Project Design Summary: Food Security in Senegal A good project is tight, focused, coherent and practical.

All activities should directly contribute to the one or more results included in a Results Framework. Strategic objective: Improved food security for smallholder families in the Kedougou region of Senegal Relevant IRs and sub-IRs for this project (with corresponding Results Framework numbers): IR1:Increased adoption of sustainable, high-yield farming practices IR1.2: Farmers' expertise about production options increased IR1.4: Expanded cooperation among farmers IR indicator stated in QQTP terms: 50% of hectares under cultivation by smallholders in the Kedougou region of Senegal, where a minimum of two sustainable, highyield practices are used, by 2015. PART ONE
Name of project component/activity cluster: Mobilization

Brief narrative description

Target audience(s)

Timing of activities (year/quarter)

Frequency of activities (how often)

Duration of activities (how long)

Implementing entity

1) Creation of community-based agricultural associations and

Smallholder farmers,

One to two years. Biweekly meetings through

Once the cooperatives and local organizations

Our organization,

cooperatives where they do not already exist. 2) Connecting existing cooperatives through partnering and networking activities to share best-practices and lessons learned. 3) Organize community-based needs assessments to determine which new agricultural techniques should be applied in their town/region. Rationale (i.e., why are these implementers doing these activities with this target audience?

farming communities, regionallybased agricultural associations and cooperatives.

cooperatives, depending on feedback from partnering communities and cooperatives. Meetings may take place at shorter intervals based on need.

have been established, capacity building and strengthening will continue on throughout the duration of our project.

FAO project staff, relevant host government agencies.

Improves abilities of local community members to take collective action and maximize shared resources. Provides environment in which to acquire new skills and techniques and share bestpractices. Develops local capacity to employ critical

thinking in identifying a problem and choosing and implementing a solution. Additional comments (e.g., linkages to overall strategy for achieving scale, sustainability and successful exit; innovations): Mobilizing the community will help disseminate knowledge and strengthen best practices sharing, leading to an increase in capacity. This will feed into the adoption of sustainable, high-yield farming practices by participants.

Name of project component/activity cluster: Organizational Capacity Development Brief narrative description Target audience(s) Timing of activities (year/quarter) Frequency of activities (how often) Duration of activities (how long) Implementing entity

1) Support expansion of educational programs and interactive seminars where information can be exchanged 2) Implement tools and technique workshops at the cooperative level. 3) Empower and strengthen the capacity of existing cooperatives 4) Expand and strengthen cooperatives ability to advance their own

Regional agriculture cooperatives and associations. Youth- men and women.

One year

Once a week

a Day

Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools JFFLS Our organization, FAO project staff, and relevant host government institutions.

knowledge and skills. Rationale (i.e., why are these implementers doing these activities with this target audience? Implementers are experienced agricultural technicians sharing their knowledge with youth who will eventually be able to adopt and impart their expertise to future generations. The engagement on the cooperative level will transfer new skills and knowledge about high-yield agricultural techniques, which methods would be most relevant to a cooperatives region, and how to choose the best intervention. Provides the tools to identify and access resources. These organizational capacity development activities are the foundation for our

Additional comments (e.g., linkages to overall strategy for achieving scale, sustainability and successful exit; innovations):

phasing over exit strategy, as the coops can take up the training and information sharing involved in adoption of sustainable, highyield agricultural practices.

Name of project component/activity cluster: Individual Capacity Development Brief narrative description Target audience(s) Timing of activities (year/quarter) Frequency of activities (how often) Duration of activities (how long) Implementing entity

1) Support (motivational and financial) for farmers to attend workshops and conferences on best agricultural practices where they can interact, network and share ideas.

Smallholder farmers, farming communities.

Over the 3 years

once a week with support as needed

Throughout project

Our organization

2) Organize trainings and workshops for farmers to facilitate knowledge acquisition of sustainable, highyield farming practices. 3) Training of trainers (TOTs) in organizational techniques, skills transfer, and highyield farming techniques. Rationale (i.e., why are these implementers doing these activities with this target audience? Capacities developed at the individual dimension lead to changes in skills, behaviours and attitudes among a wide range of actors in the agriculture and rural development sector. Training, knowledge sharing, and networking are ways of strengthening capacities at this dimension.

Additional comments (e.g., linkages to overall strategy for achieving scale, sustainability and successful exit; innovations):

TOTs will provide the local capacity and agency for the continuation of learning for sustainability during the phase over/out stage.

Name of project component/activity cluster: Supply Improvement and/or Demand Generation Brief narrative description Target audience(s) Timing of activities (year/quarter) Frequency of activities (how often) Duration of activities (how long) Implementing entity

1) Create cooperative knowledge exchanges where one cooperative demonstrates best practices to others 2) Facilitate private sector

Smallholder farmers, farming communities, regionally-based agricultural associations and cooperatives. Private suppliers of

Over the three year project period

Monthly

As long as the smallholder farmers find the institution worthwhile (hopefully the duration will outlast the project itself)

Our organization, partner organizations, private sector partners

demonstrations of farming implements new technologies and and supplies. practices 3) Create test/experiment plots to test and demonstrate best practices Rationale (i.e., why are these implementers doing these activities with this target audience? -Knowledge exchanges headed by co-ops and taught to other co-ops allows the smallholder to own and share the knowledge in culture appropriate ways -Private sector demonstrations and demonstrations by project staff in a community field would allow for community experimentation. -Giving the co-ops the opportunity to share knowledge empowers smallholders and allows them to network

Additional comments (e.g., linkages to overall strategy for achieving scale, sustainability and successful exit;

innovations):

-Involving the entire community in experimentation leads to stronger community investment in new practices and technologies. - Most importantly, facilitating networks between coops and the ability of coops to share information amongst themselves and with their farmers fundamentally supports our phasing over exit strategy.

Name of project component/activity cluster: Knowledge Generation, Management and Dissemination Brief narrative description 1) Conduct joint trials Target audience(s) Timing of activities (year/quarter) Over the three-year Frequency of activities (how often) Yearly Duration of activities (how long) Growing season Implementing entity

Farmers, researchers

Our organization in

of new methodologies and extension on test plots workers 3) Host conferences to encourage the development of networks among farmers and cooperatives 4) Facilitate the establishment of networks (mobile phones, meetings) to promote knowledge dissemination through cooperatives 5) Compile conference reference materials to share best practices, feedback on methodologies, new innovations Rationale (i.e., why are these implementers doing these activities with this target audience? Project staff are working in partnership with farmers and extension agents to conduct trials in order to generate further knowledge on the efficacy of best

project period Day-long conference, yearly for duration of project

partnership with farmers and agricultural agents

practices and new innovations. Project staff will target other farmers and extension agents in conferences and in establishing networks to disseminate this local knowledge and best practices regarding the adoption of sustainable, highyield practices. Additional comments (e.g., linkages to overall strategy for achieving scale, sustainability and successful exit; innovations): These activities are key to the overall strategy of sustainability in order to promote knowledge dissemination and information networks.

Name of project component/activity cluster:

Material Assistance Brief narrative description Target audience(s) Timing of activities (year/quarter) Throughout project Frequency of activities (how often) Twice a year Duration of activities (how long) Throughout project Implementing entity

1) Provide (small) Individual smallholder matching grants to farmers and incentivize adoption cooperatives of particular practices or techniques that are not readily used in the area, e.g. windbreaking 2) Introduce cooperatives to skills for applying to grants. Rationale (i.e., why are these implementers doing these activities with this target audience? Matching grants with other organizations can help jumpstart the adoption of new technologies that may seem difficult to implement or seem initially unattractive to Senegalese farmers. Moreover, helping cooperatives understand how to access grants in the future will help make this activity

Our organization

sustainable. Additional comments (e.g., linkages to overall strategy for achieving scale, sustainability and successful exit; innovations): Small grants and the ability to understand how to apply for them in the future will further encourage smallholder farmers adopt sustainable, high-yield farming practices.

PART TWO Briefly describe your plans to achieve scale, sustainability and successful exit. Scale Plan Potential for scale up (by our organization or other actors) after the initial three-year project. Need to maintain benefit stream and maintain key relationships among farmers and cooperatives - doing so by our focus on organizational capacity development. Phasing over - by focusing on organizational capacity development of cooperatives, we are laying the groundwork for successful phasing over. We are building capacity of agricultural extension agents and farmer cooperatives as successors to continue the benefit stream and maintain key relationships among farmers and cooperatives.

Sustainability Plan

Exit Plan