multi-stakeholder platforms and private sector engagement in ethiopia
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This presentation focuses on the role of Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) and the importance of private sector engagement in CARE Ethiopia's GRAD program. MSPs are an innovative tool used by CARe to build relationships among all the stakeholders and develop and improve the program's interventions.TRANSCRIPT
GRAD:Graduation with Resilience to Achieve
Sustainable Development
Enhanced Livelihood Options of Chronically Food Insecure Households in Highland
Areas 14 November 2012
Helping the poor in rural Ethiopia graduate from Productive Safety Net Program
By: Nicholas Nyathi (SNV-CCU)
Moving to food sufficiency and food security
• HHs able to earn income to meet their daily needs
• HHs organized and strengthened to exploit available opportunities
• Input and Output market infrastructure built
• Barriers to financial markets reduced-gender
• Demand and market oriented extension services strengthened
GRAD
Goal and Objectives
GOAL
Work with 65K PSNPHHs & 10K Model Farmers
Assets increased, HH income raised by $365/yr. Resiliency enhanced
Graduate 50KPSNP HHs from 16 Woredas, 4 Regions
Objectives/Results
Enhance Livelihood Options for CFI Households in Highland Areas
Strengthen Enabling Environment to Promote Scale and Sustainability
Improve Household and Community Resilience
1. On- and off-farm economic opportunities, inclusive value chains and market access stimulated
2. An inclusive financial sector promoted and access to a range of financial products and services expanded
3. Extension services upgraded
1. Women’s resilience and access to inputs, services and information increased
2. Nutritional status of infants, children and reproductive age women improved
3. Climate change adaptation improved4. Aspirations for graduation promoted,
and enablers of graduation enhanced
1. Collaboration among stakeholders consolidated to promote joint learning and scale up
2. Enabling environment improved
3. Evaluation, learning and sharing GRAD
GRAD Causal ModelGRAD Causal Model
GRAD
CRI F C P
GRAD VCD Push and Pull Approach
Sector InterventionsService Provision Multi Actor Processes
‘PUSH’-strategies:Facilitate access to finance, technology, assets.
Provide capacity building
Extension services
‘PULL’-strategies:Market intelligence/informationDirect Business SupportPrivate sector engagementBusiness2BusinessMarket linkagesPromotion of pre and post harvest technologies
Reliable OutletsMarket IntelligenceEmbedded Services
OpportunitiesMarket Intelligence
External Environmental Factors
GRAD
Push and Pull strategies Push
• Increase access to productive assets,
• increase production, • improve productivity and quality, • Assist beneficiaries to aggregate • Facilitate access to financial
products and services through VSLA and MFIs,
• Strengthen the farmers’ value positioning by improving farmer competitiveness,
• Facilitate farmers organisation to form functional marketing groups
• Facilitate technical training
Pull• Facilitate linkages between the
producers and private sector, • Facilitate private sector to provide
embedded services, e.g. appropriate technologies, market information and technical services
• Promote transparency and standardization in transactions (contractual agreements),
• Promoting dialogue among stakeholders with private sector involvement being the catalytic factor,
• Build mutual relationships based on Trust
• Enhancing technical skills and knowledge of both demand and supply side of market edge
GRAD
Food secure
(6,000 HHS)
(Deepen resiliency)
•Organize into Marketing Cooperatives•Training on product quality and market requirements•Linkage with formal financial service providers•Market linkage with high value markets
Food Sufficient (4,000 HHS)
(Accumulate assets, manage risks better)
•Transition PMAs to marketing cooperatives or SMEs, diversify income•Linkage with formal financial service providers for savings, bigger loan and insurance •Linkage with private sector to provide embedded services• Access to market information •Support groups to engage in value addition business•Strengthen extension services
Chronically Food Insecure
( 58,500HHs)
(Increase Income)
•Technical training on production to increase productivity•Support on- and off-farm enterprise selection•Access to loan to engage in VC through MFIs and RUSACCOs ( individually/ group)•Training on Business skill and business planning•Linkage with input suppliers •Access to technology and inputs•Strengthen/establish PMAs linkage with private sector to provide embedded services•Access to market information •Strengthen extension services •Awareness raising on gender, nutrition , climate change and graduation
Ultra Poor
(6,500 HHS)
(Provide productive skills and assets)
•Training on simple business skill and financial literacy•Group formation/ strengthening•Promote saving and internal lending•Asset transfer
GRAD Pull/Push Services Delivered
GRAD
GRAD
• Value Chain selection
• VC analysis
• VC validation
• MSP• CBA and
Investment plans
• Private sector involvement
Economic Opportunities
Decision Matrix – Multiple criteriaCriteria Weight Commodity X Commodity Y Commodity Z
Score Total value
Score Total Value
Score Total value
Economic
Market Demand Potential
Value Addition Potential
Potential for improved productivity and quality
Mandatory
Potential to involve more SHF
Contribution to Gender Equality
Strategic
Dynamism of chain actors
Potential for scale-up
Total
Score 1-10 GRAD
Farmers collectives
GRAD
Designing and facilitating MSPs
GRAD
Basic collaboration conditionsBasic collaboration conditions
Theoretical Model
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Collaborative Variables
Embeddedness
Involvement Access to capital
Access to technology
Access to markets
Access to information
MSP VCD
C O N T E X T
Access to inputs
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Value Chain Intervention Areas
Honey value chain: Livestock small ruminants
Haricot beans Horticulture
1. Colony multiplication,
2. Bee forage3. Appropriate
technology such as transitional bee hives
4. Wax5. Adulteration and
crop chemical use
6. Market linkages7. Producer
groups strengthening
1. Feed technologies
2. Quality improvement
3. Market linkages4. Producer
groups strengthening
1. Seed multiplication
2. New trading system, ECX
3. Quality and grading
4. Producer group strengthening
5. Pre and postharvest technologies
1. Seed multiplication
2. Pre and postharvest technologies
3. Producer group strengthening
4. Local actors coordination
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SustainabilityDevelopment Process
Define roles
Vision
Outputs
Outputs
Outputs
Implementation
Monitoring and EvaluationDefine impact
indicators
Outputs
Outcomes
Impact
Outcomes
Outcomes
Impact
MSP 2
MSP3
MSP 4
MSP 5
GRAD
PSNP plus/GRAD Results Increased participation in value chain and sector
meetings at national, regional and district levels. Improved identification of bottlenecks and
requirements for the development of the value chains Improved awareness of issues for development Improved coordination of VC activities Improved information sharing and collective learning Improved efficiency and competitiveness in different
value chains segments and functions Improved local and national advocacy and lobby for
effective policies for economic inclusion Improved service provision both public and private Improved ownership of VCD process by local
stakeholders
GRAD
Challenges
• Sustainability
• Consistent representation
• Balancing self interests
• Strong private sector participation
GRAD
THANK YOU
GRAD