HILLSIDE AGRICULTURAL PROGRAM Annual Workplan HAP CY-2002 Annual Workplan PERIOD: JANUARY - DECEMBER 2002 SERIES #: WP-02 Funded by: USAID Prime Contractor: Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) Sub-Contractors: Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) Fintrac, Inc. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) University of Florida GRAFIN S.A. This work was performed under USAID/Haiti Contract No. 521-C-00-00-00035-00. The views expressed herein are those of the contractor or their consultants and not necessarily those of the U. S. Agency for International Development. HAP 2002 WORKPLAN OUTLINE I. Introduction............................................................................................ 1 II. Program Activities Description ............................................................. 2 COMPONENT A: MARKET-ORIENTED PRODUCTION........................................ 2 1. COFFEE................................................................................................................. 2 2. MANGO ................................................................................................................ 4 3. CACAO.................................................................................................................. 5 4. YAM ...................................................................................................................... 6 5. TROPICAL PUMPKIN......................................................................................... 7 6. SECONDARY CROPS ......................................................................................... 8 COFFEE Program 2002 Activities Schedule................................................................... 9 MANGO Program CY 2002 Activities Schedule............................................................................. 10 CACAO Program CY 2002 Activities Schedule.............................................................................. 11 YAM Program 2002 Activities Schedule ......................................................................................... 12 TROPICAL PUMPKIN Program 2002 Activities Schedule .......................................................... 13 COMPONENT B: NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT................................. 14 NRM Program CY 2002 Activities Schedule................................................................................... 16 COMPONENT C: EXPORT MARKETING .............................................................. 17 Major Export Marketing Activities .................................................................................................. 17 Export Marketing Program CY 2002 Activities Schedule................................................................ 20 COMPONENT D: INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY BUILDING................................ 21 Community-Based Organizations Activities .................................................................................... 21 Strengthening Enabling Environment Institutions Activities ........................................................... 23 Institutional Capacity Building CY 2002 Activities Schedule ........................................................ 26 COMPONENT E: RESEARCH .................................................................................. 27 Research Activities........................................................................................................................... 27 Research CY 2002 Activities Schedule...........................................................................................32 COMPONENT F: MONITORING AND EVALUATION......................................... 33 Monitoring and Evaluation Activities .............................................................................................. 33 Monitoring & Evaluation CY 2002 Activities Schedule ................................................................ 34 COMPONENT G: PROGRAM MANAGEMENT/ADMINISTRATION ................. 35 Program Management / Administration Activities:.......................................................................... 35 CY 2002 Deliverables ...................................................................................................................... 37 CY 2001 Deliverables Outstanding.................................................................................................. 38 HAP CY 2002 Workplan i HAP CY 2002 Workplan 2 I. Introduction This HAP CY2002 Work Plan provides the framework and details for the implementation of USAID-financed activities in the hillside agriculture sector. The Plan emphasizes a flexible market-based approach aimed at achieving the highest possible financial returns to hillside farm households consistent with sound environmental practices. The Hillside Agriculture Program is a key element of the USAID/Haiti’s overall goal of “Reduction of Poverty in a Democratic Society”. It supports the Mission’s emphasis on decentralization and greater geographic focus. The program contributes to two USAID Strategic Objectives: SO1—Sustainable Increased Income for the Poor; and SO2— Environmental Degradation Slowed. More specifically, HAP contributes to the following intermediate results under SO1 and SO2. • IR1.1 Increased Environmentally Sustainable Agricultural Productivity • IR2.1 Increased Adoption of Sustainable Natural Resource Management Practices The HAP project and this workplan are organized into seven components as follows: • Component A: Market-Oriented Production • Component B: Natural Resource Management • Component C: Export Marketing • Component D: Institutional Capacity Building • Component E: Research • Component F: Monitoring & Evaluation • Component G: Program Management The following sections of the workplan are presented by component. HAP CY 2002 Workplan 1 II. Program Activities Description Component A: Market-Oriented Production HAP uses a market-led approach to choosing production activities, which implies that the choice of which crops and activities to support from a technology standpoint are keyed to existing and future market opportunities. Staff efforts will be focused on highest value “best bet” marketable crops that will significantly raise farmer incomes, as well as looking for increases in food crop productivity which strengthen farm family food security and free up land and labor resources for higher value production. The crops we have chosen to focus on during CY2002 are coffee, mango, cacao, yam, and pumpkin. Mango, coffee and cacao are perennial tree crops with strong export market potential as well as being environmentally friendly in their own right. Yam and pumpkin have been selected because they are export crops with significant potential for expansion into large and deep markets. Increased income associated with these crops may encourage farmers’ adoption and use of appropriate soil and water conservation and soil fertility building techniques. In the following sections, each targeted crop is discussed individually, providing detail on the activities planned for the coming year. 1. COFFEE Coffee is at a critical point in Haiti. World market prices for the low-grade natural coffee (café naturel or café pilé) that Haiti has traditionally exported are at all-time historical lows. New producers using intensive industrial methods in Brazil and Vietnam have created new competition and largely undercut Haitian coffee exporters’ usual espresso blend markets in Europe. As a result, some private exporters are dropping out of the market, farmgate prices are very low and farmers in many areas are discouraged by low prices. In some cases, they are pulling up trees and replanting with other crops, or at the very least, continuing their long standing practice of neglecting to tend their coffee stands. To counteract this disturbing trend, HAP is working with exporters and small hillside growers to develop new non-commodity higher quality coffee exports that will command higher prices and offer an attractive return to both exporters and farmers. These efforts at promoting higher priced coffee revolve around two target markets: (1) the high-quality gourmet “specialty coffee” market and (2) the “fair trade” market for approved cooperatively marketed coffee. Coffee marketed into both of these markets is, for the most part, washed coffee (café lavé) that requires immediate processing after it is picked and is generally recognized as being of higher quality. Much of HAP’s coffee sector work is based on helping the largest coffee growers’ federation, FACN, to market and assure quality control for its trademark brand coffee—Haitian Bleu. HAP CY 2002 Workplan 2 Components Work with FACN to strengthen its ability to produce and market high quality premium washed coffee. FACN is continuing to experience problems in ensuring adequate quality of its Haitian Bleu exports. HAP will work collaboratively with FACN’s Federation managers, continuing work begun in 2001, to help FACN improve its quality performance. Elements of HAP’s quality-focused program to achieve this will include: STTA and training for FACN staff on washed coffee processing and cupping, STTA to set-up and test a quality control monitoring and reporting system that will govern relations between the central FACN processing facility and its member Associations, training activities at the Association level to be conduced by experienced local technicians with support from a concurrent HAP Training Grant (TG-002), and infrastructure investment at the Association level supported