The World Bank Nepal Agriculture and Food Security Project (P128905)

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1 Public Disclosure Authorized SOUTH ASIA Nepal Agriculture Global Practice Recipient Executed Activities Investment Project Financing FY 2013 Seq No: 11 ARCHIVED on 09-Feb-2018 ISR31347 Implementing Agencies: Government of Nepal, Minstry of Agriculture and Cooperation Public Disclosure Authorized Key Dates Key Project Dates Bank Approval Date:11-Feb-2013 Planned Mid Term Review Date:-- Original Closing Date:31-Mar-2018 Project Development Objectives Effectiveness Date:30-Apr-2013 Actual Mid-Term Review Date:27-Jan-2016 Revised Closing Date:31-Mar-2018 Public Disclosure Authorized Project Development Objective (from Project Appraisal Document) The Project Development Objective is to enhance food and nutritional security of targeted communities in selected locations of Nepal. Food security will be realized through increased food availability, made possible by increasing productivity of agriculture, both crop and livestock. Nutrition security will be realized through improved dietary intake, made possible by promotion of diversifieddiets, and improved feeding and caring practices for pregnant and nursing women and children up to 2 years of age. Has the Project Development Objective been changed since Board Approval of the Project Objective? No PHRPDODEL Components Public Disclosure Authorized Name Technology Development and Adaptation:(Cost $9.30 M) Technology Dissemination and Adoption:(Cost $31.40 M) Food and Nutritional Status Enhancement:(Cost $10.70 M) Project Management:(Cost $6.60 M) Overall Ratings Name Previous Rating Current Rating Progress towards achievement of PDO Satisfactory Moderately Satisfactory Overall Implementation Progress (IP) Satisfactory Satisfactory Overall Risk Rating Substantial Substantial 2/9/2018 Page 1 of 12

2 Implementation Status and Key Decisions Component 1: Technology Development and Adaptation The main objective of component 1 is to make available improved cultivars, technologies and quality seeds to farmers in the project area with the purpose of increasing agricultural productivity. The project has made very good progress in achieving this objective ahead of time. Seventeen new crop varieties and 30 improved technologies (22 for crop and 8 for livestock) have already been released. In addition to this, 583 metric tons of source seeds have been produced which included 32.4 tons of breeder seeds; 533 tons of foundation seeds and 16.9 tons of potato basic seed. Seed replacement rate for rice, wheat, maize and potato were reported at 27%; 28%; 30% and 34%, respectively. Good progress has also been noted in livestock component. From 175 pure Boer goats and artificial insemination program, 145 pure breed kids and 5,833 crossbred kids have been produced. Of this, 1357 cross bred Boer kids have been distributed and the rest are in the process of being distributed. The review noted that the project has been able to improve the health and productivity of Saanen goats through the improvement in feed management. Saanen goats were introduced with the purpose of increasing goat milk production for poor and marginalized households. However, the popularity of Saanen goats continues to lag the high demand for Boer goats, as goat milk consumption and associated demand continues to be low among the rural population in Nepal. The review team noted that the socio-economic and cost/benefit analysis of the technology packages (crop and livestock) developed has not been finalized by NARC, as agreed during the last implementation support mission, and urged the project team to ensure the completion of this analysis by the end of January Component 2: Technology Dissemination and Adoption To support the adoption of new technologies and cultivars released under component 1, the project established 481 farmer field schools (FFS) during this reporting period, bringing the cumulative total to 1889 against planned 1995 FFS. A total of 46,681beneficiaries, including 39,806 women, have already benefited from FFS based adult learning. To accelerate adoption, 1,095 field demonstrations were established for various crops and technologies, including 423 demonstrations on vegetable crops geared towards improving dietary diversity and nutrition outcomes. The project s support for small irrigation scheme rehabilitation has been in high demand, and to date, the project has rehabilitated 1,021 irrigation schemes covering 3,192 ha, which benefited 24,136 households. The review team noted during the field trip that the quasi-immediate impact of irrigation on crop production was highly appreciated by the beneficiaries, and resulted in increased farmer demand for rehabilitation of irrigation schemes. Similarly, under the livestock development activities, the project has made good progress. A total of 39 farmer groups benefited from the goat breeding and dairy promotion program during this reporting period, resulting in a cumulative 1,557 farmer groups supported by the project, against the original target of Project activities on rural backyard poultry production supported 9,950 members belonging to 398 farmer groups. To ensure good health of the cross-breed Boer goats distributed, the project has organized animal health programs through vaccination against key diseases, control of internal and external parasites and training in goat husbandry. The implementation support and review team recommended that the project completes all planned technology dissemination activities by mid-march, Component 3: Food and Nutrition Status Enhancement Component 3 activities are implemented by the Child Health Division (CHD), District Health Offices (DHO) under Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Department of Food Technology and Quality Control (DFTQC) under MoAD. FAO TA provides technical backstopping for the development of pronutrition training packages, which have been finalized and used as source material in the Master Training of Trainers (MToT) events for District Nutrition Focal Points, District Technical Officers for Agriculture, Livestock and Nutrition and participants from health training centers from Mid and Far Western regions. The review team was informed that the Child Health Division contracted public and private media organizations (TV and FM) at the central levels to broadcast the project specific audio and video messages related to nutrition, dietary diversity, food hygiene and safety, home gardening, and promotion of animal source foods. The airing was done by the 4 private TV channels and 16 FM stations covering all 7 provinces/districts. During this reporting period, a total of 364 recipe demonstrations were carried out in mother groups of 4 districts benefitting 8,702 women. Seven district level advocacy meetings were conducted involving 384 participants from various concern stakeholders. In addition, 3 Nutrition coordination committee meetings were facilitated to improve alignment among different stakeholders for the implementation nutrition related activities in the field, in support of the national Multi-Sector Nutritional Plan (MSNP). Component 4: Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation During this reporting period, the project team continued field monitoring and technical backstopping to District Technical Offices (DTOs) and field staff in Pyuthan, Rolpa, Salyan, Rukum, Surkhet, Dadeldhura, Dailekh, Doti, Baitadi, Darchula, Achham, Mugu, Humla, Jumla, Jajarkot and Dolpa districts. As a part of internal monitoring, a sample survey was carried out by project in October 2017; information was collected from all 19 districts Project Technicians to update the results framework data. In addition, as suggested by the previous implementation support mission in June, the AFSP team finalized the recruitment process of a third party consultancy firm to conduct the End-line Beneficiary Result Assessment Survey (BRA) and Community Score Card Assessment Survey to ensure an independent assessment of the project results/impact at beneficiary level. Due to the irregular and low 2/9/2018 Page 2 of 12

3 bandwidth of internet connectivity in high hill districts, online PMIS reporting continues to pose challenges for these project districts, which resulted in some delays in receiving the progress reports. The mission team strongly reiterated the previous ISM recommendation to ensure that in the final months of implementation, the PMU should make all efforts to complete all planned activities by mid-march 2018, and put strong emphasis on achieving their disbursement plan. The importance of finalizing the envisaged impact surveys and reporting that will document the Government s Implementation Completion Report (ICR) was further underscored, particularly the beneficiary household survey, and the final Impact Assessment study. Risks Systematic Operations Risk-rating Tool Risk Category Rating at Approval Previous Rating Current Rating Political and Governance -- Moderate Moderate Macroeconomic -- Low Low Sector Strategies and Policies -- Moderate Moderate Technical Design of Project or Program -- Substantial Substantial Institutional Capacity for Implementation and Sustainability -- Substantial Substantial Fiduciary -- Moderate Moderate Environment and Social -- Low Low Stakeholders -- Low Low Other Overall -- Substantial Substantial Results Project Development Objective Indicators Improved technologies (crop and livestock) released for project area farmers (Number, Custom) Value Increased productivity (Crops) Tons/Ha (Text, Custom) 2/9/2018 Page 3 of 12

4 Value Date 15-Sep Mar-2018 Paddy (Tons/ha) (Text, Custom Breakdown) Value Wheat (Tons/ha) (Text, Custom Breakdown) Value maize (Tons/ha) (Text, Custom Breakdown) Value Potato (Tons/ha) (Text, Custom Breakdown) 2/9/2018 Page 4 of 12

5 Value Total farmers with increased productivity in (Number, Custom) Value , , , Women farmers with increased productivity in (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value , , , Total farmers with increased productivity in crops (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value , , , Women farmers with increased productivity in crops (Number, Custom Breakdown) 2/9/2018 Page 5 of 12

6 Value , , , Total farmers with increased productivity in livestock (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value , , , Women farmers with increased productivity in livestock (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value , , , Increased Productivity of livestock products (Text, Custom) Value Date 15-Sep Mar-2018 Goat meat (Kg per 12 month old goat) (Text, Custom Breakdown) 2/9/2018 Page 6 of 12

7 Value Eggs (number per year) (Text, Custom Breakdown) Value Milk (cow and buffalo) - liters per lactation (Text, Custom Breakdown) Value (cow) and (buffalo) (cow) and 794 (buffalo) Improved dietary intake for pregnant and nursing women (% over BL) (Percentage, Custom) Value Animal protein (% over BL) (Percentage, Custom Breakdown) 2/9/2018 Page 7 of 12

8 Value Fruit and vegetables (% over BL) (Percentage, Custom Breakdown) Value Improved dietary intake for children between 6-24 months (% over BL) (Percentage, Custom) Value Overall Comments Intermediate Results Indicators Component 1: Field Trials of Improved Technologies (Number, Custom) Value , , , /9/2018 Page 8 of 12

9 Component 1: Source Seed Production (Metric ton, Custom) Value Component 3: Women s groups trained in preparation of nutritious foods (Number, Custom) Value , , , Component 3: Households with Pregnant and Nursing Mothers receiving project-supported BCC (Number, Custom) Value , , , Component 2: Seed Replacement Rate (Percentage, Custom) Value Date 15-Sep Dec Dec Mar /9/2018 Page 9 of 12

10 Paddy (Percentage, Custom Breakdown) Value Wheat (Percentage, Custom Breakdown) Value Maize (Percentage, Custom Breakdown) Value Potato (Percentage, Custom Breakdown) Value /9/2018 Page 10 of 12

11 Component 2: Producer Groups supported in (Number, Custom) Value , , , Date 15-Sep Dec Dec Mar-2018 Crops (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value , , , Livestock (Number, Custom Breakdown) Value , , , Overall Comments Data on Financial Performance Disbursements (by loan) Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Currency Original Revised Cancelled Disbursed Undisbursed Disbursed P TF Effective USD % Key Dates (by loan) 2/9/2018 Page 11 of 12

12 Project Loan/Credit/TF Status Approval Date Signing Date Effectiveness Date Orig. Closing Date Rev. Closing Date P TF Effective 30-Apr Apr Apr Mar Mar-2018 Cumulative Disbursements Restructuring History Level 2 Approved on 13-Jul-2017 Related Project(s) There are no related projects. 2/9/2018 Page 12 of 12