Country: Tanzania
Professional Staff provided by our Organization: Prof K.N Njau (Team Leader), Joseph Kangile (Agricultural Economist), Mr Evody Ndumiwwe (Survey Coordinator).
Name of Financer: The Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) of Amsterdam, The Netherland
Start Date: Sept 2020 Completion date: August 2021
Narrative Description of Project:
Alliance for Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) aims to trigger a uniquely African Green Revolution that transforms smallholder agriculture into a highly productive, efficient, competitive, and sustainable system to promote food security and lift millions out of poverty. In the strategy period 2007 – 2015, AGRA invested over $700 million in programs which helped to develop tools and systems for an African agricultural transformation. These lessons and experiences have helped shape the new strategic focus of AGRA for 2017-2021 that aims to catalyze and sustain an Inclusive Agricultural Transformation in Africa to increase Incomes and Improve Food Security of at least 30 million smallholder farming households with a set of targeted catalytic downstream and systemic investments coupled with government engagement.
In an effort to effectively monitor its work, AGRA’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) system has been designed to continually track and map various aspects of its work on an ongoing basis to provide quick data and information for continual program improvements throughout implementation period. AGRA engaged ENVICON to support AGRA M&E Unit in Tanzania with the establishment of sampling frames of AGRA beneficiaries (farmers, VBAs, Agro-dealers, Aggregators/aggregation centers, traders, processors, post-harvest equipment providers, banks etc.) as well as documentation of knowledge from AGRA’s investments.
Services Provided by ENVICON:
- Train AGRA grantees on the use of GPS in accurate georeferenced data collection based on agreed training module and criteria;
- Establish comprehensive sampling frames;
- Collect data for selected thematic/special studies to contribute to a number of AGRA indicators and contribute to impact and other socio-economic studies for AGRA;
- Support the M&E Unit in data quality assessments using approaches and standards defined by the Unit;
- Document evidence-based impact/success stories, best practices, lessons learned, successful innovations, opportunities, gaps, challenges, and processes/approaches of implementation of grants;
- Identify unintended outcomes and emerging opportunities and document.