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Agriculture and Livestock

Program

BRAC Uganda and Sierra Leone

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• Started its operations in 2006

• The “Microfinance Multiplied” approach

• Targets the poor and marginalized

• Beneficiaries are primarily female

• Rigorous impact evaluation and monitoring

BRAC Africa

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• Realizes the lack of productivity and

challenges faced by small agriculture

farmers

• Understands the need for moving from

traditional to modern farming method

Agriculture Program

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• Selection and creation of agents for agriculture development „EAEW‟

• Training and access to information is the key

• Making access to credit easier through Microifnance

• Supplying high quality inputs and the seed testing farm

• The “Demonstration effect”

Agriculture Program (Contd.)

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Activities Uganda Sierra Leone

District covered 41 4

Population covered 311,316 215,860

Villages covered 1236 425

Agriculture workers trained 1200 100

Refreshers for agriculture workers 1200 776

General farmers trained 49,150 225

Refresher for general farmers 34,258 115

Seeds distributed (Kg) 210,000 5,002

Fertilizer distributed (Kg) 87,000 7,125

Trial plot 3 36

Agriculture at a Glance

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• The Poultry and Livestock enterpreneurs

• Door to door outreach agents providing vital services

• Poultry vaccination and education on housing, feeding, water management and disease prevention

• Livestock related services such as de-worming, housing and feeding, cattle breed selection and milking

• Artificial insemination entrepreneurs

Livestock and Poultry (L&P)

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Activities Uganda Sierra Leone

District covered 41 3

Population covered 379,200 177,748

P&L Volunteers trained 1200 108

Doses of poultry vaccination used 7146000 33,840

L&P rearers trained 88323 63

No. of model poultry rearers 1200 9

No. of model goat rearers - 11

No. of cattle inseminated 1480 -

No. of artificial insemination

workers trained

70 -

At a glance

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• Use of the platform created by

Microfinance

• Entrepreneurship skill and reliability

• Belongingness to both community and

BRAC

• Peer to peer bottom-up strategy

Integration of Gender

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• Cross country analysis e.g. Uganda and Sierra Leone

• Base for East and West Africa research units respectively

• Continuous data collection for research and evaluation

• Well established data management and field management teams

Impact Evaluation

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Activities Uganda Sierra Leone

Researchers (Expatriate) 3 3

Researchers (National) 4 3

Data Entry Operators 24 4

Field Staff (permanent) 60 (3) 40

At a Glance

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• Takes into account the holistic approach of BRAC

• Baseline survey has been carried out in 2009 for Uganda and The Sierra Leone baseline survey will be finished by the end of this month

• Discontinuity model with control and treatment group

• Backed up by qualitative findings

• Make use of livelihood framework

• Integration of gender into evaluation framework is not challenging as such

Evaluation Design

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• Increase in the capacity to acquire natural and physical assets like land and housing.

• Improvement in social capital such as their network with other members in their communities as well as their level of belongingness within the wider community.

• Increased participation in government institutions and policy making

• Rise in financial capital particularly their savings and credit worthiness

• Enhanced capacity and ability to take care of or finance their children‟s educational, health and nutritional needs.

• Female empowerment in the decision making process in the household and increased control over assets

Expected Outcome

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• Changes in the household dynamics

• Cultural shift within the community

• Social capital

Qualitative Outcomes

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Thank You.