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URI’s undertook an evaluation that included the component for the markets and grants for the farmers.
The component of competitive grants aims: promotion of the small farmers to use modern technologies, produce various productions, processing and marketing of the mentioned products on based on the cooperation through (i) the facilitation on transferring advanced technologies to the farmers/producer in the rural communities (ii) capacity building of service providers in rural areas to support the farmers/produces and other entrepreneur (iii) assistance to the associations and other community groups in order to create opportunities for economic choices. (iiii) assistance to the Ministry of Agriculture and Food to enhance public-private partnerships for wealthier farmers and agribusiness.
The evaluation work that Urban Research Institute undertook to evaluate the economic and social impact of the project implementation, on using and distributing the advanced technologies for food processing or marketing included:
- Preparatory phase:
a. Data collection and consultations with the general secretariat and the competitive grants program staff.
b. Selection of 20 grants with completed projects;
c. Questionnaire preparation for the main and indirect beneficiaries from the grants with the assistance of the Project Monitoring Units for the Agriculture Services staff;
d. Drafting of a workshop from URI working group and local subcontractors that would assist in data collections and the interviews for the selected projects.
- Field Work:
e. Interview with the main applicants, selected for the grants;
f. Interview with the respective service providers for each project;
i. Ensuring the information for the participants in the trainings.
ii. Ensuring information for those who used the same technology (emulators);
iii. Ensuring information for those who benefited from the services/if applicable
g. Interview with above mentioned groups, 3-4 interviewees per group;
h. Data entry;
i. GIS data entry on technology distribution and graphic presentation of this distribution.
Copy of the of the final report is available at the URI office, anything related to the findings, such as the main one, that the Grants program went well in general, had a very good economical and social impact in the rural communities, contributing to the poverty alleviation and business enhancement. The study recommends the continuation of this program, with an escalation scale.
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