The project aimed to develop an inclusive and profitable dairy value chain for pastoralist communities in Borana zone of Ethiopia. From October 2020 to July 2022, the project worked with 5,351 women and youth across five kebeles in Moyale Woreda. The evaluation team used mixed methods including interviews, focus groups, and observations to assess whether the project achieved its targets and resulted in any system changes. The project contributed to improving household resilience and empowering women economically through the dairy market. It facilitated market linkages and connected cooperatives to microfinance institutions, though targeted beneficiaries had yet to access credits. The evaluation recommends institutionalizing a multi-stakeholder platform, developing evidence-based documents, designing a clear gender
The project aimed to develop an inclusive and profitable dairy value chain for pastoralist communities in Borana zone of Ethiopia. From October 2020 to July 2022, the project worked with 5,351 women and youth across five kebeles in Moyale Woreda. The evaluation team used mixed methods including interviews, focus groups, and observations to assess whether the project achieved its targets and resulted in any system changes. The project contributed to improving household resilience and empowering women economically through the dairy market. It facilitated market linkages and connected cooperatives to microfinance institutions, though targeted beneficiaries had yet to access credits. The evaluation recommends institutionalizing a multi-stakeholder platform, developing evidence-based documents, designing a clear gender
The project aimed to develop an inclusive and profitable dairy value chain for pastoralist communities in Borana zone of Ethiopia. From October 2020 to July 2022, the project worked with 5,351 women and youth across five kebeles in Moyale Woreda. The evaluation team used mixed methods including interviews, focus groups, and observations to assess whether the project achieved its targets and resulted in any system changes. The project contributed to improving household resilience and empowering women economically through the dairy market. It facilitated market linkages and connected cooperatives to microfinance institutions, though targeted beneficiaries had yet to access credits. The evaluation recommends institutionalizing a multi-stakeholder platform, developing evidence-based documents, designing a clear gender
Consortium of Community Initiatives Facilitation and Assistance (CIFA), Oromia
Pastoralist Association (OPA), and Fair & Sustainable Ethiopia (F&S) and lead by CST implement the Project. The aim of the project were developing an inclusive and profitable dairy value chains for pastoralist communities in Borana zone, the Project begun in October 2020 in five Kebeles within Moyale Woreda for 5,351 women and youth. The purpose of this evaluation is to establish if the Project has been able to achieve its target as well as assessing if any system changes have come about as a result of the Project implementation from October 2020 to July 2022. The evaluation team applied mixed methods approach involving secondary data review, individual interviews; key informant interviews (KIIs), focus group discussions (FGDs) as well as observations. The approach is summarized in an evaluation design matrix showing the source of data, method of data collection, and the tool used to answer each evaluation question. In total, the team collected quantitative and qualitative information from 15 KIIs (17 participants), 12 FGDs (111 participants) and 157 project beneficiaries. The qualitative data was organized and analysed based on a framework developed for this purpose, a context analysis was applied during analysis and the quantitative data was collected using online tablet devices with KoBoToolbox application and was analysed using SPSS. AS a result, the Project goal “improving household resilience” is considered satisfactory due to the fact that the Project has contributed to beneficiaries’ resilience absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacity. The dairy market systems in targeted district of Borena improved in ways that socially and economically empower women and conserve the ecosystems. The degree of progress towards the Project strategic objective is encouraging but needs more attention, this is because, and the Project has improved average level of impact of women in formal/informal decision-making structures. In addition efficient dairy market systems functional in targeted districts in Borena. The Project has facilitated market linkages between 3 input suppliers, one union and the producers themselves. The Project supported two MFIs, Sinke bank and Oromia Coop bank, by linking them to with cooperatives. Although this is a great achievement, the targeted beneficiaries have yet to access credit from these MFI. We Recommend that it is essential to institutionalize the Multi-Stakeholder Platform (MSP), develop evidence-based documents, use the platform to influence critical project issues and it is crucial that a clear gender strategy and men engagement tools are designed and implemented. The “co-investment model” needs due consideration, better to revise the whole business model, in fact, this needs further detail discussion, assessment and inventory monitoring.