Livelihoods for Resilience Learning Activity Quarterly Report July 1, 2018 to September 30, 2018 Submission Date: October 30, 2018 Leader with Associates Cooperative Agreement Number: AID-OAA-A-10-00006 Associate Cooperative Agreement Number 72066318LA00001 Activity Start and End Dates: September 2, 2016 to September 1, 2021 Submitted To: Endale Lemma Submitted by: Tom Spangler Save the Children Federation, Inc. 899 North Capitol Street, NE Washington, DC 20002 Tel: 202-640-6600 Email: [email protected] 1 This document was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development. TABLE OF CONTENTS Table of Contents ..................................................................................................................................... i List of Abbreviations and Acronyms .............................................................................................. ii 1. PROGRAM OVERVIEW/SUMMARY ............................................................................................... 1 1.1 Program Description .................................................................................................................... 1 Background ...................................................................................................................................... 1 Objective of the Livelihoods for Resilience Learning Activity ........................................................... 2 2. ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS ................................................................................ 3 2.1 Program Management Activities ........................................................ Error! Bookmark not defined. 2.2 Sampling, Household Listing and Survey Training ................................ Error! 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Anticipated next steps for Q4 ...................................................................................................... 4 Annex 1: Livelihood for Resilience (L4R) Impact Evaluation Household Response Rate by Geography ................................................................................................................................. 6 Associate Cooperative Agreement Number 72066318LA00001 Quarterly Report: April 1, 2018 to June 30, 2018 i LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS AGP Agricultural Growth Program AO Agreement Officer AOR Agreement Officer’s Representative BFS USAID Bureau for Food Security DFAP Development Food Assistance Programs DO Development Objective ENGINE Empowering New Generations in Improved Nutrition and Economic Opportunities FFP USAID Office of Food for Peace FGD Focus Group Discussion FTF Feed the Future GoE Government of Ethiopia GRAD Graduation with Resilience to Achieve Sustainable Development HABP Household Asset Building Program IGA Income Generating Activities KII Key Informant Interview L4R Livelihoods for Resilience LOA Life of Activity M&E Monitoring and Evaluation PSNP IV Productive Safety Net Program RMS Recurrent Monitoring Survey SC Save the Children SNNPR Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region TOPS Technical and Operational Performance Support USAID United States Agency for International Development Associate Cooperative Agreement Number 72066318LA00001 Quarterly Report: April 1, 2018 to June 30, 2018 ii 1. PROGRAM OVERVIEW/SUMMARY Activity Name: Livelihoods for Resilience Learning Activity Activity Start and End Dates: September 2, 2016 to September 1, 2021 Save the Children 899 North Capitol St, NE Name of Prime Implementing Washington, DC 20002 Partner: Telephone: 202-640-6600 [email protected] Associate Cooperative 72066318LA00001 Agreement Number: Kimetrica LLC Name of Sub-awardees: TANGO International Reporting Period: July 1, 2018 to September 30, 2018 1.1 Program Description Background USAID’s Feed the Future (FTF) program seeks to address the root causes of global hunger by sustainably increasing agricultural productivity, supporting and facilitating access to markets, and increasing incomes for the rural poor so they can meet their food and other needs, including reducing malnutrition. The Livelihoods for Resilience (L4R) activity in Ethiopia contributes to this goal as well as to USAID Ethiopia’s Development Objective 1 (DO1), which is to increase economic growth and resilience in Ethiopia. The L4R activity seeks to layer investments and complement activities with USAID Office of Food for Peace’s (FFP) Development Food Assistance Programs (DFAPs) as well as with the Government of Ethiopia’s (GoE) Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP IV) and Household Asset Building Program (HABP), the Agricultural Growth Program (AGP), and Empowering New Generations in Improved Nutrition and Economic Opportunities (ENGINE). The L4R activity focuses on four priority areas that support and enhance livelihood opportunities for chronically food insecure households in targeted woredas: 1) on-farm income generating activities (IGAs) and crop and livestock market systems; 2) off-farm IGAs and nonfarm enterprise development; 3) non-farm labor and wage employment; and 4) collaborative learning for scaling and sustaining gains made in the three livelihood pathways (i.e., on-farm, off- farm, employment). The activity will support household participation in income-generating and value chain activities, create market linkages and employment opportunities, link beneficiaries to financing, and help PSNP IV beneficiaries increase their incomes, build assets and reduce risk, which in turn facilitates their ability to sustainably graduate from the safety net. L4R also supports the cross-cutting areas of nutrition, climate adaptation, gender empowerment and youth. In order to assess the progress and effectiveness of the L4R activity, USAID has launched the L4R Learning Activity to provide baseline and endline data with which to measure activity achievements against intended outputs and outcomes. Additionally, the activity will allow for assessing overall impact and performance of the five-year activity. A recurrent monitoring Associate Cooperative Agreement Number 72066318LA00001 Quarterly Report: July 1, 2018 to Sept 30, 2018 1 survey (RMS) will be employed to measure real-time household response to shocks and/or stressors that occur during the life of the activity (LOA), as well as to allow for adaptation in implementation of the activity. Objective of the Livelihoods for Resilience Learning Activity The L4R Learning Activity has two basic elements: 1) baseline/endline data collection, comparison of baseline and endline results, and an overall evaluation of performance, effectiveness, and impact of the L4R activity; and 2) design and implementation of a RMS for L4R. The baseline will be used for performance monitoring and reporting purposes during implementation and will allow for measuring changes over time, including its impact at endline. The RMS provides real-time data on household resilience capacity in the face of shocks and informs timing and targeting of crisis modifiers and early action/response. Save the Children (SC), TANGO International and Kimetrica will collaborate in the implementation of this learning activity and be jointly responsible for executing on deliverables. Table 2 at the end of this proposal includes a table of deliverables and the implementing firm responsible for timely submission of the respective deliverable. A general overview of the roles and responsibilities of the partners are as follows: Role of Save the Children 1. Ensure strong financial management, activity compliance, and quality assurance 2. Provide effective management oversight and accountability to allow other partners to focus their expertise on achieving activity results 3. Liaise with USAID’s AOR and AO Role of TANGO International 1. Develop study protocol, methodology, and evaluation tools for all components (i.e., baseline, RMS, and endline) of the learning activity 2. Facilitate baseline study and endline evaluation data collection trainings 3. Analyze data, in particular using multivariate and regression quantitative methods, and provide reporting for the baseline study and endline evaluation 4. Facilitate RMS trainings, implement RMS data collection, analyze RMS data, and provide final reporting for the RMS Role of Kimetrica LLC 1. Participate in and co-facilitate the baseline study and endline evaluation training 2. Implement baseline study and endline evaluation data collection 3. Analyze data and produce tables of basic descriptive statistics on household profiles and key outcome measures for baseline study and endline evaluation Associate Cooperative Agreement Number 72066318LA00001 Quarterly Report: July 1, 2018 to Sept 30, 2018 2 2. ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS Since the previous Quarterly Report (submitted July 2018), the primary focus of activities has been on team training, deployment, and data collection (quantitative and qualitative). Activities carried out during Q4 have primarily been implemented and overseen by Kimetrica LLC, in collaboration with TANGO International. 2.1 Survey Training Field work training began on July 9, with each quantitative