1. SDC’s Rural Livelihood
Development Programme
Dodoma, Tanzania
Presented at Rural Development
Workshop, held at Lilongwe 4th to 8th
February 2013.
BY: Fadhili Kasubiri
2. Rural Livelihood Development
Programme
RLDP – Initiative of the government of Switzerland and supported
through SDC in Tanzania and Implemented through RLDC located in
Dodoma
RLDP – jointly managed by HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation (HIS)
and Swisscontact (SC)
RLDP – Project on-going since 2006, but adopted an M4P approach in 2008. This is
RLDP’s 4th (and final) phase.
CONCERNS - High levels of rural poverty in CC.
_ Low income
_ Frequent food shortages
_ Lack of reliable/Sustainable markets
& employment
AIM: Making market systems work better for the welfare of rural
producers applying the “making markets for poor approach” M4P.
RLDC – Making Markets Work For the Poor
3. Goal Livelihood of Small holders are improved in
CC (Target:92’000hh direct, and 440’000hh
indirect
Poverty Reduction
Programme
Objectives
• Income & Employment opportunities
• Food security improvement
• Sustainable growth in Agriculture Pro- Poor Growth
Programme
Outcomes
Farmers Level Change
• Market Access
• Increased Productivity & Production.
• Value addition thru
• Availability of:
• Improved inputs
• Skills & knowledge
• Mitigating financial risks
• Awareness, bargaining power, &
gender equality
Sustainable
Economic
Development
INTERVENTION LOGIC
4. INTERVENTION LOGIC
Cont…
Programme
Outcomes
System Level Change
• BE & Service markets undergo
systemic changes
• SME providing support to agricultural
production.
• Increase trade, growth of SME
• Increased business opportunities
Sustainable Economic
Development
Outputs Interventions relevant for
• Small holders farmers & enterprise
improve markets
Systemic Interventions
5. What we do
RLDC – Making Markets Work For the Poor
RiceSunflower Cotton
Rural Radio
Rural Advisory Services
Financial Services
Poultry Training
Gender/HIV
7. RLDC
Based on Springfield model
BMOs
Regulations and
Standards
Media and
Information services
BDS
SUPPORTING FUNCTIONS
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
CORE TRANSACTION
Inputs Production Processing Wholesale Retail
VC Actors
How we do it
8. Systemic Constraints In Sunflower
Sector
Poor agronomic
practices
Lack of working capital
Low degree of
organisation for
advocacy
Lack of inputs,
particularly improved
seeds
Unreliable market for
producers, unreliable
supply for processors
Low oil quality and
marketing strategies
Quality
Declared
Seeds
Business
Environment
Interventions
(Regional Apex
Associations,)
TBS
9. Sector Interventions
RLDC – Making Markets Work For the Poor
Sector Interventions
Rice We support the formation of farmer groups, the adoption of improved
farming techniques and the introduction of village savings groups
Sunflower We support the introduction of contract farming, introduction of improved
processing technologies, improving the business environment
Cotton We are supporting farmer associations, contract farming and the
introduction of tools for conservation agriculture
Radio We have funded the production and airing of generic radio programmes for
rural audiences and so developed the production and marketing capacity of
radio stations for this demographic.
Poultry This does not follow an M4P approach as we do not have private sector
companies to partner with, instead support has been direct training of
village groups
RAS We are demonstrating new seeds, disseminating information on crop
production through Radio, improving agronomic practices through
training of service providers, enhancing good agronomic practices and
post-harvest handling
11. Looking Ahead
RLDC – Making Markets Work For the Poor
• As this is our last phase our sights are set on an exit
strategy by:
• Focusing on our more successful partners and Weeding out
under-performing partners;
• Replicating successful models and innovations;
• Partnering with larger organisations and effectively piggy-
backing on their capacity for scale;
• Using in-house Radio capacity to increase outreach, but
embedding newly designed radio programmes with
partners for improved sustainability;
• Increasing & improving the recording, documenting and
reporting of results and
• Sharing our experiences with the donor community
wherever possible both internally and externally.
Notes de l'éditeur
Address constraints in agricultural markets for: Sunflower, Cotton & Rice
Develop support-services across these markets in Rural Radio; Rural Advisory Services; Financial Services & Social (Gender & HIV) Services
We also Train farmers to invest in and maintain poultry as a supplementary source of income
RLDC works in 6 (now 7) Regions in Tanzania’s “Central Corridor”
The Central Corridor suffers from some of the most adverse weather conditions in the country: Low and irregular rainfall limits most farmers to one crop per season
Hence incomes are low and so also is public sector investments
According to the “donut” (beignet In French) a.k.a. the market system, there are the core transactions of the sector itself, for instance sunflower, the business environment or “rules” that guide its operation and the supporting functions and services we addressed earlier.
As a facilitator RLDC addresses constraints in the market system at all three levels.
M4P encourages private sector investments that would otherwise not occur and which at the same time are mindful of the poor
M4P expects some failures along the way, but when there are successes, the key is to record these successes and use these to induce replication amongst other players in the market, thereby assuring scale
For instance, with the sunflower sector - several constraints exist, these relate to inputs; agronomic practices; working capital; the supply of quality grains for processors; oil quality and even advocacy
Consequently, our interventions involve the production of QDS; Contract farming initiatives & support for business associations
Rice – currently 6 partners, outreach of 6,300 between 2008 and 2011
We have introduced the DCED standards and delegated monitoring responsibility to each of the sector team leaders
We also introduced a new MRM tool called an intervention guide which each manager is responsible for developing and maintaining throughout an intervention’s life; this brings together sector background, partners’ details, results chain, monitoring plan and support calculations all together in one place.
We regularly update the M4P skills of the team by doing frequent in-house workshops and refreshers to maintain motivation and focus
The M&E team can then concentrate on high level data gathering but
we are currently considering the use of mobile phone applications to gather responses directly from farmers in far flung areas to corroborate information gathered by partners…
