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PIND’s Poultry Value Chain Intervention/Project

PIND is a Nigerian non-profit Foundation established in 2010 with initial funding by Chevron Corporation to support a portfolio of socio-economic development programs for Nigeria’s Niger Delta to improve the standards of living of communities in the region

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A. PIND is a Nigerian non-profit Foundation established in 2010 with initial funding by Chevron Corporation to support a portfolio of socio-economic development programs for Nigeria’s Niger Delta to improve the standards of living of communities in the region.

B. PIND supports projects in collaboration with a diverse range of donor partners including bilateral and multilateral aid agencies, federal and state government agencies in Nigeria, private companies, and foundations.

C. With an overarching goal of increasing income and employment in the region, the Foundation has two distinct but interrelated program areas, and enablers. They are:

  • An economic development program focused on generating opportunities for pro-poor market development and employment generation.
  • A peace-building program that strengthens conflict resolution mechanisms for enabling integrated peace and economic growth
  • The enablers: PIND’s program delivery is enabled by an integrated approach that encompasses capacity building, advocacy, communications, gender, and social inclusion.

D. PIND has adopted the “Making Markets Work for the Poor” (M4P) approach to economic development. The M4P approach focuses on developing market systems by addressing underlying causes rather than symptoms of weak market performance.

E. Centre for Social Awareness, Advocacy and Ethics (CSAAE) is a not-for-profit-making organization launched in 2013, working in both urban and rural communities in the Niger Delta and Nigeria at large. The Centre pursues its mission by designing and implementing entrepreneurship programs that channel people into activities that develop effective leaders, cultivate a spirit of entrepreneurship, and, promote a culture of integrity. CSAAE has facilitated several successful innovative enterprise development interventions across Nigeria with technical support from it’s Baltimore, MD, USA office.

F. Both PIND and Centre for Social Awareness, Advocacy, and Ethics (CSAAE) have expressed interest in collaborating to carry out/implement interventions in developing the poultry value chain in all states of the Niger Delta Region.

G. This collaboration is expected to run for 12 months.

 

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The Nigerian poultry industry is one of the most important and viable subsectors in the Nigerian agricultural sector. It provides means of livelihood for millions of poor Nigerians and a source of high-value investments for profit-driven entrepreneurs. The sector has been rapidly expanding in recent years and is currently one of the most commercialized subsectors in the Agricultural sector. It is estimated to be worth about N80 billion, comprising approximately 165 million birds which produced about 1.5 billion MT of eggs and 790,000 MT of chicken meat. From a market size perspective, Nigeria’s egg production is the largest in Africa (South Africa is the next largest at 540,000 MT of eggs) and it has the 2nd largest chicken population after South Africa’s 200 million birds.

PIND, in 2013 completed an assessment of the poultry value chain industry to understand the structure of the Niger Delta region’s poultry sector, identify key value chains actors, map out the market system, uncover constraints that inhibit the growth of the sector, identify pro-poor opportunities and to identify avenues where actions can be taken to facilitate the Niger Delta poultry industry to attain its economic potential in the production of chicken meat and eggs.

Between 2014 and 2017, based on the outcomes from the assessment, PIND worked extensively on the processing side of the value chain. PIND supported the establishment of three medium processing plants in the Delta, Bayelsa, and Ondo states. PIND also supported two out of the three to develop out-grower schemes to guarantee the supply of birds to the plants.

Having worked on the processing side of the value chain, in 2018, PIND did a rapid assessment of the poultry sector to have updated information and understanding of the sector and decided to expand its work by building the support market for service provision for poultry farmers.

Resulting from the decision, between 2018 and 2019, PIND worked in the poultry sector to support and promote the adoption of good poultry practices among farmers. PIND trained and mentored nine poultry service providers who worked with input companies and financial institutions to train and support about 2,700 poultry farmers across the region.

In 2020 and beyond, PIND will be expanding its outreach to more farmers in the poultry sector across the nine states of the Niger Delta working with different partners. Also, PIND intends to expand its good poultry practice intervention by onboarding poultry vaccine and drug manufacturing companies to improve the availability and quality of vaccines to commercial and smallholder poultry farmers.

Having recorded some significant progress and results in the interventions, PIND now intends to expand and deepen its activities in the Niger Delta with the overall objective of improving their livelihood and income through activities that stimulate economic activities.

The grant will support the CSAAE to address the key production constraints by improving farmers’ practices and facilitating effective linkage to input companies for quality and cheaper inputs.

 

 

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The objective of this grant is for Centre for Social Awareness, Advocacy and Ethics (CSAAE) to act as an implementing partner (Co-Facilitator) for PIND’s Poultry Value Chain Project to help expand and deepen the interventions activities across the Niger Delta region.

CSAAE will build on the network and structures of service providers (PSPs & VLDs) in the Niger Delta states to ensure sustainable uptake of best practices, and facilitate linkages amongst stakeholders in the various sectors as well as on-board more partners to invest in the sector.

CSAAE would work with other partners to implement intervention activities geared towards improving productivity, linkages to business and technical support services, market linkages, and access to finance for poultry farmers as well as processors. This will involve the following:

  1. 1. Work with PIND to develop good business models around the interventions and incentives for partners.
  2. 2. Identity, engage and onboard partners (input companies, financial institutions, chicken processors, large buyers, poultry service providers, regulatory bodies, and business membership organizations) to invest in driving the intervention activities.
  3. 3. Work with partners to implement intervention activities (training and linkages/awareness workshops) to reach 8,000 poultry farmers in the Niger Delta states.
  4. 4. Develop robust monitoring tools and work with PIND to track and report expected changes in the performance of farmers.
  5. 5. Work with PIND to maintain intervention result chains and the sector’s database.
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At least 8000 poultry farmers across Niger Delta states are going to be targeted for this intervention as stipulated in the project work plan below.

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Under this agreement, PIND and CSAAE agree to provide the following services:

PIND will:

  1. 1. Provide strategic direction to CSAAE for the program design, budgeting, implementation and monitoring, and evaluation.
  2. 2. Assist CSAAE to develop a clear and specific intervention plan with mutually agreed deliverables.
  3. 3. Develop protocols for monitoring the implementation of the project
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CSAAE will:

  1. 1. Improve farmers’ productivity through access to information on good poultry practices and quality inputs.

Provide oversight and track the performance of the training of the poultry service providers that are aimed at improving the productivity of poultry farming practice. CSAAE will further monitor/facilitate the scale-up of these intervention activities in the Niger Delta states using the Market Systems approach and working with other implementing partners. This will include:

 

  1. (a.) Identifying and engaging other partners including farmers associations and input companies to drive the intervention for scale and impact. This would cut across the Niger Delta states with at least 30 PSPs active in delivering services and 4 new input (DoCs, Feed & Vaccine) companies who will be driving/supporting training/forums/demos.
  2. (b). Monitoring periodically and providing oversight on activities (training, linkages, resources/partnerships leveraged, etc.) of poultry service providers (PSPs), VLDs, and input companies as well as other private and public investments in the poultry sector across the Niger Delta states.
  3. (c). Supporting the service providers, feed companies, and other partners/stakeholders with technical support/advice, farmer mobilization, etc. CSAAE will also track the progress and performance of the stakeholders/partners (feed companies, PSPs, VLDs, processing plants/large buyers of chicken, BMOs, etc.) in the region. This intervention should reach at least 8,000 Poultry farmers.
  4. (d)The 8,000 farmers shall be properly evidenced with attendance sheets (which would include the date, gender, location, address of the farmers and their farms, GPS, etc.) and reports. The co-facilitator would maintain a database of the farmers reached using the template developed by PIND. This should appropriately be disaggregated by gender, location, etc.
  5. (e) At least 1000 out of the 8,000 farmers should be linked to market and at least, 500 out of the 8,000 should be linked (supported with their loan applications) to finance.

 

  1. 2. Strengthen the support market for poultry farmers 
  1. (i) Mentor and oversee the activities of Poultry Service Providers (PSPs) and Village Level Dealers (VLDs) trained and supported by PIND and its partners to commercially provide quality and value-adding technical and business support services to poultry farmers in the Niger Delta region.
  2. (ii) Support the PSPs and VLDs to identify and engage large buyers of poultry (Egg/Chicken buyers & Chicken processors), financial institutions, input companies, and insurance companies. This would also include supporting PSPs & VLDs to facilitate linkages between farmers and large buyers.
  3. (iii) Organize three (3) capacity building/knowledge sharing workshops for service providers (PSPs & VLD).
  4. (iv) Conduct assessments to track service providers’ performance.
  5. (v) Support the Mid-term evaluation of results and systemic change for Poultry interventions    

 

  1. 3. Facilitate finance and market for poultry farmers
  1. (i) Identify and support 4 large buyers of chicken products in the Niger Delta.
  2. (ii) Engage large buyers and secure their commitments to offtake from poultry farmers.
  3. (iii) Work with PIND’s poultry team to facilitate the linkages between the large buyers and the farmers.
  4. (iv) At least 1000 out of the 8,000 farmers reached should be linked to market (large buyers of poultry products).
  5. (v) Support at least 500 poultry farmers with their loan applications.

 

  1. 4. CSAAE to adopt PIND’s M&E strategies using the DCED Standard for results measurement, through:
  • -Developing and managing Intervention guides (IGs) for Poultry sector interventions
  • -Review and conduct M&E activities in the result chain and result measurement plan with PIND staff.
  • -Carry out baseline survey and impact assessments for interventions with focus on PIND’s key indicators and maintain a database of all outreach from the poultry interventions.
  • -Conduct routine monitoring activities to track changes in the market system
  • -Monitor and collect intervention and demonstration data using PIND M&E templates as provided.
  • -support PIND’s intervention attribution strategies
  • -Participate in technical reviews
  • -Produce quarterly reports
  • -And any other task that may be assigned to CSAAE by PIND as it relates to this project.

 

  1. 5. CSAAE would be involved in regular field visits and reporting of field activities.
  2. 6. Be responsible for ongoing engagement with stakeholders in the sector and developing a strong relationship with stakeholders using local resources.
  3. 7. Must ground its work in a thorough understanding of market dynamics: the key issues in a market, why these are there, and what restrains market forces from triggering change. This understanding should be translated into effective and efficient facilitation of the existing interventions.
  4. 8. It should be noted that the co-facilitator would work closely with PIND’s poultry market development team while carrying out the aforementioned activities.
  5. 9. CSAAE shall achieve and evidence the deliverables working according to the activities and timelines scheduled below: The entire project is expected to be completed within 12 months.
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ACTIVITIES AND TIMELINES

The total expected outreach under this co-facilitation is 8000 poultry farmers spread across the Niger Delta states. The scope of work above is broken down into key activities/deliverables in the table below. The entire project is expected to be completed within 12 months.

S/NDescription of activitiesDurationAssociated Deliverables (Codes)
1. Improve farmers’ productivity through access to information on good poultry practices and quality inputs.
Identify, engage and onboard at least 4 input companies and obtain commitment.
Facilitate the training of poultry farmers on good poultry practices and linkages to quality inputs through poultry service providers and VLDs.
Work with market actors (PSPs and Input companies) to organize promotional and sensitization activities to improve awareness on the use of quality vaccines by poultry farmers.
12 monthsOutput
● At least 4 input companies on-boarded and commitment obtained. Meeting report produced.
● At least 8,000 poultry farmers trained on good poultry practices or/and linked to quality vaccines, DoCs, and feed to improve their knowledge attitudes, and practices.
● 3 promotional/Linkages activities organized
Key deliverables:
● 8,000 poultry farmers trained/supported with at least 1000 linked to market.
● 40% female beneficiaries.
● 3 promotional activities organized
2. Strengthen the support market for poultry farmers
Mentor and oversee the activities of Poultry Service Providers (PSPs) and VLDs trained and supported by PIND to commercially provide quality and value-adding technical and business support services to poultry farmers in the Niger Delta.
Support the PSPs to identify and engage large buyers (Egg buyers & Chicken processors), financial institutions, input, and insurance companies. This would also include supporting PSPs to develop out-grower schemes in partnership with input companies and chicken processors.
12 monthsOutput
● At least one monitoring/ mentoring visit per state per quarter to PSPs/VLDs in each state to review activities and performance.
● Supported PSPs and village vaccinators reach 8,000 poultry farmers. At least 70% of adoption and 40% are female beneficiaries.
● Organize at least 1 capacity building workshop for PSPs & VLDs.
● Organize at least 2 knowledge sharing activities/workshops for PSPs & VLDs.
● 30 PSPs and 20 village vaccinators mentored and are offering services sustainably to poultry farmers leading to an increase in sales and income
● At least 6 new PSPs actively delivering/selling training and other services to poultry farmers. At least 4 input (DoC, Feed & Vaccine) new companies providing training/support to farmers in collaboration with PSPs & VLDs.
● Coordination of the quarterly reports of the PSPs and VLDs.
3. Facilitate finance and market for poultry farmers
I. Identify and support 4 large buyers of chicken products in the Niger Delta.
II. Engage large buyers and secure their commitments to offtake from poultry farmers.
III. Work with PIND’s poultry team to facilitate the linkages between the large buyers and the farmers.
IV. At least 1000 out of the 8,000 farmers reached should be linked to market (large buyers of poultry products).
V. Support at least 500 poultry farmers with their loan applications.
12 monthsOutput

● 4 large buyers engaged and commitment secured to off-take from poultry farmers.
● Link at least 1000 farmers to large buyers.
● Support 500 farmers with loan application
Key deliverables:
● 4 large buyers engaged and commitment secured to off-take from poultry farmers.
● Link at least 1000 farmers to large buyers.
● 500 farmers supported with their loan applications.
4. Monitoring and Evaluation
i. Adopt PIND’s Monitoring and Results Measurement (MRM) strategies using DECD standard for results measurement
ii. Adopt PIND’s Monitoring and Evaluation system to track project performance and measure results.
iii. Be responsible for managing the Intervention Guides (IG) in the Poultry sector in compliance with the DCED Standard. This would involve a periodic update of the IG with results from the field and assessments carried out.
iv. Carry out periodic monitoring and evaluation of project activities.
v. Carry out impact assessments of project beneficiaries using the DCED standard/PND’s M&E template/tools.
vi. Manage PIND’s database system and provide adequate evidence of results and activities for the various sectors.
12 monthsOutput

● Weekly activity reports
● Trip reports
● Monthly progress reports
● Quarterly report on project progress and outcomes.
● Assessment report.
● Regularly updated intervention guide
● Regularly updated database of farmers
and other actors reached

Indicators to measure:
● No of poultry farmers trained
● No of poultry farmers adopting
● No of poultry farmers with increased income.

Key Deliverables

Under this Grant Agreement, CSAAE shall provide to PIND the following reports and documentation which are to be submitted periodically. Others can be requested as and when required including intervention-specific deliverables that may be set upon mutual agreement by both parties.

 

  1. 1. Provide monthly and quarterly progress reports to PIND. The reports shall contain the activities carried out, accomplishments/outcomes and results recorded during the reporting period, key issues, challenges, lessons learned as well an activity plan for the next month/quarter. The results shall speak to the key indicators specific to the sectors such as the number of outreach/beneficiaries (appropriately disaggregated by gender, locations, age, etc), the number of adopters and number reporting increase in income, amount of resources leveraged from project activities, jobs created, amount of increased income recorded, etc.
  2. 2. CSAAE is expected to participate in PIND’s quarterly technical reviews of sector performance and also a review of the various Intervention Guides.
  3. 3. Minutes and reports of meetings/training/workshops organized by the co-facilitator with private and public sector partners will be shared and sent to PIND. This should include attendance sheets and pictures.
  4. 4. Interventions specific deliverables will be set upon mutual agreement at the steering committee meetings.
  5. 5. Project Completion Report after 12months

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