Project Performance Assessment Rural Income Diversification Project in Tuyen Quang Province Wrap-up of PPA Mission

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Project Performance AssessmentRural Income
Diversification Project in Tuyen Quang
ProvinceWrap-up of PPA Mission

• Office of Evaluation
• IFAD
• 18 March 2011

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Project Performance Assessment (PPA)

• A new form of project evaluation
• Linkage with country programme evaluation
• Preliminary findings based on
• Reviewing project completion report, mid-term
  review, supervision reports, project status
  reports
• Meetings with government and other key partners
• Discussion with project management
• Interviews with DPCU, CDB, VDB, womens groups,
  SCGs, etc.

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Evaluation Criteria Applied in PPA

• Relevance
• Effectiveness
• Efficiency
• Rural poverty reduction impact
• Household income and assets
• Human and social capital and empowerment
• Food security and agricultural productivity
• Natural resources and environment
• Institutions and policies
• Sustainability
• Pro-poor innovation, replication, and scaling up
• Gender equality and womens empowerment
• Performance of partners

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Key findings - I

• Successful pilot in promoting decentralization
• Ownership, participation and capacity building
• Mainstreamed into implementation of government
  programmes
• A step forward from farm to market
• Intra-village roads and other SSI
• New varieties, livestock (AHW)
• Micro credit and micro enterprise
• Fundamental base for sustainable use of forest
• Forest land use certificate
• Invest in and benefit from forest land
• Significant achievement in gender equality
• Awareness
• High relevance of Womens Livelihood Fund

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Key findings - II

• Underperformance of micro enterprise
• Micro enterprise and micro credit in package
• Importance of identifying the right agency
• Potential risks in sustaining micro-credit
• Some SCGs members stopped savings
• Formal credit record
• Challenges in empowering ethnic minorities
• Targeting poor in general
• Few adapted activities for minorities

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Project performance

• Relevance
• Aligned to the government strategy
• Food security and income diversification were the
  needs of the target groups
• Effectiveness
• Increased capacities of target groups
• Enhanced food security and income diversification
• Improved sustainable use of forest resources
• Efficiency
• Effective coordination
• Effective ME and impact studies

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Impact and Other criteria

• Rural poverty reduction impact
• Diversified income, potential for marketing
  development
• Newly formed pro-poor social capital
• Increased food security and agri productivity
• Sustainable use of natural resources
• Enhanced institutions and contributed to policy
  implementation
• Significant potential for scaling-up
  (decentralization, vocational training)
• Achievement in womens empowerment

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What matters for future?

• Build models of micro and small enterprises!
• Assist in market information and access!
• Further support implementation of
  decentralization?
• Support employment and vocational training ?
• Continue supporting farm production ?
• Refine targeting for ethnic minorities or
  continue to target the poor in general ?
• Rethink the future of SCGs (upgrading, building
  formal record, taking group activities)?

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• Thank You