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1 Feed the Future Ethiopia Livelihoods for Resilience – Oromia Strategies and Activities Are Coordinated with USAID-Funded Activities Feed the Future Ethiopia Livelihoods for Resilience - Oromia Cooperative Agreement No. AID-663-A-17-00005 A USAID-funded Activity, implemented by Catholic Relief Services (CRS/Ethiopia) and Ethiopian Catholic Church Social Development Coordination Office of Meki (MCS) Fiscal Year (FY) 20 Quarter One Report Narrative Reporting period: October 01, 2019 – December 31, 2019 1 Contents 1. Executive Summary ..................................................................................................................3 2. Description of Activity Achievements .....................................................................................6 SO. 1: Vulnerable households have increased income and diversification through on-farm opportunities including crop and livestock market systems ........................................................ 6 1.1 Women and youth have increased access to and control of household resources ........ 6 1.2 Smallholder men, women and youth have increased use of improved agricultural techniques and technologies .................................................................................................... 9 1.3 Smallholder men, women and youth have increased use of financial services .......... 10 1.4. Smallholder men, women and youth have increased engagement with agricultural commodities in markets ......................................................................................................... 13 SO. 2: Vulnerable households have increased income and diversification through off-farm livelihood options ...................................................................................................................... 14 2.1 Men, women and youth engage in off-farm livelihoods activities ............................. 14 2.2 Men, women and youth have increased use of financial and business development services .................................................................................................................................. 14 2.3 Men, women and youth have increased diversification of off-farm IGAs and non-farm enterprises .............................................................................................................................. 15 SO. 3: Vulnerable households have increased their income through gainful employment .... 15 3.1 Jobseekers adopt increased use of employment knowledge, skills and information for job-seeking ............................................................................................................................ 15 3.2 Jobseekers are linked with prospective employers ...................................................... 16 SO.4: Feed the Future Ethiopia Livelihoods for Resilience – Oromia and other USAID Ethiopia and GoE interventions have increased innovation, scaling and sustainability of livelihood pathways .................................................................................................................................... 17 4.1 Livelihoods for Resilience – Oromia, USAID Ethiopia and GoE have improved layering, sequencing and cost effectiveness of interventions ............................................................... 17 4.2 Livelihoods for Resilience – Oromia continuously identifies and addresses knowledge gaps, successes and failures important to the project ............................................................ 18 4.3 Successful organizations effectively utilize innovation grant for sustained innovation, scaling and sustainability of livelihood pathways ................................................................. 19 3. Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (ME&L) .....................................................................20 4. Reflections ..............................................................................................................................22 5. Prospects for FY20 Q2 Performance ......................................................................................25 6. Financial Status .......................................................................................................................27 7. Annexes...................................................................................................................................28 Annex A: List of Abbreviations ................................................................................................ 28 Annex E: Cumulative List of Report/Studies/Documents sent to USAID’s DEC .................... 31 2 1. Executive Summary Major Achievements • In quarter (Q)1 of FY20 female adult literacy classes have been conducted with an achievement of 142% of the quarter’s target. This achievement is due to staff being deployed in each woreda who have drawn lessons from the last FY’s implementation. The lessons learnt include proper targeting, development of participatory training programs, timely teachers' recruitment, availing easily reachable training centers and developing joint follow-up programs with education office experts. These measures have contributed to the participants’ regular attendance and reduced female dropout. • Gender messaging is another activity which has performed well. Even though it is new for the field staff, they have effectively carried it out and achieved 91% of the quarter’s target. This is because they properly selected livelihood groups, provided orientation training for their representatives and started the sessions on time. • In the reporting period effort was made to perform better on the nutrition activities that were reported as underachieved in the past FY. Thus, more attention was given to cooking demonstration sessions, which has led to an achievement that is high and exceeding the plan for the FY. The recruitment of nutrition experts at woreda level was instrumental for this achievement. • Moreover, a refresher training was given to the Health Extension Workers (HEWs) on dietary diversity and cooking demonstration. This has facilitated collaboration with the local government structure and the engagement of front-line government staff in the implementation of nutrition activities, particularly supporting cooking demonstration sessions. Primarily, pregnant and lactating mothers and members of households with children under the age of five years has been targeted. • In addition, integrated training of maternal, infant and young child feeding and homestead gardening, which involved practical sessions of cooking and establishing gardens was provided to the implementing partner’s new staff and agriculture and health government staff of all woredas using the governments’ Sustainable Undernutrition Reduction in Ethiopia (SURE) curriculum and CRS’ homestead gardening manual. • On the livelihoods’ activities front, in the reporting quarter, agro-dealers’ refresher training has also been provided for grant recipients and potential agro-dealers, as well as government and partner staff supporting the agro-dealers’ intervention. The training program provided the agro-dealers a platform to network and learn from their successes and challenges, as well as share market information and opportunities. • In the reporting quarter, a total of 19,664 livelihood group members have saved a total amount of 2,727,500 Ethiopian Birr (ETB), which corresponds to 212% of the quarter target. Out of this figure 668,906 ETB is social fund amount. In the reporting period, 3 reasons for over-achievement include the revision of livelihood groups’ by-laws to reconsider minimum saving amount and meeting frequency, as well as harvesting season. In addition to internal saving, clients who are linked to Financial Service Providers (FSPs) are depositing savings with their respective lenders to fulfill the requirements for external loan access. • Similarly, the Activity has organized woreda level multi-stakeholder workshops in six woredas with participation from heads of each of these woredas, key zonal GoE and FSPs’ stakeholders. The main themes of the discussions were on clients’ loan repayment and collaboration for improving information exchange between FSPs operating in the same area. The discussions were led by heads of zonal Agriculture and Cooperative Offices, which has helped the Activity to get better support from GoE stakeholders. As a result, clients are repaying their loans in a timely manner and accessing loans in the following cycles. • The Activity has also conducted a joint field visit and planning sessions with field-level and senior management staff from Microfinance Institutions (MFIs). This has helped the Activity and FSPs to identify challenges, agree on action plans and improve performance, including speeding-up of loans disbursements. • Peacebuilding training focusing on conflict management and mitigation has been conducted with the aim of reaching 3,125 youths in all intervention areas of the Activity. The training was conducted in collaboration with MCS to ensure effective delivery of the training at grassroots level. Thus, it has been possible to reach more than 2,000 youths as well as traditional leaders, GoE representatives and MCS and CRS Training of Trainers (ToT) participants. To guide the training a tailored manual has been developed and translated in Afan Oromo language. • In the reporting quarter, it was possible to successfully enroll 274 new students to attend short-term technical trainings in Technical and Vocational Educational Training Centers (TVETs). Students have been enrolled in garment, construction, welding, furniture making, hotel operations, Information
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