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6 Survey Results
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Figures 86 to 92 illustrate perceived adequacy
for the specified list of development initiatives
carried out by STABEX-funded implementing
agencies, NGO’s and other governmental
services in the Northern and Eastern regions. The
answer “not provided” reflects that the particular
supporting agent did not address the development
initiative stated above.
In the case of the STABEX support (Figure
86 and Figure 87), most of the smallholders
have been reached by one or several initiatives.
In the Eastern districts a higher proportion of
smallholders has received some kind of support,
compared to the Northern districts. It should be
noted that in the Eastern region the aid spent
per household was twice as high (514 Euro/
household) than that in the Northern region
(263 Euro/ household). In the Eastern region
the majority of the households received market
information, training, tools and seeds/seedlings,
almost half received storage and processing
facilities, some received drying facilities and
very limited (almost none) fertilisers, pesticides
and microcredit. In the Northern region almost
all farms received tools and seeds/seedlings,
however only a limited number of households
were reached by storage, drying facilities, training
(less than 40%), except the training in agronomic
activities, which reached around 60% of the
smallholders.
Overall, relevance/adequacy is deemed very
low and only Action Aid (Bombali and Tonkolili
districts in the Northern region) received slightly
higher positive feedback in this respect, especially
in training-related support. Although it is possible
that these results are illustrating the possibility
that beneficiaries are not willing to claim that
the type of support and the associated amount
of resources received are sufficient to fulfil their
needs (even if they have had a positive impact
from the interaction in the technical assistance
program), it may also be the case that the amount
of aid received per beneficiary was not high
enough to imply a substantial improvement and
was therefore deemed “not adequate”. Most
likely, the results illustrate a combination of these
two aspects.
Concerning the case of MAFS projects and
extension services (that were only operational
in the Northern region), the provision of aid was
limited to supporting drying and storage facilities
and to providing some training, processing
equipment and seeds, reaching only 1-5% of the
Figure 86. Adequacy of support provided by Welthungerhilfe STABEX in the Eastern districts of Sierra Leone