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BookletEvaluation of the project "Support to Agriculture and Agribusiness Enterprises in Mindanao for Sustainable Development"
Project code: GCP/PHI/069/ROK
2025Also available in:
No results found.This evaluation report provides a comprehensive assessment of the "Support for Agriculture and Agribusiness Enterprises in Mindanao for Sustainable Development" project, implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) with funding from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). The project aimed to enhance agricultural productivity and sustainability in Mindanao by supporting small farmers, marginal fishers, and Indigenous populations. The evaluation assessed the project's relevance, coherence, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, gender, and social inclusion.Key findings indicate that the project has increased agricultural productivity and income, enhanced market access, and successfully combined Indigenous Peoples' farming knowledge with modern technologies. The project aligns with FAO and KOICA's strategic objectives, enhancing agricultural productivity, promoting environmentally friendly practices, and modernizing agriculture.The project has made progress in providing economic opportunities for women in some areas. However, the evaluation notes the need to increase women's access to various jobs and organizational roles.Although global disruptions like the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the project's efficiency and resulted in procurement delays, adaptive strategies and donor flexibility helped mitigate some financial strains. The evaluation suggests that some actions would be needed for future similar projects to make a bigger impact. These include streamlining procurement processes, strengthening gender-focused interventions, documenting and scaling successful business models, and ensuring long-term sustainability through policy support at local level and search for more collaborative funding. -
DocumentMetadata application profile for agricultural learning resources 2007
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No results found.Capacity and institution building is a core function of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO). FAO has recently started the “Capacity and Institution Building Portal” to provide structured access to information on FAO’s capacity and institution building services and learning resources. To ensure that the Portal can be searched by users and to enable interoperability with other recognized educational repositories, an Application Profile (AP) was created co nforming to available and commonly used standards, to describe agricultural learning resources. This article presents the AP, provides an example of an FAO learning resource described and displayed using FAO Learning Resource AP, and presents the lessons learned. -
Book (stand-alone)Small-scale forest enterprise development in Nepal: overview, issues and challenges 2018
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No results found.The study looks at three representative cases in detail to understand the organizational management; resource governance, production and harvesting; technology and financing; and benefit sharing arrangements. It is found that the SSFE governance framework is still evolving particularly in case of those managed by groups. Forest resources are generally harvested under an approved management plan and the user groups have adopted measures to ensure sustained supply of resources over time. Despite these measures, there are sustainability challenges that these SSFEs will face in the long run. While most of the SSFEs are struggling to generate profit, they have a strong orientation for equitable benefit sharing, especially to benefit poor, women and other marginalized forest dependent groups. The study has made a few recommendations. First, it shows a need to explore suitable institutional arrangements that creates adequate incentive to local forest user group leaders to run enterprises and develop needed partnership with private sector. Second, capacity development of service providers, entrepreneurs and forest managers should be supported by suitable technical and managerial capacities. Third, there is a need for timely and periodic revision in policy and forest tenure to incentivize forest managing communities and private actors in establishing SSFEs. Fourth, critically needed business development services should be provided through a combination of public and private funds and mechanism. Finally, the government must ensure a safe and fair business environment in which entrepreneurs are encouraged to invest more on SSFEs.
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