Impact of Grant-Funded Projects in WV ADPs:
Four Case Studies
HAITI
Project:
Dates:
Beneficiaries:
Multi-Year Assistance Program (MYAP)
Feb 2008 – Sept 2012
500,000
WVUS ADPs:
UDICC
La Belle Mere
Los Palis
Men Nan Men
Okodem
Akodet
Covihoy
Gonave Hope
WVI ADPs:
Rio Onde (WV Taiwan)
Cerca-la-Source (WV Taiwan)
Pacodes (WV Australia)
Integrated 5 (WV Australia)
Integrated 2 (WV Australia)
Coboccol (WV Canada)
Donor:
USAID/FFP
Total program: $91,516,306
Donor budget: $79.5 million
Match Cash:
$6.5 million
Match GIK:
$5.5 million
Summary: Since 2008, World Vision’s MYAP has aimed to reduce food insecurity
and increase resiliency for vulnerable and extremely vulnerable groups in
its intervention areas in Haiti, including 14 WV ADPs. Haiti had yet to
recover from the effects of the food crisis and four successive hurricanes
that occurred in 2008 when a devastating earthquake hit the country in
January 2010. This earthquake has claimed the lives of up to 300,000
persons, injured an equal number and displaced more than 1.5 million to
other departments, including the MYAP target areas.
In this challenging context, WV completed the third year of program
implementation in FY10 in 16 communes of Lower Central Plateau,
Upper Central Plateau, Lower Artibonite, and La Gônave. Through its
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two main components, Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN)
and Agriculture and Economic Development, the program continued to
assist communities by focusing its efforts on access to quality healthcare,
livelihood enhancement, and agriculture development—areas that have
immediate and long-term impact in the lives of the Haitian people.
WV’s MYAP targets children 6-23 month old, malnourished children 2459 months, pregnant and lactating women, people living with AIDS,
orphans and vulnerable children, farmer associations, lead farmers and
community-based organizations. A basket of food commodities is used to
support beneficiaries, and program funding is generated via monetization
of wheat flour, provision of 202e and ITSH, as well as WV’s private
match funds.
Impact:
Through MYAP interventions, the percentage of beneficiary children 6-59
months with height below -2 Z-score was reduced from 25.1 percent to
16 percent in program areas (14 ADPs).
The percentage of children 6-59 months with weight below -2 Z-score was
reduced from 23.5 percent to 6 percent in approximately three years of
the MYAP implementation.
WV emphasized utilization of quality seeds together with the adoption of
improved soil fertility management and irrigation, introduction of highyield crops, and value chains in program areas which has resulted in yield
increases averaging 42 percent and 34 percent, respectively, in Central
Plateau and La Gônave regions.
PHILIPPINES
Project:
Dates:
Beneficiaries:
WVUS ADPs:
WVI ADPs:
Donor:
Donor budget:
Match Cash:
Match GIK:
The ABK2 project
Sept 2007 – Sept 2011
30,400 children
Negros Oriental (Mountain View ADP)
North Cebu (Haven of Rest ADP)
Leyte (Omega ADP)
Leyte (Diadem ADP)
Northwestern Leyte (Norweldepai)—WV Germany
Davao (Hugpon sa Kalambuan ADP)—WV Taiwan
Iloilo (Rising Sun Association, Inc)—WV Canada
USDOL
$5.7 million
$928,686
n/a
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Summary: World Vision’s anti-child labor project funded by the Department of
Labor is called ABK (the first three letters of the Filipino alphabet). There
are 4 million child laborers spread across the Philippines’ 7,000 islands,
half of whom are under the age of 10. The country has child labor laws
and a national law that all children must go to school, but there isn’t a way
to enforce the laws in place. WV implements ABK2 to address this
problem by withdrawing and preventing children from the worst forms of
child labor and enrolling them in school and by focusing on changing the
mindsets of parents, teachers, and communities to recognize the right of
each child to attend school and the harm that child labor causes.
The worst forms of child labor in the Philippines are in the areas of mining
and quarrying, sugar cane plantations, pyrotechnics, commercial sex work,
domestic work (primarily entails girls leaving their families for very long
periods of time and working for other, wealthier families), and deep-sea
fishing. All of these pose threat of harm to the one in five children under
age 17 who are laborers and prevent them from attending school.
ABK2’s activities include distribution of school supplies, livelihood
activities for families, and anti-child labor advocacy in the communities.
Although public school is free in the Philippines, often a miscellaneous fee
is charged, and the cost of books, uniforms, and transportation can prevent
a family from sending their child to school.
Besides setting out to change the mindsets of children, parents, and their
communities, World Vision advocates to the government of the
Philippines, both local and national, to change and enforce laws on
education and child labor.
Impact:
A total of 21,514 children have been withdrawn or prevented from
labor since the project started in October 2007.
As of February 2010, the project was working with another 4,854 children,
their families, and communities to either prevent at-risk children from
entering child labor or withdrawing children from exploitative work.
One major accomplishment was the passing of open enrollment in
public schools. Whereas previously they would have had to enroll at the
beginning of the school year, children who are removed from labor can
now enroll later in the year, ensuring they don’t miss the window and
return to labor. WV played a direct role in advocating the government for
this change.
Haven of Rest ADP in FY10 reported 99 percent enrollment of schoolage children in the ADP.
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The Mountain View ADP in FY10 reported that 65 percent of children in
the ADP are averaging grades of 80 percent or higher, and 90 percent of
children are promoted to the next class level.
In FY10, the Omega ADP reported that the number of students dropping out
of school decreased from 9 percent in FY09 to 3 percent in FY10.
Diadem ADP reported a 5 percent increase of children in the ADP
attending primary and secondary school in FY10, compared with
FY09.
SOUTH AFRICA
Project:
Networks of Hope
Dates:
October 2007-September 2011
Beneficiaries:
30,000 OVC
WVUS ADPs:
Umzimvubu
Mpofu
WVI ADPs:
Khauhelo (WV Canada)
Thaba Nchu (WV Canada)
Kodumela/Enable (WVUK)
Thushalushaka (WV South Africa)
Donor:
Donor budget:
Match Cash:
Match GIK:
USAID (PEPFAR) sub to PACT
$14 million
$1.4 million
n/a
Summary: Networks of Hope is a USAID/PEPFAR funded project through which
WV is a subgrantee to PACT. All activities are implemented through six
ADPs in Eastern Cape, Free State and Limpopo, thus there is 100 percent
ADP overlap. Networks of Hope has reached 30,514 OVCs with 1,222
volunteer Home Visitors who provide support. The program is child
focused and community driven in that it focuses on mobilizing and
enhancing community led responses to protect and care for OVC,
strengthening the capacity of OVC and household members to care for
themselves, and creating an enabling environment for OVC through
community care coalitions (CCCs). OVC receive food and nutritional
support, child protection interventions, shelter interventions, general
health care services including ART, psychosocial support, HIV prevention
education, economic strengthening, general education and vocational
training.
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Impact:
36 percent of ADP OVC receive clinical nutritional support, including
nutritional counseling and nutritional supplements. Match funds also
contributed to the provision of food parcels to 58 percent of ADP OVC as
recommended by local primary health clinics.
4,979 ADP OVC have been provided with child protection services,
which includes protection from abuse such as rape, maltreatment by older
family members, provision of temporary shelter, provision of birth
certificates and identity documents and assistance with inheritance issues.
Almost two-thirds of ADP OVC and their families were assisted with
economic opportunities including social grant and income generating
activities.
78 percent of OVCs in all six ADPs were able to access education
through support from the grant in the form of assistance from home
visitors, school uniforms, school shoes, and supplies.
About 2.3 percent (700) of the OVC are HIV-positive, and they were
assisted with access to ARV treatment through a referral network.
100 percent of the ADP OVC were reached with psychosocial support
services through counseling and mentoring.
INDIA
Project:
Dates:
Beneficiaries:
Partnership for Innovation and Knowledge in Agriculture (PIKA)
October 2008-July2011
18,000
WVUS ADPs:
Barabanki
Sitapur
Unnao
WVI ADPs:
Hardoi
Fatehpur
Donor:
Donor budget:
Match Cash:
Match GIK:
USAID
$1.5 million
$325,000
n/a
Summary: The Partnership for Innovation and Knowledge in Agriculture (PIKA)
project links smallholder farmers (with less than 2.5 acres) to major
regional markets in and around five of WV’s ADPs in Uttar Pradesh,
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benefiting 23,296 farmers and farm laborers thus far (almost 7,000) by
reducing cultivation and finance costs, raising yields, improving postharvest practices, facilitating efficiencies in value chains in rice and wheat,
increasing farmer skills, mitigating risk and, ultimately, increasing
incomes.
Impact:
Farmer’s acceptance and adaptation of technology helped increased
productivity in wheat by 14 – 37 percent overall.
Farmers using the Zero Tillage Wheat (ZTW) method, which saves
production cost and use of irrigation water, increased their yields by 4.619.3 percent compared to conventional tillage wheat. The analysis also
found substantial economic gains with zero tillage wheat, thanks to the
technique’s ability to reduce the cost of cultivation. Economic gains
ranged from 33-77 percent compared to conventional tillage.
Farmers using the Direct Seeded Rice method increased their crop
production on average by 8.4 percent.
In Barabanki ADP, PIKA provided 26 diesel water pumps to farmers so
they aren’t dependent on the weather for irrigation, and so they can
irrigate their crops at a nominal cost. Timely irrigation will increase their
crop yield so they will have more to save for the nourishment and
education of their children and families. Due to improved irrigation,
time saved for irrigating one hectare area was in the range of 11-34
percent. Based on diesel saved it can be concluded that emission of CO2
in the range of 8.44 kg to 37.97 kg ha-1 could be avoided due to less
fuel consumption.
According to the Sitapur ADP FY10 annual report, the agriculture
intervention of the ADP, which is entirely implemented through PIKA,
has increased the yield of farmers in the ADP by 20-30 percent since
2009.
In the Unnao ADP, PIKA introduced vermicompost as a new agriculture
method. Vermicompost fertilizer made from the waste of earth worms,
which is rich in nutrients. One farmer, Pappu Saini, tested the method for
the community on half of his rice crop. The part of his field on which he
used the vermicompost has yielded far more rice than the other half (an
exact increase has not yet been calculated). Other farmers in the
community are now ready to use this new method for increased yields on
their crops as well.
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