Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Design Guide Practical Guidance for Implementing Partners Photo courtesy of the SPRING project February 26, 2020 USAID ADVANCING NUTRITION The Agency’s Flagship Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Project
Welcome In this webinar, the USAID Advancing Nutrition team is joined by the Feed the Future Rwanda Hinga Weze activity, and USAID Bureau of Food Security to talk about the Design Guide, its origin story, the Hinga Weze experience using it, and USAID’s vision for its use around the world. Speakers: Ingrid Weiss, Senior Nutrition Advisor, Bureau for Food Security Sarah McClung, T echnical Advisor, USAID Advancing Nutrition Daniel Gies, Hinga Weze Chief of Party Laurence Mukamana, Hinga Weze Deputy Chief of Party, Olivier Habimana, Hinga Weze Director of BMFD Jeanne d'Arc Nyirajyambere, Hinga Weze Director of Nutrition Programs Heather Danton, Project Director, USAID Advancing Nutrition Photo by Andrew Cunningham
The Bureau for Food Security • Agriculture activities are not inherently nutrition-sensitive. • Explicit thought is required during design and implementation to ensure positive impact on nutrition. • Need for a practical guide for implementers
The Bureau for Food Security Vision for Guide: to help activity designers and implementers to develop appropriate nutrition-sensitive agriculture outcomes, interventions and indicators that will help integrate nutrition-sensitive approaches into their main agriculture/income-focused intervention
USAID Advancing Nutrition Photo courtesy of SPRING
Design Guide FAQs • What is it exactly? • Who is it for? • When do you use it? • Where can you find it? Photo by Andrew Cunningham
Inside the Guide • The Guide begins with a background section on essential nutrition concepts • A set of nutrition-sensitive agriculture outcomes are provided • Participants think through their activity’s nutrition-sensitive agriculture outcomes and corresponding strategies, practices, interventions, and indicators. Photo courtesy of SPRING
Six Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Outcomes • Improved availability of diverse, nutrient-rich foods in local markets • Improved affordability of diverse, nutrient-rich foods in local markets • Improved desirability of diverse, nutrient-rich foods among target consumers • Improved environmental and food safety • Increased income control by women and equitable opportunities • Increased time and energy savings for women Photo courtesy of SPRING
Activity Design Matrix Nutrition- Sensitive Strategy Practice Intervention Indicator Agriculture Outcome
Hinga Weze: Description of the program What is Hinga Weze : A $33m, 5-year (2017-2022) USAID- funded initiative to sustainably increase smallholder farmers’ income, improve nutritional status of Rwandan women and children, and increase the resilience of the agriculture and food systems to the changing climate. Hinga Weze achieves its results by effecting behavior Hinga Weze deliverables and change at the household and community levels that indicators are focused on prioritizes collaboration with partners including the better nutrition, more sales, Government of Rwanda (GoR), as well as USAID and the higher levels of value-added processing and better agro- wider development community. inputs that are benefiting thousands of farmers. The Hinga Weze Motto: Produce more, Sell more and Eat better!!!
Hinga Weze: Description of the Program As the project reaches now its halfway point, it has focused on the following activities: I. Implementation of program targets in 10 Rwandan districts. II. Changing the dynamic in agro-inputs and climate change. III. Providing policy advice and support to MINAGRI/RAB. IV. Sustainably transferring activities to local partners in Y3-4. V. Implementing new and innovative tools to achieve targets!
Hinga Weze: Location of the Program
Hinga Weze Components Component 1: Component 2: Component 3 : Agriculture productivity Farmers’ market access Nutrition outcomes of sustainably increased improved agriculture interventions improved
Hinga Weze Experience Among the six Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Outcomes, Hinga Weze followed three of them in Year 3 work plan development and implementation: • Improved availability of diverse, nutrient- rich foods in local markets • Improved affordability of diverse, nutrient-rich foods in local markets • Increased income control by women and equitable opportunities
Hinga Weze Nutrition-Sensitive Outcomes: Availability Nutrition- Sensitive Strategy Practice Intervention Indicator Agriculture Outcome Improved • • • ↑ availability of ↑ the number of seed Training new and 2: Value of annual sales of availability of multipliers producing existing seed farms and firms receiving nutrient rich diverse, nutrient- seeds at community multipliers on USG assistance. seeds • rich foods in local level and ensure their multiplication and 3: Number of individuals (HIB/OFSP/Horti capacity building storage (done) participating in USG food markets (HIB, culture) and ASF • • Incentives through Provision of grants to security programs OFSP, horticulture in all 10 districts • grants seed multipliers to 5: Yield of targeted and ASF) • RAB/MINAGRI access basic seeds at agricultural commodities extending subsidy a more affordable among program program to HIB and price (Pipelines) participants with USG • OFSP seeds Start integrated assistance (RAA) • • Private sector poultry program to 14&15: % of women engagement avail animal sourced consuming diversified diet • Working with Uzima foods (distributed and children consuming chicken to ↑ the 112,600 chickens to MAD availability of chickens 18,000HHs and 23 in 10 districts care groups)
Hinga Weze Nutrition-Sensitive Outcomes: Affordability Nutrition- Sensitive Strategy Practice Intervention Indicator Agriculture Outcome Improved • • Improved Processors produce Grant mechanism 1: No. of individuals in affordability of • packaging smaller packages of Capacity building the agriculture system diverse, nutrient- goods (HIB and around packaging system for who have applied rich foods in local • nutritious foods OFSP) Incentives to improved management markets to sell in small promote smaller practices or quantities packaging technologies with USG • Promotion of locally assistance • made packaging 2: Value of annual sales materials where of farms and firms possible receiving USG • Distribution assistance. networks of nutritious foods
Hinga Weze Nutrition-Sensitive Outcomes: Affordability Nutrition- Sensitive Strategy Practice Intervention Indicator Agriculture Outcome Improved • • • 6. No. of individuals in the Farmers Establish/promote Product swap agriculture system who have affordability of arrangement exchange value of products applied improved diverse, • between products within Information management practices or nutrient-rich buyers/sellers communities dissemination technologies with USG assistance foods in local • and groups Organization of and farmers for • 11. No. of farmers reached markets • Consumption farmers groups foods and by new or improved market services of diversified (youth, women, information systems • 14. Prevalence of women of nutritious care groups, FPs) in reproductive age consuming foods collaboration with a diet of minimum diversity • 15. % of children 6-23 local leaders months receiving a minimum • ↑ nutritious food acceptable diet (MAD) items available
Hinga Weze Nutrition-Sensitive Outcomes: Income Control Nutrition- Sensitive Strategy Practice Intervention Indicator Agriculture Outcome • Increased 20. No. of households • • Support couples Household planning Training couples on income control using improved supported to improve joint and budgeting GALS methodology by and food safety practices as a • • decision making Prioritization of Promoting behavior equitable result of USG assistance; Household on use of change using peer- • opportunities 22. % of female expenditures to-peer approach household for women participants in USG- • assets and Household members (role models) to assisted programs income through jointly allocating build women’s self- designed to increase GALS income to purchase confidence and access to productive nutritious foods [encourage] men to economic resources; • Household members support women’s • 23. % of participants in are equally involved empowerment USG-assisted programs in productive work designed to increase (nutrition and access to productive childcare) economic resources who are youth (16-30)
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