Southeast Europe & CIS
Armenia
SDC has two projects in Armenia that follow the M4P approach, one in the dairy/livestock sector and another one in the horticulture sector. For more information visit SDC's South Caucasus website.
Livestock development in the Syunik region: The focal area of the intervention is Syunik Marz in the rural Southeast of Armenia. The projet is implemented by an Armenian NGO, Strategic Development Agency(SDA). The project is in its second phase that began in late 2008. The following case study (developed by the Springfield Centre) provides an interesting overview over the project, with a special emphasis on a public-private partnership between SDC and the private milk processing company Elola.
| Developing markets for dairy production through service development and PPP in rural Armenia November 2008 Author: The Springfield Centre This case study explains the M4P approach and illustrates how it can be practically applied. It describes the interventions of the project namely working with mild processors and building rural services for farmers. | |
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The horticulture promotion project in the Meghri region "M4 Meghri": This project has recently started in December 2009 with a six-month inception phase aimed at implementing a market system analysis and at defining the intervention strategies of the project. The project objective is defined as: "A dynamic horticulture agribusiness sector generates sustainable and broad-based employment and income in Meghri". The project is implemented by the Swiss NGO Intercooperation in collaboration with the Armenian NGO Shen.
The Swiss Cooperation Office South Caucasus has also developed a Outcome Monitoring Concept for the domain Economic Development and Employment.
| Outcome Monitoring Concept SDC South Caucasus November 2007 Author: Beka Tagauri and Harald Bekkers This outcome monitoring concept provides guidelines on 1) meausring in quantitative terms the aggregated outcome of Swiss interventions in the field of E&I, 2) assessing and describe in qulaitative terms the achievements of rural development projects applying the M4P approach. It provides tools on how to develop a log frames, result chains and outcome "calculations", or on how to do reporting when using the M4P approach | |
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