achieving the mdgs: rba training workshop module 6: rural development investment cluster 9-12 may...
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Achieving the MDGs:RBA Training Workshop
Module 6: Rural Development Investment Cluster
9-12 May 2005
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Introduction
The rural development investment cluster includes interventions to: increase incomes, increase food production and ensure access to basic infrastructure
services
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Key Areas of Intervention
1. Agricultural productivity
2. Rural income Generation
3. Water supply and sanitation
4. Water resources infrastructure and management
5. Transport
6. Energy
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Agricultural Productivity and Rural Income Generation- Key Points
Interventions address poverty and hunger targets
Exact interventions will depend on underlying characteristics of poverty and hunger in the country
To address the hunger goal, these will need to be supplemented with interventions to address nutrition and emergency food assistance
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Agricultural Productivity-Choose Interventions
Focus on food-insecure farmers
Interventions aimed at increasing food productivity to generate marketable surplus
Interventions cover:
Investments to increase soil health (e.g. chemical fertilizers, manure, agroforestry)
Provision of improved seeds Investments in small scale on-farm water management for
agriculture (e.g. traditional water harvesting and conservation, pumps, drip irrigation)
Agriculture and irrigation extension services with a special focus on training women extension workers, and
Research in agriculture.
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Rural Income Generation-Choose Interventions
Help the poor connect with markets from which they are excluded – Farmers associations– Community and market centers
Improve the terms on which the poor transact – Land– Quality financial services including microfinance– Storage facilities to reduce post harvest losses
Investments to support value added activities such as food processing technologies
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Agricultural Productivity and Rural Income Generation-
Define Targets
Agricultural productivity Taking 1990 as the baseline year, enable at least half of the
food-insecure subsistence farm households to grow enough food to feed themselves by 2015
Rural income generation Taking 1990 as the baseline year, provide at least half the
food-insecure households in rural areas with access to food storage facilities, quality financial services, value added food processing services, and marketing organizations (such as cooperatives) by 2015.
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Estimate Resource Needs
Country demographic data
Needs per beneficiary
TOTAL NEEDS
Target Population
Target coverage rates
Cost, HR, infrastructure components for key
interventions
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Total Hunger needs
Increasing Agricultural Productivity
Rural Income Generation
Improving Nutrition
The Hunger Dimension- Task Force Recommendations
Invest in Soil Health
Small scale water management
Improved seeds
Extension
Research
Storage
Livestock
Processing
Credit
Farmer associations
Market space
Food for Work
Pregnant women, lactating mothers and infants (7-24 months)
School meals
Supplementation for vulnerable groups
Diet diversification
Food Aid
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Interventions to Improve Nutritional Outcomes
Direct nutritional interventions to pregnant women and lactating mothers
Encourage complementary feeding for infants
School meals sourced
Reduce under-nutrition among children under 5 years
Reduce vitamin and mineral deficiencies through micronutrient supplementation targeted at vulnerable groups
Emergency relief (early warning systems, safety nets, direct food aid)
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Key Areas of Intervention
1. Agricultural productivity
2. Rural income Generation
3. Water supply and sanitation
4. Water resources infrastructure and management
5. Transport
6. Energy
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Water Supply and Sanitation (Rural)-Choose Interventions
Provision and operation of infrastructure for domestic water supply
Construction and operation of sanitation facilities including drainage systems and facilities for disposal of sullage and wastewater
Hygiene education including awareness campaigns in primary schools, through community based organizations, media, and so on
Provision and operation of infrastructure for water supply and sanitation for schools and heath facilities.
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Water Supply and Sanitation (Rural)-Define Targets
Taking 1990 as the baseline year, halve the proportion of people in rural areas without sustainable access to safe drinking water by 2015 (MDG Target 10.
Taking 1990 as the baseline year, halve the proportion of people in rural areas without sustainable access to basic sanitation by 2015 (MDG Target 10), aiming for each target village to achieve full sanitation coverage and to completely end the practice of open defecation.
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Water Supply and Sanitation (Rural):Estimating Needs - Key Points
Define proportion of each technology to be used each year (e.g. boreholes vs. rainwater collection, latrines vs. septic tanks)
Include rehabilitation of existing but defective infrastructure
Include full operation and maintenance costs
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Key Areas of Intervention
1. Agricultural productivity
2. Rural income Generation
3. Water supply and sanitation
4. Water resources infrastructure and management
5. Transport
6. Energy
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Case for water resources management and infrastructure as part of MDG strategy IWRM needed to manage increasingly scarce water
resources effectively Water storage is required to
– Mitigate impact of run-off variability to ensure perennial water supply for domestic, industrial and agricultural use
– Increase hydropower potential– Improve flood protection
No country has generated sustained economic growth without large-scale investments in water storage
Irrigation infrastructure required to– Increase agricultural yields and strengthen potential for
cash crops– Mitigate impact of run-off variability
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Water Resources Infrastructure & Management - Interventions
Provision and maintenance of water storage and other infrastructure for water management (such as watershed management and water conservation, early warning systems, ground and surface storage systems, etc.)
Plans, systems and institutions for integrated water resources management, as appropriate.
Hydrological monitoring
Measures to address the social and environmental issues associated with large-scale water management infrastructure
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Water Resources Infra & Mgmt-Suggested Target
Increase total resilience capacity (through groundwater and surface storage, early warning systems and other means) to the levels needed to reduce the economic and human losses caused by floods and droughts by 50% by 2015.
Start the preparation of an Integrated Water Resources Management Plan (IWRM) before the end of 2005.
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Key Areas of Intervention
1. Agricultural productivity
2. Rural income Generation
3. Water supply and sanitation
4. Water resources infrastructure and management
5. Transport
6. Energy
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The case for transport infrastructure and services as part of MDG strategy
Transport is not mentioned in the MDGs, but improved transport services (incl. roads, railways, and ports) are critical to:– Lower cost of national and international trade– Reduce cost of agricultural inputs and raise farmgate prices
for produce– Improve prospects for non-farm rural employment– Improve access to urban employment– Improve access to social services (in particular emergency
obstetric care to reduce MMR)– Reduce time poverty – particularly of women
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Transport -Choose Interventions
Transport systems for health and other essential social services and infrastructure maintenance
Upgrading and construction of footpaths, paved secondary or district roads as well as small paved feeder and community roads.
Institutional structure and funding arrangements for adequate road maintenance (such as dedicated road funds).
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Transport -Possible Targets
By 2015 establish national systems for providing and maintaining motorbikes or other vehicles in support of healthcare, agricultural extension, maintenance of infrastructure, etc.
Ensure that 90 percent of the rural population is within 2km of the nearest motorized pick-up point by 2015.
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Very preliminary roads needs assessment
Elements of a roads needs assessment:Transport services
• cost of setting up, operating and maintaining an integrated fleet of vehicles to provide key social services and infrastructure maintenance
• See Riders for Health costing model (www.riders.org)
Transport infrastructure• carry out an inventory of existing road stock to
ascertain the need for rehabilitation and regular maintenance
• estimate additional roads needed to meet the access targets
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Key Areas of Intervention
1. Agricultural productivity
2. Rural income Generation
3. Water supply and sanitation
4. Water resources infrastructure and management
5. Transport
6. Energy
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The case for energy infrastructure and services as part of MDG strategy
Energy is not mentioned in the MDGs, but improved access to energy services is critical to:– Reduce women’s time poverty (e.g. to halve poverty and
achieve gender equity goal)– Make energy available for manufacturing industries and
other productive uses (e.g. to halve poverty)– Increase agricultural productivity (e.g. through groundwater
pumps)– Lower indoor air pollution (e.g. to reduce U5MR)– Improve provision of social services (e.g. lighting in schools,
refrigeration in health centers)– Halt deforestation and other land degradation (?)
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Energy Choose “MDG-compatible”
Interventions Distribution of efficient cooking stoves Distribution of modern fuels Improved ventilation, chimneys, smokehoods, etc. to reduce
the adverse health impacts from cooking with biomass Increase sustainable biomass production (e.g. agroforestry,
woodlots or community forestry, area closures, etc.) Off-grid systems together with necessary wiring to all schools
and health facilities. Facilitate community access to electricity and mechanical
power Facilitate the use of electricity in rural communities that are
not connected to the grid, through batteries and charging stations
Extension of the electric power grid
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Energy Possible Rural Targets
Enable the use of modern fuels and devices for 50% of those who at present use traditional biomass for cooking.
Support x% of the population in adopting improved cook-stoves and measures to reduce the adverse health impacts from cooking with biomass.
Ensure by 2008 that all schools and health facilities have access to electricity.
Provide access to modern energy services at the community level for all rural communities (in the form of electricity and mechanical power).
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EnergyEstimate Resource Needs – Key Points
Choice among electricity technologies (esp. grid- and off-grid) should be based on low cost
Largest driver of electricity cost are the transmission systems
Community-level interventions scale-up according to size of rural communities
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