Beneficiary Assessment/Impact Evaluation Of The Fadama Ii Critical Ecosystem Management Project (Cemp)

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Community Driven Development (CDD) approach is presently becoming popular due to its potential to develop projects that are responsive to local demands, empower local communities, and are better targeted at the poor. This study was conducted to assess the impact of Fadama II Critical Ecosystem Management Project, a CDD project on its beneficiaries. The Fadama II Critical Ecosystem Management project is a six year project whose specific objective include making sure that by project end, sustainable watershed management coordination capacity is established in at least 60 percent of the participating states; it also aim at attaining by project end, sustainable land and water management practices mainstreamed in Local Development Plans in at least 35 percent of the participating communities; Area under sustainable land and water management practices in the three pilot sites must also have increased by at least 80 percent at the end of the project. In relation to this, the terms of reference for this study are: (i)Assess the functionality and sustainability of the SWS(ii) Assess the impact of the project on the livelihood of project beneficiaries (iii) Conduct an economic analysis of the CEMP investment (iv) Assess the performance of the participating States Governments and Local Government Councils in the areas of Institutional arrangement and Institutional support – technical, financial etc (v) Assess level of beneficiaries’ empowerment in the areas of decision making, funds transfer, procurement procedures, Awareness on Sustainable Land and Water Management Practices, Adoption of Sustainable Land and Water Management Practices, Sustainability and up scaling Sustainable Land and Water Management Practices.(vi)Assess the nature and degree of beneficiary satisfaction with sub-projects implemented (vii)Assess willingness to share in the costs of sub-projects and the implication of increasing sustainability (viii)Identify and examine factors underlying motivation (or lack thereof) to maintain Sub-projects supported by the grant(ix)Assess the level of compliance with / to environmental safeguards for all sub-projects being implemented.