Project Completion Report Project Title: Data4Ag: Agricultural Data Systems to Transform Smallholder Farming Organisation: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) Project Coordinator: Chris Addison Date: 30/04/2020 This project completion report (project number H7) was prepared by Chris Addison, Chipo Msengezi, Didier Muyiramye and Paul Neate. From 1983 to 2020, the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) was an international institution of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) and the European Union (EU). Its mission was to advance food and nutritional security, increase prosperity and encourage sound natural resource management in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. In its project portfolio (2016-2020) of 73 projects, CTA focused on digitalisation, youth entrepreneurship, and climate resilience as its priority intervention areas. 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CONTENTS 1 ASSESSMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECT ACTIVITIES 6 1.1 Description table 6 1.2 Executive summary of the activities implemented 6 1.2.1 Background studies 6 1.2.2 Brief overview of main achievements (highlights of the project) 8 1.3 Project background 14 1.3.1 Field proofing 16 1.3.2 Capacity development 16 1.3.3 Expert analysis 16 1.3.4 Policy 17 1.4 Impacts 17 1.4.1 Impact: Through geo-registration, better targeted advice and logistics can be provided to smallholders to improve production, reduce post-harvest losses – and support better livelihoods 17 1.4.2 Impact: Increased resilience through new insurance services and extension achieved by farmer registration 17 1.4.3 Impact: Increased employment in agriculture can result through more efficient organisations 18 1.5 Outcomes 18 1.5.1 Outcome: Policy actions through Kenya project linked with Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs and GODAN, GODAN action 18 1.5.2 Outcome: Data for finance is addressed at farmers’ organization/agro- enterprise level as a result of better profiling. 19 1.5.3 Outcome: New farmer registration practice adopted together with management systems for improving geo-targeted information, transaction efficiency, improved logistics or mechanisms to reduce costs 20 1.6 Outputs and key activities 20 1.6.1 Component A – Farmer registration solution 20 1.6.2 Component B – Knowledge sharing and learning 20 1.6.3 Component C – Institutional capacity 21 1.6.4 Component D – Policy 24 1.6.5 Component E – Learning & Exchange 26 1.7 Analysis of business case/scalability/key success factors 26 1.7.1 Working with CTA projects: 26 1.7.2 Working with other Member State donors 26 1.7.3 ICT innovations 27 1.7.4 Capacity development approaches 28 1.7.5 Project Management and Governance 29 1.8 Financial overview 30 CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 3 of 54 2 LESSONS LEARNED: FINDINGS FROM THE FIELD, RESEARCH, CAPACITY BUILDING AND POLICY 31 2.1 Lessons from the field 31 2.1.1 Profiling is beneficial to farmers organizations 31 2.1.2 Sustainability comes from financial impact of profiling task 32 2.1.3 Personal data protection legislation has a major impact on profiling and should be considered at the early phases of a profiling project 32 2.1.4 Lack of a free and open-source technical platform for farmer profiling 33 2.1.5 Profile content should be designed through a multi-stakeholder process 33 2.1.6 The potential of business intelligence services on top of profile data is still to be demonstrated 33 2.1.7 Benefits of clear and regular consultation with farmers 33 2.1.8 Partnership development with financiers takes time 33 2.1.9 Lack of farmer data at county and national levels 34 2.2 Capacity building 34 2.2.1 Internet connectivity and devices is a major issue for online courses 34 2.2.2 Poor understanding of open data principles 34 2.2.3 Need for more sensitisation and capacity building at all levels 34 2.2.4 Need for research and educational institutions to institutionalise open data 34 2.2.5 Importance of the media in raising awareness of the potentials of open data 34 2.2.6 Lack of standards for sharing data and information 35 2.2.7 Gender balance in online training 35 2.2.8 Importance of incentives for building capacity-building network 35 2.2.9 Monitoring and evaluation 35 2.2.10 Blended learning 35 2.2.11 Weather data 36 2.2.12 Working effectively with networks 36 2.3 Research 36 2.3.1 Lessons for production 36 2.3.2 Lessons on trade and markets 36 2.3.3 Lessons on finance 37 2.4 Policy 37 2.4.1 High-level political awareness is still weak 37 2.4.2 Policies are needed at all levels to promote management and sharing of data 37 2.4.3 Policy change is a slow and complex process 37 2.4.4 Need to have a balance between policy action and technical strengthening 37 2.5 Constraints and problems encountered 37 2.5.1 Challenge of multi-stakeholder engagement 37 2.5.2 Logistical barriers 38 CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 4 of 54 2.5.3 Farmer literacy 38 2.6 Sustainability measures 38 3 ANNEXES 39 3.1 Project logframe 39 3.2 List of partners 46 3.3 List of knowledge products 47 3.4 Outcome / Impact stories 51 3.5 Other interesting links 53 CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 5 of 54 1 Assessment of implementation of project activities 1.1 Description table Name of Project Coordinator: Chris Addison Partner(s) Pan African Farmers Organisation and members, Agricord, Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition, Wageningen University Research, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations Project Coordination Team: Chris Addison, Chipo Msengezi, Didier Muyiramye Title of the Action: Data4Ag: Using data to transform smallholder farming Contract number: Start date and end date of the Action: 2018 – 2020 Targeted beneficiaries: Farmers Organisations, Infomediaries, Policy makers, Development agencies Final beneficiaries and/or target 126,000 farmers, 10,000 infomediaries, 5,000 policy groups1 (if different) (including makers, 10,000 development actors numbers of women and men): Target region(s): Sub-Saharan Africa, ACP Country(ies) in which the activities take Botswana, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire place: Eswatini, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, ACP wide trainees and audience. 1.2 Executive summary of the activities implemented 1.2.1 Background studies Farmers organisation consultation studies prior to project This project is based on a request from the Pan African Farmers Organisation members developed during the succession of continental briefings examining their capacity building needs and policy issues between 2012 and 2016 in the following steps: Using a discussion forum amongst the more than 200 members, they identified a number of successful farmers organisations requiring support for capacity development. A study was then carried out by the ZED group together with a further e-discussion to establish the needs to improve financial management. This identified the need for data to improve access to finance in terms of credit, but also to ensure access to insurance. At the fourth Continental Briefing, the PAFO identified the need to upport data driven farming within the farmers organisations and the new opportunities offered by different sustainable models like precision agriculture. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 6 of 54 The following organisations were identified and their current activities and status at that time (November 2016) are shown below: Fédération des Professionnels Agricoles du Burkina (FEPAB) Production Profit Flow Buyers Storage Membership Turnover 9,000 tonnes 30% of the profit World Food 49 warehouses 241,261 members exceeds CFA of corn per to operating costs Programme capacity of 10,260 6,131 production 420,000,000 30% is paid to (WFP) and the tonnes. year. groups (€ 638.308,27) union second the annually. Société Nationale 2,452 male, 40% to the This is related to de Gestion du 2,678 female farmers. the production Stock de Sécurité 1,003 mixed surplus Alimentaire du groups). transferred by Burkina Faso each member of (SONAGESS - the 10 unions National Society for Food Security Stock Management of Burkina Faso). Igara Growers Tea Factory (IGTF), Uganda Production Ownership Buyers Services Members 7 million kg of tea factory is Igara purchases Igara acts as a 7,201 farmers black tea (made 100% owned by directly from facilitator for supply tea to tea) annually out tea farmers in the farmer then them to access IGTF, about 5,459 of 32 million kg of Bushenyi district processes into additional inputs, are also being green leaf tea of eastern Uganda cut, tear and curl including finance, shareholders. Maximise profit (CTC) black tea, seedlings, Between 11 to for farmers sold at Mombasa fertilisers 20% of IGTF’s Tea Auction. suppliers are Some fairtrade women export produce National Union of Coffee Agribusiness and Farm Enterprises (NUCAFE), Uganda Production Ownership Buyers Proposed Membership Policy services NUCAFE is not a Created the Prior to project 1. Family NUCAFE has a Played a key role significant Farmer was not a Business membership of in the exporter of coffee Ownership Model significant Management 175 coffee development of but has focused (FOM) in 2003, exporter. 2. Coffee Value associations, Uganda’s on developing its which it Chain Analysis cooperatives and National Coffee internal capacity implements and estates, across the Policy 2013. and on promotes 3. Export 19 coffee growing collaborating with Readiness districts of other institutions 4. Bankability and Uganda, in order to Access to Finance representing over provide the 5. Association 150,000 coffee necessary services Business growing for coffee Governance and households (over processing Management 700,000 needed by its individual members. 6. Youth and smallholder Women coffee farmers), Empowerment making up 6% of 7.Quality Control all coffee farming and Food Safety families in 8. Establishing a Uganda. commercially viable Coffee farm. To ensure coverage across Africa the Regional Farmers Organisations were approached to propose further cases to ensure activities in each region. Several services were considered for support during the data4ag project: • Membership registration covering data take-on with mobile phone details so that farmers can update and receive further information through SMS services. The Farmers CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 7 of 54 organisation can view this data through the Web, and download information locally and view dashboards of the information online. • GPS mapping. This involves geolocation of farms and potential boundary mapping. • Strategic development advice. Consultancy support to develop membership services can be provided for software development and data ownership agreements • Data take-on agents. Financial support to hire short-term agents to assist with initial registration and promotion of services. Preparatory studies on Farmer Profiling Data To provide a context for the types of data which needed to be collected in the field projects, a study was executed to review how data was being used in services drawing on farmer profiles. This resulted in the CTA working paper 17/09 Farmer profiling: “Making data work for smallholder farmers”. A Data4Ag week was held in The Hague from 20 to 24 November 2018, the outcome of which fed into the study “Digital and Data-Driven Agriculture: Harnessing the Power of Data for Smallholders ”co published with GFAR and GODAN which become a key reference for the key elements in farm data management. This established the definition of four main data types for exchange in farm management. A number of issues were identified, in this process, as factors restricting farmers from benefiting from data-driven agriculture. From the farmers’ perspectives, there is a distinct lack of awareness of the issues surrounding data, and the complexity of these issues. This fuels the imbalance that exists between individual farmers and larger agribusinesses – wherein the former lack enough resources to address and analyse the significance of data, and so cannot take advantage of the value in it. There is also limited legislation for the generation, flow, exchange and use of data; where legislation does exist, it is not well understood by farmer organisations. From a policy perspective, moreover, there is very little guidance as to which agricultural data can be considered personal data, and therefore protected by privacy laws. It is also necessary to understand the distinction between the attribution of data ownership, and control over data use. 1.2.2 Brief overview of main achievements (highlights of the project) The project has several main achievements ranging from direct effects in the field to policy changes in the development community. It should be noted that these changes are rarely just the result of the EDF project expenditure but of the matching of that effort by other donors and other actors as well as CTA. Achievements in the field The main achievements by the partners in the field projects are shown below: CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 8 of 54 Figure 1: Farm data types from Maru A, Berne D, De Beer J et al. Digital and Data-Driven Agriculture: Harnessing the Power of Data for Smallholders. F1000Research 2018, 7:525 (document) (https://doi.org/10.7490/f1000research.111540 Achievements in research into data flows The investment in research with the Global Forum for Agricultural Research (GFAR) in bringing together a range of data experts for the workshop series held in Johannesburg and investment in the discussion paper, brought several achievements. In addition to a core discussion paper – well cited across the web i 2F2F , there is a working paper on data codes of conduct and the development of an online codes of conduct tool with KTBL, GFAR and GODAN. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 9 of 54 To support dialogue on this work, an e-discussion group was established together with the collective action of GFAR, KTBL and GODAN ii 3F3F . The codes of conduct kit features the results of the workshops and webinars produced with GODAN. Three working papers have been produced covering the farmer registration process, practical experience in Southern Africa in Lesotho and Swaziland and a comparison of codes of conduct for agriculture drawn from the examples of the code in the European Union, in the United States, Europe and in New Zealand. Achievements in capacity building Face-to-face workshops • 207 people trained, 30% being women • Package of open workshop resources available http://bit.ly/TrainingMat • Workshops co-delivered with local trainers in the Trainers Network Workshops Audience Open Data for Agriculture – Journalists Kenya, July 2016 Open Land Data – Policymakers Quito, October, 2016 Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition – Trainers Ghana, July 2017 Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition – Researchers Kenya, October 2017 Open Land Data Workshop – Infomediaries USA, March 2018 Land Data Management and Repositories – Infomediaries South Africa, May 2018 International Data Week Open Data Training Course – Botswana, Infomediaries November 2018 Open Data for Nutrition – Infomediaries Kenya, April 2019 Training Mini-grants In 2018 mini grants of 2,000 GBP were awarded to eight qualifying Trainers’ Network members to support local training initiatives. A total of 225 were trained. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 10 of 54 Workshop Title # of participants Kenya – KALRO 29 Sustainable Management of Integrated Open Weather Data and Agricultural Research Data to Create Impact for Smallholder Farmers in Kenya Zimbabwe – Ministry of Agriculture 19 Open Data for Agriculture: Towards Improved Collaboration between Researchers and Weather Data Providers. Uganda - Tune Communications, Open data for Journalists, Technologists 20 & Communication resource persons Rwanda – LAWICO, Improving the capacity of institutions to share data 20 and effectively use open land-related and weather- data to enhance agricultural productivity and communities’ nutrition Tanzania – Dodoma City Council, Open Data for Better Land Governance 60 and Capital City Prospects in Tanzania Zimbabwe – Zeipnet, Strengthening sustainable access and effective 12 utilization of open data in agriculture and nutrition initiatives in Zimbabwe Uganda – YITEDEV, Access to Open and FAIR data 34 Uganda – KIRUDOCO, Finding, Reusing and Publishing Open Nutrition 31 Data E-learning • Developed a five-unit curriculum and open course material. • Delivered six courses to 4,448 participants from 148 countries, 32% women • Audience mainly researchers, infomediaries and policy-makers. • Course themes: agriculture, nutrition, weather and land data. The data collected from various post-training follow-up surveys indicates that most of the self- reported outcomes were related to improved skills and some change in attitude towards open data. Before taking the massive open online courses (MOOCs), just 1% of baseline survey respondents said they could ‘confidently explain the principles of open data to others. By the end of the courses, this figure had increased to 59% on average. These results show a direct link between the training courses and the self-reported increase in confidence relating to open data principles. Most reported change Improved competencies Change in behaviour/attitude Increased capabilities to use, share and produce Increase in number of researchers that are open data. sharing their data From the data collected there are 73 examples of participants who say they have published datasets alongside their research papers. The extent of ‘openness’ or FAIRness of the shared datasets is however not established. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 11 of 54 Figure 2: Responses to a 2019 evaluation survey question “Have you published/shared any data on an open online platform content since you attended the online course?” Capacity building communities of practice a) GODAN Working Group on Capacity Development • Has been a good vehicle for scaling up lessons and discussions by open data practitioners. • 4169 global members • Monthly webinar series o 27 webinars produced since March 2017 – October 2019 o 1477 participants. o Recordings viewed by 6943 at time of writing this report. b) Trainers Network • Has been a good vehicle supporting replication of the GODAN Action training through their institutions • 93 members from 23 countries, mostly Africa. • Members through small grants delivered 8 workshops on open data in agriculture, land, weather and nutrition data. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 12 of 54 • Champions have developed local inter-organisational open data communities to encourage data sharing and supporting open data policy (Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda) Key achievements in policy Policy actions in East and West Africa have been influenced by the project. The Agricultural Open Data ministerial conference in Nairobi, Kenya in June 2017 supported by CTA, culminated in the Nairobi Declaration, a historic agreement under which 15 African countries committed to make data on agriculture and nutrition freely available, accessible and usable.4 In West Africa CTA has supported a similar Ministerial meeting together with the Agence française de développement (AFD) resulting in a similar draft declaration5F5F which is being taken forward by the Communauté d’Afrique Francophone des Données (CAFOD) group. Ghana is just one of several countries where efforts are showing significant results. Ghana was among the first African countries to join the Open Government Partnership. In 2017, Ghana hosted the second Open Data Conference, which CTA co-funded, and in March 2019, the parliament passed the Right to Information Bill. CTA and Wageningen University supported the government development of an open data policy plan for the agricultural sector. The plan covers the national and sub-national stakeholders in identifying and prioritising data releases, informing national policy, strategies or investment plans for open data on agriculture and nutrition, and convening a National Forum on open data for food and agriculture. Other open-data-related events A number of face to face events were possible as a result of the project: • Creating Impacts Kenya Workshop October 2017 (WUR, CABI, CTA, LNV) – led to the establishment of the Student Led Agriculture Extension (SLAE/P4CDA) iii 6F6F • Creating Impacts Workshop, the Hague, October 2017 – outputs The Big Wins • Africa Open Data Conference July 2017 • Africa Hydromet Conference – Africa Hydromet Conference, September 2017 • International Data Week, November 2018 • Africa Geo-data and Internet Conference – October 2019 CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 13 of 54 Knowledge product achievements The project has made an emphasis on “working out loud” and publishing articles on all the activities. This has resulted in a library of 117 outputs ranging from articles in ICT update and a dossier in Spore to 3 CTA Policy briefs, 6 working papers 5 produced videos (1 attracting over 4500 views as the top viewed video on CTA’s YouTube channel). 1.3 Project background CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 14 of 54 Smallholder farmer productivity and profitability is essential for food security and achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero hunger “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture.” The FAO smallholder farmers data portrait illustrates iv 7F7F that smallholder farmers are responsible for up to 70% of food production in some countries but only 20% of this production is sold. Reviews have shown for some time that interventions aimed at supporting the development of smallholder organization, improving market access and improving poorer households’ access to improved technologies are crucial to helping smallholders emerge from semi-subsistence poverty traps. v 8F8F According to the ILO, 40 % of households in Africa are members of a cooperative vi 9F9F Working with farmers organisations and cooperatives therefore was considered as an important approach to this project design. The digitalisation of agriculture is driving an exponential growth in the amount of data on agriculture being collected. This calls for new tools and approaches to gather, manage, analyse and use this data. CTA’s project, Data4Ag: Agricultural data systems to transform smallholder farming, focused on transforming smallholder agriculture using data management by farmer-led and owned agri-enterprises/organisations and examines the issues that affect upscaling the associated applications. Farmer profiling was the core of the project on which all other actions an outcomes were based. The lessons learnt were augmented by research and fed into a capacity building programme for intermediaries working with farmers organisations on digitalisation and data-driven services. Key issues on agricultural data management and supporting a data ecosystems were then introduced to governments through policy dialogue. The project aimed to facilitate better data management in farmer-owned cooperatives, associations and farmers’ organisations, and upscale its use through policy engagement, capacity development and communication. It focused on transforming agriculture for smallholder farmers through joint ventures to reach new markets and by using aggregated data to provide better services for their members and to inform policy-making. The project had four components undertaken with different project partners mobilising funding and resourcing from their complementary projects: The budget for the four components developed as additional donors were secured for the Field Proofing (DGIS – through Agricord), Expert Analysis (GODAN/KTBL), Capacity Building (DFID) and Policy action (Ministry of Agriculture, The Netherlands). CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 15 of 54 1.3.1 Field proofing The project supported seven farmers’ organisations in six countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Eswatini, Lesotho, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Kenya and Uganda. The seven organisations were the Fédération des Professionnels agricoles du Burkina (FEPAB), Burkina Faso; the Confédération des Associations des Producteurs Agricoles pour le Développement (CAPAD), Burundi; the Eswatini National Agricultural Union (ESNAU); the Lesotho National Farmers Union (LENAFU); the Eastern Africa Farmers’ Federation (EAFF), Kenya; Igara Tea Growers Factory (IGTF), Uganda; and the National Union of Coffee Agribusinesses and Farm Enterprises (NUCAFE), Uganda. Activities included data enumeration and farmer profiling; data management, analysis and visualisation; and identification of potential applications such as collective marketing and credit management. What is farmer profiling? At present there are three models being used for registration each with their advantages and disadvantages. The recording of information may now be digitised using portable tablets, but the interview technique may still be of two sorts – direct farm visits and group meetings. The advantage of on-site visits is that the farm can be mapped at the same time and a richer profile gathered, in particular more accurate geolocation. Without face to face interviews at the farm, contact details can be submitted by mobile phone by the farmer. Even approximate geolocation can be gathered technically, although theoretically possible this hasn’t proved possible in reality with current experience on projects. Through building the profile database and training the agrienterprise in data management, this information can be used to improve handling credit for inputs to the farmers, organising the logistics of collection and processing of crop and marketing of products. The project therefore includes capacity building for data management and services. 1.3.2 Capacity development A number of GODAN partners were considering working together to address a call from the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) regarding supporting the GODAN network with a research and capacity development project (GODAN action). CTA already had a substantial network of trainers from the Web2forDev initiative and some experience with FAO in digital training having worked on the iMark training materials. A project proposal was elaborated with CTA leading the work package. It was seen as an opportunity to link with the Data4Ag project and incorporate some of the lessons learnt during the project into the training programme. The training networks and working groups were used to discuss some of the emerging issues in a series of webinars. The resulting findings of the project were communicated through the Massive Open Online Course platform developed under the GODAN Action project. 1.3.3 Expert analysis The first of a series of workshops was held in the Hague leading up to the consultation with farmers organisations. By engaging the Pan African Farmers Organisation, World Farmers Organisation and Agricord the project had a series of platforms to promote best data use across Sub-Saharan Africa in particular. By using this group to examine the findings from our network of expertise formed during the project, we can identify priorities for donor and government investment to assist the digitalisation of the farmers organisation focussing on data services. This has resulted in a handbook for the farmers organisation to aid planning in relation to data services and sustainability. It also fed into a priority roadmap which the Organisations can present to donors and governments to seek areas of support. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 16 of 54 1.3.4 Policy The project is using links established in the work of GODAN to reach policy makers in the Nairobi 15 who have already pledged to improve data for farmers organisations. As a starting point, and in collaboration with the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, the project builds on work already done in Kenya together with the University of Nairobi. It is aimed at influencing the policy process in favour of farmer registration and farmers organisation data management. 1.4 Impacts 1.4.1 Impact: Through geo-registration, better targeted advice and logistics can be provided to smallholders to improve production, reduce post-harvest losses – and support better livelihoods Indicator: Number of small scale producers that have increased production and income resulting from the value chains and practices using sustainable practices Target: 50,000 show production and financial benefit (from the 150,000 farmers to be registered across the 7 organisations) Actual impact: The project profiled and registered a total of 125,970 smallholder farmers across the seven organisations. In Burundi, for example, the project helped 39 smallholder cooperatives to register more than 14,000 farmers (55% of whom were women). The data collected helped the farmer organisations to better plan for the 2019 and 2020 seasons through bulk ordering of fertiliser and seed. Among the farmers profiled with project support, 100,727 (80%) reported increased in production as a result, and 76,511 (61%) reported higher incomes. In Uganda, for example, profiled tea farmers had yields between 30% and 50% greater than those of non-profiled farmers. This was the result of tailored distribution of fertilisers to the profiled farmers. Both profiled and non profiled received fertiliser on credit, but those who had been profiled had more accurate assessment of need because of the measurement of the farms. Overall analysis showed that farmers who were registered achieved higher yields. Local youths are now also involved in the initiative, with over 40 using mobile apps to collect tea from the farmer members, and 70 are using GPS-enabled tablets to validate farmer data for the profiling platform. Also, in Uganda, members of the National Union of Coffee agribusinesses and farm Enterprises (NUCAFE) reported increased income by 30% as a result of improved market access, e.g. Fairtrade certification, and traceability of their produce. In Burundi, 4,312 farmers reported increased income as a result of collective purchase of inputs. A total of 2,896 farmers were also able to secure €100,000 of credit as a result of registration and profiling. 1.4.2 Impact: Increased resilience through new insurance services and extension achieved by farmer registration Indicator: Number of small-scale producers in ACP regions with increased adaptive capacity to climate change (or environmental shocks). Target: 10,000 small-scale producers in ACP regions with increased adaptive capacity to climate change (or environmental shocks). Actual impact: By the end of 2018, the EAFF e-Granary system had nearly 150,000 registered users across Kenya and Uganda, of whom nearly 5,000 were accessing all of the system’s services, including extension, market advice, finance and insurance services. Whilst not all activities across the two countries were funded by CTA the extension services in Kenya were supported with further support through the Agricord funding and support of Agriterra. Registered farmers that were marketing maize through the e-Granary system were receiving US$6–9 per bag more than what the brokers were paying. Timely extension advice helped farmers deal with emerging issues such as the fall armyworm outbreak, with e-Granary organizing training in pest management and in some regions lobbying local government to CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 17 of 54 provide farmers with subsidized pesticides to help them manage the pest. The e-Granary platform provided access to multi-peril cover for their crops, including weather insurance, and in 2018 nearly 5,000 farmers accessed financial services through the platform. More than 5,000 copies of educational materials were distributed to farmers, and six radio programmes were aired on post-harvest handling technics for cassava, common beans, maize and soybeans as major commodities in the e-Granary, and on financial literacy. 1.4.3 Impact: Increased employment in agriculture can result through more efficient organisations Indicator: Number of jobs created for, in particular youth in agribusiness in ACP regions through CTA's support for ICT4Ag and other value chain development initiatives Target: 10 new jobs associated with registration through new roles and profitability. Actual impact: The project created a total of 1047 new jobs. This included 52 enumerators in Lesotho, 27 in Eswatini, 137 in Burundi, 10 in Burkina Faso, 108 in Kenya and 141 in Uganda. Note that these cannot be validated as full-time equivalents as registration is now complete. The only validated full time jobs are 8 new jobs associated with the SACCO office in Igara Tea Growers Factory. 1.5 Outcomes 1.5.1 Outcome: Policy actions through Kenya project linked with Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs and GODAN, GODAN action Indicator: Number of countries introduce new policies, strategies or regulations that support value chain development by opening agricultural data. Target: 2 ACP countries introduce new policies, strategies or regulations that support value chain development by opening agricultural data. (Kenya/Ghana) Actual outcome: Three countries – Kenya, Ghana and Uganda – introduced new policies influenced by the project. In 2017, Ghana hosted the second Open Data Conference, which CTA co-funded, and in March 2019, the parliament passed the Right to Information Bill, which will allow more transparency and accountability in public affairs. CTA, in conjunction with the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality and Wageningen Environmental Research, worked with the e-Agriculture Unit of Ghana Ministry of Food and Agriculture to support the development of an open data policy plan for the agricultural sector. Multiple engagements with government and non-government stakeholders, including the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and farmers’ organisations, identified priority issues and objectives around open data and led to the development of a range of policies, strategic planning and investment activities. A policy drafting team incorporated this information into a new national open data policy that was submitted to the parliament for review early in 2019. An assessment of the project was made using the policy influence ladder proposed by the Learning Monitoring and Evaluation Unit, showing current progress with the project. This work will be continued by Wageningen University with financial support from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Netherlands to add an additional open data case relating to crisis management in agriculture and nutrition, before presenting to the Donor group with the assistance of Bram Wits of the Netherlands Embassy and Wisdom Donkor working with the Ghanaian Ministry. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 18 of 54 1.5.2 Outcome: Data for finance is addressed at farmers’ organization/agro-enterprise level as a result of better profiling. Indicator: Approximately six value chains acquire new financing facilities/ arrangements for traders and producers through Central and commercial banks and micro-finance organization Target: 1 value chain acquires new financing facilities/ arrangements for traders and producers through Central and commercial banks. Actual outcome: three value chains acquired new financing facilities: two rice value chains in Burundi and the coffee value chain in Uganda. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 19 of 54 1.5.3 Outcome: New farmer registration practice adopted together with management systems for improving geo-targeted information, transaction efficiency, improved logistics or mechanisms to reduce costs Indicator: Number of farmer-led organisations and agribusinesses adopting new registration practices Target: 6 organisations adopt new practices or innovations to improve their performance Actual impact: A total of 45 organisations adopted new practices, 39 in Burundi, 2 in Uganda and one each in Burkina Faso, Eswatini, Kenya and Lesotho. This underestimates the extent of the impact as some of the adopting organisations have wide influence: for example, the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU) has 250 members, all of whom are encouraged to follow the lead of SACAU. SACAU, supported by AgriCord and CTA, led the project’s work on developing an Electronic Membership Data Management System for the Swaziland National Agricultural Union (SNAU) and Lesotho National Farmers Union (LENAFU). A team of more than 50 field facilitators registered over 52,000 farmers for LENAFU and 23,000 for SNAU, capturing data such as the age, location, gender and farming activities. Igara Tea Growers Factory (IGTF) has had government support to develop a National Tea farmers registration system. NUCAFE has been involved in the development of the government’s plan for coffee grower’s registration. The methodology has also been shared with other registration projects across Africa, for example the approach in Rwanda. 1.6 Outputs and key activities 1.6.1 Component A – Farmer registration solution R4.1 Number of farmers advised through the action of extension agents via e- Granary and others Indicator: Number of farmers advised with the support of the project Target: 28,000 farmers receive advice through farmers’ associations Actual output: A total of 21,513 farmers in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Kenya and Uganda received training or advice on production, processing or marketing with support from the Data4Ag project. The main shortfall was in Uganda, with only 8,000 of the planned 18,000 farmers receiving advice, but this was made up by unanticipated farmer advisory services in Burkina Faso (702) and Burundi (8,259). R4.2 Farmers digitally profiled in an electronic farm management system Indicator: Number of smallholder producers (disaggregated by gender, country) digitally profiled with CTA’s support. Target: 150,000 smallholder producers (disaggregated by gender, country) digitally profiled with CTA’s support. Actual output: The project has digitally profiled and registered 125,970 smallholder producers across the six countries, with the largest number being profiled in Uganda. Overall, 48% of those profiled records were women. 1.6.2 Component B – Knowledge sharing and learning R3.1 Publications and media products including video Indicator: Number of knowledge products, including policy briefs, guidebooks, technical reports, case studies, synthesis reports, learning materials, and multi-media products generated within the project Target: At least 10 new knowledge products (not including web articles) CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 20 of 54 Actual output: More than 100 knowledge products have been produced through the project, including 78 magazine articles, 3 policy briefs, 6 working papers, 1 technical report, 4 videos and 26 webinars. R3.2 Marketing content to reach relevant audience Indicator: Number of individual downloading or receiving copies of publications related to the project Target: 3,000 individuals download or receive copies of publications related to the project per year Actual output: Nearly 8,000 people downloaded publications produced by the project or received them by mail in 2019. In addition, more than 9,000 people downloaded or received copies of Spore or ICTUpdate in 2019. Posts related to the project also reached nearly 30,000 people via CTA’s online platforms, e-newsletters and social media. 1.6.3 Component C – Institutional capacity R2.1: Number of organisations directly targeted with new capacity for farmer registration Indicator: R2.1.1: Number of trainings organized in farmer registration Target: 6 face-to-face training events in farmer registration Actual output: Working with each farmers organisation the project organised a total of seven face-to-face training events in farmer registration in Uganda, Lesotho, Eswatini, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Kenya. Indicator: R2.1.2: Number of organisations attending the training (disaggregated by type, size, country) Target: 6 organisations attend face-to-face training in farmer registration Actual output: Note the target was based on the original project partners. In the case of CAPAD in Burundi this included a number of their cooperative members. A total of 45 organisations in Burkina Faso (1), Burundi (39), Eswatini (1), Kenya (1), Lesotho (1) and Uganda (2). The training focussed on different areas of registration. For example, there was an additional emphasis on Geospatial databases in Uganda and Kenya where Q-GIS training was held. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 21 of 54 Indicator: R2.1.3: Number of organisations with strengthened ICT infrastructure Target: At least 5 organisations acquire additional agri-business and value chain development capabilities (including ICT4Ag and KM) with CTA’s support. Actual output: A total of 45 organisations in Burkina Faso (1), Burundi (39), Eswatini (1), Kenya (1), Lesotho (1) and Uganda (2) have increased the strength of their ICT infrastructure as a result of the project’s interventions. These include new equipment for data collection and management – tablets and laptops for analysis – new digital balances and printers for printing field receipts for farmers. Activity: Training of data managers linked with broader GODAN data training roles on open data use Indicator: R2.2.2: Number of intermediaries receiving GODAN data training roles on open data use trainings (disaggregated by age, gender, country, level of education, organization, country) Target: 3,340 enumerators trained in farmer registration and farm data systems Actual output: A total of 3,807 enumerators received training in farmer registration and farm data systems. This included 37 in Burkina Faso, 37 in Burundi, 27 in Eswatini, 2,672 in Kenya, 52 in Lesotho and 982 in Uganda. Indicator: R2.2.3 Number of data managers receiving GODAN data training roles on open data use trainings (disaggregated by age, gender, level of education, organization, country) Target: 40 people trained in farmer registration and farm data systems (GODAN action target 600 trained in Open Data use) Actual output: A total of 421 people participated in face-to-face training workshops in use of open data in Botswana, Ecuador, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, USA and Zimbabwe. More than 200 infomediaries, researchers and policymakers attended the eight courses held in Africa. Many of these participants went on to complete a free 4-week e-learning course offered by GODAN, in conjunction with the project. This course covered various aspects of making data open and usable, from first principles to use, exposure, sharing and licensing of data. A total of 4,488 people from 148 countries have taken part in this course, including journalists, ICT workers, policymakers, extension officers and researchers. Working with Wageningen University & Research, lessons from the workshops and e-learning course have been fed into policy advice on data sharing, and in relation to open data more generally across the continent. The project also ran a massive open online course (MOOC) on farm data management with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). A total of 5,125 people participated in the first two iterations of this course. Participants in the courses have formed an active community of alumni, who continue to share knowledge among themselves. As part of its knowledge sharing and learning work, the project has helped establish a network of trainers in data management and analysis that currently has more than 100 members from 24 countries. Since 2017, these trainers have held local workshops in five African countries and trained more than 200 data and information intermediaries. Monthly webinars, provided with the support of the GODAN Secretariat, have proved to be a successful way to reach wide audiences and engage other communities and networks working with open data. Webinars cover a variety of agriculture-data topics (such as land data management and nutrition) and societal issues (such as the link between gender and open data). They have also provided a way to encourage practitioners and professionals to join the GODAN Capacity Development Working Group to share their findings. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 22 of 54 The SenseMaker survey tool vii 10F10F was used to try to capture much broader perspectives and feedback on stakeholder’s experience of GODAN than would be possible through semi- structured interviews. Sixty (60) responses were collected and despite the low response rate, the survey had an impressive geographic reach across 28 countries, primarily in the global South. Eighty per cent of SenseMaker respondents highlighted capacity building and training as GODAN’s key strength. Of these respondents, 75% indicated that the change in their story was attributed to GODAN training courses (either online or face to face). The content of the stories within this cohort mostly describe the benefits of attending GODAN MOOCs or webinars. Figure 3: 80% of respondents highlighted GODAN’s strength in building capacity and providing training (extract from IDS report) The IDS report notes that, the high turnout for the online courses referenced above indicate that strong demand exists for training on what open data is and how to use it. One interviewee described how they have continued to roll out the GODAN Action training materials for their own activities and capacity building actions and continue to recommend some of the resources to their partners. The report states that there is evidence that these training courses and materials have had a strong influence on equipping stakeholders and building capacity in the sector, for example: ‘I would say that through all the capacity building [GODAN] has had an impact on the way we use data and how we should produce the data and how we should publish on a platform.’ The IDS report also highlights that face-to-face meetings were a key tool for GODAN that supported various objectives, building awareness and equipping open data champions, as well as strengthening capacity. These trainings were focussed on mid to high-level technical people with the capacity to influence change within their organisations, and were described as important for: ‘understanding the importance for their countries and for their organizations… this is key people, that need to be so informed and trained so for me the face to face are more selective.’ CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 23 of 54 R2.3: Capacity development digital platforms created to improve implementation Indicator: R2.3.1: Number of capacity development learning platforms Target: Learning platform established or considerably reinforced with CTA’s support. Actual output: The project established four capacity-development learning platforms: The Capacity Development Working Group in the GODAN network (1200 members) The Training of Trainers network (102 members) The Massive Open Online Course for Open Data (4488 users) The Massive Open Online Course for Farmers Data and Alumni group (5125 members) The GODAN Action Online Course on Open Data Management in Agriculture and Nutrition was funded by DFID and this was followed by the one for a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Farm Data Management, funded by CTA and developed with the Pan African Farmers’ Organisation (PAFO) and Data4Ag team and delivered by FAO. Indicator: R2.3.2: Number of active users Target: 50 active users Actual output: The two e-discussion platforms had a total of 81 active users at the end of 2019, against a target of 50 users. The users of the Massive Open Online course are considered separately as these were interacting for the course itself. Subsequently the alumni group continues, and other discussions have arisen off the list from this including a recent WhatsApp group established to discuss Covid19 issues. Indicator: 2.3.3: Number of contents developed (disaggregated by type) Target: 10 knowledge products Actual output: Users of the platforms had contributed to the development of 29 knowledge products these are training materials and papers. 1.6.4 Component D – Policy R1.1 Policy platform (policy meetings) created to improve implementation of priority setting and establish content for summit/ICT4Ag conference inputs Indicator: R1.1.1: Number of multi-stakeholder platforms created Target: 3 multi-stakeholder platforms established or considerably reinforced with CTA’s support. Actual output: The project created or reinforced three multi-stakeholder platforms, support for ACP participation in the GODAN helped ensure that membership across the ACP accounted for a third of the members. The Ghana data group informing the Ghana Open Data Policy was created as part of the project together with Wageningen University and the Ministry of Agriculture in the Netherlands. The PAFO network was reinforced in conjunction with Agricord and the Next generation project linking the field project participants with the regional members of the Pan African Farmers Organisation at the panel events in Rome EXCO2019 and Brussels (linked with the Brussels Briefing) and with the experience capitalisation event (see video) viii 11F11F . These have served as hubs for ongoing policy dialogue among key constituencies influencing and affected by data policy, including policymakers, journalists and farmers’ organisations and cooperatives. Indicator: R1.1.2: Number of active users of policy platforms Target: 50 active users Actual output: As mentioned through the networks above with PAFO, the Ghana Open Data community and GODAN, we have reinforced the policy platforms hosted by partners. This CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 24 of 54 extends beyond the 50 participants envisaged in the target, but it is hard to assess how many of the participants in the platforms are there as a direct result of the project. Indicator: R1.1.3: Number of contents developed (disaggregated by type) Target: 20 contents incl. 6 publications and 3 multimedia products Actual output: To date, the platforms have led to the generation of nearly 110 articles in information outputs, including working papers, briefing documents and multimedia products. These are broken down into 110 articles, R1.2: Four events held during project supporting farmers organisation dialogue and policy setting for support to farm data management Indicator: R1.2.1: Number of policy events organized related to farmers’ organisation dialogue and policy setting management Target: Four multi-stakeholder events Actual output: A total of 17 multi-stakeholder events were held in Belgium (1), Burkina Faso (3), Burundi (2), Eswatini (1), Kenya (1), Lesotho (1) and Uganda (8). Participants included policymakers, researchers, journalists, farmers’ organisations and cooperatives. In February 2017, CTA co-organised a meeting on creating impact with Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition together with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, GODAN and the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International. More than 150 participants attended the meeting. In June 2017, CTA supported the GODAN ministerial conference in Nairobi, Kenya. More than 400 people registered for the conference, which culminated in the Nairobi Declaration, a historic agreement under which 15 African countries committed to make data on agriculture and nutrition freely available, accessible and usable. In addition, around 6,000 people attended the Agritech exhibition associated with the conference. CTA, in partnership with GODAN, contributed to the second meeting of the Francophone Africa Open Data Community (Communauté d’Afrique francophone sur les données ouvertes, CAFDO) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from 17–19 December 2019. Representatives of governments, international development organisations, civil society organisations and research institutions gathered around to discuss the theme of ‘Open Data: from principles to action’ in order to promote open data in the French-speaking countries of West Africa. CTA also supported the participation of partners from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Tunisia. Ministers of Agriculture and high-level representatives of CILSS member governments at the meeting issued a declaration on open data based on the 2017 Nairobi Declaration, to be ratified at the next high-level meeting in 2020. The declaration supports the use of ICTs to improve productivity in the rural sector of member countries of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (Comité permanent inter-État de lutte contre la sécheresse au Sahel, CILSS) and to strengthen synergies between different regional initiatives in the agricultural sector. Indicator: R1.2.2 Number of participants (disaggregated by gender, age, organization, country) Target: 200 participants in total related to the farm data systems Actual outputs: Policy conferences and briefings were held in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho and Uganda, attracting a total of 507 participants. C1 Data management Indicator: R2.2 - Number of organizations and networks acquiring additional agri-business and value chain development capabilities (including ICT4Ag and KM) with CTA’s support. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 25 of 54 Target: Number of people trained in farmer registration and farm data systems (GODAN action target 1000 trained in Agriculture Open Data management and use) Actual output: 10,034 people were trained in data management and 3,807 field agents were trained in farmer registration. 1.6.5 Component E – Learning & Exchange Indicator: R1.1 – Number of multi-stakeholder platforms established or considerably reinforced with CTA’s support. Target: 1 platform established for farm data. 3 policy fora supported Actual output: As noted under Component – Policy, the project created three multi- stakeholder platforms. These have served as hubs for ongoing policy dialogue among key constituencies influencing and affected by data policy, including policymakers, journalists and farmers’ organisations and cooperatives. An Alumni group of 5100 data intermediaries from the farm data course are supported on a platform now run by UN FAO. 1.7 Analysis of business case/scalability/key success factors The project was designed to inform those involved in the development of data driven services aimed to develop profitability, productivity and sustainability of smallholder agriculture. It was designed to work with aggregations of smallholder farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa through several change agents: farmers organisations, data service providers and development intermediaries, policy makers and governments across Africa. The project was looking to validate and illustrate potential advantages of farmers organisations in improving production, access to markets, access to finance and the organisation of value chains through more effective use of data focussed on farmer profiles and geospatial information. To make this as cost effective as possible the following strategies were invoked. 1.7.1 Working with CTA projects: It was essential for the project to dovetail with other resources to maximise the impact of the activities. It was important in the first instance that this project interacted with other projects from CTA. For example, the work linked with the following CTA projects: “Eyes in the Sky” project for the surveying work in Uganda and Burkina Faso and with the Experience Capitalisation programme across the projects. Results were published in the ICT update magazine and a special dossier in Spore. The Massive Open Online Course benefitted from being promoted across the CTA communities resulting in over 10,000 people attending the courses. 1.7.2 Working with other Member State donors To improve the cost effectiveness and expand the reach of the project external funding was sought. A call from DFID for 1.4 Million Euros was addressed and won with a consortium which formed the GODAN action project ix 12F12F . CTA was responsible for managing the capacity development package which complimented the work on building capacity for data management within the Data4Ag project. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 26 of 54 Donor contributions to different work packages (€) DFID UK Ministry of EDF DGIS NL BML DE (GODAN Agriculture funds (Agricord) (KTBL) action) NL (WUR) Total (€) A Field proofing 615,931 302,2931 918,224 1 Farmer Profiling 2 Business2Business 20,860 B Research and 94,898 52,0002 146,898 expert analysis 3 FO Data management C Policy & 38,387 30,0003 68,387 Advocacy 4 Policy D Capacity 445,515 450,0004 895,515 Building 5 Learning & Exchange Total € 2,029,024 1-DGIS funding to Agricord members for FEBAP,EAFF and CAPAD projects. 2- KTBL support to Codes of conduct workshops Bonn & Darmstadt, 3-WUR contract for Ghana Open Data Policy Development project and 4-DFID support to work package 4 Capacity Development managed by CTA of €1.4 Million total for GODAN action External donor contributions 100% 90% 302,293 52,000 30,000 80% 450,000 70% 60% 50% 40% € 615,931 € 94,898 30% € 38,387 € 445,515 20% 10% 0% A Field B Research C Policy & D Capacity proofing and expert Advocacy Building analysis EDF (in EUR) DGIS NL (Agricord) BML DE (KTBL) DFID UK (GODAN action) Ministry Of Agriculture NL (WUR) 1.7.3 ICT innovations A number of new technologies were introduced to the farmers organisations in the projects ranging from Tablet data collection, linked with GPS mapping of farms, digital balances and linked mobile applications and printers for collection centres. Successful project implementation relied however primarily on the individuals involved. With the advent of the Bisso SharePoint system it was easier to engage the partners in updating financial records, project activity sheets with regular skype calls to the project partners. Microsoft project was valuable for overseeing project activities across the multiple projects and allowed rescheduling of work. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 27 of 54 1.7.4 Capacity development approaches Making more of face-to-face (F2F) workshops The majority of the respondents in a need’s assessment (84%) indicated that the face-to-face approach was their preferred learning style, so therefore several training workshops have been delivered during the project. By making a call with mini grants it was possible to expand the network of trainers and attract more interest to the training materials and encourage others to use the course materials. The planning and delivery for workshops was conducted with in- country partners to ensure that the material was contextualised appropriately. Workshops have been held in Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Botswana, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Ecuador and the USA. Advantages • Adaptability - F2F training workshops could more easily be adapted to smaller groups improving the overall effectiveness of the training. • Increased trainer-participant interaction and engagement. • Increased space for discussion and peer learning. E-learning The GODAN Action MOOC has had the widest reach to a diverse set of open data users and data managers. It was delivered through the Moodle open course management system, offering a five-module curriculum supported by online tutorials, forum discussions and live webinars. The learning platform is designed to suit low-bandwidth contexts. Advantages • Flexible for participants to choose modules they want to learn. • Flexible in terms of time and scheduling • Peer learning with global learners Blended learning This is an approach that combines online training with traditional face-to-face workshop methods. The partners successfully used a blended learning approach during International Data Week, 2018. Thirty-five participants took a week-long online course in which they engaged with tutors using the online content, webinars and chat discussions. A F2F workshop was later held where they could practice some of the theoretical concepts. The participants found the approach useful as it facilitated a simultaneous independent and collaborative learning experience. Advantages • Allows learners to engage with the material at their own pace. • Promotes deeper learning, reduce stress, and increase student satisfaction. Communities of Practice Two communities were developed and supported in the implementation phase. a) The Trainers’ Network whose activities include: • Supporting replication of the GODAN Action training activities. • Promoting open data knowledge, increase awareness of ongoing open data initiatives, share experiences, innovations and good practices for open data training. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 28 of 54 • Promoting use of the GODAN Action open data curriculum and training material through your institutions. • Identifying further opportunities for training. b) The GODAN Working Group on Capacity Development whose activities include: • Promoting open data knowledge, increase awareness of ongoing open data initiatives, innovations and good practices • Advocating for collaborative efforts agriculture and nutrition open data initiatives through knowledge sharing among capacity development activities • Advocating programs, good practices, and lessons learned that enable the use of open data. Advantages • Sharing course materials for delivery - supporting replication of curriculum and material • Scaling up lessons and discussions with a wide community of practitioners. Webinars Monthly webinars provided with the support of the GODAN Secretariat have proved a successful way to reach wide audiences and to engage other communities working with open data. The webinars cover a variety of agriculture-data topics such as land data management; nutrition; visualisation; earth-observation, blockchains, data rights; and issues such as the link between gender and open data. Advantages • Webinars bring together experts from around the world at a relatively low cost, while having global reach. 1.7.5 Project Management and Governance The development of a more delegated project management team (following the approach promoted by internal project management training) allowed a larger scale of outreach for the project, particularly as some of those involved were also working on the partner donor projects. It was also important to ensure a gender balance as far as was possible within the team. 40% of the managers in the PAFO and farmers organisation team and 50% of the core team consultants. It was important to have project steering groups involved in the selection of field projects and design, development of publications and planning of events particularly to ensure engagement of the farmers organisations and to develop sustainability of the project. Effectively these developed into two areas: • The Next Generation project run by the Brussels Office with PAFO, CTA and Agricord helped select the first projects and engage the regional farmers organisations with the agribusinesses and farmers organisations being supported. It also played a key role in engaging the European Commission in the Experience Capitalisation workshop in Brussels. This has built a stronger group which continues without CTA. • The expert group around farm data management and data codes of conduct. These groups were invaluable in developing the Massive Open Online Course with UN FAO and helping to develop the data codes of conduct tool. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 29 of 54 1.8 Financial overview Below the financial expenditures against the proposed budgeted work packages. Changes were made within individual contracts to accommodate minor changes needed as a result of lessons learnt during implementation. For example, some equipment budget was reallocated to accommodate the need for more printers at collection centres in the case of Igara Tea Growers and there were minor reallocations in the Nucafe budget due to training opportunities having to be cancelled. Budget breakdown € 445,515 € 615,931 € 94,898 € 38,387 € 20,860 1 Profiling 2 B2B 3 FO data management 4 Policy 5 Learning&exchange CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 30 of 54 Total Proposal Total cost breakdown Actual (in EUR) of budget expenditure % increase A Field proofing 615,931 51 53 -2% 1 Farmer Profiling 2 Business2Business 20,860 2 2 0 B Research and 94,898 8 6 2% expert analysis 3 FO Data management C Policy & Advocacy 38,387 3 3 0 4 Policy D Capacity Building 445,515 37 35 -2% 5 Learning & Exchange 2 Lessons Learned: Findings from the field, research, capacity building and Policy 2.1 Lessons from the field 2.1.1 Profiling is beneficial to farmers organizations For all organizations, the profiling project was beneficial and was instrumental to unlock new opportunities in the form of new projects funded by other stakeholders/donors. The study identified 2 specific elements: 1. The development of a profiling project demonstrates the capacities of the farmers’ organisation, usually acquired as part of the project, to organize a large-scale data collection and use ICT tools to collect field data. One of the major outputs of such projects is the ability for the farmers’ organisation to conduct such a process in a short period of time, and to interact in a trustful way with usually hard-to-reach populations (rural farmers). The technical and managerial capacities demonstrated by such projects are not very common in developing countries and are therefore in demand. This situation creates opportunities for farmers’ organisations, and many of them were involved in similar tasks after the profiling project and were able to establish new partnership with governmental agencies/ministries and/or international organizations. 2. The profiling data is valuable and can be used for other purposes. Profile content is useful for other types of intervention than the one originally targeted as part of the CTA project. Some of the farmers’ organisations were then involved in subsequent initiatives thanks to the data they gathered in the profiling project. However, this aspect has to be mitigated with lesson 2 related to sustainability, and lesson 7 related to business intelligence service. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 31 of 54 Figure 4; Applications of farmer profiling data 2.1.2 Sustainability comes from financial impact of profiling task Despite the benefits of profiling, three out of the seven organisations studied were not able to continue the project after project funding came to an end. The main reasons for this are as follows: • Large-scale data collection is costly. In projects that were able to continue gathering profile data update of information is done by profiled individuals and not as a central task from the farmers’ organisation. This is far easier and cheaper than organizing a census-like process. • Farmers are willing to provide profile data when they can directly link the provision of their data to the access of valuable services, such as access to cheaper input at the right time, access to credit or access to new markets or new business linkages. • Strengthening the advocacy function of the farmers’ organization is not a strong-enough incentive for farmers to continue to provide profile data. 2.1.3 Personal data protection legislation has a major impact on profiling and should be considered at the early phases of a profiling project Farmer profiling involves the capture of personal data and thus must comply with personal data protection legislation where this exists. Farmers’ organizations participating in this study were not generally aware of this legislation, despite many of them having been collecting member information for many years. Among the six countries covered by the seven projects, two have personal data legislation that is few years old, two have very recent (less than 6 months old) legislation and two have no such legislation. Organizations conducting farmer profiling must follow closely the legislative environment to ensure they comply with any changes introduced. It is essential that farmers’ organisations identify and review personal data protection legislation before engaging in a profiling task. Where there is no legislation or where the legislation is weak and/or permissive, farmers’ organisations should implement best practices, such as those recommended by the European General Data Protection Regulation, to ensure that they are protected in the future if their country adopts or upgrades legislation and to leverage trust with farmers involved in the process. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 32 of 54 2.1.4 Lack of a free and open-source technical platform for farmer profiling Almost all the organisations are facing major challenges with the technical platform they use, including cost, technical difficulties such as the need for a stable internet connection, and legal challenges related to person data protection. There are also difficulties relating to linkages with services such as credit providers and markets, most of which have their own online platform. This leads to the requirement to re- enter data in different systems with resultant duplication of effort and data and loss of synchronisation. The project identified a number of requirements for software to support farmer profiling and data management, including mobile and desktop support; flexibility in terms of data structure and handling; access via a web interface and an application programming interface; data monitoring and validation; data analytics; offline capabilities and data synchronization; and the ability to support management of federated organizations. Currently there is no open source software that meets all of these requirements, but a promising open source option was developed by Agricord partner Collectif Stratégies Alimentaire (CSA) in the CAPAD project. x 13F13F 2.1.5 Profile content should be designed through a multi-stakeholder process Specific data are needed to support the different services on which the sustainability of farmer profiling and data management project depend. This requires that the design of the data collection must involve a wide range of stakeholders and potential users of the data. 2.1.6 The potential of business intelligence services on top of profile data is still to be demonstrated Almost all projects reviewed have the plan to increase the sustainability of the profiling task through the setup of a business intelligence service developed on top of the profile data. However, none of the projects have successfully set such a service, and, there is also no example in the literature of such services being successfully developed. Constraints or requirements to setup such a service include limitations imposed by personal data protection legislation; the need for staff skilled in data analysis and statistics; and the specificity of needs of potential users of information. Developing such services would require clear identification of potential products and their needs and the development of appropriate business models. 2.1.7 Benefits of clear and regular consultation with farmers All the projects saw improved communications with the farmers as a result of the project, and in a number of cases (e.g. particularly IGTF and EAFF), they specifically commented on improved trust between farmers and the organisations. “Regular engagement with farmers at season onset and mid-way has greatly improved relationships between us. It has also built a lot of trust and confidence because they now better understand e-Granary and we understand them as well. We have also been listening to their concerns with respect to seed varieties and from season to season we made deliberate effort to link them to Kenya Seed Company, varieties which many preferred. This has meant that we need to have a dynamic flexible lending model and not a one fit all kind of model hence the pursuit of other financial partners.” 2.1.8 Partnership development with financiers takes time Partnerships with financial institutions are difficult as they want to understand the farmers’ association, farmer groups and individual farmers, first. Then they can start discussing products and how they can be tailor made and finally they want to conduct due diligence to CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 33 of 54 make sure that all is in place and that they will be able to cover their money. Hence the process takes longer. The production of a dossier showing field use by farmers, or records of transactions can act as collateral for loans, but this is not a simple process. 2.1.9 Lack of farmer data at county and national levels Government at both county and national levels do not have correct data on farmers in terms of acres of crop they have planted, produce harvested, amount consumed, amount sold, and the amount left. This has led irrational directives and decisions made by the concerned government institutions, and eventually impacting smallholder farmers negatively. For instance, the basis for allowing importation of maize by the government in Kenya was that there was no maize in the country, according to the data the concerned institutions were relying on, whereas in real sense, and according to the data collected by EAFF through the eGranary, farmers were having a lot of maize during that particular period. Such farmers continue to count losses when the market is flooded with cheap imports. Hence, EAFF continues to engage policy makers at these two levels in terms of data driven decision making. 2.2 Capacity building 2.2.1 Internet connectivity and devices is a major issue for online courses Participants in rural areas, in particular, have issues with internet connectivity, from slow and unreliable connections to the cost of being online. It is essential to structure online courses to allow participants to follow them offline. However, it should be noted that the Massive Open Online Course could be followed on smartphones and did not require a computer. This expanded the range of people able to connect. 2.2.2 Poor understanding of open data principles Capacity building efforts had to address a general lack of awareness of the principles and benefits of open data before going into more technical aspects. For example, the librarian at the Namibia University of Science and Technology was unaware of the concept of interoperability of information systems. Since their participation in a GODAN Action workshop, the library is exchanging bibliographic data on its collections with other information systems via APIs. Similarly, the Genetic Resources Research Institute of the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization is now publishing the phenotypic data on plants conserved at GeRRI data on the Genesys PGR online database in collaboration with the Global Crop Diversity Trust. 2.2.3 Need for more sensitisation and capacity building at all levels There is a need for efforts to boost awareness of the potential for open data at all levels, including local government, civil society organisations, farmers and other key stakeholders in the agricultural value chain. 2.2.4 Need for research and educational institutions to institutionalise open data To gain the full benefits of the potential for open data to contribute to development, research institutions and educational institutions should institutionalise open data and develop the capacity to perform data curation, preservation, citation, publishing and data sharing. 2.2.5 Importance of the media in raising awareness of the potentials of open data Journalists who have participated in training courses on open data run under Data4Ag have been activity promoting awareness of the potential of data, and open data in particular. Some participants have gone on to run training courses of their own for peers to help spread the CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 34 of 54 word. However, there is a need to raise awareness of the importance of open data for development among media editors and proprietors, as this area is rarely addressed in the mainstream media. 2.2.6 Lack of standards for sharing data and information For example, GODAN Action partner Land Portal identified many different methods and standards used to describe land governance issues. It initiated a year-long consultation process with land experts to develop a harmonised system, LandVoc. Land Portal also used GODAN Action’s Map of Standards to raise awareness of this issue. The activity led to the establishment of a community of practice around land data and information applying open data principles. 2.2.7 Gender balance in online training Online training courses were predominantly taken by males (72%). This may reflect differences in access to computers or connectivity. 2.2.8 Importance of incentives for building capacity-building network Participants in the training events were keen to continue their engagement with digitalisation and data management and to pass on their knowledge to others. Eight mini grants were issued to support training activities and these played a key role in expanding the capacity-building networks and initiatives. The incentive of a certificate for students from FAO and CTA meant a massive sign up for trainees on Massive Open Online Course. The certificates can be seen heavily featured across LinkedIn. It was important to use existing platforms to build audience for communication products – Webinars and resulting videos (26) 1,376 views were co-hosted with GODAN and promoted through their networks for example through the Capacity Development Working Group (1204 members). 2.2.9 Monitoring and evaluation Achieving project impact - Whilst the challenges with demonstrating impact in open data projects were reasonably well understood from the outset of the project - measuring contribution versus attribution in achieving impact at the outcome level, tracking impacts beyond the immediate circle of our project partners and key stakeholders etc. - we were still struggling to effectively address these challenges. Overall, the theory of change narrative, although a useful starting point, required further work to identify specific enough pathways to impact (and indicators) for activities being delivered under each focal area and theme. To address this more specific and granular ToCs/pathways to impact for each GODAN Action theme and this has proved very useful in identifying and articulating a more impact focused approach. 2.2.10 Blended learning In the Capacity Development focal area, the partners began to combine what had previously been separate streams of work - offering face-to-face training and the e-learning courses - into a more blended learning approach. Aligning online and face-to-face training sessions with thematic topics and local demands, e.g. using dedicated trainers and granting local training sessions allowed to adapt to local requirements and circumstances. This responds to an emerging understanding of demand from users that want to progress beyond the more general introductory training on Open Data, into more in-depth and tailored training that addresses their particular needs. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 35 of 54 2.2.11 Weather data The weather data theme proved to be very challenging to identify appropriate use cases where open weather data was being used in a developing country context. The approach taken with weather data was to also take onboard a well-known case from a developed country that clearly shows substantial impact. The idea behind this is that such a case - that is technically very similar, but where the innovation environment is optimal - provides good material for advocacy for open weather data in an area where there are still clear barriers to impact. This might well be a good approach if similar barriers exist in other thematic topics. Towards future work, an additional way to overcome this challenge could also be putting together a challenge prize around specific types of weather data, to get the community engaged and to build new solutions. 2.2.12 Working effectively with networks Delivery of the GODAN Action project relied heavily on the engagement and involvement of key networks of Agriculture & Nutrition and Open Data experts, knowledge intermediaries, practitioners and beneficiaries. One of the challenges identified in securing this engagement was that we were not always clear enough on the needs / incentives for these networks to engage with us and that we had limited resources to draw on to mobilize stakeholders beyond our direct networks. As a result, we have, at times, struggled to get the level of engagement from, for example, experts in weather data standards, that was required for impact. 2.3 Research Existing publications were reviewed for observations on farmer registration and resulting services. Identity – Who should be registered is a social issue in which gender plays an important role. The head of the household is not necessarily the primary farmer. In farmer profiles a pragmatic choice should be made. The person who is registered should be the person to whom the messages about a service should be directed. Practical issues – These may arise depending on local conditions (legal land tenure documents may be missing; in electronic systems the SIM cannot be used to identify people if they share telephones). Registration – There may be an additional step to decide whether a farmer will be admitted to the organisation. 2.3.1 Lessons for production Electronic record keeping – These systems can provide new opportunities for farmers but also to their service providers in a production chain. The real challenge is to keep the records up-to-date and the success of remote systems depends on network coverage in an area. Information requirements – These may differ for different groups of farmers. For example, in a dairy production chain, herd information is not relevant for farmers with a small number of animals. 2.3.2 Lessons on trade and markets Market participation – Registration can make collective market participation possible. There are several positive examples where knowing the yield prediction for a group can help reach new markets. Certification – This requires an ongoing data collection process as the certificates need to be renewed. A regular workflow needs to be set up to maintain the data for certification. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 36 of 54 Market information – Price information is very important for farmers provided it is timely and precise, it affects choice of crop and where to send to market. 2.3.3 Lessons on finance E-wallets – Farmers may trust e-wallets to manage cash flow during the cropping cycle, but experiences are mixed. There should be affordable options to convert electronic money into cash that can be spent. Subsidies – Issues may arise around ‘identity’ if the profile is used for a subsidised input scheme (split farms, multiple registrations). Access to credit – Examples already exist where farmer profiles improve access to credit. This is achieved by using profiles based on yield potential of farmers’ fields calculated from satellite images. 2.4 Policy 2.4.1 High-level political awareness is still weak More still needs to be done to raise high-level political awareness of the potential benefits of open data for agriculture and nutrition, which is a prerequisite for policy action. 2.4.2 Policies are needed at all levels to promote management and sharing of data Government, research institutes and educational bodies, among others, should put in place strategies to increase the value of data they gather and generate through policies that promote management and sharing of data. 2.4.3 Policy change is a slow and complex process Attributing policy change to specific events or influences is hard to track and time frames are long and rarely linear. Policy level impact is hard to achieve, particularly because of the fact that it often cuts across ministries and departments. High-level declarations may not always lead to concrete change, and there is a need for consistent follow-up as governments change. 2.4.4 Need to have a balance between policy action and technical strengthening There is a need to coordinate action on policy advocacy and implementation and the development of the technical skills that underpin utilisation of data. One without the other will result in little progress. Technical skills include those needed to develop policies but also those to monitor and support their implementation. This was particularly apparent in the project in Ghana, where the focus was in assisting in piloting the development of an open data policy and crafting of actions plans to see it through implementation. 2.5 Constraints and problems encountered 2.5.1 Challenge of multi-stakeholder engagement Addressing policy issues, in particular, requires engagement of multiple parties that influence and are influenced by the policy environment, including ministries responsible for agriculture, telecommunications and education, for example. This involves dealing with power dynamics and ensuring all key players are effectively engaged. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 37 of 54 2.5.2 Logistical barriers Farmers are, by nature, generally remote from urban centres, and this presented challenges for interacting with them for gathering profiling data and for delivering services. Remote areas are poorly served with communications infrastructure and often even more traditional infrastructure such as roads and storage facilities. 2.5.3 Farmer literacy A major challenge to the sustainability of farmer profile is the lack of traditional and digital literacy among farmers. This limits the potential for farmers being able to update their profiles without assistance of trained enumerators. These projects demonstrate that benefits to the famer can be achieved by digitalisation the farmers’ association rather than the farmer. Voice systems have been used where literacy is a problem, particularly in extension, for example the E-Granary project. 2.6 Sustainability measures Projects have taken different steps for sustainability measures. E-Granary has secured development funding for the transition to a full automation of e- extension of e-Granary platform and are continuing the mobilization of farmers. They are engaging counties, private companies and NGOs for partnership for the e-extension and moving to the publication of materials in local languages. Igara Tea Growers Factory have demonstrated the return on investment of the registration process to their board and have attracted interest from Government in supporting using the approach to a national registration of tea farmers in Uganda. For the process of consolidating the application of digitalisation collections centres and the monitoring of different aspects of the value chains including market links to new buyers and consumers Igara has secured interest from Solidaridad in supporting a potential project with Fairchain. This resulted from CTA support to attend the StrikeTwo summit in Amsterdam where this project was developed. CAPAD is continuing the development of the software tool Puma together with CSA in the public domain at Github(v). The membership cards have been issued and they are still developing leads with new businesses following contacts made at the SIMA fair in Paris as mentioned above. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 38 of 54 3 Annexes 3.1 Project logframe Logical framework Version 12/02/19 H7+IM5+IM15 Intervention Indicators Baselines Targets Sources and means of Assumptions logic verification (incl. reference (incl. reference year) year) Overall objective Support would be available from M&E budget to cover the independent survey Through geo- Number small scale Subset surveyed for 50,000 show Survey methodology as methodology. registration producers that have reference according production and planned with M&E better targeted increased income resulting to M&E financial benefit (from advice and from the value chains and methodology the 150,000 farmers logistics can be practices using sustainable developed with registered across the 7 provided to practices (OO1.1) LME in plan. organisations smallholders to Number small scale improve producers that have production, increased production reduce post- resulting from the value harvest losses – chains and practices using and support sustainable practices (OO1.2) better livelihoods (CTA Logframe) Impact - OO 1 Increased Number of jobs created for, 6 organisations 10 new jobs associated Proposed survey of employment in in particular youth in initially surveyed with registration organisations. agriculture can agribusiness in ACP regions for employment. through new roles and result through through CTA's support for Subset surveyed for profitability. more efficient ICT4AG and other value reference according 1 New agribusiness organisations. chain development to M&E initiatives (OO2.1) methodology Number of agribusinesses developed with created (including by LME in plan. Ideally farmers cooperatives and CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 39 of 54 Overall objective: impact Overall objective: Impact Intervention Indicators Baselines Targets Sources and means of Assumptions logic verification (incl. reference (incl. reference year) year) young entrepreneurs) in ACP standard partner regions through CTA's questionnaire support for ICT4AG and other value chain development initiatives (Oo2.2) CTA Logframe) Impact - OO 2 Increased Number of small-scale Subset surveyed for Planned contribution: Survey methodology as resilience producers in ACP regions reference according 10,000 of small-scale planned with M&E through new with increased adaptive to M&E producers in ACP insurance capacity to climate change methodology regions with increased services and (or environmental shocks). developed with adaptive capacity to extension NB: This is entirely a subset LME in plan. climate change (or achieved by of Impact OO - 1 environmental shocks). farmer registration. (CTA Logframe) Impact - OO 3 Purpose Policy actions (CTA Logframe) Outcome – Study of potential 2 ACP countries Strategy document through Kenya SO 1.1 policy to identify introduce new policies, Narrative reports project linked SO1.1 realistic targets strategies or with Netherlands regulations that Ministry of Number of countries support value chain Economic Affairs introduce new policies, development by and GODAN, strategies or regulations that opening agricultural GODAN action support value chain data. (Kenya/Ghana) development by opening agricultural data. D CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 40 of 54 Specific objective(s): Outcome(s) Intervention Indicators Baselines Targets Sources and means of Assumptions logic verification (incl. reference (incl. reference year) year) Data for finance SO2.1 Initial survey with 1 value chain acquires Project progress and final is addressed at Approx. six value chains partners to identify new financing reports submitted by Farmers acquire new financing change during facilities/ arrangements partners. organization/agr facilities/ arrangements for project for traders and Project dialogue ienterprise level traders and producers producers through as a result of through Central and Central and commercial better profiling. commercial banks and banks. micro-finance organisation A (CTA Logframe) Outcome – SO 1.2.1 New farmer SO3.1 Initial study to 6 organisations adopt Project progress and final registration Number of farmer-led identify farmers new practices or reports submitted by practice adopted organisations and organisations innovations to improve partners. together with agribusinesses adopting new their performance Project dialogue management registration practices systems for improving geo- (CTA Logframe) Outcome – targeted SO 2.1 information, transaction efficiency, improved logistics or mechanisms to reduce costs. A CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 41 of 54 Expected Results Component A - Farmer Registration Solution R4.1 Number of R4.1 Number of farmers R4.1 - 10,000 receive Narrative reports farmers advised advised with the support of advice through farmers’ Project dialogue through the action the project associations of extension agents (CTA Logframe) Result via e-Granary and R2.1.2 others A R4.2 Farmers R4.2 Number of smallholder R4.2 150,000 of Narrative reports digitally profiled in producers (disaggregated by smallholder producers Project dialogue an electronic farm gender, country) digitally (disaggregated by management profiled with CTA’s support. gender, country) system (CTA Logframe) Result digitally profiled with A R2.1.3 CTA’s support. Component B – Knowledge Sharing & Learning R3.1 Publications R3.1 Number of knowledge Initial survey R3.1 - At least 10 new Funding for this is under and media products products, including policy knowledge products KMC budget including video briefs, guidebooks, technical (not including web List of publications reports, case studies, articles) synthesis reports, learning B materials, and multi-media products generated within the project (CTA Logframe) Result 3.1 R3.2 Marketing R3.2.1 Number of individual Guidance needed At least: Website/portal /catalogue content to reach downloading or receiving for realistic targets R3.2.1 - 3,000 statistics Comms on relevant audience copies of publications related as depends on individuals download downloads (CTA and to the project indicator or receive copies of partners) methodology publications related to (B) or E R3.2.2 Number of individual Hashtag analysis for Social downloading or receiving the project per year. media SPORE issues and/or ICT R3.2.2 - 1,200 D-Group statistics Update issues related to the individuals download project or receive SPORE issues and/or ICT CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 42 of 54 Results/ Outputs R3.2.3 - Number of Update issues related to individuals reached via the project per year. CTA’s online platforms, e- R3.2.3 - 40,000 newsletters and social media individuals reached for posts related to the annually via CTA’s project online platforms, e- (CTA Logframe) Result 3.2 newsletters and social media for posts related to the project Component C – Institutional Capacity R2.1 6 organisations R2.1.1 Number of trainings Initial survey R2.1.3 At least 5 Source of verification: directly targeted organized in farmer organisations acquire Survey and interviews with new capacity registration additional agri- Partner data for farmer R2.1.2 Number of business and value registration. Higher Organisations attending the chain development Activity reports level guidance capabilities (including (see M&E plan) training (disaggregated by through farmers type, size, country) ICT4ag and KM) with organisations CTA’s support.dy networks PAFO and R2.1.3 .Number of World Farmers organisations with Organisation. strengthened ICT infrastructure (CTA Logframe) Result 2.2 A R2.2 Training of R2.2.2 Number of Initial needs study R2.2.2 40 people Narrative report enumerators and enumerators receiving for realistic targets trained in Farmer Participant lists data managers GODAN data training roles registration and farm would be linked on open data use trainings data systems (GODAN with broader (disaggregated by age, action target 600 GODAN data gender, country)level of trained in Open Data training roles on education, organization, use) open data use country) R2.2.2 - 100 R2.2.3 Number of data C managers receiving GODAN data training roles on open data use trainings (disaggregated by age, gender, level of education, organization, country) (CTA Logframe) Result 2.1 CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 43 of 54 R2.3 Capacity R2.3.1 Number of capacity Initial study of R2.3.1 Learning DGroup analytics eg #of development digital development learning existing platforms platform established or active users , map etc. platform (Dgroup) platforms (e.g. use of GODAN considerably reinforced Contents = presentations, created to improve R2.3.2 Number of active to create working with CTA’s support cap dev plan. implementation of users group) (one per ACP region). priority setting and R2.3.2 30 active users establish content for R2.3.3 Number of contents summit/ICT4Ag developed (disaggregated by R1.2.2 conference inputs type) R2.3.3 10 Knowledge (CTA Logframe) Result 1.1 products C Component D – Policy R1.1 R1.1.1 Number of multi- Initial study of R1.1.1 : 1 multi- Project progress and final Policy platform stakeholder platforms existing platforms stakeholder platforms reports submitted by (policy meetings) created (e.g. use of GODAN established or partners. created to improve R1.1.2 Number of active to create working considerably reinforced Project dialogue implementation of users group) with CTA’s support priority setting and (one per ACP region). CGSpace R1.1.3 Number of contents establish content for developed (disaggregated by R1.1.2 : 50 active users summit/ICT4Ag type) R1.1.3: 20 contents incl. conference inputs (CTA Logframe) Result 1.1 6 Publications and 3 Multimedia products D R1.2 R1.2.1 Number of policy Initial planning to R1.2.1 : 4 Narrative report 4 events held during events organized related to use existing events Multistakeholder Participant lists project supporting FO dialogue and policy where possible events farmers setting management R1.2.2 : 200 organisation R1.2.2 Number of participants in total dialogue and Policy participants (disaggregated Related to the Farm setting for support by gender, age, organization, data systems to farm data country) management (CTA Logframe) Result 1.2 D CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 44 of 54 Activities A1 R 2.1 Number of stakeholders 40 people trained in Farmer registration and Narrative Farmer profiling (disaggregated by gender, country, age, farm data systems (GODAN action target 600 & training level of education and policy area) trained trained in Agriculture Open Data management reports A2 in value chain and policy development and use). data with CTA’s support management At least 6 organisations acquire additional R 2.2 - Number of organizations and agri-business and value chain development A3 networks acquiring additional agri- capabilities (including ICT4ag and KM) with Action business and value chain development CTA’s support. supporting capabilities (including ICT4ag and KM) associations/far with CTA’s support. mer led agribusiness C1 R 2.1 Number of stakeholders Number of people trained in Farmer Narrative Data (disaggregated by gender, country, age, registration and farm data systems (GODAN & training management level of education and policy area) trained action target 1000 trained in Agriculture Open reports in value chain and policy development Data management and use) Capacity with CTA’s support assessment R 2.2 - Number of organizations and networks acquiring additional agri- business and value chain development capabilities (including ICT4ag and KM) with CTA’s support. D1 R1.2 - Number and reach of multi- 2 meetings 60 participants total Narrative Policy and action stakeholder events organized or Meeting plan for FOs farm supported by CTA reports data management D2 R1.2 - Number and reach of multi- 2 meetings 60 participants total Narrative Policy setting stakeholder events organized or Meeting supported by CTA. reports E R 1.1 – Number of multi-stakeholder 1 platform established for farm data. 1 policy Narrative Learning & platforms established or considerably forum supported Exchange reinforced with CTA’s support. CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 45 of 54 3.2 List of partners • AgriCord vzw • Southern Africa Confederation of African Unions, SACAU, South Africa • East African Farmers Federation, EAFF, Kenya • National Union of Coffee Agribusinesses and Farm Enterprises NUCAFE, Uganda • Stichting Agriterra , Netherlands • Federation of Agricultural Professionals of Burkina Faso, FEBAP, Burkina Faso • Pan African Farmers’ Organisation, PAFO, Rwanda • Igara Growers Tea Factory, IGTF, Uganda • Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition, GODAN, Canada • Wageningen University & Research centre, WUR, Netherlands • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy • Land Portal Foundation, Netherlands • Institute of Development Studies, IDS, UK • Open Data Institute, the ODI, UK CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 46 of 54 3.3 List of knowledge products Videos: Date:2017-09 Type:Brief Status:Open Access Title:Review of codes of conduct, voluntary guidelines and principles relevant for farm data sharing Authors:Wiseman, Leanne; Pesce, Valeria; Zampati, Foteini; Sullivan, Shawn; Addison, Chris; Drolet, Jacques Date:2019-12 Type:Working PaperStatus:Open Access Title:Data driven services in smallholder farming: Demonstrated benefits of data sharing and addressing data rights management Authors:Addison, Chris; Msengezi, Chipo Date:2019 Type:Poster Status:Open Access Title:Comment la révolution des données peut aider les agriculteurs Authors:Boyera, Stéphane Date:2018-02 Type:Magazine Article Status:Open Access Title:Leveraging ICT innovations to support farmers and farmers’ organisations Authors:Boyera, Stéphane; Addison, Chris Date:2017-12 Type:Brief Status:Open Access Title:Le pouvoir de la donnée : enjeux et opportunités pour les organisations paysannes Authors:Koopman, Martine; Ayim, Claudia Date:2019-12 Type:Magazine Article Status:Open Access Title:Les données au service de l'agriculture avec Data4Ag : quelles retombées sur les hommes et les politiques? Authors:Addison, Chris Date:2019-12 Type:Magazine Article Status:Open Access Title:GODAN Action : un projet pour apprendre à tirer le meilleur des données Authors:Msengezi, Chipo Date:2019-12 Type:Magazine Article Status:Open Access Publications: Title:The impact of data Title:Farm data management, collection for farmer sharing and services for Title:Farmer profiling: Making organisations agriculture development data work for smallholder Authors:Koopman, Martine; Ayim, online course farmers Claudia Authors:Technical Centre for Authors:Boyera, Date:2019-12 Type:Magazine Agricultural and Rural Stéphane; Addison, Article Status:Open Access Cooperation; Pan African Farmers' Chris; Msengezi, Chipo Title:Data4Ag impacts for Organisation; Food and Agricultural Date:2017-11 Type:Working Paper farmers and for policy Organization of the United Nations Status:Open Access Authors:Addison, Chris Date:2020-02 Type:Training Title:Enhancing the use of data Date:2019-12 Type:Magazine Material Status:Open Access for agriculture Article Status:Open Access Authors:Kenou, Christel; Boyera, Title:GODAN Action: digital Stéphane capacity building Authors:Msengezi, Chipo CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 47 of 54 Date:2019-12 Type:Magazine Yannick; Bronckaers, Jasmien; Ben Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine Article Status:Open Access Rejeb, Fatma; Addison, Chris Article Status:Open Access Date:2018-12 Type:Magazine Title:Au carrefour du genre et Title:Cost efficient integration Article Status:Open Access des données ouvertes of weather data into agronomic Authors:Brandusescu, Title:ICT Update 89: Data4Ag - advice Ana; Williams, Yentyl De nouvelles opportunités Authors:Casteren, Jan Willem van Date:2019-02 Type:Magazine pour les petits exploitants Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine Article Status:Open Access Authors:Centre Technique de Article Status:Open Access Coopération Agricole et Rurale Title:The gender and open data Title:Un réseau d'observation Date:2018-12 Type:Magazine intersection climatique intelligente Status:Open Access Authors:Brandusescu, couvrant toute l'Afrique Ana; Williams, Yentyl Date:2019-02 Title:ICT Update 89: Data4Ag - Authors:Selker, John; Giesen, Nick Type:Magazine Article Status:Open New opportunities for van de; Annor, Frank Access organised smallholder Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine farmers Article Status:Open Access Title:Data-driven smallholder Authors:Technical Centre for tea production in Uganda Title:The smart climate Agricultural and Rural Cooperation Authors:Owoyesiga, Hamlus observation network that Date:2018-12 Type:Magazine Date:2018-12 Type:Magazine covers all Africa Status:Open Access Article Status:Open Access Authors:Selker, John; Giesen, Nick Title:Samoa : Connaître les van de; Annor, Frank Title:Value addition through agriculteurs pour mieux Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine digitalization for Ugandan répondre à la demande des Article Status:Open Access coffee farmers marchés Authors:Muwonge, David Title:Utiliser les données Authors:Defait, Vincent Date:2018-12 Type:Magazine météorologiques pour Date:2018-09 Type:Magazine Article Status:Open Access soutenir l'agriculture à petite Article Status:Open Access échelle en Afrique Title:Farmer registration and Title:Samoa: Responding to Authors:Quak, Evert-Jan development – the SACAU market demand with farmer Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine experience in Lesotho and data Article Status:Open Access Eswatini Authors:Defait, Vincent Authors:Mashau, Fhumulani Title:Using weather data to Date:2018-09 Type:Magazine Date:2018-12 Type:Magazine support smallholder Article Status:Open Access Article Status:Open Access agriculture in Africa Title:Facilitating the sharing of Authors:Quak, Evert-Jan Title:Aggregating farmers for open weather data Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine markets and agricultural Authors:Dodds, Leigh Article Status:Open Access support services Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine Authors:Tuyishime, Norbert Title:Des données Article Status:Open Access Date:2018-12 Type:Magazine météorologiques aux Article Status:Open Access Title:Disponibilité et prévisions météorologiques utilisation des données pour les agriculteurs [Zambie] Title:La production de thé climatiques en Afrique : les Authors:Mzyece, Lillian dopée à la donnée spatiale défis à relever obstacles Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine Authors:Owoyesiga, Hamlus Authors:Dinku, Tufa Article Status:Open Access Date:2018-12 Type:Magazine Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine Article Status:Open Access Title:Plaidoyer en faveur des Article Status:Open Access services agrométéorologiques Title:La numérisation, un Title:Overcoming challenges in [Kenya] levier de valorisation pour les the availability and use of Authors:Akuku, Boniface producteurs de café ougandais climate data in Africa Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine Authors:Muwonge, David Authors:Dinku, Tufa Article Status:Open Access Date:2018-12 Type:Magazine Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine Article Status:Open Access Title:Weather data to weather Article Status:Open Access forecasts for Zambian farmers Title:Le regroupement, une clé Title:La pertinence des Authors:Mzyece, Lillian pour l'accès aux marchés et données météo ouvertes pour Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine aux services de soutien les services de conseils Article Status:Open Access Authors:Tuyishime, Norbert agrométéorologiques Date:2018-12 Type:Magazine Title:Les données [Éthiopie] Article Status:Open Access météorologiques : une Authors:Ceccarelli, Tomaso; Wit, composante essentielle de la Title:Des données pour Allard de; Rob Lokers, Rob chaîne de valeur agricole appuyer les agriculteurs : Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine Authors:Msengezi, Chipo; Nesoba, L'expérience de la SACAU au Article Status:Open Access Dorah Lesotho et au eSwatini Title:The suitability of existing Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine Authors:Mashau, Fhumulani open data weather data for Article Status:Open Access Date:2018-12 Type:Magazine agro-meteo advisory Article Status:Open Access Title:Weather data: a vital [Ethiopia] component to the agriculture Title:l'agriculture au bénéfice Authors:Ceccarelli, Tomaso; Wit, value chain des petits exploitants ? Allard de; Rob Lokers, Rob Authors:Msengezi, Chipo; Nesoba, Authors:Bakker, Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine Dorah Yannick; Bronckaers, Jasmien; Ben Article Status:Open Access Date:2018-05 Type:Magazine Rejeb, Fatma; Addison, Chris Title:Intégration à faible coût Article Status:Open Access Date:2018-12 Type:Magazine de données météorologiques Article Status:Open Access Title:Assurance basée sur un dans l'offre de conseils indice climatique pour le Title:Can access to data really agricoles Pacifique transform agriculture for Authors:Casteren, Jan Willem van Authors:Maher, Barry; McCaffrey, smallholders? 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Why météorologiques pour GODAN? l’agriculture Authors:Lopes Ramos, Authors:Centre Technique de CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 49 of 54 Blog posts by Chipo Msengezi , Jeanne Nel and Didier Muyiramye Data is only be valuable if it can be Data4Ag: Using data to transform accessed and used. Unfortunately, smallholder farming - CTA access to data is challenged in many countries by a lack of open data www.cta.int › issue › data4ag-using- policies in many sectors of the data-to-transform-s... economy – including agriculture. May 21, 2019 - Digitalisation of READ MORE agriculture is driving an exponential 22 JANUARY 2020 IN BLOG growth in the amount of data on agriculture being collected. This Scaling up farmer organisation success calls for new tools and ... by Chris Addison , Isolina Boto and Jorge Chavez-Tafur Des systèmes de données agricoles In September 2019, CTA held an pour transformer l ... - CTA experience capitalisation workshop around their partnership www.cta.int › projets › data4ag programme ‘Building the next Des systèmes de données agricoles generation of farmers in Africa’, pour transformer l'agriculture à highlighting four key areas of petite échelle (Data4Ag) impact: advocacy, value chain, ... Data4Ag - De nouvelles digitalisation and capitalisation. opportunités pour les petits READ MORE exploitants. 29 JANUARY 2020 IN BLOG Open data for better land governance Leading the data revolution - CTA and capital city prospects in Tanzania www.cta.int › digitalisation › all › article by Chipo Msengezi Mar 19, 2018 - Data4Ag is all about making sure farmers have access to data and information which can 5 JUNE 2019 IN BLOG help them to improve their Improving Zimbabwe’s capacities to productivity and incomes. effectively use open data on malnutrition Data-driven products and services for by Solange Tetero , Chipo farmers organisations Msengezi and Ronald Munatsi www.cta.int › article 7 MAY 2019 IN BLOG Dec 13, 2017 - Data-driven products Open data for agriculture: Towards and services for farmers improved collaboration between organisations. Data4Ag Week 2017, agriculture researchers and weather 20-24 November 2017, The Hague, data providers Netherlands. Blog. by Chipo Msengezi , Solange A declaration for the better use of West Tetero and Dorah Mweye Africa’s agricultural open data by Didier Muyiramye 24 SEPTEMBER 2018 IN BLOG Government delegates from French- speaking African countries met to Building capacity in open data for discuss the importance of open data agriculture and nutrition in economic and social by Chipo Msengezi development. READ MORE 18 MARCH 2020 IN BLOG Farm data supports agricultural decision-making in Burundi by Didier Muyiramye , Annick Sezibera and Chris Addison The CTA-funded project, Monitoring Family Farms Within CAPAD Member Cooperatives, aims to improve agricultural product development and marketing activities through the trial and use of ICTs. These technical developments are intended to better support farmer members of the Confederation of Agricultural Producer Associations for Development (CAPAD), in Burundi. READ MORE 3 MARCH 2020 IN BLOG Accelerating open data policy formulation for agriculture’s transformation CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 50 of 54 3.4 Outcome / Impact stories Samples of the stories of change are below but a fuller document can be found on Bisso. Open Land Data Institutions Following training on open data repositories and work with the data standards team for various Southern African land organisations: 1. The Southern African Urban Knowledge Exchange has implemented the Dublin Core Metadata model for their publication repository and implemented an API. 2. KnowledgeBase.Land is now hosting metadata on news items while, they are developing a library repository as well, intending to use the Dublin Core metadata model. 3. The Network for Excellence on Land Governance in Africa (NELGA) is currently developing a (geo-)data repository for Africa, and is taking Open Data standards into this development based on inputs from GODAN Action. This repository is intended to be online in 2020. 4. The South Africa Land Observatory, a land data and information aggregator in the country that has been dormant over the past years, gained new momentum after the workshop with several institutions committed to breathe new life into the data repository. A “multi-stakeholder platform” on land in the country (LANDNESS) has taken up this process and is meeting several times a year to bring forward an updated or new Observatory for land in the country. Coffee Growers in Kenya Alfred Gitau Mwaura, Founder and Director of 4A Coffee after taking a gastronomy course in Italy took part in the GODAN Action online open data training course. This sparked an idea in him on how he could better facilitate data exchange within the coffee value chain in Kenya. In 2018 he began working with small scale coffee growers in Mt Kenya region assessing the challenges they face with accessing lucrative markets. Using his ICT background and the new found open data management and data responsibility skills he began collecting data from the farmers, generating farmer profiles while also collecting data on buyers and markets. To date Alfred is now servicing 27 buyers (hotels, cafés and millers) from 9 initially and is working with 310 farmers from 80 when he started a year ago. As a result of his data sharing platform coffee Farmers and buyers - farmers now getting USD$3-4/kg from USD$1-2/kg previously Land Portal Foundation Following the work done on GODAN Action’s Map of Standards, GODAN Action partner Land Portal used the Map to increase awareness in the land sector on the lack of standardization when it comes to sharing data and information. There are many different methods and CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 51 of 54 standards used to describe land governance issues and harmonization is needed. The Map was successfully used as an advocacy and awareness-raising tool, to demonstrate the need for more data standardization in the land sector. This lead to innovative new data services (multi-hierarchy schemas) and thus improved data standards for both the land and agriculture sector (since AGROVOC would also be enriched with LandVoc’s enrichments and translations). Ultimately, this will lead to increased data interoperability. Land Portal also uses the GODAN Action evaluation framework to clarify impact chains and evaluate their impact. Open data on Plant Genetic Resources Joseph Ndungu who is the Team Leader for Documentation and Data Management at the The Genetic Resources Research Institute (GeRRI), Kenya took part in the online courses in 2018. He was particularly interested in understanding open data licensing and open data sharing frameworks and standards. Using the knowledge he gained he has since begun publishing the institutes phenotypic data on plants conserved at the Kenya Genebank data onto Genesys online database in collaboration with the Global Crop Diversity Trust Journalists reporting Agriculture Development Progress Open data plays a critical role in the agricultural and nutritional sector development and can play a key role in the implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). Natasha Mhango is a senior agricultural information and publications officer at the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Zambia. Using skills she honed at a GODAN Action data journalism training course in Kenya, and with mentoring from the Local Development Research Institute (LDRI), she has been building on open data to write about the biggest issues in agriculture and nutrition in Zambia. Her recent stories include. She says “My stories now have more credibility. I backup statements I make with relevant and credible stats and findings from verified data sources.” Kiringai Kamau, alumni of the train-the-trainer course: Kenya Following completion of the train-the-trainer course, Kiringai Kamau started a social enterprise: the Programme for Agricultural Capacity Development in Africa (P4ACAD Africa). He credits his work with GODAN Action in inspiring this. Kamau explains that since working with GODAN Action he is now recognised as an expert in the field of open data in the sector, and is able to represent GODAN and its methodologies, saying: “I am now the point of reference on many open data forums where GODAN leadership cannot participate directly.” Discussing new networking and learning developments, Kamau says: “I have been invited to share a session on my student-led agriculture [course] as a vehicle for gathering, aggregating and curating data from the field to guide our open data driven innovation.” On influencing the open data agenda in Kenya and Africa, Kamau explains that he is now an active participant on several forums and the GODAN work has enhanced his profile and provided him CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 52 of 54 with a platform to share learning: “Indeed, much as I was doing open data way before GODAN Action came, I moved to the University of Nairobi and started my programme on open data with the backing of GODAN Action, which has profiled me in a more positive way than before.” Boniface Akuku, ICT Director of Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Organisation Boniface Akuku is an alumni of GODAN Action Train-the-Trainer trainings and has facilitated training of over 90 Kenyans in use of open data for agriculture and nutrition. Fifty of KALRO’s researchers are alumni of the GODAN Action MOOC and are applying concepts learned within their own research practices. “Through the support, collaboration and partnership with Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) and the GODAN Action Project, research scientists as well as technical staff capacity has been built in understanding and application of open data principles. Subsequently, contributing to improved openness of research data, and this has increased access to agricultural research technologies. Similarly, researchers have been empowered to effectively undertake research, access data, information and knowledge both locally and internationally. In addition, partnerships and collaboration among researchers within KALRO and with other research organizations has been strengthened resulting in better research results. KALRO’s visibility has been enhanced through its living virtual platforms, mobile applications and the e- service delivery portals. KALRO has organized and actively participated in “Hackathons and open data-themed events ‘Makathons’ as a way of engaging staff and citizens with data sets in guided settings and learning to be able to tell own stories and make decision with the data. In view of the transformative change through scalability, replication, and sustainable access to research knowledge using ICT platforms and the successful impact this has had on many farmers in Kenya, KALRO has developed Open data policy, is digitizing its data collection. KALRO is in the process of establishing a cloud based Big Data platform and use of disruptive technologies to harness all datasets in agriculture and nutrition in Kenya.” 3.5 Other interesting links Mamo Panel report Byte by Byte: Policy Innovation for Transforming Africa’s Food System with Digital Technologies xi 14F14F cites several of the articles produced on the project as example of data driven services. The “Digital Framers Profiles: Reimagining smallholder agriculture draws substantially on the first Working Paper produced by the project in defining types of data collected for different services. xii 15F15F CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 53 of 54 i 78 citations for example, in UN FAO Operational guidelines for the design, implementation and harmonization of monitoring and evaluation systems for climate-smart agriculture http://www.fao.org/3/ca6077en/CA6077EN.pdf ii https://www.godan.info/working-groups/sub-group-data-codes-conduct iii http://edepot.wur.nl/441969 iv http://www.fao.org/family-farming/data-sources/dataportrait v Food Policy 33 (2008) 299–317 Smallholder market participation: Concepts and evidence from eastern and southern Africa Christopher B. Barrett https://entwicklungspolitik.uni- hohenheim.de/uploads/media/SMALLHOLDER_MARKET_PARTCIPATION.pdf vi Occasional Discussion Paper 97 – 1 Cooperatives and Employment in Africa by Jürgen Schwettmann ILO Cooperative Branch ILO Geneva https://www.microfinancegateway.org/sites/default/files/mfg-en-paper-cooperatives-and- employment-in-africa-2000.pdf vii Shared from forthcoming IDS GODAN evaluation report 2020– including assessment of the CTA led workpackage on Capacity Development as part of the GODAN action project. viii Next generation workshop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8du0UCFHmao ix GODAN Action https://www.cta.int/en/projects/godan-action x https://framagit.org/jorge/puma2/blob/master/README.md xi Byte by Byte: Policy Innovation for Transforming Africa’s Food System with Digital Technologies 2019 https://www.mamopanel.org/resources/reports-and-briefings/byte-byte-policy-innovation- transforming-africas-f/ xii DIGITAL FARMER PROFILES:Reimagining Smallholder Agriculture 2019 USAID https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/15396/Data_Driven_Agriculture_Farmer_Prof ile.pdf CTA – Project Completion Report, 30/04/2020 Page 54 of 54