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Decentralised Evaluation of GROW Liberia, Phase 1

Decentralised Evaluation of GROW Liberia, Phase 1

– a Swedish-funded Market Systems Development project inagricultural value chains in Liberia 2013–2020

  • År: 2020

  • Publikationstyp: Decentraliserad utvärdering

  • Författare: Ambrose Forpoh, Daniel Ticehurst, Eric Derks, Hubert Cathala, Kimiko Hibri Pedersen, William Massaboi

Sammanfattning

GROW is a market system development programme working with agricultural value chains in Liberia. The evaluation concludes that GROW is pertinent to national and private sector priorities, as well as Sida’s strategies and gender equality priorities but more is to be invested in integrating environmental considerations. GROW addresses a set of market system constraints facing smallholder farmers and has been effective in piloting systemic interventions that have generally driven adoption with some signs of adaptation.Its monitoring and evaluation system is well established, but its indicators can be strengthened to be more specific and informative.As GROW effectively kicked-off current interventions in 2018, it is too premature to assess crowding-in and a wider market response.There are however some indications of such responses potentially emerging in the cocoa sector. GROW has contributed to improving access to products, services and especially new knowledge to smallholder farmers that translated into better capacities and business performance. Some challenges remain to be dealt with however to further improve the way the market works for the poor.

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  • Tematik: Ekonomisk utveckling

  • Geografiskt område: Liberia

  • Språk: Engelska

  • Publikationsnummer: 2021:1

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