This presentation focuses on the role of Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) and the importance of private sector engagement in CARE Ethiopia's GRAD program. MSPs are an innovative tool used by CARe to build relationships among all the stakeholders and develop and improve the program's interventions.

1. GRAD:
Graduation with Resilience to Achieve Sustainable
Development
Helping the poor in rural Ethiopia graduate from Productive Safety Net Program
Enhanced Livelihood Options of Chronically
Food Insecure Households in Highland
Areas
14 November 2012
By: Nicholas Nyathi (SNV-
CCU)

2. Moving to food sufficiency and food
security
• HHs able to earn income to meet their daily
needs
• HHs organized and strengthened to exploit
available opportunities
• Input and Output market infrastructure built
• Barriers to financial markets reduced-gender
• Demand and market oriented extension
services strengthened
GRAD

3. Goal and Objectives
GOAL
Assets increased,
HH income raised
by $365/yr. Graduate 50K
PSNP HHs from
Resiliency enhanced
16 Woredas, 4
Work with 65K PSNP Regions
HHs & 10K Model Objectives/
Farmers Results
Enhance Improve Household Strengthen
Livelihood and Community Enabling
Options for CFI Resilience Environment to
Households in Promote Scale
Highland Areas 1. Women’s resilience and access to and Sustainability
inputs, services and information
increased
1. On- and off-farm economic 1. Collaboration among
2. Nutritional status of infants,
opportunities, inclusive value chains stakeholders consolidated
children and reproductive age
and market access stimulated to promote joint learning
women improved
2. An inclusive financial sector and scale up
3. Climate change adaptation improved
promoted and access to a range of 2. Enabling environment
4. Aspirations for graduation promoted,
financial products and services improved
and enablers of graduation
expanded 3. Evaluation, learning and
enhanced
3. Extension services upgraded sharing
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4. GRAD Causal Model
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5. GRAD VCD Push and Pull Approach
Reliable Outlets
External Market Intelligence
Environmental Embedded Services
Factors Opportunities
Market Intelligence
I F C P R C
Sector Interventions
Service Provision
Multi Actor Processes
‘PUSH’-strategies: ‘PULL’-strategies:
Facilitate access to finance, Market intelligence/information
technology, assets. Direct Business Support
Private sector engagement
Provide capacity building Business2Business
Market linkages
Extension services Promotion of pre and post
harvest technologiesGRAD

6. Push and Pull strategies
Push Pull
• Increase access to productive • Facilitate linkages between the
assets, producers and private sector,
• increase production, • Facilitate private sector to provide
embedded services, e.g.
• improve productivity and quality, appropriate technologies, market
• Assist beneficiaries to aggregate information and technical services
• Facilitate access to financial • Promote transparency and
products and services through standardization in transactions
(contractual agreements),
VSLA and MFIs,
• Promoting dialogue among
• Strengthen the farmers’ value stakeholders with private sector
positioning by improving farmer involvement being the catalytic
competitiveness, factor,
• Facilitate farmers organisation to • Build mutual relationships based on
Trust
form functional marketing groups
• Enhancing technical skills and
• Facilitate technical training knowledge of both demand and
supply side of market edge
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7. GRAD Pull/Push Services Delivered
Food secure •Organize into Marketing Cooperatives
(6,000 HHS) •Training on product quality and market requirements
(Deepen resiliency) •Linkage with formal financial service providers
•Market linkage with high value markets
Food Sufficient •Transition PMAs to marketing cooperatives or SMEs, diversify income
(4,000 HHS) •Linkage with formal financial service providers for savings, bigger loan and insurance
(Accumulate •Linkage with private sector to provide embedded services
assets, manage • Access to market information
risks better) •Support groups to engage in value addition business
•Strengthen extension services
Chronically Food •Technical training on production to increase productivity
Insecure •Support on- and off-farm enterprise selection
( 58,500HHs) •Access to loan to engage in VC through MFIs and RUSACCOs ( individually/ group)
(Increase •Training on Business skill and business planning
Income) •Linkage with input suppliers
•Access to technology and inputs
•Strengthen/establish PMAs linkage with private sector to provide embedded services
•Access to market information
•Strengthen extension services
•Awareness raising on gender, nutrition , climate change and graduation
Ultra Poor •Training on simple business skill and financial literacy
(6,500 HHS) •Group formation/ strengthening
(Provide productive
skills and assets)
•Promote saving and internal lending
•Asset transfer GRAD

8. Economic Opportunities
• Value Chain
selection
• VC analysis
• VC validation
• MSP
• CBA and
Investment plans
• Private sector
involvement
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9. Decision Matrix – Multiple criteria
Criteria Weight Commodity X Commodity Y Commodity Z
Score Total Score Total Score Total
value Value value
Economic
Market Demand Potential
Value Addition Potential
Potential for improved
productivity and quality
Mandatory
Potential to involve more
SHF
Contribution to Gender
Equality
Strategic
Dynamism of chain actors
Potential for scale-up
Total
Score 1-10 GRAD

10. Farmers collectives
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11. Designing and facilitating MSPs
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12. Basic collaboration conditions

13. Theoretical Model
. MSP VCD
Involvement Access to capital
Access to inputs
Collaborative Access to technology
Variables B2B
Access to markets
Knowledge Development
Knowledge Development
Embeddednes
s Access to information
CONTEXT
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14. Value Chain Intervention Areas
Honey value chain: Livestock small Haricot beans Horticulture
ruminants
1. Colony 1. Feed 1. Seed 1. Seed
multiplication, technologies multiplication multiplication
2. Bee forage 2. Quality 2. New trading 2. Pre and
3. Appropriate improvement system, ECX postharvest
technology such 3. Market linkages 3. Quality and technologies
as transitional 4. Producer grading 3. Producer group
bee hives groups 4. Producer group strengthening
4. Wax strengthening strengthening 4. Local actors
5. Adulteration and 5. Pre and coordination
crop chemical postharvest
use technologies
6. Market linkages
7. Producer
groups
strengthening

15. Development Implementati Monitoring
Sustainability Process on and
Evaluation
MSP Facilitators Define roles Define
impact
Vision indicator
Outputs
s
MSP 2
Outputs
VC Stakeholders
Outputs
MSP3
Outcomes
Time
MSP 4
Outputs Outcomes
MSP 5
Outcomes
Impact Impact
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16. PSNP plus/GRAD Results
 Increased participation in value chain and sector
meetings at national, regional and district levels.
 Improved identification of bottlenecks and
requirements for the development of the value chains
 Improved awareness of issues for development
 Improved coordination of VC activities
 Improved information sharing and collective learning
 Improved efficiency and competitiveness in different
value chains segments and functions
 Improved local and national advocacy and lobby for
effective policies for economic inclusion
 Improved service provision both public and private
 Improved ownership of VCD process by local
stakeholders
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17. Challenges
• Sustainability
• Consistent representation
• Balancing self interests
• Strong private sector participation
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18. THANK YOU
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