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CNFA Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia (ECCA) Farmer-To-Farmer Program Final Report: FY09-FY13 ` CNFA Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia (ECCA) Farmer-to-Farmer Program Final Report: FY09-FY13 Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development Under the East Africa Farmer-to-Farmer Program Cooperative Agreement No. EDH-A-00-08-00019-00 and Cooperative Agreement No. 121-A-00-09-00706-00 (Belarus AA) and AID-114-LA-09-00001 (Georgia AMP AA) Report on Activities from FY09-FY13 (01 October 2008 – 30 September 2013) 31 October 2013 Table of Contents I. SUMMARY OF PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION ..................................................................................... 1 A. PROGRAM-WIDE ACTIVITIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS ......................................................................................... 1 1. Assignments:............................................................................................................................................ 1 2. Outputs: ................................................................................................................................................... 2 3. Outcomes/Impacts: .................................................................................................................................. 4 B. EXPENDITURES ...................................................................................................................................................... 5 C. SUMMARY OF IMPACT AND MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES .................................................................................... 5 1. Monitoring: .............................................................................................................................................. 5 2. Evaluation: ............................................................................................................................................... 6 3. M & E Certification ................................................................................................................................. 7 II. SUMMARY BY COUNTRY: COUNTRY PROJECTS AND CORE COUNTRY FLEX........................... 7 A. GEORGIA ............................................................................................................................................................... 7 1. Fruits & Vegetables (F&V) ..................................................................................................................... 9 2. Dairy ...................................................................................................................................................... 11 3. Livestock ............................................................................................................................................... 13 4. Georgia: Nuts ......................................................................................................................................... 15 5. Georgia Flex Assignments ..................................................................................................................... 15 B. MOLDOVA ........................................................................................................................................................... 16 1. Fruits and Vegetables (F&V) ................................................................................................................. 18 2. Dairy ...................................................................................................................................................... 19 3. Flex Assignments ................................................................................................................................... 20 C. TAJIKISTAN ......................................................................................................................................................... 21 1. Fruits & Vegetables (F&V) ................................................................................................................... 22 2. Dairy/Livestock ..................................................................................................................................... 24 3. Flex Assignments ................................................................................................................................... 25 D. UZBEKISTAN ....................................................................................................................................................... 26 1. Fruits & Vegetables ............................................................................................................................... 27 E. UKRAINE ............................................................................................................................................................. 29 1. Dairy/Livestock ..................................................................................................................................... 30 III. FLEXIBLE ASSIGNMENTS (OUTSIDE OF CORE COUNTRIES) ......................................................... 33 A. BELARUS ............................................................................................................................................................. 33 B. KOSOVO .............................................................................................................................................................. 34 IV. LESSONS LEARNED ...................................................................................................................................... 35 ANNEX A: USAID STANDARD INDICATOR TABLES .................................................................................................. 37 ANNEX B: ASSOCIATE AWARDS ................................................................................................................................... 56 ANNEX C: LIST OF TECHNICAL REPORTS ..................................................................................................................... 62 ANNEX D: SUCCESS STORIES AND PROGRAM OUTREACH ............................................................................................ 63 EDH-A-00-08-00019-00 Farmer-to-Farmer Program ECCA CNFA Final Report: FY2009 - FY2013 I. SUMMARY OF PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION A. Program-wide Activities and Accomplishments 1. Assignments: ECCA Volunteer Assignment Targets and Actuals Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 LOP LOP Leader Award Actual Actual Actual Actual Actual Target Actual Georgia 23 29 26 27 24 125 129 Moldova 15 29 27 30 27 121 128 Tajikistan 2 13 15 17 15 56 62 Uzbekistan 1 2 5 4 4 16 16 Ukraine 10 11 6 15 33 42 Flexible* 5 11 7 9 15 47 47 Leader Award Total 46 94 91 93 100 398 424 Associate Awards AMP Associate Award 9 11 5 25 25 Belarus F2F Associate 1 6 10 17 17 Award Associate Award Total 0 10 17 15 0 42 42 Total Assignments 46 104 108 108 100 440 466 * In the above table, “Flexible” refers to assignments in the non-core countries of Belarus and Kosovo, but does not include Flexible assignments conducted within core countries (which are accounted for in the respective country totals. Over the five years of Farmer-to-Farmer (F2F) implementation in the Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia region (ECCA), CNFA expanded its focus considerably from original plans and generated significant impact for hosts across seven countries: Belarus, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. This expanded focus afforded CNFA the opportunity to impact the development of key agricultural value chains throughout the former Soviet Union (and Kosovo), achieving significant impact in each country. CNFA’s value chain focus includes fruit and vegetable (F&V), dairy, and livestock country projects in Georgia, F&V and dairy projects in Moldova, F&V and dairy/livestock in Tajikistan, F&V in Uzbekistan, and a dairy country project in Ukraine. Four-hundred- and-twenty-four volunteer assignments were completed in support of these value chains and flexible projects, exceeding target by Graph 1 1 EDH-A-00-08-00019-00 Farmer-to-Farmer Program ECCA CNFA Final Report: FY2009 - FY2013 26 assignments and representing a completion rate of 107%. An additional 42 assignments were completed for associate awards in the ECCA region under the F2F LWA, bringing the grand total for all F2F assignments in ECCA to 466. The breakdown by country appears in the table above and target versus actual comparisons are in the table to the left. 2. Outputs: Graph 2 Over the course of the program, CNFA endeavored to increase female participation both in terms of volunteers fielded and females reached/included in trainings in the field. Volunteers directly assisted over 18,832 agricultural professionals, of which nearly 5,578 (30%) were female. Thirty-one percent of all people trained were women, accounting for 3,566 of the total 11,684. As the graph to the left indicates, a total of 42 (10%) assignments were conducted by female volunteers fielded over five years, six short of our target of 48 assignments. This was an improvement over the same indicator from the mid-term reporting period, when 8% of assignments were conducted by women. The remaining 382 assignments were conducted by men LOP. Cumulatively, volunteers leveraged over $3.0MM on assignments. An additional $1.58MM in resources were leveraged by volunteers in the US from pre- and post-assignment activities. Furthermore, approximately $140k was contributed by F2F hosts over five years; the average contribution of hosts over the LOP was just over $26k. The total cumulative amount of funds leveraged totaled nearly $4.72MM,
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