Participatory Evaluation of our 2008 - Action Against Hunger

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4. Improved crop and livestock practices 5. Increased crop and livestock production Training of ACF facilitators Participant skill training Demonstration gardens Practices promoted through the FFS Record keeping Documentation Post-harvest handling Enterprise selection capacity Acreage Crop production Livestock production Marketing Cassava multiplication • By FAO • By ACF • Refresher • Decreased attendance • Relevance of topics • Timing and location of sessions (actual vs female/male preferences) • Where • What technology and practices • Describe experimentation process • Other community experimentation or transfer • Most useful aspect of demonstration sites • How to do differently next time for others • Which practices promoted • Relevance • Adoption; still applied • Others that should have been included • Onward transfer to others • Types • Quality of records • Group access and transparency • Perception of record keeping • Where kept • Lag between action and notation • Too complicated to maintain? • Group constitution • Business plan • Work plan • Enterprise selection • Budget • Certificate of registration • Minutes • Whether all kept together • Practices • Individual or group storage; types • Question of practice or inputs • Profitability analysis • Seed selection • Site selection • practices • Changes and trend (access vs utilisation) • No increase for non-participants? • Types of crops for first and second season • Quantity • Quality • Factors • Changes • Housing • Practices • Changes • Complementarity of small ruminants to cultivation • Farm gate or town • Prices • Variety • Late FAO delivery and ACF reallocation to other groups • Pass on group identification, timing, follow up • Whether cassava should be included in future FFSs Action Against Hunger Uganda - 54 - Farmer Field School Evaluation
6. Enhanced income generation and management capacity 7. Recommendations for design, targeting, implementation, and M&E Markets Value addition Seed multiplication and marketing Savings Credit Possible interventions & linkages Timing of activities and inputs M&E considerations • Access • Demand • Linkages • Missing FAO equipment • Current processing in area • Ideas and opportunities • Experience with Victoria Seeds (Minakulu) • Comparative profitability • Record keeping • Transparency • Amount • Where kept • Type (food or cash) • Increase or decrease • Source • Amount • Purpose • • • Action Against Hunger Uganda - 55 - Farmer Field School Evaluation
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Page 3 and 4: Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.........
Page 5 and 6: Executive Summary A. Synthesis This
Page 7 and 8: 24. FAO cannot be relied upon for s
Page 9 and 10: 10. FFS group meeting locations cou
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Page 13 and 14: 1. Background 1.1 ACF and the Lango
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Page 19 and 20: In the absence of a logframe for th
Page 21 and 22: of participants could be the ones a
Page 23 and 24: Figure 7. Comparison of actual and
Page 25 and 26: Figure 8. Planting practices of pro
Page 27 and 28: group members. Such benefits may ac
Page 29 and 30: indications of positive FFS perform
Page 31 and 32: Figure 11. Amount remaining in grou
Page 33 and 34: might simply reflect the effect of
Page 35 and 36: Although these additional household
Page 37 and 38: 4.6 Improvement in participant copi
Page 39 and 40: they report that 97 percent of resp
Page 41 and 42: facilitators on improved production
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Page 45 and 46: Appendix A. Seasonal and programmat
Page 47 and 48: Appendix C. Matrix Scoring Experime
Page 49 and 50: Appendix E. Evaluation Methodology
Page 51 and 52: Institutional • FFS shorten the t
Page 53: Appendix G. Field Tools Farmer Fiel
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