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Annual Report Year 1 – 23/12/2016 to 22/12/2017 Submission Date: 20 March 2018 Agreement Number: AID-625-A-17-00001 Activity Start Date and End Date: 12/23/2016 to 01/22/2021 AOR Name: Jennifer Karsner Submitted by: Alissa Karg Girard, Chief of Party Lutheran World Relief Boulevard Mali Béro, Avenue du Kawar, Niamey, Niger Tel: +227.96.26.73.26 Email: [email protected] The content of this report is the responsibility of Lutheran World Relief and does not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. LIST OF ACRONYMS AOR Agreement Officer Representative AE Auxiliaires de l’Elevage CBO Community-Based Organization CEB Contribution à l’Education de Base EMMP Environmental Monitoring and Mitigation Plan F&A Finance and Administration FTF Feed the Future FMNR Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration FY Fiscal Year GCC Global Climate Change GDA Global Development Alliance GPS Global Positioning System ICT Information and Communications Technologies INRAN Institut National de Recherches Agricoles du Niger IR Intermediate Result LWR Lutheran World Relief MACF Margaret A. Cargill Foundation MCC Millennium Challenge Corporation MEL Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (Plan) MOU Memorandum of Understanding ONAHA Office National des Aménagements Hydro-Agricoles OPVN Office des Produits Vivriers du Niger PEA Producer Enterprise Agent PIRS Project Indicator Reference Sheet RISE Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced SAREL Sahel Resilience Learning Project SVPP Service Vétérinaire Privé de Proximité TOT Training of Trainers USAID United States Agency for International Development USG United States Government WFP World Food Programme 1. PROGRAM OVERVIEW/SUMMARY Program Name: 12/12: An Alliance for Year-Round Resilience in Tahoua and Maradi, Niger Activity Start Date And End Date: 12/23/2016 to 01/22/2021 Name of Prime Implementing Partner: Lutheran World Relief (LWR) Agreement Number: AID-625-A-17-00001 Name of Subawardees: Union Adaltchi, Union Amintchi, Union Nazari, Contribution à l’Education de Base (CEB) Major Counterpart Baharti Airtel Ltd, Ecobank, SH Biaugeaud, Margaret A. Cargill Organizations/Alliance Partners: Foundation (MACF) and others Geographic Coverage Ajékoria, Birnin Lallé, Korahane Communes (Maradi Region) (communes) Konni, Bazaga, Tsernaoua, Dogueraoua, Illéla, Badaguichiri, Malbaza Communes (Tahoua Region) of Niger Reporting Period: December 23, 2016-December 22, 2017 (Year 1) 1.1 Program Description/Introduction The 12/12 Alliance seeks to leverage new private-sector expertise and innovative solutions to improve the resilience of 12,760 households over all 12 months of the year in 10 communes and 115 villages located in agro-pastoral and marginal agriculture livelihood zones of Iléla, Konni and Malbaza departments (Tahoua region) and Dakoro (Maradi region)--and simultaneously help the 12/12 Alliance’s private sector partners expand their market share, mitigate operating risks and secure more reliable supply chains. Specifically, the 12/12 Alliance aims to: Leverage private sector investment and innovations to increase and sustain household incomes, assets and adaptive capacity, and Strengthen the organizational capacity of farmer associations to sustain member services, manage risks and leverage business opportunities. LWR launched 12/12 Alliance project operations in 2017: procurement of key equipment and materials, baseline data collection, banking operations, recruitment, launch events with Alliance partners and key stakeholders, gender and value chain assessments and initial orientation, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) and compliance workshops. LWR also submitted an Environmental Monitoring and Mitigation Plan (EMMP), MEL plan and Year 1 and Year 2 work plans. Alliance partners signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to outline planned collaboration; LWR also signed an MOU with the Ministry of Community Development. LWR worked to build the project’s Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Hub and its technical extension content in the project’s first year. Following the design, field-testing and customization of the ICT Hub, LWR launched the ICT Hub with training for project staff and Producer Enterprise Agents (PEAs) and field-tested videos on cowpeas, sheep, millet and entrepreneurism. LWR also used the ICT Hub and external enumerators to collect and analyze annual performance data. LWR supported Union partners on improved crop and animal production, savings and credit promotion and organizational capacity and marketing plans over the first year. Activities with LWR’s four implementing partners—Union Adaltchi, Union Amintchi, Union Nazari and Contribution à l’Education de Base (CEB)—and performance measures are described in the sections that follow. 1 1.2 Summary of Results to Date Actual Results, Year 1 Annual On Baseline Annual Target FY18 Performance Standard Indicators Target 2017 (as of December 22, 2017) Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Achieved to the End of Period (%) Y/N Proportion of households resilient to a shock experienced 0 30% 0 0 0 47.92% 159.7% Y the previous year (Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced/RISE) Number of rural/vulnerable households benefitting directly 1,439 of 9,570 0 9,570 0 535 904 1,439 Y1 from USG interventions (Feed The Future/FTF) (15.0%) Number of people using climate information or 18 599 1,427 women, implementing risk-reducing actions to improve resilience 1,784 of 2,500 0 500 women; 2,000 men 0 women, women, 357 men (1,784 Y to climate change as supported by USG assistance (Global people (71.4%) 27 men 311 men people) Climate Change/GCC) Gross margins per hectare (for cowpeas, wheat and onion) $178 USD 161.8% cowpeas and animal (sheep) of selected product (FTF) $110 USD onions (men and cowpeas (men); (men), 123.3% women); $120 USD cowpeas $148 USD 0 0 0 0 cowpeas (women), Y (men and women), $11 USD cowpeas 181.8% sheep sheep (women) (women); $20 (women) sheep (women) Number of individuals who have received USG-supported 431 women, 341 772 of 1,100 short-term agricultural sector productivity or food security 0 500 women, 600 men 0 0 0 Y training (FTF)* men (70.2%) Number of hectares under improved management 3,038 ha under 1 3,038 of 1,625 ha technologies or practices as a result of USG assistance 0 1,625 ha 0 2.6 ha 0 or more Y (187.0%) (FTF) technologies Number of farmers who have applied new management 18 599 1,700 women, 0 2,439 of 2,500 technologies or management practices as a result of USG 500 women, 2,000 men 0 women, women, 739 men (2,439 Y (97.6%) assistance (FTF) 27 men 311 men people) Number of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), including farmers, receiving agricultural-related 0 3 0 0 0 0 0% N2 credit as a result of USG assistance (FTF)* 1 Data compiled from direct beneficiaries of training sessions, animal fattening operations and other project activities; however, farmer registration with a unique identifier (and grouping by head-of-household) in the ICT Hub must be completed in order to determine if some direct beneficiaries belong to the same household. LWR has suspended reporting on this indicator while farmer registration is pending in order not to double-count beneficiary households. 2 No loans were planned over the project’s first year (2017) and warehouse credit will not again be needed until late 2018. 2 Value of agricultural and rural loans as a result of USG 3 assistance (FTF) 0 $200,000 USD 0 0 0 0 0% N Number of for-profit private enterprises, producers organizations, water users associations, women's groups, trade and business associations, and community-based 0 4 4 0 0 0 100% Y organizations (CBOs) receiving USG food security-related organizational development assistance (FTF)* Number of private enterprises, producer organizations, water user associations, trade and business associations, and community-based organizations (CBOs) that applied 0 4 0 4 0 0 100% Y new technologies or management practices with USG assistance (FTF) Note: The summary results table reflects the annual MEL update submitted on August 29, 2017 and additional FTF indicators (marked with *) added to the FY18 MEL Plan update in March 2018. Additional details are reported in Annex A. 3 No loans were planned over the project’s first year (2017) and warehouse credit will not again be needed until late 2018. 3 2. ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS 2.1 Progress Narrative Operations: In January 2017, LWR held consultative meetings and surveys with regional, departmental and local authorities, technical service providers from the Ministries of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, community opinion leaders, 12/12 Alliance partners and the leadership of the farmer Unions and other organizations that are LWR’s implementing partners under the project to identify the 115 project villages. See Annex C for a list of these local authorities and stakeholders. Villages were selected based on the following criteria: a.) year-round accessibility; b.) administrative recognition; c.) relatively secure, with no prior conflicts; d.) productive and market potential; e.) residents are members of a cooperative of a Union partner working in one of the project’s targeted value chains (in Tahoua region); f.) prior investments and commercial or market infrastructure to leverage; and g.) in Tahoua region, good standing of the cooperative in the Union (regular payment of dues and attendance at General Assembly or other meetings). The list of selected villages was provided to partner Airtel to determine the potential mobile coverage and needed investments (either new towers or adjustments to the orientation of existing towers) to ensure adequate cellular and data coverage in the project zone. In early 2017, LWR’s 12/12 Alliance project team set up the project’s Niamey office and the field office in Konni and ordered project equipment and materials. LWR also identified and contracted a Nigerien hiring firm to assist with recruitment, identifying candidates for all management and technical posts. LWR organized a project orientation meeting in Konni from February 13-18, 2017 to introduce LWR’s mission, vision and values, organizational policies and procedures, project strategies and roles and responsibilities in operations and reporting.