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REGIS-AG) Quarterly Report (FY15/Q3) Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel – Accelerated Growth (REGIS-AG) Quarterly Report (FY15/Q3) 1 APRIL TO 3O JUNE 2015 Prepared for review_________________________________________________________________ by the United States Agency for International Development under USAID Contract No. AID-625-C-REGIS-AG14-00001, Quarterly Resilience Report, and 1 AprilEconomic – 30 June Growth 2015 (Contractin the Sahel No. AID-625-C-– Accelerated14-00001) Growth (REGIS- AG) Project, implemented by Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA). 1 Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel – Accelerated Growth (REGIS-AG) Project QUARTERLY REPORT (FY15/Q3) 1 APRIL TO 3O JUNE 2015 Submitted by: Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) USAID Contract No. AID-625-C-14-00001 Implemented by CNFA Submitted to: Camilien Saint-Cyr COR USAID/Senegal Regional Mission Submitted on 1 August 2015 DISCLAIMER The author’s views expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Agency for International Development or the United States Government. _________________________________________________________________ REGIS-AG Quarterly Report, 1 April – 30 June 2015 (Contract No. AID-625-C-14-00001) 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents ACRONYMS ........................................................................................................................................ 4 1.0 BACKGROUND ....................................................................................................................... 5 2.0 OVERVIEW .............................................................................................................................. 6 4.0 Components ............................................................................................................................ 8 4.1 Component 1: Identify Opportunities through Value Chain and End-Market Analysis ........ 8 4.2 Component 2: Strengthen Vertical and Horizontal Value Chain Linkages and Relationships in Selected Value Chains.................................................................................................................... 9 4.3 Component 3: Strengthen Input Supply and Other Supporting Services and Improve Smallholder and Agro-Pastoralist Access to these Interconnected Markets .................................... 10 4.4 Component 4: Increase Access to Finance, Innovation, and Private Sector Investment ...... 12 4.5 Component 5 – Improve the enabling environment for local and regional private sector investment ........................................................................................................................................ 13 ACRONYMS A2N Association Nodde Nooto AGED Association pour la Gestion de l’Environnement et le Développement AREN Association pour la Redynamisation de l’Elevage au Niger BDS Business Development Services COP Chief of Party COR Contracting Officer’s Representative CRS Catholic Relief Services DFAP Development Food Aid Program DGSV Directorate General of Veterinary Services EMMP Environmental Mitigation and Management Plan GIE Groupements d’Intérêt Economique HKI Helen Keller International IEE Initial Environmental Examination INRAN Institut National de Recherche Agricole du Niger IR Intermediate Result JPC Joint Planning Cell LAHIA Livelihoods, Agriculture and Health Interventions in Action (Save the Children) M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MFI Micro-Finance Institution MOU Memorandum of Understanding NGO Non-Governmental/Non-Profit Organization OPVN Office des Produits Vivriers du Niger PICS Purdue Improved Cowpea Storage PMP Performance Monitoring Plan RCO Regional Contracting Officer REGIS-ER Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel-Enhanced Resilience RISE Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced SAREL Sahel Resilience Learning SAWKI Mercy Corps DFAP SNV Netherlands Development Organization SONAGES Société Nationale de Gestion du Stock de Sécurité Alimentaire SO Strategic Objective SVPP Services Vétérinaires Privés de Proximité ToT Training of Trainers VSF-B Vétérinaires Sans Frontières-Belgique WV World Vision _________________________________________________________________ REGIS-AG Quarterly Report, 1 April – 30 June 2015 (Contract No. AID-625-C-14-00001) 4 1.0 BACKGROUND During the course of the Horn of Africa Crisis Conference, held in Nairobi in September 2011, African leaders called for a new approach to addressing recurrent crises in the region. The joint declaration from this meeting called on development partners to support long-term programs and strategies to build resilience. The declaration specifically called on the international community to support reform of emergency humanitarian response and development assistance systems to enhance resilience and promote long-term solutions; this declaration led directly in April 2012 to the Global Alliance for Action for Drought Resilience and Growth in the Horn of Africa, and in July 2012 to the Global Alliance for Resilience in the Sahel. USAID defines resilience as: The ability of people, households, communities, countries, and systems to mitigate, adapt to, and recover from shocks and stresses in a manner that reduces chronic vulnerability and facilitates inclusive growth (USAID, 2012). In 2012, in line with its new policy, Building Resilience to Recurring Crisis, USAID organized the Sahel Joint Planning Cell (JPC), as a new way of supporting development initiatives across the Sahel region. The Sahel JPC coordinates humanitarian and development assistance, as well as new investments based on in-depth analyses of chronic vulnerability. On 3 February 2014, during the high-level launch of the United Nations’ Sahel Humanitarian Response Plan in Rome, USAID announced the RISE Initiative – Resilience in the Sahel-Enhanced - which initially committed more than $130 million over the first two years of a five-year effort to build resilience to recurrent crisis in the Sahel. RISE, based on joint analysis and planning, brings together humanitarian and development assistance to address the root causes of persistent vulnerability. The RISE strategy served as the foundation of three new programs, Sahel Resilience Learning (SAREL), a Sahel learning agenda, Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel-Enhanced Resilience (REGIS-ER), a multi-sector resilience program, and Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel-Accelerated Growth (REGIS-AG), a project designed to apply value chain methodology to the development of agro-pastoralist and marginal agricultural zones in Niger and Burkina Faso. REGIS-AG comprises five integrated components: Component 1: Identify opportunities through value chain and end-market analysis; Component 2: Strengthen vertical and horizontal value chain linkages and relationships in selected value chains; Component 3: Strengthen input supply and other supporting services and improve smallholder and agro- pastoralist access to these interconnected markets; Component 4: Increase access to finance, innovation and private sector investment; Component 5: Improve the enabling environment for local and regional private sector investment. REGIS-AG will directly contribute to the USAID Sahel Joint Planning Cell (JPC) Strategy Results Framework, specifically to Objective 1: Increased and Sustainable Economic Wellbeing; IR 2: Intensified production and marketing for livestock and high potential crops; and Sub IR 2.2, High potential value chains strengthened. _________________________________________________________________ REGIS-AG Quarterly Report, 1 April – 30 June 2015 (Contract No. AID-625-C-14-00001) 5 2.0 OVERVIEW On 28 January 2015, USAID signed a contract awarding implementation of Resilience and Economic Growth in the Sahel-Accelerated Growth (REGIS-AG) to the US-based international NGO; Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA). CNFA as Prime Contractor subsequently negotiated subcontractor relationships with three international NGOs: 1. SNV-USA provides technical support to Components 1, 2, and 4 and provides the technical lead for Component 5. 2. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) brings its experience in developing local cow pea value chains to REGIS-AG as it supports activities in Components 1 and 2 and provides the Value Chain Governance Specialist for Component 5. 3. Vétérinaires Sans Frontières-Belgique (VSF-B) leads all activities related to poultry and animal health. CNFA also negotiated subcontracts with four local partners – two in Burkina-Faso and two in Niger: 1. Association NoddeNooto (A2N) works out of Dori in Burkina-Faso to strengthen the capacities of producer groups, especially women’s groups, in management and administration to become more competitive in commercialization of cow pea and sheep and goats. 2. Association Pour la Gestion de l’Environnement et la Développement (AGED) also works out of Dori in Burkina Faso on organizational development of producer groups as well as capacity-building I commercialization of production and activities related to disease prevention and climate-change. 3. Karkara NGO is working out of Départements of Zinder, Maradi, and Tillabéri in Niger to strengthen the capacity of cow pea and poultry producers and producer organizations and incorporate them into developing a broader institutional base in Niger for horizontal and vertical linkages with value chain actors. 4. Association pour la Redynamisation de l’Elevage au Niger (AREN) is providing capacity building support through technicians based in Maradi, Zinder, and Tilabéri in the implementation of the value chain of small
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