Concept Note. End-line Survey of FTF-India: Expanding Nepal s Business Access to Improved Technologies for Agriculture (ENBAITA)

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1 Concept Note End-line Survey of FTF-India: Expanding Nepal s Business Access to Improved Technologies for Agriculture (ENBAITA) 1. Introduction FTF India: Expanding Nepal's Business Access to Improved Technologies for Agriculture (ENBAITA) is a USAID-India funded three-year ( ) duration project implemented by International Development Enterprises (ide) and district level local NGO partners. The overall goal of the project is to contribute to reducing poverty and hunger for targeted smallholders in Nepal through expanded access to improved agriculture technologies and inputs from India. The project has worked in eight districts both in FTF zone and non-ftf zone districts namely i.e. Kaski, Syangja, Palpa, Rupandehi, Banke, Surkhet, Kailali and Dadeldhura. The project's working districts and VDCs represent communities with wellestablished collection centers developed by previous USAID projects (SIMI, ICCA etc.) and constitute a strong commercial opportunity for the supply of agriculture technologies for Indian suppliers. FTF-ENBAITA applied technology and input supply chain development approach through a network of rural collection centers that was already established by the USAID Feed the Future Initiative, ensuring maximum reach in a cost-effective way. The project established sales and service agents based in these remote areas with the capacity to market Indian microirrigation technologies, seeds, IPM technologies, and other inputs and equipment, as well as providing embedded training with their sales. ide has successfully piloted development of these sales agents (termed Community Business Facilitators, or CBFs) in several ongoing USAID projects. These sales agents earn a commission on their sales, typically around 10%. The CBFs access technologies and receive their commissions from agribusinesses located in the district capitals. Strategically, ide worked with Indian manufacturers, Nepal's national importers, regional distributors, district wholesalers and community level retailers to develop supply chain of the technologies and inputs including micro-irrigation and IPM products. The project intervened at every level to build the capacity of supply chain actors to sustainably deliver agricultural products to smallholder farmers. 2. Objectives of the Project The overall impact of the project is to improve well-being of poor people, especially women and disadvantaged communities by facilitating them to access low-cost Indian agriculture technologies and improved farming practices. The project has a general goal as To contribute to reducing poverty and hunger for targeted smallholders in Nepal through expanded access to agricultural inputs from India while specific purposes of the project are 1) Build and/or strengthen private sector supply chains for climate-smart agricultural technologies and inputs and 2) Sustainably increase agricultural incomes of smallholder households (50,000). Under these two specific purposes there are four outputs. ENBAITA End line survey Concept Note Page 1 of 15

2 OUTPUT 1.1: New agriculture technologies and management practices promoted OUTPUT 1.2: Farmers awareness raised on climate-smart technologies and risk reducing actions. OUTPUT 2.1: Small-scale farm businesses developed OUTPUT 2.2: Farmers capacity enhanced in high value crops production By the end of the intervention, the project will benefit 50,000 households through trainings on socio-economic development and awareness around technological use and adoption. And the project beneficiaries will see an average increase of $250 as annual increment in income from agriculture activities. By the end of implementation, the project will come out with the following results. 3. Rationale for the End-line Study ENBAITA has clearly defined its targets and indicators in its log-frame and impacts of the project indicators require to be determined for measuring the project progress. In order to find out the impacts of the project interventions, an end line survey is necessary to analyze the impacts of project interventions over three years for each of the project indicators. The analysis and finding will be the pillars to measure the end-of-project impacts, outcomes and outputs; and assess what worked and what didn t work during the course of project interventions. Furthermore, the survey will generate information on the differences in the incomes and agriculture practices of control group and targeted beneficiaries in the areas where the project is being implemented. 4. Objectives of the End-line Survey The main objective of the end line survey is to analyze and assess the difference in the before and after scenarios prepare an after-project/ outcome information of the target beneficiaries as per the log-frame indicators of the project. The study findings will be primarily used by ide and its implementing partners in further project planning related to the market systems and communities with whom it works. This information will also be used by the relevant project stakeholders and donors. The specific objectives of the end-line survey are as follows. Assess the current status/outcomes on project beneficiary households Evaluate the conditions and perceptions of project facilitated service providers Evaluate the status of technology supply through the project identified service providers (national importers, regional distributors, district wholesalers and community level retail agro-vets) The study findings will be primarily used by ide and its implementing partners to see the project outcomes on the market systems and communities with whom it worked. The outcome information will also be used by the relevant project stakeholders and donors. More specifically, the end-line survey will assess the following: ENBAITA End line survey Concept Note Page 2 of 15

3 Income Enhancement: Analyze the role of project interventions on income of target households; the differences between incomes of target and control HHs; and if there are any variations in incomes across project areas or stakeholder segments (eg: did nursery growers earn more than farmers) Market systems/ Value chain development: Analyze the role of project interventions on regional value chain development and strengthening of agricultural value chains in Western Nepal. Gender Empowerment: Analyze the role of project interventions on gender empowerment as per WEAI parameters. Lessons Learnt: Gather information on lessons learnt throughout the life of the project. This should help ENBAITA to understand How, where, when and why ENBAITA interventions work/not work, and what can be learned. The end-line survey will enable the ENBAITA IPs reflect and gather evidence on project success and failure in order to explore, test and revise assumptions. The ENBAITA end-line survey will examine the outcomes the project has achieved, linking these to the activity packages implemented under ENBAITA, and any synergies between these, as well as taking a broad view of the project as a whole. In order to understand what is working well (or in need of improvement), and why, the end-line survey needs to examine the mechanisms through which these activity packages are working. It also needs to investigate the way that the project context shapes these activities and outcomes. 5. Suggested Approaches and Methodologies An experienced consulting firm will be hired to carry out this study. The study will be based on the data and information gathered from both primary and secondary sources. Secondary sources would comprise relevant project documents and district wise databases. Primary data will be collected from sampled beneficiaries, market actors and other stakeholders in each of the project districts covering the whole range of value chain actors (national importers, regional distributors, district wholesalers and community retailers). Basically the methodology and approaches adopted in the baseline survey of the project will be followed during the end-line survey. The sample size determination and household selection method will essentially comply with the standard methods/techniques used in the baseline survey of the project. From the beginning of the intervention, the project has been focusing on rural poor households living in different rural communities of different Village Development Committees (VDCs) and Municipalities. 1 This also includes disadvantaged (dalit/janajati) class of communities. Therefore, all of the household beneficiaries participating in project interventions are rural poor households. So, while selecting the beneficiary household interviewees for baseline survey, the households were randomly selected from the list. For the number of samples, the number of household outreach was gathered from all the project districts by VDC and by farmer groups. And with those numbers, maximizing the representation from men and women groups, 397 household numbers were sampled using one of the online sampling websites i.e. 1 Under the current federal restructuring, they are named as Gaonpalika (rural municipality) and Nagarpalika (municipality), and their physical boundaries have been extended. ENBAITA End line survey Concept Note Page 3 of 15

4 For selection of control households, communities in VDCs adjoining to the project VDCs were identified and selected first at the orientation event itself. Further, the district project officials visited some of the communities in the VDCs and collected names from that community from where the officials randomly selected 3 households from each community for interviews. For selection and sampling of the households for the end line survey, same methodology as used in baseline will be used. Following the above procedures and complying to the project s defined M&E plan, sample size and sampling method for the end-line survey will be determined by standard methods for both treatment households and control households. Total sample including the control households will be around 800 from all of eight project districts (Kaski, Syangja, Palpa, Rupandehi, Banke, Surkhet, Kailali and Dadeldhura). While selecting and doing the sampling of the household respondents, the baseline households will be included as respondents to the maximum possible extent. The remaining households (total sample size households surveyed in the baseline survey and identified/selected for the endline survey) will be selected from the list of the project households. Especially for the WEAI assessment, this will be very helpful to do comparative analysis using the panel of datasets. In addition, a suitable number of service providers interviews will also be carried out. Interviewing for WEAI, both the men and women members of the same households, selected and sampled, will be interviewed separately in both project and control households. The only exceptions will be where no men or women member are available in the family. This is the procedure followed in the base-line survey as well. A detailed methodology and field work schedule will be worked out in consultation with project, partner organizations and the consultants. The study will utilize a wide range of appropriate tools and methodologies to measure the status of social, economic/financial, physical, natural and human assets of targeted communities/households (HHs), market actors and market system components within the framework of ENBAITA and as spelled out in the project document. For qualitative information, the survey team will analyze positive spun-offs or adverse effects of project interventions and the same will be reported in the end line study. For this, focus group discussions (FGD) with farmers groups and Marketing Planning Committees (MPCs), and Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) with community business facilitators (CBF), nursery grower (NG) and importers/distributers of inputs and agro-vets, will be carried out. Using these tools and interviewing various stakeholders, qualitative assessments on cultural barriers for Dalits and disadvantaged communities, and women and the sustainability of the project intervention will be made. 6. Scope of Work The study will be headed by a Team Leader (TL) accompanied by a socio-economic expert. TL will be primarily responsible to coordinate the overall study and liaise with ide and will work closely with the M&E Unit and the study team. The end line surveywill have the following scope of work. The end-line survey will focus on outcomes and changes in beneficiary households' income, supply chain development, agriculture practices and lessons learned throughout the project (October 2015 September 2018). ENBAITA End line survey Concept Note Page 4 of 15

5 Endline Survey planned and delivered against a standard set of indicators. Process-orientated and explanatory in nature. Focus on outcomes and mechanisms of change, testing assumptions about how the project worked and what activities might be replicated, in what contexts and why. Assess women empowerment in agriculture index (WEAI) as defined by ide. Develop qualitative case studies to capture the overall outcome of project interventions. 6.1 Women s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) The WEAI question will be a subset of extensive household level study questionnaire and 100% of the sample household respondents in project end-line survey interviews will be the survey interviewees for WEAI as well. Hence, the sample size for both the surveys will be the same. Only the exceptions could be where there will be no men or women member in the family. 7. Consulting Institution Eligibility Criteria The consulting institution should have experience on qualitative and quantitative research; clear understanding on research methodology and experiences on using different social research tools and techniques. Work experiences in rural and urban areas of the country will be an added advantage. TL should have advanced university degree in agriculture or rural development or social sciences with experiences of having conducted at least five numbers of project final surveys, preferably of agricultural income generation related projects. 8. Study Areas The study will be carried out in all of the eight project intervention districts. However, the VDCs/communities will be taken on a sample basis. 9. Study Timeframe The study procedure will commence from 3 rd week of June 2018 and make sure the completion within 2 nd week of August Duration Weeks Activities 3 rd week 4 th week Jun 2018 Consultancy advertisement 4 th week Jun 2018 Application sorting and selection of consultant/consultancy 1 st week 2 nd week Jul 2018 Survey methodology development by consultant/consultancy 2 nd week Jul 2018 Orientation to enumerators 2 nd week - 4 th week Jul 2018 Field data collection 1 st week 2 nd week Aug 2018 Data entry and verification 3 rd week Aug 2018 Data analysis and report writing 4 th week Aug 2018 Draft report submission 1 st week Sep 2018 Comments and suggestions from ide 1 st week 2 nd week Aug 2018 Final report submission 10. Study Budget ENBAITA End line survey Concept Note Page 5 of 15

6 The budget for end-line survey has been estimated as NPR 17,00,000 (USD 16,037). ENBAITA End line survey Concept Note Page 6 of 15

7 Terms of Reference (ToR) End-line Survey of FTF-India: Expanding Nepal s Business Access to Improved Technologies for Agriculture (ENBAITA) 1. Project Background FTF India: Expanding Nepal's Business Access to Improved Technologies for Agriculture (ENBAITA) is a USAID-India funded three-year ( ) duration project implemented by International Development Enterprises (ide) and district level local NGO partners. The overall goal of the project is to contribute to reducing poverty and hunger for targeted smallholders in Nepal through expanded access to improved agriculture technologies and inputs from India. The project has worked in eight districts both in FTF zone and non-ftf zone districts namely i.e. Kaski, Syangja, Palpa, Rupandehi, Banke, Surkhet, Kailali and Dadeldhura. The project's working districts and VDCs represent communities with wellestablished collection centers developed by previous USAID projects (SIMI, ICCA etc.) and constitute a strong commercial opportunity for the supply of agriculture technologies for Indian suppliers. FTF-ENBAITA applied technology and input supply chain development approach through a network of rural collection centers that was already established by the USAID Feed the Future Initiative, ensuring maximum reach in a cost-effective way. The project established sales and service agents based in these remote areas with the capacity to market Indian microirrigation technologies, seeds, IPM technologies, and other inputs and equipment, as well as providing embedded training with their sales. ide has successfully piloted development of these sales agents (termed Community Business Facilitators, or CBFs) in several ongoing USAID projects. These sales agents earn a commission on their sales, typically around 10%. The CBFs access technologies and receive their commissions from agribusinesses located in the district capitals. Strategically, ide worked with Indian manufacturers, Nepal's national importers, regional distributors, district wholesalers and community level retailers to develop supply chain of the technologies and inputs including micro-irrigation and IPM products. The project intervened at every level to build the capacity of supply chain actors to sustainably deliver agricultural products to smallholder farmers. 2. Objectives of the project The overall outcome of the project is to improve well-being of poor people, especially women and disadvantaged communities by facilitating them to access low-cost Indian agriculture technologies and improved farming practices. The project has a general goal as To contribute to reducing poverty and hunger for targeted smallholders in Nepal through expanded access to agricultural inputs from India while specific purposes of the project are 1) Build and/or strengthen private sector supply chains for climate-smart agricultural technologies and inputs and 2) Sustainably increase agricultural incomes of smallholder households (50,000). Under these two specific purposes there are four outputs. ENBAITA End line survey Concept Note Page 7 of 15

8 OUTPUT 1.1: New agriculture technologies and management practices promoted OUTPUT 1.2: Farmers awareness raised on climate-smart technologies and risk reducing actions. OUTPUT 2.1: Small-scale farm businesses developed OUTPUT 2.2: Farmers capacity enhanced in high value crops production By the end of the intervention, the project will benefit 50,000 households through trainings on socio-economic development and awareness around technological use and adoption. And the project beneficiaries will see an average increase of $250 as annual increment in income from agriculture activities. By the end of implementation, the project will come out with the following results. The project log-frame is attached in the Annex Rationale for the End-line Survey ENBAITA has clearly defined its targets and indicators in its log-frame and outcomes of the project indicators require to be determined for measuring the project progress. In order to find out the outcomes of the project interventions, an end line survey is necessary to analyze the outcomes of project interventions over three years for each of the project indicators. The analysis and finding will be the pillars to measure the end-of-project outcomes and outputs; and assess what worked and what didn t work during the course of project interventions. Furthermore, the survey will generate information on the differences in the incomes and agriculture practices of control group and targeted beneficiaries in the areas where the project is being implemented. 4. Objectives of the End-line survey The main objective of the end line study is to analyze and assess the difference in the before and after scenarios of the target beneficiaries as per the log-frame indicators of the project. The study will utilize a wide range of appropriate tools and methodologies to measure the status of social, economic/financial, physical, natural and human assets of targeted communities/households (HHs), market actors and market system components within the framework of ENBAITA and as spelled out in the project document. The study findings will be primarily used by ide and its implementing partners in further project planning related to the market systems and communities with whom it works. This information will also be used by the relevant project stakeholders and donors. The specific objectives of the baseline study are the following: Income Enhancement: Analyze the role of project interventions on income of target households; the differences between incomes of target and control HHs; and if there are any variations in incomes across project areas or stakeholder segments ( eg: did nursery growers earn more than farmers ) Market systems/ Value chain development: Analyze the role of project interventions on regional value chain development and strengthening of agricultural value chains in Western Nepal. Please elaborate on this point. ENBAITA End line survey Concept Note Page 8 of 15

9 Gender Empowerment: Analyze the role of project interventions on gender empowerment as per WEIA parameters. Please elaborate on it. Lessons Learnt: Gather information on lessons learnt throughout the life of the project. This should help ENBAITA to understand How, where, when and why ENBAITA interventions work/not work, and what can be learned. The end-line survey will enable the ENBAITA IPs reflect and gather evidence on project success and failure in order to explore, test and revise assumptions. The ENBAITA end-line survey will examine the outcomes the project has achieved, linking these to the activity packages implemented under ENBAITA, and any synergies between these, as well as taking a broad view of the project as a whole. In order to understand what is working well (or in need of improvement), and why, the end-line survey needs to examine the mechanisms through which these activity packages are working. It also needs to investigate the way that the project context shapes these activities and outcomes. 5. Scope of Work The survey will have the following scope of work. The end-line survey will focus on outcomes and changes in beneficiary households' income, supply chain development, agriculture practices and lessons learnt throughout the project (October 2015 September 2018). Survey planned and delivered against a standard set of indicators. Process-orientated and explanatory in nature. Focus on outcomes and mechanisms of change, testing assumptions about how the project worked and what activities might be replicated, in what contexts and why. Assess women empowerment in agriculture index (WEAI) as defined by ide. Develop qualitative case studies to capture the overall outcomes of project interventions. 6. Suggested Approaches and Methodologies 6.1 Methods Data Collection The end-line survey will be based on data and information gathered from both primary and secondary sources from all of eight project districts (Kaski, Syangja, Palpa, Rupandehi, Banke, Surkhet, Kailali and Dadeldhura). Secondary sources will comprise relevant project documents and district wise database. The project documents are quarterly reports, annual reports, baseline reports and factsheet etc. The district wise database will be generated from government publications, district profiles and other relevant line agencies' publications. Primary data collection will be primarily quantitative data from fieldwork, and surveys with staff and qualitative information through key informant interviews, focus groups and participatory exercises and feedback mechanisms. The end-line survey will be participatory in nature and generate data through a range of qualitative and quantitative methods. Quantitative data will be drawn from logframe, annual reporting and baseline-end-line comparison. Additional data collected for the end-line survey will be a combination of quantitative and qualitative data to get at how and why things happened the way they did. The end-line survey will test assumptions based on the theory of change about how the project worked, refining these in the light of IPs experience in implementing the project. The review of project routine results reporting data, areas of change, evaluative monitoring will be combined with specific primary data collection activities. ENBAITA End line survey Concept Note Page 9 of 15

10 Primary data collection will be primarily quantitative data from households, district level agro-vets, Community Business Facilitators (CBF) and Nursery Growers (NG). The key informant interviews will be conducted with national level importers and regional level distributors and where possible, Indian exporters of agricultural commodities. The end-line survey will engage a broad range of project stakeholders, from project team members to project beneficiaries/participants as well as wider key informants. Not just direct project beneficiaries but also the beneficiaries being served by private partners/agro-vets will also be the source of information or will be subject to interviews. WEAI data will be collected from male and female members of the same household using the subset of the main household level questionnaire. In the districts where the project is still present (i.e. Banke, Surkhet, Kailali and Dadeldhura). the Program Facilitator will be mobilized for household level data collection and Program Officer for key informant surveys. But for the districts where the project is not present now, the consultant will have to hire enumerators both for household and key informant surveys Data Analysis A consultant or a team of consultants will be hired to execute the end-line survey. The consultant team will develop a detailed methodology for the end-line survey, clearly describing the way that the team plans to arrive at a set of robust and evidence-based findings and conclusions. Evidence will be consistently cross-referenced throughout the final report, and claims made will be substantiated / validated through reference to the evidence to support these claims. The study will be based on data and information gathered from both primary and secondary sources. Secondary sources would comprise relevant project documents and district wise database. Primary data will be collected from sampled beneficiaries, private partners and other stakeholders in each of the project districts. As per the project s defined M&E plan, we concluded to do the sampling by standard sample size for the ENBAITA study both from treatment households and control households. In addition, a suitable number of service providers interviews will also be carried out. Prior to the beginning of the study, a detailed study methodology and field work schedule will be worked out in consultation with ide, partner organizations and the consultants. 6.2 Roles and Responsibilities of the survey team The composition of the study team is left up to the consultant/organization based on their internal system, ideas and logic. However, ide Nepal recommends that the team comprise one Team Leader (TL) to coordinate the overall study and liaise with IDE Nepal. To collect information from the field, adequate number of Field Facilitators (FFs) will be deployed in facilitation of ide's Project Officers at the Districts. Supervision of the field work and quality (reliability and validity) of the data/information collected from the field will be the primary responsibility of the TL. The study team should work closely with the ide M&E Unit and Project Team. At each step and process, consultation with the Programme Development and M&E Director and the Project Director will be vital for final decision. The consultancy / consultant team will be primarily responsible to: Develop / design end-line survey questionnaire for target and control HH survey and Private partner/agro-vet surveys. Consultant should prepare questionnaires based on the logical framework and Final M&E Plan and other project requirements both in English and Nepali language. Share study design including process, methods and questionnaires with project team, collect feedback and finalize the study design; ENBAITA End line survey Concept Note Page 10 of 15

11 Pre-test questionnaires and other tools in one of the project VDCs; Debrief/discuss with project team about effectiveness of questionnaire used in pre-test, collect feedback and finalize them; Orient, train and supervise the enumerators; Carry out field work together with enumerators; Ensure the quality of information collected from fields, cross check for the validity of information collected and verify/revise where needed; Update progress of the study regularly to M&E Director Analyze data and prepare quality report; Deliver a presentation of draft report to ide Nepal; and Submit the final qualitative and quantitative report in separate section to the project after incorporating the feedbacks and suggestions from ide Nepal. ide Nepal ide Nepal will provide necessary guidance/supports for the end-line survey Coordinate with LNGOs for identifying pockets, VDCs and households for the survey in respective districts. Monitor, provide feedback and ensure effectiveness of study. Provide inputs/feedback to finalize the draft report. District LNGOs Officials from LNGOs will support and participate in field survey works. 6.3 Limitations The main limitations of this end-line survey are as follows: End-line survey is based on sampled communities, so generalization may not be applicable to wider area. Several variables were synthesized by analysing the data on recall basis of the farmers which might lead to some response errors. There is a likelihood that many of the households that were surveyed during the baseline survey, may not be participating during the end-line survey, because many of them may have migrated or may be the households that are not present there for any reasons. 6.4 Gender and Social Difference The end-line survey methodology will account for influence of gender dynamics and social power relations on project implementation and outcomes. During the end-line survey, the team will: Assess how all activities (not just those aimed at empowering women and girls) and outcomes affect and benefit gender and other social groups (please explain which other social groups would you like to analyse). Facilitate the participation of different gender and social groups in the end-line survey, including building comparisons e.g. between data gathered from male-only and female-only interviews with the same household. Possibly between, male and female CBF s / agrovetsdifferences in their incomes, size of customer base, variations in regional agro vets, etc??/ Encourage reflection on how the implementation process is addressing gender and social relations. This would include a reality check of ENBAITA ambitions for changes in women s empowerment. This will ensure that these ambitions are realistic and identify changes needed to make programming more effective. Suggested case studies are on female CBFs highlighting ENBAITA End line survey Concept Note Page 11 of 15

12 how they have influenced and changed social relations through frequent visits and interactions with rural communities. 6.5 Quality, Rigour and Ethics The end-line survey will be balanced and representative of overall project progress, results and learning. The end-line survey will be participatory in nature and generate data from a representative sample of project stakeholders - from project team members to project beneficiaries/recipients as well as wider key informants, accounting for gender and other social differences among those involved in the projects. We (the ENBAITA IPs) will aim to engage not just direct project stakeholders but also those stakeholders who have an external perspective on the project. These stakeholders will be the community leaders, teachers and knowledgeable persons who are not directly involved in the project activities. Relevant government officials will also be interviewed. The end-line survey will combine both primary and secondary qualitative and quantitative data collection and data analysis methods. We (the ENBAITA IPs) will be explicit about the process by which we plan to arrive at a set of robust and evidence-based findings and conclusions. Evidence will be consistently crossreferenced throughout the review and survey reports and claims made will be substantiated / validated through reference to the evidence to support these claims. All data collection approaches will be in line with USAID s Ethics, Principles for Research and Evaluation. 7. Expected Outputs End-line survey main narrative report will be up to 40 pages long. Besides that, there will be a numeric report as an annex to the main report. The end-line survey report will contain (but is not confined to) the following sections: Description of project and outcomes achieved, the intervention packages the activities that it is undertaking and the synergies between Case studies on findings of the end line survey- e.g. profile a CBF, end beneficiary, regional agrovet, DADO, Indiana and Nepalese private sector, etc. Description of the end-line survey approach and data collection methods (e.g. routine data collection / interviews etc.) including participant selection, and the reasons for your choice of methods; Description of the end-line survey team and data collection process Description of assumptions underlying the project (drawing on different evidences) Key evidence and analysis how and why things happened the way they did, for whom and in what circumstances; how assumptions about the project have changed since the start Set of evidence-based lessons, discussions and recommendations of what should/could be replicated and/or done differently next time. The end-line report will be fully referenced back to the underlying data sources. Adequate data storage protocols will be ensured so that data can easily be shared with the team (i.e. through Dropbox or Google Drive). ENBAITA End line survey Concept Note Page 12 of 15

13 8. Timeline and Budget Summary 8.1 Timeline Detail plan will be worked out jointly with the consultant team and project staff. The work is expected to commence as soon as the contract is signed with the final report to be submitted by September 14, SN Activities 1 Finalization of Concept Note and TOR 2 Call for proposal 3 Consultant selection 1 Development and finalization of survey methodology 2 Orientation to field team for interviews and information collection 3 Field work execution 4 Information collection, compilation and analysis 5 Preparation of draft final survey report 6 Comments and suggestion from ide 7 Submission of the final report Jun Jul Aug Sep Budget The maximum allowable budget for this end-line survey work will be NRs. 17,00,000 (USD 16,037) (including all applicable taxes) which covers all field survey costs including consultant s fee for conducting end-line. The total budget includes the budget both for project end-line survey. 40% of total budget will be released upon signing of the contract while remaining 30% and 30% budget will be released after submitting draft report and final report respectively. Government tax regulation will apply and tax deduction at source will be done in such cases. 9. Deliverables The following deliverables are envisioned under this ToR. a. A hard copy of collected information from all eight districts. b. An e-copy of raw data used in analysis (MS Excel). c. Draft report d. Final report ENBAITA End line survey Concept Note Page 13 of 15

14 Annex 1: Logical Framework OBJECTIVES GOAL: To contribute to reducing poverty and hunger for targeted smallholders in Nepal through expanded access to agricultural inputs from India PURPOSE 1: Build and/or strengthen private sector supply chains for climate-smart agricultural technologies and inputs OUTPUT 1.1: New agriculture technologies and management practices promoted OUTPUT 1.2: Farmers awareness raised on climatesmart technologies and risk reducing actions PURPOSE 2 Sustainably increase agricultural incomes of smallholder households (50,000) INDICATORS 4 (17) Prevalence of Poverty: Percent of people living on less than $1.25/day 4.5(19) Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index 4.5.2(3) Value of new private sector investment in the agriculture sector or food chain leveraged by FTF implementation 4.5(2) Number of jobs attributed to FTF implementation 4.5.2(13) Number of rural households benefiting directly from USG interventions 4.5.2(34) Number of people implementing risk-reducing practices/actions to improve resilience to climate change as a result of USG assistance CUSTOM INDICATOR 1: Average increase in annual income of households benefiting from the project 4.5.2(5) Number of farmers and others who have applied new technologies or management practices as a result of USG assistance 4.5.2(2) Number of MEANS OF VERIFICATION Impact evaluation study reports Field monitoring reports Progress reports Impact evaluation study reports Impact evaluation study reports Field monitoring reports Progress reports Impact evaluation study reports Field monitoring reports Progress reports Impact evaluation study reports Progress reports Annual reports Quarterly reports Impact evaluation study reports Field monitoring reports Progress reports ASSUMPTIONS The policy of GoN agricultural policy will continue to favor the use of improved technology Political and climatic conditions remain stable The policy of GoN agricultural policy will continue to favor the use of improved technology Political and climatic conditions remain stable Political and climatic conditions remain stable Political and climatic conditions remain stable The policy of GoN agricultural policy will continue to favor in use of improved technology Political and climatic conditions remain stable The policy of GoN agricultural policy will continue to favor the use of improved technology Political and climatic conditions remain stable ENBAITA End line survey Concept Note Page 14 of 15

15 OBJECTIVES OUTPUT 2.1: Small-scale farm businesses developed OUTPUT 2.2: Farmers capacity enhanced in high value crops production INDICATORS hectares of land under improved technologies or management practices as a result of USG assistance 4.5.2(37) Number of MEs, receiving business development services from USG assisted sources 4.5.2(7) Number of individuals who have received short-term agricultural sector productivity or food security training CUSTOM INDICATORS CUSTOM INDICATOR 2: Sales and Income of CBF CUSTOM INDICATOR 3 - Income of Nursery Grower CUSTOM INDICATOR 4 - Non-capital Investment CUSTOMER INDICATOR 5 - Value of intra-regional trade generated between India and Nepal through ENBAITA MEANS OF VERIFICATION Annual reports Quarterly reports Annual reports Quarterly reports Annual reports Quarterly reports Annual reports Quarterly reports Annual reports Quarterly reports Annual reports Quarterly reports ASSUMPTIONS Political and climatic conditions remain stable Political and climatic conditions remain stable ENBAITA End line survey Concept Note Page 15 of 15