloyah Alhayfah 9

GHABERAH

H 61 A Alnakeel 4

- 62 L Hayfan 21

A 63 Okabah 5 Total 79 HAYFAN DISTRICT TOTAL 500

Table3: Actual distributed items in Hyfan district Mineral Blocks Live Animals Feed Concentrate Feed Blocks

Ratio Ratio (kg) per HH Total Amount (MT) Distributed % Ratio (pcs) per HH Quantity (pcs) Amount (MT) 1blck/5kg Distributed % Ratio (pcs) per HH Quantity (pcs) Amount (MT) 1blck/8kg Distributed % # per (head) HH Total (heads Distributed %

100 50. 100 1 500 2.5 100 4 2 000 16 100 3 1500 100

Table4: Actual distributed items in Alamawaset district Mineral Blocks Live Animals Feed Concentrate Feed Blocks

100 75. 100 1 750 3.75 100 4 3 000 24 100 3 2250 100

Figure 3 reflects the districts and villages of the targeted beneficiaries.in Hafan district

Figure 2: HAYFAN district with sub districts and targeted villages

Table 5: Distribution points of goats in Hayfan District: No Distribution points Total of District (Ozlah) Total of live beneficiaries animals 1 Alshahid Abdul-aziz 169 Ala’abos , 507 Abdul-qani school Alaghabrah and Ala’aroq 2 Mogama’a Derham 81 Ala’abos , 243 Alram Alaghabrah and Ala’aroq 3 Alwehdah School 75 Alaghabrah and 225 Ala’aroq 4 Ma’asher clinic 101 Ala’abos 303 5 Alarshad school 74 Ala’abos 222 Total 500 - 1500

Table 6: Targeted sub districts, villages and total number of BFs in Almawaset district Sub- No District Village Beneficiaries District 1 Akhmor Dakhel 35 Al-Mawast Alakhmoor 2 Akhmor Kharej 42 Total Alakhmoor 77 3 Albaheem 9 4 Althera'a 9 5 Al-Mawast Alaloom Alzarebah 18 6 Shab zoree 9 7 Alshooub 6 Total Alaloom 51 9 Alaredah 3 10 Almamaryah 7 11 Alwaheenah 5 12 Bani jaber 7 13 Grzyah 7 14 Al-Mawast Alayfoo Hazman Ala'a 8 15 Hazman 8 16 Khora 10 17 Sakman 6 18 Sakman zankan 3 19 Nahmah 7 Total Alayfoo 71 20 Alhakibah 31 21 Alajilah 44 22 Almainah 19 23 Alminam 10 24 Bani Bani Hasan 1 Al-Mawast hamad Bani Hasan 25 1 Mohamed 26 Bani Hasan Raeeya 18 27 Bani Samee 18 28 Ozlah Algeebal 23 total bani hamad 165 30 Almahgar 7 31 Almarafd 10 Al-Mawast Bani Abass 32 Alnowyderah 5 33 Jahafer 11 Total Bani Abass 33 34 Aldree'a 9 Bani 35 Al-Mawast Aldoom 14 Yousef 36 Asalp 2

Table 6: continued Sub- No District Village Beneficiaries District

37 Almanakh 3 38 Almanawed 1 39 Berdad 5 40 Al-Mawast Hojrah 6 41 Hasmah 4 42 Kheer Esa 8 43 Sherar 12 44 Akf 10 Total Bani Yousef 74 45 Akrood Asfl 4 46 Alakrood 5 47 Alahjoom 20 48 Albatnah 12 49 Aljanad 8 50 Aldakhl 4 51 Aldemnat 4 52 Alnakhf 8 53 Alnaf 5 54 Alrad'a 4 55 Alzopeerah 9 Alsadah 7 57 Aldya'a 7 Altee 5 59 Alaseerah 4 60 Alkateen 6 61 Al-Mawast Kadas Alkarifah 11 62 Almajinah 6 63 Almamerh 9 64 Almkdar 4 65 Almakaleh 4 66 Bani Saleh 18 67 Bani Ali 5 68 Bani Hebah 6 69 Johan 12 70 Halkan 20 71 Hamdan 9 72 Khslah 9 73 Theljamal 12 74 Aseedah 9 75 Amkan 5 76 Matran 17 77 Wadi Alajab 11 Total kadas 279 Total BFs in Almawast 750

Table 7. Distribution points of Almawast district: No Distribution points Sub District (Ozlah) BFs Total 1 Alflah school Bani Yousef,Bani A’abas and Ala’aloom 149 2 Alhoban Qadas Mamsa Alhoban,Mamsa Alashroh and ozlah 181 aljebal bani hamad 3 Alkdrah Qadas Mamsa alkdrah and Mamsa Alzubairah 132 4 13 June school-Alakhmoor Akhmoor Kharej,Qurah bani 137 jaber,Alsha’aob, Suqman,Ala’aredh , Zanfan,Kherah, Jarzaba , Alhaqebah and Bani Hassan 5 Abdu-Alaefoa’a school Qurah alwahena ,Hazman A’ala, Hazman 160 Najmah , Akhmoor dakhel , Ala’ajilah alma’ainah , Almainam and Bani Samea’a. Total - 750

Map 2 reflects the sub districts, the village covered in Bani Al- Hareth. We can observe that 4 sub districts and more than 30 villages have been visited and in these villages, the beneficiaries' lists have been checked and finalized. After then, the training, awareness building and distribution of the agricultural items have been conducted.

Figure 3: ALMAWAST district with sub districts and targeted villages

5. DOCUMENTATION

Feed concentrate and feed blocks received and stored

Training and awareness. How to use the feed concentrate, who are the donors and who are the implemented agencies

Check the ID cards and distribution lists of the BFs before receiving the livestock items

Feed concentrate, mineral blocks and feed block distributed to targeted BFs and feed blocks received and stored

6. CHALLENGES ENCOUNTERED THROUGH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ACTIVITIES AND LESSONS LEARNED: 6.1. DISTRIBUTION OF GOATS IN HAIFAN DISTRICT SHORT NOTES GHADAQ TASKS: RECEIVING, AWARENESS AND DISTRIBUTION

1. The goats were brought and put in a farm in Demant Khadeer for quarantine period of two weeks under direct supervision of head of the veterinary department and the general director of the agricultural office in Taiz; 2. One day before dispatching the goats from the quarantine farm in Demant Khadeer to the distribution points in Haifan district we had been informed that specialists, including a veterinarian and animal production, from the Agricultural Office in Taiz

visited the farm and approved those accepted for transportation to the distribution points; 3. Ghadaq received the goats in the distribution points and parallel to the distribution Ghadaq conducted awareness campaign by: a. Livestock specialist Eng. Sameer Al-Qubaty b. Veterinary specialist Dr. Nazar Al-Aghbry 4. The goats have been distributed in 6 distribution points in attendance of the agricultural manager of Haifan district, the SCEMCHA representative, the veterinarian and the agricultural specialist. 5. The goats were received, in 6 group intervals, started Monday 3. February and lasted till Wednesday 12 February;

Dissipation Date # goats # goats Reason for point arrived rejected and rejection replaced first 3. February 534 25 Second 4. February 300 10 Only Physical Third 8. February 198 15 appearance Fourth 9. February 243 13 such as: very Fifth 11 February 180 17 old, eye Sixth 12. 45 00 problems, February udder problems Total 1500 80 Note: rejected goats have been replaced by new once in attendance of the veterinarian and the livestock specialist. Pictures showed the receiving of the animals and the awareness campaign

Recommendations: 1. The animals should be received by a committee formed from members of FAO, the IP and the agriculture office; 2. A direct FAO veterinarian was absent in all phases mentioned above and therefore, we strongly recommend that a veterinarian appointed by the FAO should be there and he should be one of the committee members responsible for acceptance or reject the animals;

6.2. TECHNICAL TEAM The technical team supervised the awareness and distribution of the animals No Name Task assigned Telephone 1 Dr. Abdul Hakeem Overall supervisor 777613880 Ariki

2 Eng. Muneer Ghadaq field coordinator 771047995 Alaghbary 3 Dawood Al-Areeqi Awareness feed concentrate 770679342 and feed blocks 4 Eng. Sameer Mahfood Awareness feeding, feed 737839036 concentrate and feed blocks 5 Dr. Nazaar Alaghbary, Awareness,;, Animal health 770086060 In addition there were 3 persons (male and female) worked as distribution team in every distribution point.

6.3. AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS The awareness campaigns of the BFs have been conducted twice:  The first awareness campaign during the distribution of the feed concentrate, feed blocks and mineral blocks in mid-December 2019; (awareness conducted in groups before receiving the feed concentrate and blocks);  The second awareness campaign during the receiving and the distribution of the goats from 3. February until 12. February; (awareness conducted in groups before receiving the animals).

6.4. THE GOATS  No doubt, goats received were exhausted due to long and rugged transportation way from the quarantine farm in Dimnat Khadeer to the mountain in Haifan.  No doubt, there are goats have been dead. BUT, how many? and where exactly is still controversial;  There was a rumor spread in the villages after BFs hearing of cases of died goats of some BFs. Other BFs heard that there would be compensation for those BFs whose goats died. This rumor has increased the list of the BFs stated that one, two or all the three received goats have been dead.  We asked the director of the district to check the issue and to send a real list of the BFs stated that one or more of the received goats have been dead. The list we received from the district director figured that around 70 goats out of 1500 have been dead.  According to stament from the general director of the agricultural office in the district, "although there are goats received and died but, there are also some BFs sold one or more of the goats and stated the animals died to get compensation".  No doubt, there is exaggeration in the issue. A survey is going on NOW on the ground and will bring a clear picture soon.

7. CONTRIBUTION OF GHADAQ ORGANIZATION TO THE PROJECT As a civil and development organization GHADAQ has contributed to this project by providing the BFs of seed of Maringa oleifera. In this context Ghadaq has contributed positively in this project to enhance the sensitization of the BFs towards fulfilling the objectives of the project. The following activity have been financed and extra implemented by GHADAQ: AWARENESS RAISING, SEED DISTRIBUTION AND PLANTING OF MODEL BACKYARDS WITH MORINGA Moringa oleifera trees, more widely known as “miracle trees” provide a wide range of exploitable benefits, their leaves are rich in vitamins, proteins and amino acids, their seeds may be used for water purification or oil production and their bark as firewood. Apart from that the trees may grow in dry hot regions with only a moderate need of water. In developing tropical countries, moringa trees have been used to combat malnutrition, especially among infants and nursing mothers. In Yemen several non-governmental organizations in particular PU-AMI, ACTED, SFD, Ghadaq, Al-Thuraya etc have includes moringa in their nutrition and food security programs.

The field activities: Printing and distribution of brochures: Ghadaq has printed a Moringa brochure with more illustrated pictures to reflect the significant of the planting of the seeds in backyards of the BFs, to educate the BFs how to grow Moringa and to raise the awareness of the BFs on the use of the different parts of Moringa (greens leaves, drying and keeping of drayed leaves, the use of the seeds, the use of park etc),

Distribution of seeds: Ghadaq has distributed seeds to at least 50% of the targeted BFs (especially those who showed great interest and have back yards) and also to not targeted villagers. Planting: model backyards have been planted by Ghadaq experts by attendance of other BFs so that they could plant their seed given to them by Ghadaq according to the instructions recommendations they have seen and heard during the planting by the experts.

Distributed Moringa seeds

Moringa seeds and seedlings

ATTACHMENTS

 Verification lists  Lists of finger stamps for items received so far