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United States Agency for International Development Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance Office of Food for Peace FY 2018 ANNUAL RESULTS REPORT Awardee Name and Host Country World Vision, Inc.; Ethiopia Award Number AID-FFP-A-16-00008 Activity Name Strengthen PSNP4 Institutions and Resilience (SPIR) Activity Start Date 30 September 2016 Activity End Date 29 September 2021 Submission Date 11/05/2018 Reporting Fiscal Year FY 2018 Awardee HQ Contact Name Buck Bradshaw Awardee HQ Contact Address 300 I St NE, Washington, DC 20002 Awardee HQ Contact Telephone Number +1 202 572 6594 Awardee HQ Contact Email Address [email protected] Host Country Office Contact Name Michael Mulford Host Country Office Contact Telephone +251 966269961 Number Host Country Office Contact Email Address [email protected] Table of Contents Executive Summary .......................................................................................................................................... 4 Interventions and Results ................................................................................................................................ 4 Purpose 1: Increased income, productive assets, and equitable access to nutritious food for vulnerable women, men, and youth ......................................................................................................... 4 Subpurpose 1.1: Increased agricultural productivity of nutritious foods for women, men, and youth small-holder farmers ........................................................................................................... 4 Subpurpose 1.2: Increased access to agricultural markets for women, men, and youth small-holder farmers ............................................................................................................................... 6 Subpurpose 1.3: Increased access to off-farm and non-farm income opportunities for vulnerable women, men, and youth .................................................................................................... 7 Purpose 2: Improved nutritional status of children under 2 years of age, PLW, and adolescent girls .................................................................................................................................................................. 9 Subpurpose 2.1: Increased utilization of nutritious food for children under 2, PLW, and adolescent girls ......................................................................................................................................... 9 Subpurpose 2.2: Increased utilization of health and nutrition services .................................... 11 Subpurpose 2.3: Reduced prevalence of diarrhea and water-borne diseases ......................... 12 Purpose 3: Increased women’s and youth empowerment and gender equity ............................ 13 Subpurpose 3.1: Institutions are responsive to the needs and priorities of women and youth ........................................................................................................................................................ 14 Subpurpose 3.2: Reduction of workload on women and girls ................................................... 14 Subpurpose 3.3: Strengthened aspirations, capabilities, leadership, and decision-making power for women and youth ............................................................................................................. 15 Purpose 4: Strengthened ability of women, men, and communities to mitigate, adapt to, and recover from human-caused and natural shocks and stresses ....................................................... 16 Subpurpose 4.1: Improved natural resource management by women, men, youth, and communities ........................................................................................................................................... 16 Subpurpose 4.2: Improved disaster risk reduction strategies for women, men, and communities ........................................................................................................................................... 18 Subpurpose 4.3: Improved effectiveness and social mobilization of PSNP4 institutions ...... 19 Environmental Risks and Opportunities ................................................................................................... 20 Monitoring and Evaluation ........................................................................................................................... 22 Internal and External Coordination ........................................................................................................... 22 Commodity Management ............................................................................................................................. 23 Direct Participating HH by Sector ............................................................................................................. 26 Strengthen PSNP4 Institutions and Resilience (SPIR) AID-FFP-A-16-00008 November 26, 2018 2 Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned ........................................................................................... 26 Annex 1 Update on the Learning Agenda ................................................................................................ 28 Annex 2 Update on the SNNPR Sidama Pilot ......................................................................................... 30 Strengthen PSNP4 Institutions and Resilience (SPIR) AID-FFP-A-16-00008 November 26, 2018 3 Executive Summary The Strengthen PSNP4 Institutional and Resilience [SPIR] program implemented by World Vision and its partners (CARE and ORDA) aims to enhance livelihoods, increase resilience against shocks, and improve food security and nutrition for rural households that are vulnerable to food insecurity in Ethiopia, particularly in Wadla, Sekota, Lasta, Gazo, Gaz Gibla, Dahena, Bugna, Meket, and Tsagelji woredas of Amhara region, Kurfa Chelle, Girawa, Chiro, Gemachis, Daro Lebu, and Siraro woredas of Oromia and Wondo Genet and Malga woredas of Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples region. The social unrest in the project’s implementation area, especially in Kurfa Chelle, Girawa, Chiro, Gemechis, Siraro, and Daro Lebu woredas, has affected the timely implementation of the project’s activities, causing a loss of 1,761 days in the timeline. In addition, communication has also been challenged by the government’s shutdown of the internet. Despite extra efforts, including working on weekends and extra hours, this loss has affected achievement of both the target goals and related resource utilization during this reporting period. Interventions and Results Purpose 1: Increased income, productive assets, and equitable access to nutritious food for vulnerable women, men, and youth Subpurpose 1.1: Increased agricultural productivity of nutritious foods for women, men, and youth small-holder farmers Intermediate Outcome 1.1.1: Increased livestock productivity and diversity The production of adequate quantities of good quality, dry season forage that can supplement crop residues and pasture roughages is considered essential in overcoming dry season constraints that affect livestock production. Moreover, the integration of livestock and cropping systems is important for sustainable natural resource management and improved livestock productivity. In this quarter, SPIR provided Training of Trainer (ToT) trainings focused on animal feeding, such as feed constraints, feed resources, forage production, forage utilization, grazing strategies during a drought, and shoat fattening to 297 (48 female) development agents (DA), community facilitators, and Woreda livestock experts participants in the Amhara and Oromia regions at two levels. This training was further provided for 2,648 (1,445 female) project participants. Subsequently, 2,339 (1,280 female) project participants received 7.7 MT of forage seed (eg. Cow pea, pigeon pea, lab and vetch), out of which 1,192 (919 female) received 6,710 split forage seedlings, elephant grass, Desho grass, and Leucaena leucocephala). Most of the farmers began production of the forage in their backyard, in some cases intercropping with other crops that will be ready to feed their livestock in the upcoming 4 months. With the objective of enhancing mother and child nutritional status in PLW households, SPIR provided 14,970 Bovan Brown and Sasso breed pullets (3-month-old chickens) and 33,685 kg poultry feed on a cost-share basis for 2,495 program participant households (2,396 female- headed household). Each participant contributed 360 (25% of the cost) Ethiopian birr (ETB) as a cost share into their VESA to serve as a rotation lending fund for other members. The pullets have grown and started benefiting those targeted project participants by providing eggs for Strengthen PSNP4 Institutions and Resilience (SPIR) AID-FFP-A-16-00008 November 26, 2018 4 household consumption and improving household nutrition, as well as helping with income generation. Within this reporting period, out of 13,434 hens that started laying, 523,715 eggs were laid, of which 232,813 (44%) were consumed, and 290,674 were sold. Eggs were sold on average for 2.88 ETB, earning the participants a total of $30,441 (837,141 ETB). Of the total distributed pullets, 1,053 (7%) died due to a New Castle disease outbreak, and predators. SPIR facilitated a vaccination campaign in project kebeles where the problem was occurring. Compared with the high mortality