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Africare/Uganda Uganda Food Security Initiative

By Anderson, Katrine

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Title: Africare/Uganda Uganda Food Security Initiative  
Author: Anderson, Katrine
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Language: English
Subject: United Nations., United Nations. Centre for Economic and Social Information, AID project impact evaluation report
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Schenk, K. (n.d.). Africare/Uganda Uganda Food Security Initiative. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/


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Excerpt: The Uganda Food Security Initiative Project ? phase two (UFSI-II) is a four and three-quarter year (57 month) USAID-funded Title II development activity program, implemented by Africare Uganda. The project was initiated in January 2002 and is scheduled ...

Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . i Chapter 1 Background and Project Evolution 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 1.2 Project Context. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.3 UFSI-I (1997-2001 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .3 1.4 Transition form UFSI-I to UFSI-II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.5 Evolution of UFSI-II Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 1.5.1 Selection of Target Villages and Baseline Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 1.5.2 Objectives of UFSI-II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 5 1.5.3 Principal Project Interventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 6 1.5.4 The Participatory Approach. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.5.5 The Partnership Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 1.5.6 Project Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.6 Performance Indicators and Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Chapter 2 Project Institutional Structure and Administration 2.1 Organizational Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.1.1 Africare Headquarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.1.2 Africare/Kampala and USAID/Uganda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.2 Africare/Uganda?s Medium-Term Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.3 Project Administrative Structure and Staff Deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 2.4 Staff Capacity Building Efforts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 2.5 Training of Farmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .18 2.6 Project Financial Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..20 2.6.1 Project Procurement Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2.6.2 Management of Project Inputs and Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2.6.3 Management of Project Disbursements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.6.4 Funding Over the Remainder of the Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 2.7 Monitoring and Evaluation System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..23 Chapter 3 Agricultural Production, Post-Harvest Handling and Marketing 3.1 Problem Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 24 3.1.1 National Context of the Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 24 3.1.2 Regional Context of the Problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 3.2 Partners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 3.3 Evolution of the Project?s Activities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 29 3.3.1 Intervention Identification Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 3.3.2 Interventions and Activities under UFSI-I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 30 3.3.3 Interventions and Activities under UFSI-II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...31 3.4 Mid-term Recommendations and their Implementation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 3.5 Achievements at End of FY05 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3.6 Comparison of UFSI-II Achievements at end of FY05 in Relation to DAP Targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 3.7 Cross Cutting Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 3.8 Lessons Learnt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42 3.9 Opportunities and Recommendations for Sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 3.10 Recommendations For the New MYAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

 
 



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