1. ITM2Scale Project progress meeting Indicators
27/10/2016
Bagamoyo

2. 1. Types of indicators - needs
Activity monitoring
progress against work-plan & payment targets
first indicator of challenges, issues.
Financial monitoring
progress against budget
indication of smooth funding flows to achieve project finance plan
Donor monitoring
progress against project targets
prove success with donor
Development monitoring
progress against development objectives
long-term justification for involvement
Indicators

3. 2a. Activity monitoring – work-plan 1/2
Awareness activities
Village meetings (with posters & flyers) – hardly started, material missing
Media (TV & radio) – not started, content support required (fact sheet)
Demonstrations (markets, model farmers) – hardly started, linked to training
Vaccinator material
LN containers – some have been acquired, still short
Cooler boxes and ice packs – some have been acquired, still short
Vet gear (ear tag applicator, drenching gun, weight band) – some acquired
Vaccinator training
First round of training partially completed – numbers generally achieved
Indicators

4. 2b. Activity monitoring – work-plan 2/2
Last mile supervision – data management
Field data expert (1/region) – started, but patchy coverage
Data co-ordinator (1/distributor) – being identified
Access to liquid nitrogen
Support to overcome price fluctuations – situation seems to be stabilizing
Indicators

5. 2c. Activity monitoring – payment targets
Distributor payments depend only on achieving delivery targets
Vaccinators trained and documents (most training survey sheets delivered, some trainings out-standing)
Vaccine doses delivered and documented (vaccination records) ¾ distributors vaccine import still ongoing!
Demonstrations and village meetings (village meeting records) no documentation yet
Challenges
Clear documentation for all deliverables
Active vaccinators required for fast implementation
Project end dictates date of final payments
Indicators

6. 3a. Donor monitoring – USAID & BMGF
USAID – Feed the Future (FtF)
Standardised project indicators to enable synthesis of wide variety of projects
Focus on people reached (trained, using technologies, organised in groups, involve private sector etc.)
9 indicators agreed at project inception
BMGF
Few core deliverables
Focus on technology dissemination: “ITM vaccine doses delivered”
Indicators

7. 3b. FtF indicators 1/3 Rural households benefitting
Different information to “farmers implementing ITM”; should we record awareness here?
Individuals trained
Straight forward: training registration and survey, documentation coming
Disaggregation by type (producer, service provider etc.) & gender
Targets – 2016: 104; 2017: 100
Current: 193 – disaggregation partially missing
Farmers implementing technology (i.e. vaccinating with ITM)
Extracted from vaccination records – but no specific farmer registration
Disaggregation by new/continuing, gender, location (rural/urban)
Targets – 2016: 2000 (new); (new) & 1500 (continuing)
Current: 875 (847 from 1 distributor, but no gender disaggregation)
Indicators

8. 3c. FtF indicators 2/3
Organisations benefitting (private, ngo, cbo etc.)
Plan to link vaccinators to local organisations; no specific documentation; so far mainly distributors themselves
Disaggregation: type, new/cont.
Targets – 2016: 10; 2017: 13
Current: ? (1 distributor already linked to 12 farmer organisations)
Members of benefitting organisations
Only possible when partner organisations identified – little documentation
Disaggregation: organisation type, gender
Targets – 2016: 200; 2017: 260
Current: ? (1 distributor linked to organisations with total 300 members)
Organisations applying/promoting management technologies
Business training of linked organisations and vaccinators, only now identifying partners and developing requirements
Disaggregation: organisation type, new/cont.
Targets – 2016: 3; 2017: 3
Current: Only distributors really
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9. 3d. FtF indicators 3/3 Full-time jobs created PPPs established
Both, jobs with distributors and vaccinators
Disaggregation: Location, new/cont., gender
Targets – 2016: 29; 2017: 60
Current: 1 (1 distributor reported)
PPPs established
LN collaboration planned, but appears too difficult
Disaggregation: type (agricultural production, nutritional etc.)
Targets – 2016: 1; 2017: 1
Current: 0
Enabling policies developed
Customs/tax exemption for material; central ITM training - LN arrangements dropped
Disaggregation: Policy area, process status
Targets – 2016: 3; 2017: 3
Current: 2
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10. 3e. Additional indicator
Animals vaccinated
Although not included as standard FtF indicator, this is critical to assess coverage and disease protection
Disaggregation: Location, breed type, production system, age class
Targets: No FtF targets, project target: 305,000 (!)
Current: 31,043 doses recorded Animals: 89% beef/pastoralist; 88% calves; 98% indigenous
Farmers: 81% beef/pastoralist
But currently data only 1 distributor!
Other distributors used vaccine for training/demonstration, no documentation shared so far.
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11. 4 Conclusions Revisit/focus on activity bottle-necks
Push for awareness activities while vaccine importation is on-going
Make every effort to get vaccinations going
Get business partner organisations on board
Improve communication to identify and deal with bottle-necks fast
Ensure documentation
Project progress exists only if documented
Use standard reporting forms for all activities
Support local staff for data collection, entry, sharing
Indicators