Pastoralist Areas Resilience Improvement through Market Expansion (PRIME) Project Funded by the United States Agency for International Development Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) 6th Quarterly Report Year 2 – Quarter 2 Reporting Period: January 1 through March 31, 2014 Submitted to: AOR: Mohamed Abdinoor, USAID/Ethiopia Country Contact HQ contact Program Summary Karri Goeldner Byrne Nate Oetting Award No: AID-663-A-12-00014 Chief of Party Senior Program Officer Box 14319 Mercy Corps Start Date: October 15, 2012 Addis Ababa 45 SW Ankeny Ethiopia Portland, Oregon 97204 End Date: October 14, 2017 Phone:+251-(11) 416-9337 Total Award: $52,972,799 Fax: +251-(11)416-9571 503.896.5000 [email protected] [email protected] Report Date: April 30, 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ..............................................................1 I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 II. RESULTS SUMMARY TABLE ....................................................................................6 III. CORRELATION TO MONITORING PLAN .............................................................8 IV. RESULT BY RESULT ANALYSIS .............................................................................9 V. CONSTRAINTS, CHALLENGES AND LESSONS LEARNED ............................... 43 VI. PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT QUARTER ............................................................. 43 VII. PERFORMANCE DATA TABLE ............................................................................ 45 VIII. FINANCIAL SUMMARY ....................................................................................... 49 IX. ANNEXES ................................................................................................................. 50 2 LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ACPA Aged and Children Pastoralist Association AEMFI Association of Ethiopian Microfinance Institutions ACCRA Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance AISDA Afar Integrated and Sustainable Development Association AMFIN Africa Microfinance Network BA Barrier analysis BCC Behaviour Change Communication BoA Bureau of Agriculture BOFED Bureau of Finance and Economic Development CAHW Community Animal Health Worker CBEFE Competency Based Economies through Formation of Enterprises CCA Climate Change Adaptation CCAFS Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Research Program CCFE Climate Change Forum Ethiopia CIAFS Capacity to Improve Food Security Project CRGE Climate Resilient and Green Economy CRiSTAL Community-based Risk Screening Tool – Adaptation and Livelihoods CSU Colorado State University CVCA Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Assessment DPPB Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Bureau DRM Disaster Risk Mitigation DRMFSS Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Sector DPFSCO Disaster Preparedness and Food Security Coordination Office DRR Disaster Risk Reduction ECDD Ethiopian Center for Development and Disability EMD Economic and Market Development EMMA Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis EMMP Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plan ENA Essential Nutrtion Action ENCAP Africa Environmentally Sound Design and Management Capacity-building for Partners and Programs in Africa ENGINE Empowering New Generations in Improved Nutrition and Economic Opportunities EPHSS Enhancing Post harvest and Seed System ERR Environmental Review Record ETB Ethiopian Birr EW Early Warning EWM Early Warning Systems FEWSNET Famine Early Warning System Network FGDs Focus Group Discussions FIPSRE Financial Inclusion for the People of Somali Region in Ethiopia FOG Fixed Obligation Grant FTF Feed the Future FTFMS Feed the Future Monitoring System GCC Global Climate Change GFDRR Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery 1 GIS Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery GPS Geographic Positioning System GoE Government of Ethiopia HAD Health Development Army HAVOYOCO Horn of Africa Voluntery Youth Committee HEA Household Economy Analysis HH Household HU Haramaya University ICT Information and Communication Technology IEC Information, Education, Communication IFC International Finance Corporation IIF Innovation Investment Fund ILRI International Livestock Research Institution IPAS Institute of Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Studies IYCF Infant and Young Child Feeding JESH Jijiga Export Slaughter House LAND Land Administration to Nurture Development LKM Learning and Knowledge Management LOC Letter of Credit M&E Monitoring and evaluation MFI Microfinance institution MoA Ministry of Agriculture MoT Ministry of Trade MoU Memorandum of Understanding MSE Micro and small-scale enterprise NBE National Bank of Ethiopia NLMIS National Livestock Market Information System NMA National Meteorological Agency NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency NRM Natural Resource Management OCSSCO Oromiya Credit and Saving Share Company OPaDC Oromiya Pastoral Development Community OSC One Stop Center PaRFE Pastoral Rangelands Forum/Ethiopia PC Pastoralist Concern PCDP Ethiopia Pastoral Community Development Project PDO Pastoral Development Office SoPARI PECCN Poverty, Environment and Climate Change Network PGIS Participatory Geographical Information System PLI Pastoralist Livelihood Initiative PMP Performance Management Plan PNRM Participatory Natural Resource Management PRIME Pastoralists Areas Resilience Improvement and Market Expansion PRM Participatory Rangeland Management PSP Participatory Scenario Planning PSP Private Service Provider PVP Private Veterinary Pharmacy RAIN Revitalizing Agricultural/Pastoral Incomes and New Markets 2 RuSACCO Rural Savings and Credit Cooperatives SACCO Savings and Credit Cooperatives SBCC Social behavior change communications SMFI Somali Microfinance Institution SOPARI Somali Pastoral/Agro-pastoral Research Institute SRS Somali Regional State TEEMA Transitioning Out of Pastoralism Employment and Entrepreneurship Market Assessment TOP Transitioning Out of Pastoralism TOT Training of Trainers TVET Technical and vocational education and training USAID United States Agency for International Development USFS United States Forest Service VC Value chain VSLA Village Savings and Loan Association WDRP Woreda Disaster Risk Profiling Program 3 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY PRIME is a five-year, USAID-funded initiative designed to support resilience among pastoralist communities in Ethiopia, and thus enhance prospects for a long-term development in Ethiopia‟s dryland landscape where the pastoralist livelihood system prevails. Financed through Feed the Future (FTF) and Global Climate Change (GCC) facilities, PRIME is designed to be transformative, innovative and achieve scale through market-driven approaches to livestock production and livelihood diversification that simultaneously support dryland communities to adapt to a changing climate. In order to achieve its overall goal of Increasing Household Incomes and Enhancing Resilience to Climate Change through Market Linkages, the program works to meet the following five major objectives (intermediate results): 1) Improved productivity and competitiveness of livestock and livestock products; 2) Enhanced pastoralists‟ adaptation to climate change; 3) Strengthened alternative livelihoods for households transitioning out of pastoralism; 4) Ensure enhanced innovation, learning and knowledge management; and 5) Improved nutritional status of targeted households improved through targeted, sustained and evidence-based interventions. This report summarizes the key activities implemented, and the associated accomplishments for PRIME over the period of January 1 through March 31, 2014, which is the sixth quarter (second quarter, second year) of program implementation. During the quarter, PRIME continued to build on the foundation activities that were started in the previous quarter. The following is a brief summary of the key highlights and achievements by the project‟s objectives: 1. Improved productivity and competitiveness of livestock and livestock products During the Quarter the IR1 PRIME time focused on further development and implementation of activities in all target regions towards meeting the key results of the project. In order to improve productivity in key livestock market systems, PRIME conducted series of refresher trainings for CAHWS and pastoral producers; trainings in animal feed production, conservation and utilization for women pastoral groups as well as training in business management for PVPs and livestock traders. In addition, work was conducted in implementing the small scale competitive business expansion grants for expansion of the private veterinarian pharmacies networks, establishment and improvement of milk collection points, establishment of livestock feedlots and holding grounds and increased animal feed production. In order to improve market linkages within the market actors in key value chains and market systems, PRIME conducted and facilitated the participation of diversified target market actors to the Ethiopian Somali Regional Agricultural Fair and the Gulffood Fair in Dubai. In addition, preparations were conducted for facilitating the exposure and market linkage of PRIME target beneficiaries to the PRIME supported Regional Agricultural Fair in Borena and the African Livestock Exhibition and Conference, activities that will be conducted in the next Quarter. Market linkage events were conducted to also provide direct B2B familiarization of PVPs and animal health products wholesalers in the Southern Cluster. Business enabling environment activities this quarter focused on providing