Covering activities in April and May 2013

GAFSP Project site in Robol Junction Sierra Leone, Mirella Hernani

Monthly Update

April and May 2013

GAFSP Third Call for Proposals Closed with 20 Complete Proposals

the completed proposal packages have now been forwarded to the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), which will begin reviewing the files immediately in preparation for the TAC workshop July 24-26, 2013.

As with past Calls for Proposals, the TAC will write their recommendations for funding into a report that will be circulated prior to the next Steering Committee (SC) meeting. The SC expects to allocate approximately $200 million in funding during the next SC meeting scheduled for September 4-6, 2013.

20 countries requested a total of $732.8 million for country-led agriculture and food security projects: Benin, Bhutan, Bukina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guyana, Honduras, Kenya, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao PDR, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Timor-Leste, Uganda, Yemen, and Zambia. Approximately 65% of the requests, by funding, came from African countries, 15% from Latin America and the Caribbean, 15% from Asia (including countries from East Asia and Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, and South Asia), and 5% from the Middle East. The average project size was approximately $37 million. All of

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May 2013

Meetings of Working Groups One and Two on April 22-23 in Washington DC

Working Group One (WG1) met on April 22, 2013 in Washington, DC. The meeting focused on overall program

objectives including the relationship between the Public and Private Windows moving forward. The options

laid out in the discussion paper ranged from separation with potential future coordination to greater

coordination and structural integration. While there was no clear consensus for long term governance, WG1

members agreed on several actions that can achieve greater coordination between the Public and Private

Sector Windows without making changes to the current structure at this point in time. These include:

• Joint Meetings of the GAFSP Steering Committee and Donor Committee: The GAFSP Steering Committee

and GAFSP Private Sector Window Donor Committee will conduct meetings back-to-back or jointly to

increase decision-making coherence between the windows, generate program-level knowledge and

strategic insight, and coordinate programming at the country level as appropriate.

• Private Sector Annual Investment Plan: The Donor Committee will give the Steering Committee the draft

Private Sector Annual Investment Plan at the same time as the Donor Committee to provide an

opportunity to comment in advance of and at the joint meetings described above.

• Private Sector Window Advisory Committee: Steering Committee members were strongly encouraged to

provide comments on the draft Terms of Reference for an Advisory Committee.

• Communication: In advance of the next Steering Committee meeting, IFC will report on the investments

made using GAFSP funds and the manner in which each investment contributes to GAFSP’s objectives, as

well as collaborative relationships for advisory services with other international development agencies.

Working Group Two (WG2) met on April 23, 2013 to take advantage of Steering Committee Members who

were in town for WG1. Initial discussions focused on defining the parameters of WG2, including voting rights,

member rotation, and other administrative issues. The CU has been working with the Meridian Group to draft

a comprehensive Terms of Reference that will be distributed to the Steering Committee for comments in July.

GAFSP Private Sector Advisory Services Update

The Private Sector Window delivers on program objectives via a combination of investment and advisory

services. While the main source of financing will be via investment projects with $300 million of GAFSP Private

Financing available, GAFSP Advisory Services (GAFSP AS) will provide a critical development role linked to

existing or potential GAFSP investment clients, with $23 million available. There are 4 GAFSP AS activities:

• advisory projects focused on food security, income generation, and financial, environmental

and social sustainability;

• investment development marketplaces & partner development events to strengthen the

GAFSP investment pipeline and discuss regional commodities and themes;

• country/sector diagnostics to identify the most promising commodities, sectors, and

expected interventions in priority countries;

• and finally, evaluation and learning on the GAFSP project portfolio.

The advisory projects - which can occur at the farm, firm, or sector level- will account for approximately 70%

of the GAFSP AS budget. The Private Sector Window intends to provide advisory services in Africa

(approximately 50% of the GAFSP AS budget), South Asia, East Asia, and other regions. GAFSP AS will be

primarily focused in IDA eligible countries, however, in select cases, IDA-Blend countries will be considered.

As of May 31, 2013, GAFSP AS had 11 Projects approved with commitments of $3.27 million and 20 projects in

the pipeline. IFC had signed an MOU and Master Agreement with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

with funding from GAFSP of $2 million and from FAO of $500,000 to support diagnostics and advisory services

projects leveraging FAO's technical expertise and knowledge to support agribusiness investment.

May 2013

Three GAFSP Teams Attend MIT JPAL

Impact Evaluation “Match Making”

Conference

Task Team Leaders from three GAFSP projects

were competitively selected to participate in an

impact evaluation workshop on May 9-10, 2013

hosted by the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action

Lab (MIT JPAL) and the University of California's

Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) in

Berkleley, CA. The objective of the workshop was

to match projects with researchers working on

agricultural issues and forge partnerships for

potential future collaboration in randomized

control trial experiments to quantitatively evaluate

the impact of the projects. This would allow GAFSP

to carry out rigorous impact evaluations beyond

our on-going engagement with DIME.

The organizers covered all of the expenses for the

three projects (Cambodia, Liberia, and Sierra

Leone) to participate in the conference. The Sierra

Leone project was able to forge a potential

research collaboration with an MIT researcher to

assess the income and nutritional outcomes of

beneficiaries of the inland valley swamp

rehabilitation efforts. Next, the MIT researcher will

review relevant data and prepare an evaluation

concept note with the project team that may be

submitted for the next Call for research funding by

JPAL and CEGA in fall 2013.

GAFSP-WBI Mapping Teams Visited Togo,

Sierra Leone, and Bangladesh

In April and May, the World Bank Institute (WBI)

mapping team worked with project teams in Togo,

Sierra Leone, and Bangladesh to collect geo-

referenced data of GAFSP-funded activities, including

monitoring indicators, photographs, videos, and

interviews from project sites for “GAFSP Stories”.

The mapping team joined a supervision mission of the

Project to Support the Agricultural Sector (PASA) and

Project to Support Agricultural Development (PADAT)

in Togo. They visited PASA projects in Assahoun,

Agou, Anie, and Notse, and Lomé as well as PADAT

projects in Atamossi, Aroukopé, Kpoda, and the

Plateaux Region. In Sierra Leone they continued to

map the Smallholder Commercialization Program

(SCP), including three sites in Robol Junction,

Gbonkolenkeh, and Roline Kanasoko. In Bangladesh,

they visited Integrated Agricultural Productivity

Project (IAPP) sites in Barisal and Rangpur districts, as

well as the PRAN Group factory in Rajshahi district.

Many of the implementing agencies have a strong

interest in the use of mapping and are eager to use

the GAFSP Mapping Platform as a tool to

communicate project activities with donors, local

stakeholders, and other development partners. Maps

and stories will be published on the GAFSP web site

(beta: image on the next page) in the coming month.

DIME-GAFSP: Rwanda LWH Baseline and Impact Evaluation Published

The Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) team is working closely with the GAFSP supported Rwanda Land

Husbandry, Water Harvesting and Hillside Irrigation (LWH) project team to implement a rigorous impact

evaluation (IE) that measures the overall impact of the project on GAFSP core outcomes such as agricultural

productivity, adoption of improved technologies, household income, and food and nutrition security. As part of

the IE work, multiple rounds of administrative and survey data are being collected by the DIME-LWH to

establish baseline values, track progress, and adapt the LWH interventions to the needs on the ground. The

DIME-LWH team has designed specific IE studies for the sub-components related to rural finance and extension

service delivery. In rural finance, LWH will evaluate innovative products introduced to increase saving for

agricultural inputs. For extension, LWH will test the effectiveness of different feedback mechanisms (phone

calls, individual report cards, and group report cards) to monitor the quality of private extension services.

The results from the LWH Phase 1 baseline survey are available online in a report published in March 2013.

After a brief introduction to the project and the baseline data collection exercise, the report provides

descriptive statistics including: socioeconomic profile of the households, agricultural production, household

income and expenditures, access to financial services, food security, and women’s dietary diversity.

May 2013

Screen Capture from the New GAFSP Stories Mapping Platform

FINANCIAL TABLES

* Pledges that have not been allocated to either window

** Represents contribution amount under countersigned Contribution Agreements/Arrangements

*** Valued on the basis of exchange rates of April 22, 2010, the GAFSP official launch date

May 2013

Allocation

Timing

Country,

Project Name

SE

Total Project

Financing

managed by

SE ($ mil.)

GAFSP

Award

Amou

nt to

Countr

y

Allocated

Award

amount

by SE

($ mil.)

SE

Approval

Date of

project

document

Signature Date

of Legal Grant

Agreement

Effectiveness

Date

Date of first

disb. of

project

funds to

recipient

country

Project Disbursement (in US$)

Disbursement

of total project

of which

GAFSP funds

disbursed Ju

ne

20

10

Bangladesh

(IAPP) WB 63.81

50

46.31 07/01/11 09/15/11 09/15/11 02/28/12 $11,839,938 $11,839,938

Bangladesh

TA- IAPP FAO 3.69 3.69 09/01/11 11/01/11 11/01/11 11/01/11 $1,312,287 $932,772

Haiti -

(RESAPAG II) WB 50

35

10 12/01/11 01/11/12 04/12/12 08/01/12 $4,181,831 $1,000,000

Haiti -

(PTTA) IDB 40 25 08/01/11 09/01/11 04/01/12 04/18/11 $565,000.00 $0

Rwanda

(LWH) WB 84 50 50 04/01/11 05/01/11 06/01/11 09/01/11 $31,347,916 $18,390,326

Sierra Leone -

(SCP) IFAD 56.5 50 50 05/01/11 07/01/11 07/01/11 12/01/11 $12,222,289 $12,222,289

Togo –

(PASA) WB 37

39

19 04/12/11 04/18/11 12/14/11 03/19/12 $5,821,971 $1,637,393

Togo –

(PADAT) IFAD 75.4 20 12/01/10 12/01/10 12/01/10 05/01/12 $8,516,727 $2,776,106

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r 2

01

0

Ethiopia –

(AGP) WB 215.5

51.5

50 01/20/12 01/25/12 01/25/12 05/09/12 $83,710,886 $14,750,278

Ethiopia

TA- AGP FAO 1.5 1.5 06/01/12 06/27/12 09/03/12 01/01/13 $150,708 $150,708

Mongolia -

(LAMP) WB 11

12.5

11 05/17/13 - - - - -

Mongolia

TA-LAMP FAO 1.5 1.5 04/01/12 05/01/12 05/08/12 06/01/12 $416,386 $416,386

Niger –

(PMERSA-MTZ) AfDB 63.5 33 33 09/20/11 11/01/11 05/01/12 08/01/12 $1,926,000 $218,00

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01

1

Cambodia

(RICE-SDP) ADB 69.6

39.1

14.6 06/08/11 (06/28/13) (09/30/13) (12/01/13) - -

Cambodia

(EFAP) ADB 61.31 24.5 09/11/12 09/28/12 10/12/12 12/21/12 $35,281,069 $3,141,430

Liberia –

(SAPEC) AfDB 54.5 46.5 46.5 05/01/12 05/28/12 (06/20/13) - - -

Nepal –

(NAFSP) WB 58 46.5 46.5 02/11/13 04/30/13 04/30/13 (6/30/13) - -

Tajikistan

(PAMP II) WB 45.9 27.9 27.9 11/29/12 05/02/2013 05/03/13 05/28/13 $3,000,000 -

Total

481

$201,982,768 $70,567,867

Table 3: Project Status as of May 31, 2013

December 2012

Country,

Project Name SE

Total

Project

Financing

that is

managed

by SE (e.g.

including

IDA, ADF,

IFAD)

GAFSP

Award

Amou

nt to

countr

y (in in

$ mil.)

Allocated

Award

amount

by SE (in $

mil.)

SE Approval

Date of

project

document

Signature

Date of Legal

Grant

Agreement

Effectiveness

Date

Date of first

disb. of

project

funds to

recipient

country

Jun

e 2

01

2

Burundi IFAD

100 30 30 (12/01/13) - - -

The Gambia

FASDEP AfDB 27.3

28 26.6 (05/15/13) (06/17/13) (06/17/13) (07/17/13)

The Gambia FAO 1.4 1.4 02/14/13 04/02/13 -

Malawi

(SIVAP) AfDB 44.65 39.6 39.6 03/13/13 04/05/13 - -

Kyrgyz

Republic WB 16.5 16.5 16.5 - - - -

Senegal –

(PASA-

Lou/Ma/Kaf)

AfDB 49.2 40 40 04/26/13 05/15/13 (06/15/13) (07/01/13)-

Tanzania WB 22.9 22.9 22.9 (09/01/13) - (10/01/13) -

Table 3 Continued: Project Status as of May 31, 2013