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Quarterly Report FY2020 Quarter 1 – 10/01/2019 to 12/31/2019 Submission Date: 29 January 2020 Agreement Number: AID-625-A-17-00001 Activity Start Date and End Date: 12/23/2016 to 01/22/2021 AOR Name: Aboubacar Kossomi Submitted by: Alissa Karg Girard, Chief of Party Lutheran World Relief YN 7, Boulevard Mali Béro, 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 A Adult (age category for individuals aged 30+) AMELP Activity Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Plan AOR Agreement Officer’s Representative AE Auxiliaires de l’Elevage CBO Community-Based Organization CEB Contribution à l’Education de Base COP Chief of Party DQA Data Quality Assessment EMMP Environmental Monitoring and Mitigation Plan F&A Finance and Administration FCFA Francs Communauté Financière Africaine FTF Feed the Future FTFMS Feed the Future Monitoring System FMNR Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration FY Fiscal Year GDA Global Development Alliance GPS Global Positioning System ha Hectare HH Household ICRISAT International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics ICT Information and Communications Technologies INRAN Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique du Niger IR Intermediate Result Kg Kilogram LWR Lutheran World Relief M Men MACF Margaret A. Cargill Foundation MFI Microfinance Institution MCA Millennium Challenge Authority MCC Millennium Challenge Corporation MOU Memorandum of Understanding MT Metric Tons M&E Monitoring and Evaluation OHADA Organisation pour l’Harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires PASEC Projet d’Appui à l’Agriculture Sensible aux Risques Climatiques PEA Producer Enterprise Agent PIRS Project Indicator Reference Sheet PO Producer Organization RECA Reseau des Chambres d’Agriculture RISE Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced, supported by USAID SIM Subscriber Identification Module SMS Short Message Service SVPP Service Vétérinaire Privé de Proximité TOT Training of Trainers USAID United States Agency for International Development USD US Dollars USG United States Government W Women Y Youth (age category for individuals aged 15-29) 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 and Regions) Konni, Bazaga, Tsernaoua, Dogueraoua, Illéla, Badaguichiri, Malbaza Communes (Tahoua Region) of Niger Reporting Period: October 1-December 31, 2019 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 hosted a reflection meeting with staff and partners in October 2019 that included visits with local authorities to review progress and solicit feedback, a review of the approved FY20 work plan, action planning in response to key recommendations from the project’s mid-term review and advancing work on each partners’ operations manuals, exit strategy and plans. LWR also rolled out a strategy and tools to strengthen partners’ current social safety nets (cereals banks and habbananye, animal restocking initiatives), savings and credit group operations and worked with a consultant deepen the project’s draft value chain assessment. LWR hired a team of external enumerators in December 2019 to collect data for the annual performance survey. In addition, LWR continued monitoring and providing technical support to partners under the project’s Environmental Monitoring and Mitigation Plan (EMMP) and gender monitoring plans; providing technical assistance and mentoring as each Union partner began independently monitoring their tailored organizational development plan. LWR also continued technical support on crop and animal production, access to financial services, functional literacy, organizational capacity and marketing strategies with LWR’s four implementing partners—Union Adaltchi, Union Amintchi, Union Nazari and Contribution à l’Education de Base (CEB) —and work on organizational capacity development with three Unions in Dakoro (Union Bounkassa of Korahane, Union Guidawnia of Adjekoria and Union Guidawnia of Birnin Lalle). These activities are described in the sections that follow. 1 1.2 Summary of Results to Date Annual On Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Performance Standard Indicators* Baseline* Annual Target FY2020 Target FY20 FY20 FY20 FY20 Achieved to the End of Period (%) Y/N Proportion of households resilient to a shock 0% in FY17; 48% experienced the previous year (Resilience in the in FY18; 78% in 70% N/A 0 0 0 N/A N/A Sahel Enhanced/RISE, Ga) FY19 Number of individuals participating in USG food 1,561 M, security programs (Feed The Future/FTF EG.3-2) 4,145 in FY18; 1,600 men (M), 2,400 women 2,185 W1 0 0 0 93.7% Y 5,708 in FY19 (W) (3,746 total) Yields of targeted commodities among program Millet and Millet (kg/ha): 400 M, 350 W participants with USG assistance (EG.3.10,11,12) N/A 0 0 0 N/A N/A cowpeas2 Cowpeas (kg/ha): 180 M, 150 W Number of hectares under improved management 0 in FY17; 3,038 technologies or practices as a result of USG in FY18; 6,561 in 5,500 ha N/A 0 0 0 N/A N/A assistance (EG.3.2-25) FY19 Number of individuals in the agricultural system 0 in FY17, 2,439 who have applied improved management practices in FY18; 4,120 in 1,600 M, 2,400 W N/A 0 0 0 N/A N/A or technologies with USG assistance (EG.3.2-24) FY19 Number of hectares under improved management practices or technologies that promote improved 0 in FY18, 6,561 5,500 ha N/A 0 0 0 N/A N/A climate risk reduction and/or natural resources ha in FY19 management with USG assistance (EG.3.2-28) Value of agricultural-related financing accessed as 0 in FY18, $100,000 USD $45,000 $0 $0 $0 45.0% Y a result of USG assistance (EG.3.2-27) $45,000 in FY19 Value of new USG commitments and private $2.6m in FY18; sector investment leveraged by the USG to support $4,500,000 USD $2.742m $0 $0 $0 60.9% Y $2.742m in FY19 food security and nutrition (EG.3.1-14) *The summary results table reflects the FY20 AMELP update and new FTF indicators for FY18 and FY19. Additional details are reported in Annex A. For indicators Ga, EG.3.10-12, EG.3.2-25, EG.3.2-24 and EG.3.2-28, data is collected via an annual survey and “N/A” or a “0” recorded in quarters in which no new data is collected. For indicator EG.3-2, participation is recorded quarterly, but adjusted annually for beneficiaries participating in multiple activities. Indicators EG.3.2-27 and EG.3.1-14 are recorded in the quarter of activity. 1 In accordance with the PIRS, beneficiaries are counted once annually; beneficiaries may be double counted in any given quarter prior to the analysis. 2 Disaggregation: Millet kg/ha: 333 M, 260 W and Cowpeas kg/ha: 168 M, 120 W at baseline; Millet kg/ha: 431 M, 293 W and Cowpeas kg/ha: 145 M, 104 W in FY18. In FY19, Millet (kg/ha): 359 M, 334 W and Cowpeas (kg/ha): 150 M, 142 W. In FY19, age for millet yields (358 kg/ha youth/15-29, 346 kg/ha adult/30+); age for cowpea yields (148 Kg/ha youth/15-29, 146 kg/ha adult/30+) 2 2. ACTIVITY IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS 2.1 Progress Narrative Key project activities with target farmers, households and stakeholders over FY20Q1 are as follows: Objective/Intermediate Result (IR) 1: Leverage private sector investment and innovations to increase and sustain household incomes, assets and adaptive capacity IR 1.1: Diversified economic opportunities: Twelve market gardens supported by Union Nazari and CEB are managed by different women’s groups with 356 members; each group received a start-up kit of moringa oleifera seed and basic tools (wheelbarrows, watering cans, hoes, rakes, basins and/or other tools) and training on planting, care and pruning in 2017. The groups continue to manage this income- generating activity with no additional inputs apart from technical support provided by LWR and partners. All groups harvested moringa leaves, but the groups in CEB’s zone only collected 13.75Kg due to attacks from pests and so pruned the damaged trees. In Union Nazari’s zone, the 10 groups divided leaves among their members for household consumption and collected approximately 450Kg of leaves to sell. Functional literacy for farming as a business: LWR’s functional literacy strategy and manuals are aligned with Niger’s national functional literacy standards3, with training for locally identified instructors on facilitation techniques, classroom management, record-keeping and lesson planning.