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Report WCDI-21-136 Dawit Alemu, Irene Koomen, Selome Kebede, Legesse Abate & Mirjam Schaap, Amsalu Ayana, Mohammed Hassena & Gareth Borman, Eyasu Elias & Eric Smaling, Helen Getaw & Monika Sopov, Geremew Terefe & Ted Schrader, Tewodros Tefera & Remko Vonk BENEFIT Partnership – 2020 Annual Report Bilateral Ethiopian-Netherlands Effort for Food, Income and Trade Partnership Dawit Alemu, Irene Koomen, Selome Kebede, Legesse Abate & Mirjam Schaap1 Amsalu Ayana, Mohammed Hassena & Gareth Borman2 Eyasu Elias & Eric Smaling3 Helen Getaw & Monika Sopov4 Geremew Terefe & Ted Schrader5 Tewodros Tefera & Remko Vonk6 1 PCU 2 ISSD 3 CASCAPE 4 ENTAG 5 SBN 6 REALISE Wageningen University & Research Wageningen / Addis Ababa, February 2021 Report WCDI-21-136 Dawit Alemu, Irene Koomen, Selome Kebede, Legesse Abate & Mirjam Schaap, Amsalu Ayana, Mohammed Hassena & Gareth Borman, Eyasu Elias & Eric Smaling, Helen Getaw & Monika Sopov, Geremew Terefe & Ted Schrader, Tewodros Tefera & Remko Vonk, 2021. 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Report WCDI-21-136 Photo cover: Lex Schmeetz Contents Executive Summary 5 1 Introduction 13 2 Increased quality and quantity of sustainable agricultural production 15 2.1 Outcomes achieved by BENEFIT programmes 16 3 Improved markets and trade 21 3.1 Outcomes achieved by BENEFIT programmes 21 4 Improved enabling environment for the agricultural sector 25 4.1 Outcomes achieved by BENEFIT and its programmes 25 5 Mainstreaming social inclusion and nutrition 29 5.1 Social inclusion 29 5.2 Nutrition 30 6 Enhanced partnership for synergy 33 6.1 Alignment of programmes and collaboration 33 6.2 Collaboration and alignment with other programmes 34 6.3 Policy engagement 35 6.4 Fostering collaboration in BENEFIT portfolio 36 6.4.1 Monitoring and Evaluation 36 6.4.2 Communication 36 7 Key lessons learnt and way forward 37 Programme’s notable outcomes and impact 45 Detailed information key performance indicators 63 ISSD Annual report 2020 69 CASCAPE Annual report 2020 97 ENTAG Annual report 2020 113 SBN Annual report 2020 129 REALISE Annual report 2020 157 List of abbreviations and acronyms 189 Executive Summary 1. Introduction The bilateral project entitled “Bilateral Ethiopian Netherlands Effort for Food, Income and Trade Partnership (BENEFIT Partnership) supported by the Dutch Government through the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (EKN) has, since 2016, been implementing four agricultural development programmes (ISSD – Integrated Seed Sector Development, CASCAPE - Capacity building for Scaling up of evidence based Practices in agricultural production in Ethiopia, ENTAG - Ethiopia-Netherlands Trade for Agricultural Growth and SBN – Sesame Business network). In 2018 a fifth programme, REALISE - Realising Sustainable Agricultural Livelihood Security in Ethiopia, joined the BENEFIT partnership. The Partnership aims at increasing food and nutrition security, brokering Dutch expertise, and stimulating trade. In 2020, as a year of no-cost extension for ISSD, CASCAPE, ENTAG and SBN and full implementation year for REALISE, there were less field activities but more targeting of communication and direct engagement with policy makers and other stakeholders to ensure embedding the diverse demonstrated evidences by the five BENEFIT programmes. REALISE has continued the full implementation of planned activities at field level to demonstrate evidences. In addition, the planned activities had to be re-adjusted because of COVID-19 pandemic. The engagement and field level activities have been implements together with MoA and other partners at federal level and with regional partners (Universities – Addis Ababa, Arba Minch, Arsi, Bahir Dar, Haramaya, Hawassa, Jimma, Mekelle, Oda Bultum, and Woldia, Regional Agricultural Research Institutes in Amhara, Oromia, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region and Tigray, and the Oromia Seed Enterprise). Evidence mainstreaming and engagement related activities to ensure embedment and institutionalization were performed, as it was in previous year, through mainly four channels: (i) regular engagement with Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) through the monthly meetings with the state minsters, (ii) active engagement in the different technical committees and taskforces of the Rural Economic Development & Food Security committee (RED&FS), (iii) active utilization of opportunities that emerge from invitations to events and policy dialogues, and to be a member in different committees and taskforces in recognition of BENEFIT staff expertise and demonstrated evidences at ground level, and (iv) the engagement and communication of evidences by the BENEFIT seconded experts within the MoA through their day-to-day engagement. The 2020 annual report presents the major achievements under each of the BENEFIT outcome indicators followed by the major challenges faced, opportunities, key lessons learnt and the way forward. 2. Major achievements in 2020 The major achievements of the BENEFIT partnership are summarized based on the result chain outputs (Figure 1), which are related with (i) enhancing portfolio collaboration among BENEFIT programmes, (ii) increasing quality and quantity of agricultural production, (iii) improving markets and trade, (iv) improving the enabling environment for the agricultural sector, and (v) enhancing partnership for synergy. Report WCDI-21-136 | 5 Improved sustainable food, income, trade and nutrition security of rural households in Ethiopia Impact Pillar 1: Increased quantity and quality of Pillar 2: Market Dynamics Pillar 3: Improved sustainable agricultural production enabling environment outcome # of farmers reached with # of hectares of farm # of companies with supported plan # of substantial policy increased productivity land used more eco- to invest, trade or provide services changes / reforms (ISSD, CASCAPE, SBN, efficiently (ISSD, SBN, ENTAG) contributed to ENTAG, REALISE) (ISSD, CASCAPE, SBN, (ISSD, CASCAPE, SBN, REALISE) ENTAG) (2020) 565,865 (2020) 72,095 (2020) 52 (2020) 14 (2019) 2,029,894 (2019) 341,338 (2019) 60 (2019) 25 (2018) 1.813.946 (2018) 114.998 (2018) 1.048 (2018) 19 (2017) 1.740.820 (2017) 564.858 (2017) 260 (2017) 7 (2016) 910.745 (2016) 285.452 (2016) 5 utcome o indicators # of farmers reached with # of farmers reached with improved improved access to input access to output markets markets (SBN, ENTAG) (ISSD, SBN, REALISE) (2020) 373,977 (2020) 29,326 (2019) 972,482 (2019) 35,094 (2018) 1.388.861 (2018) 32,363 (2017) 1.340.439 (2017) 11,914 (2016) 62.613 (2016) 5,046 output Improved stakeholders capacity in agricultural practices (knowledge and skills) # of persons reached/ trained with improved technology and # of trained farmers in sustainable agricultural production and practices skills (ISSD, CASCAPE, SBN, REALISE) (ISSD, CASCAPE, SBN, ENTAG, REALISE) (2020) 15,326 (2020) 102,839 (2019) 61,692 (2019) 180,261 (2018) 56.982 (2018) 261.334 outputindicators (2017) 86.085 (2017) 241.228 (2016) 5.282 (2016) 18.093 Figure 1 Key partnership indicators: 2016 - 2020 achievements 2.1 Collaborative BENEFIT Portfolio The main areas of collaboration among BENEFIT programmes focused on two major areas. The first was design and implementation of aligned response to the COVID-19 pandemic in line with the public prevention and control