Country: Pakistan Project Title

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   Improved enabling environment for the development of provincial agricultural policies and regulatory frameworks, market-led and community-driven investments, strategies and processes, and women’s empowerment in agricultural development.
   
2. 
   Increased crop and livestock productivity and value of agricultural products produced in the project districts, through improved technological innovation and management practices and improved community-based water management practices in project-assisted communities and their value chains.
   
3. 
   Small local agri-business enterprises established and market linkages strengthened for target poor communities of the project districts to increase sales of their surplus produce and improve competitiveness and sustainability of their value chains.
   

Women’s empowerment and gender sensitisation would be treated as cross-cutting interventions to all three outputs listed below, e.g. the expansion of women community organisations (COs) and farmer field schools (FFSs) and women-oriented value chain development (e.g. women farmers’ marketing collectives (FMCs) for vegetables, poultry, dairy and wool products).

1. 
   Improved enabling environment for the development of provincial agricultural policies and regulatory frameworks, market-led and community-driven investments, strategies and processes, and women’s empowerment in agricultural development:
   

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  provincial agricultural policies and regulatory frameworks prepared;
  
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  provincial policy makers trained to reform agricultural policies;
  
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  linkages developed/strengthened between provincial, national and international research centres;
  
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  government and public sector service providers practising new and improved agricultural development approaches (including some 50 subject matter specialists trained);
  
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  204 men and 136 women COs established and functioning;
  
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  Between six and 20 self-sustaining CO alumni associations/FFS networks established and functioning; and
  
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  minimum of 4,100 rural women empowered through project interventions.
  

2. 
   Increased crop and livestock productivity and value of agricultural products produced through improved technological innovation and management practices in project-assisted communities:
   

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  significant increase in crop yields and livestock production of COs supported through new or improved water harvesting, water management, shallow drinking water wells, cereal seeds, fruit tree seedlings, medicinal herbs, homestead gardening, poultry production, milk goats, animal feed and vaccination and post-harvest management packages provided on a cost-sharing basis (directly benefitting some 6,800 farm families);
  
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  25 master trainers and 100 FFS Facilitators trained, and 204 men and 136 women FFSs implemented – with 8,500 marginal and smallholder farmers learning new or improved crop and livestock production technologies and practices;
  
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  68 community animal health services functioning, with 68 community animal health workers (CAHWs) trained and equipped;
  
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  1,100 men and women farmers trained in specific topics through short courses; and
  
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  12 new and improved crop and livestock production technologies researched and developed.
  

3. 
   Small local agri-business enterprises established and market linkages strengthened for targeted poor communities to increase sales of their surplus produce and improve competitiveness and sustainability of their value chains:
   

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  significant increase in sales of agricultural produce by project beneficiaries and new contracts issued between buyers and small producers;
  
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  18 small sustainable agri-business enterprises operational;
  
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  25 value chain studies completed for selected commodities and followed up;
  
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  25 informal FMCs established and operational (i.e. 15 men and 10 women);
  
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  25 commodity value chains developed by FMCs and MMOs and market linkages improved through public-private partnerships (e.g. wheat, black beans, cumin, dates, figs, grapes, mangoes, onions, other vegetables, pomegranates, water melon, animal fodder, camel milk, live sheep and goats and poultry);
  
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  Eight formal mutual marketing organisations (MMOs) established, registered and operational;
  
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  Eight market information systems developed and operational;
  
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  Six self-sustaining district Eid livestock maundis operational;
  
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  Six business support service providers strengthened and supporting CO alumni associations/FFS networks, small agri-business enterprises, FMCs and MMOs; and
  
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  Eight new and improved post-harvest management marketing packages/linkages researched and developed.
  

Project Budget – by Outputs and Components
Project Output/Component	Cost (AUD)
Output 1. Policy Development and Capacity Building	1,336,800
Output 2. Community development and Technology Transfer	4,164,800
Output 3. Produce marketing and Value Chain Development	1,881,200
Project Management, Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting	4,015,430
FAO Support Costs (13 percent)	1,481,770
Total	12,880,000

Project Budget – by Cost Category
Cost Category	Cost (AUD)
Personnel	3,193,000
Contracts	1,345,800
Travel	752,000
Training	1,635,700
Expendable Procurement	2,999,800
Non-expendable Equipment	258,600
Technical Support Services	196,400
General Operating Expenses	1,016,930
Sub-total	11,398,230
Other Direct Costs	1,481,770
TOTAL	12,880,000