Background:
The Bilateral Ethiopia Netherlands Effort for Food Income and Trade (BENEFIT) partnership is a portfolio of four programmes (ISSD Ethiopia, CASCAPE, ENTAG and SBN), which is funded by the Government of the Kingdom of Netherlands through its Embassy in Addis Ababa. BENEFIT was invited to develop a new programme so as to take the achievements of CASCAPE (Capacity building for Scaling up of evidence-based best Practices in Agricultural Production’ (CASCAPE) programme and the ‘Integrated Seed Sector Development’ (ISSD) Ethiopia programme to new areas and target groups in Ethiopia. This new BENEFIT programme is REALISE: ‘Realising Sustainable Agricultural Livelihood Security in Ethiopia’ which will be operational starting from January 2018.
REALISE is a three - year programme that will align with the Government of Ethiopia’s (GoE) Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP). This GoE flagship programme currently reaches 8 million chronically food insecure Ethiopians with a wide array of instruments to smooth consumption, prevent asset depletion and promote livelihood diversification including uptake of improved agricultural practices. REALISE aims to take lessons learned from the Wageningen University and Research CASCAPE and ISSD Ethiopia programmes to PSNP target woredas.
The goal of the REALISE programme is: ‘Enhanced human, organisational and institutional capacities to adapt, validate and scale best fit practices to improve the resilience of chronically food insecure households in PSNP woredas. REALISE’s goal is to be achieved through four primary outcomes:
The implementation model is based on the experiences of the CASCAPE and ISSD Ethiopia programmes in that REALISE will partner with the Regional Agricultural Research Institutes and a number of Ethiopian Universities that will each manage so called clusters: Hawassa, Haramaya, Addis Ababa, Bahir Dar, Woldia and Mekelle. The REALISE programme will validate and scale best fit practices, will assure the availability of quality seed, will train related GoE and NGO partners in the proper scaling of the practices and will work with its partners towards the institutionalisation of evidence based system innovations. As the REALISE programme is part of the BENEFIT portfolio of programmes, close collaboration with the Portfolio Manager and the sister programmes is expected.
The Senior Expert Monitoring and Evaluation:
The Senior Expert Monitoring and Evaluation (SE M&E) of REALISE will work under the overall guidance and supervision of the Programme Manager (PM). Daily supervision will be the responsibility of the Deputy Programme Manager (DPM). The SE M&E will work closely with the Cluster Managers and the M&E experts in the clusters. The SE M&E will be supported from Wageningen University and Research by M&E experts. The M&E portfolio has two succinct elements:
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