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Sustainability, NRM and

FFA Strategic planning:

Asia Regional Knowledge Sharing Meeting

October, 2018

The Good, The Bad and The

Ugly

• The MTE teams all used the FFP funded Tufts Exit Strategies research as a guide

– Motivation, Capacity, Resources and Sometime Linkages

• Every activity had major problems with sustainability, despite a variety of approaches

• Some notable successes

• Some notable failures

• Some serious issues – more harm than good

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The Underpants Gnomes’ Sustainability Plan

• Private Service Providers (PSPs)

• Government systems for service delivery

• Profitable producer groups

• Quality training (adult learning methodology) of practical techniques

• Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA)

• Linkages, FTF in Guatemala, private sector in Madagascar (vanilla)

• Community engagement

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The Good

• Limited coverage at community level

• Heavy reliance on volunteers = poor quality services

• Many of most vulnerable are excluded from producer groups – lack of land/resources

• VSLA loans are more short term (arbitrage) rather than longer term sustainable enterprises

• Systems thinking largely absent (seeds, water, service delivery, etc.)

• Variable quality and approach of training sessions

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The Bad

• Creating dependency – Entitlements vs Investments

• Livelihoods given up

• Insufficient attention to operation and maintenance costs

• Lack of linkages/information flow and sustained resources for risk reduction

• Lack of real sustainability strategy – “Hope is not a strategy!”

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The Ugly

• Good

– Participants grasp climate change – but not fully

– Some good training

• Bad

– Free inputs – paid labor

– Poor implementation - tree and climate smart ag

• Ugly

– General lack of strategic approach

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Natural Resource Management

• Good

– Productive infrastructure

– Some good governance

• Bad

– Lack or professional engineering design and oversight

• Ugly

– General lack of strategic approach

– Project decided priorities

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Food/Cash for Assets

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The Good - Linkages

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The Good – Human Capital

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The Good – NRM/FFA

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The Bad

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The Bad

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The Ugly

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The Ugly

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Questions/

Clarifications?

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Asia Regional Knowledge Sharing

Meeting

Bangkok, Thailand

October 2018

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