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GREEN
MOUNTAIN
ANNUAL REPORT
YEAR FOUR (2016-2017)
I. PROJECT OUTPUTS AND IMPACT INDICATORS Commented [A1]: Sin resaltar = reporte año 3
Resaltado plomo = reporte semestral año 4
Letra color rojo = nueva información
Resaltado amarillo = números a revisar del reporte año 3
Resaltado en celeste = información financiera
Target for Current Proposal
Reached to Date
Target Metric Period (Indicate if
(If Applicable)
Additional)
Number of people Number of total direct participants in the Number of people: 4,832 Number of people: 4,700
engaged funded program
Number of people Number of total direct Number of people: 4,747 Number of people: 4,700
who have advanced participants who meet at least one of the
in target livelihood IMPACT conditions (ensure that the sum
factors reported is total unique individuals)
Adoption of Good IMPACT Number of coffee households 1,010 families reported 1,000 families
Agricultural who have adopted new Good increased adoption of Good increasing adoption
Practices (GAPs) Agricultural Practices Agricultural Practices para lograr of Good Agricultural
(M/W) promoted by the project (list una producción orgánica Practices
of eligible GAPs defined by diversificada basada en huertos
project/sector leaders based de vegetales orgánicos y
on local context) animales menores. El porcentaje
de familias que tienen este tipo
de produción aumentó en
35.44% de 44.32% en LB, a
79.76%.
prácticas de manejo y
and Production
conservación de suelo,
agroforestería y cuidado animal
(animal husbandry).
El 98.81% of families uses at
least 1 of these practices. Y el
62% de las familias implementan
las 4 prácticas.
La producción del cuy ha
incrementado notablemente en
51.85% de 38.63% en LB 90.48%
en 2016.
Average Yield/Ha OPTIONAL Average of Hectares of land 2014: 3.74 Ha (92.76%)
used by families for coffee 2015: 3.63 Ha (90.09%)
production. 2016: 3.43 Ha (the families use
84.605 of their land for coffee
production)
Total reduction from 2014 to
2016: 0.31 ha.
to the project
Increase = S/ 1,137.45
Money exchange: 3.3
$344.68 increased average
income.
Access to food OUTPUT Number of people who have In Project‘s life: 964 people 1,000 people
security and/or received training on food (698 men and 266 women). .
nutrition training security or nutrition because
of the program (M/W) This semester: 15 people (9
men and 6 women)
También se ha incrementado
el consumo de su propia
produción siendo los
alimentos con mayor
incremento : tubérculos de
9.33 a 37.7% (25,2%), huevos
(15.77%), carne (24.11%),
legumbres (23.97%).
Water, Sanitation WASH practices because of (600 men and 325 women) 1.
and Hygiene (WASH) the program (M/W)
(M/W)
Improved IMPACT Number of households who # households: 998 boil the
household water have adopted new WASH water and/or appropriately
and hygiene practices because of the store drinking water.
practices program (list of eligible
practices defined by Promoted practices:
project/sector leaders based 683 families improved the
on local context) habitability of their homes,
including cleanliness and order
in the kitchen and in other
rooms.
1 Numero reportado hasta octubre 2016, este semestre no se han realizaron capacitaciones sobre este tema.
Improvements OPTIONAL Number of producers actively Baseline: 1,190 coops 100% registered
organizational affiliated with target members partnerships
diagnostic score organization (from baseline)
2016: 1,133 coops members
ACPC:305
CEPROAP: 183 and
MOUNTAIN COFFEE: 645
Difference
II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The CAFÉ SELVA project – Women’s Empowerment and Food Security for Coffee Farming Cooperatives at
Pichanaki´s Jungle, funded by Keurig Green Mountain Inc. (KGM) and started on November 2013 through
October 2016, has worked to enable 1,000 coffeegrowing families—500 original and 500 through Heifer
International’s Passing on the Gift® (POG) method—especially in women-led households, to improve their
food security through integrated production systems.
CAFÉ SELVA assists families who belong to coffee-growing cooperatives in the Pichanaki District: Pichanaki
Federation of Agroecological Farmers (CEPROAP), the Central Association of Coffee-Growers of Pichanaki
(ACPCP) and the Association of Specialty Coffee Growers (Mountain Coffee). The project’s goal is to increase
cooperative members’ consumption of a nutritionally balanced diet, produced by their farms, foster women’s
participation in their daily functions, and secure linkages with local governments.
This report contains information on the project’s major impacts and results after three years of
implementation. The project’s main achievements have been:
a. The project has reached 1,028 coffee growing families ‐ 556 original and 472 through Passing on
the Gift ‐and approximately 38.7 percent of project participants are women. The project has
improved family food security by promoting diversified family farms, leading to greater
consumption of meat, eggs and vegetables produced by the families themselves. The project has
provided training and resources for the care of guinea pigs and to improve home conditions. A total
of 174 project families improved the health‐related conditions of their homes through changes
in infrastructure ‐ installing improved stoves and environmentally friendly refrigerators ‐ and
changes in sanitation and hygiene practices such as treating drinking water, use of latrines,
managing household waste and having first aid kits.
b. Con respecto a los ingresos, El promedio general de los ingresos mensuales asciende a S/. 763.25
a diferencia de los S/. 558.43 de la Línea de Base. La población en pobreza extrema se redujo en
c. About food security, the Project helped to increase the family diet diversity, it keeps around 7,
because of the strong and long drought that affected all their plants this year. It affected not only
coffee, but also some of their vegetable production from their bio- garden and some fruits, keeping
only the resistant varieties with low production. However, it did not decrease their food under the
BL, that could happen like one case: Mr Eleodoro Zegarra, who is an old person, with low coffee
production and without different income than coffee.
d. Nowadays 57 agroecological promoters have been strengthen (33 women and 24 men), between
November and April, 34 promoters (20 women and 14 men) finished their formation, 25 promoters
of them (13 women and 12 men) supported directly 985 families by training and technical
assistances, developed in their places. About the “roya” pest, it did not disappear, however families
learned how to live with it, controlling it by coffee renewed plants (but with the risk to lose the
quality) and agroecological practices about soil strengthen and pest natural control, under a good
management.
e. About the coffee organization strengthening, promotors trained by the project are recognized as a
valuable capital for the coops; as a product of this recognition, three of the promotors group were
hired by their organizations and small businesses. ACPC Cooperative and Mountain Coffee
Cooperative hired two promotors (Robert Condor and Edgar Ambrosio) as technical assistants.
Marleni Oscarima Quispe, another promotor, was hired by a coffee small business (processing,
toasting, grounded and selling).
Since July 2016, 30% of the best trained promoters (most of them women) are participating in a
new project funded by “Terre des hommes”, in which they are involved in business plan design.
f. As the project finished its active intervention on June 2016, we could see promoters giving
technical assistance during the Follow-up stage; for example: Teofila Camechahue, Alicia Gonzalez
and Your Usinga, who reported to the technical team the service they five at least at three families
each one. Most of the time, the assisted families are the neighbors, who ask the promotors for a
workshop or a visit at home, to help them in their production (animals or vegetables).
g. Finally, there were four decentralized “passing of the gift” this year, in Alto Picuna, 28 de Julio,
Miricharo and Pampa Camona (the last one on June 17th, 2016). Seventy- three Families (40
women and 33 men) were benefited.
Eventos este año, encuentro de mujeres compartir, ///pasantías (redactar por actividades )
III. INTRODUCTION
CAFÉ SELVA began its implementation in October 2013, with its baseline. This project assisted families
focusing on improved food security through diversified ecological production from agroecological food
gardens and small animal husbandry (cavias and hens’ production). Also, it provided healthy environments
with integrated farm management plans, including “healthy homes” that implied improved cook stoves,
latrines, and environmental food keeper; and finally training to manage their income to deal with the "thin
months".
The Central Forest covers 10 percent of Peruvian territory. Pichanaki is between 200 to 850 meters above sea
level and most of this territory deals primarily with coffee and cacao production. Previously, coffee was the
main crop in the area, and most of the production was for exportation. Currently, demand for coffee is
increasing both outside and inside the country, especially in the same production area where many local
businesses around the coffee are located, such as coffee shops.
A pesar de gozar de una demanda creciente , los productores también enfrentan un precio muy
fluctuante,problemas de la misma producción y { condiciones extremas a causa del cambio climático}.
Esta información está siendo actualizada por el análisis TEOP de los directivos de las cooperativas durante la
evaluación interna final y debido a un ultimo desastre en el Perú que ha ocacionado { cambios estructurales
en el Sistema productivo Agricola peruano }.
Environment: Climate change is having significant negative impact on the Selva Central of Peru.
Because of the long and intense drought season, there was no water inland, and without irrigation equipment,
crop production was significantly reduced. The drought proved fatal to some crops, especially those
dependent on chemicals fertilizers or that lacked soil management or conservation.15 regiones fueron
declaradas en emergencia 3 This affected the coffee plantations even more than cacao, citrus fruits, or
vegetables, because the dry season was followed by very high temperatures and humidity. El cambio
climático ha intensificado ambas temporadas y este semestre se ha padecido por el exceso de lluvias que
intensificaron la roya amarilla y ayudó a la roya negra a emerger4
2 This supports improved quality of life for 1,057 coffee-growing families by diversifying their farm production and strengthening their
organizations with a gender equity approach. The project is working in northeastern Peru, benefitting three coffee-growing
cooperatives, the Central Association of Coffee Growers of the Northeast (CECANOR) in Lambayeque and the PROSPERIDAD
Cooperative of Coffee-Growers and the Union of Ecological Coffee Growers in Cajamarca.
3
https://www.laprensalatina.com/peru-declara-en-emergencia-por-sequia-a-15-regiones-y-11-provincias/
4
https://agronegociosperu.org/2017/04/05/nino-costero-deja-perdidas-por-s-2100-millones-en-agro-y-ganaderia/
http://www.observatoriocambioclimatico.org/node/7131
Hay más 90 mil hectáreas perdidas por el Fenómeno El Niño, esto significa
que el 30% de los cultivos del país se han perdido
Si bien el Niño no les ha afectado tanto directamente a sus sembríos, si afectó en el bloqueo de carreteras para
el acceso a sus mercados (obligandolos a recibir muy bajo precio
Production: Coffee farming families face challenges in their production systems. In response, the project
organized a workshop for promoters to strengthen their knowledge to provide appropriate technical
assistance. The workshop included the following topics: 1) guinea pigs & hens: managing & treating diseases;
2) coffee crops: soil analysis or chromatography before fertilization management, and correct prevention or
control of the coffee berry borer; 3) Bio-gardens: using home remedies for managing and treating pests; and
4) healthy soil for healthy plants: high quality of humus through compost/good management of fresh coffee
pulp and manure.
Economy: Although Peru is one of the world’s main coffee producers, there is no national agricultural pest
prevention policy to improve its quality and quantity. In 2013, over 90 thousand hectares of coffee groves
were affected by coffee rust. A state of emergency was declared because even yields for future years were
jeopardized. Last year, the National Coffee Board, in an Alliance with Cafetalera Amazónica, introduced new,
high-productivity coffee varieties featuring superior taste and rust resistance: the Marsellesa and Central
American (or H1) varieties, encouraging coffee-growing families to reinforce their groves.
Social context: In a complex context characterized by low prices, coffee rust (roya) still affects migration as
people look to non-farm activities for new income sources. Families and cooperatives started to implement
new strategies: - Partnerships: The three cooperatives established partnerships with various private and
government institutions, such as Agroideas, Progreso and “Café Correcto” (National Coffee Board), to work
on different segments of the coffee value chain. - Women’s Empowerment: in Selva Central, currently only
two women hold leadership positions in cooperatives both as general managers (Esperanza Dionisio Castillo
with CAC Pangoa and Elizabeth Villa with CEPROAP). In order to continue promoting women’s full participation,
the Heifer project team is arranging a meeting where women can exchange experiences and define
opportunities for their progress.
V. METHODS
Este año 2017, no se realizó el monitoreo anual ya que en octubre se realizará la evaluación externa final
del proyecto. De modo que este reporte anual, al igual que el reporte anual anterior, compara los
resultados obtenidos en la línea de Base conducida en octubre del 2013 con los datos obtenidos en el
monitoreo anual realizado en noviembre del 2016. Además, también incluye la información actualizada
cualitativa obtenida de la evaluación interna realizada en abril del 2017 donde se evaluó la sostenibilidad
del Proyecto por el trabajo de los promotores y directivos. Por último, también se incluyen entrevistas
conducidas en el periodo de agosto 2017 sobre los cambios más significativos.
Annual Monitoring
Household survey: In November 2016, 84 families from the project’s three participating
cooperatives were selected by “stratified sampling” from a population of 500 original families
(families who received resources directly from the project) for a confidence level of 95 percent
and a margin of error of 10 percent. The team comprised 6 field surveyors, one field supervisor,
one technical support and a project technician they used tablets to make the survey, and the
information was added to a data base.
Focus groups: Two focus groups were held in November 2016, one with nine leaders (5 men and
4 women) from the three participating cooperatives and another with 12 women members of
the three cooperatives participating in the project.
Most Significant Change Interviews: Conducted in August 2017 with a total of 12 project participants by a
team comprised of two social communicators, trained by Heifer Peru.
a. GLOBAL INDICATORS
Number of Number of total direct Number of people: 4,832 Number of people: 4,700
people participants in the
5
engaged funded program Defined as: Defined as: Life of Project.
(number of # people: 1028 families x 4.7* # people: 1,000 families x 4.7*
families members = 4,832 members = 4,700
assisted x 5)
1,028 families= 556 original 1,000 families = 500 original families and 500
families and 472 families families through Heifer International’s Passing
Through Passing on the Gift. on the Gift method.
Number of Number of total direct Number of people: 4,747 Number of people: 4,700
people participants who Defined as: 1010 families x 4.7
who have meet at least one of members, who: Defined as: Life of Project.
advanced in the IMPACT 1,000 families x 4.7 members.
target conditions 6 (ensure Reported increased
livelihood that the sum adoption of Good
factors reported is total Agricultural Practices
unique individuals) Have higher MAHFP.
5
Direct participants: Heifer defines direct assistance as the “number of families receiving animals and training, both original and pass-ons during the
reporting period of projects.” Although a male or female heads of household (in some cases, both male and female) usually signs the contract to Pass on
the Gift with another family and is officially responsible, the whole family shares in the benefits and responsibilities of the resources given by Heifer.
6
ADD: summary of impact conditions
7
Indirect participants: Indirect assistance includes “number of families receiving animals and training including pass-ons after the reporting period,
number of families receiving training only from Heifer during and after the reporting period, and families receiving other benefits without Heifer’s direct
involvement – e.g. contributions by animal health workers, trainings of farmers by other farmers, continued use of the values based model, etc.”
This report updates the number of men and women in the Passing on the Gift recorded in previous periods given that many
women whose husbands were temporarily working outside of their communities requested to be counted as representing t
heir families in the POG records.
b. TRAINING ACTIVITIES
Coffee processing
and selective har 10 6 12 3
KGM 1. Number of coffee vesting8
producers who have received
agronomic assistance and/or
trainings Agroforestery9 8 6 8 2
1. Diversified Agronomic
Production assistance by 9 6 3 3
and Food promoters. 10
Security.
8
Workshops conducted under agreements with promoters and their cooperatives, with funding from the organization Terre des Hommes. Additionally, g
roups set up treatment ponds and solar dryers and the experience was shared with others.
9
Workshops conducted through agreements with promoters and their cooperatives, with funding from SERFOR of the MINAGRI.
10
The costs of the technical assistance and training workshops were financed by the cooperatives and had the support from project promoters.
*Male and female trainees do not match the column totals in order to avoid duplication, because many people received more than one
training topic in their localities.
c. PROMOTED PRACTICES.
Topic Practices promoted by the project
KGM 1. Good Agricultural Practices Talking map about family lands.
Placement of yellow traps for pest control in bio-gardens and coffee
Berry borer (CBB).
Plantation of coffee crops on level curves with organic fertilization.
Making organic fertilizers, solids (compost) and liquids (biol).
Preparation and application of biocides (repellent plants) and
mineral products to control the insect pest.
Practices on coffee management: pruning and shadow
management.
Practices on coffee harvest and post-harvest management.
KGM 3 Income diversification activities Cavia´s (guinea pig) production for breeding stocks and meat sales.
Hen´s eggs sales.
Vegetables sales: tomatoes, gherkin and aromatic herbs (cilantro,
oregano, Persil).
KGM 4 Food security or nutrition Land designs for productive diversification in coffee lands
(vegetables, animals, fruits, root crops and roots).
KGM 8 WASH practices promoted by the Practice of right habits about hygiene and home cleaning (in waste
project management, home organization, food storage and kitchen
improvement).
11
The workshops were conducted under agreements with the promoters and their cooperatives and with funding from the National Agrarian Innovation
Institute, of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation.
Number
Description Total Amount (USD)
of Units
Animales e insumos para producción agrícola y pecuaria
Cuyes (unidades) 3297
Aves (unidad)
Semilla de hortalizas (kg)
Infraestructura para vivienda saludable
Nevera ecológica (módulo que incluye parrillas de aluminio, ladrillos, etc.)
Sistema para filtrado de agua segura (módulo que incluye tanque de plástico de 220
litros, tubería, llaves, etc.)
Cocina mejorada (módulo que incluye ladrillos, cemento, chimenea, etc.)
Letrina (módulo que incluye tuberías, inodoro, calamina, malla, cemento, etc.)
e. LEVERAGED FUNDING
Number of coffee households who have adopted new Good Agricultural Practices promoted by the project
IMPACT
Producers GAPs
Households 1,010 families 1,000 families GAPS Promoted: Soil 98.81% of families uses at
reported increased increasing adoption of conservation, soil least 1 practice of Soil
adoption of Good Good Agricultural management, management and
Agricultural Practices. Practices agroforestry. conservation, agroforestry
and animal husbandry. Y el
62% de las familias
implementan las 4
prácticas.
OPTIONAL Average yield (kg/ha) Average yield (kg/ha) among Percent of farmers who report at
at baseline project participants (new) least a 20% yield improvement
No applicable No applicable No applicable
Analysis
The Promoters still helping the families, not only the ones from the cooperatives, but also their neighbor who are interested
to know mainly about coffee production (seedling nursery), the pest control and the post-harvest management, also, face to
the “roya” to get resilient coffee varieties. Also, the families promote alternative crop production like bio-gardens and animal
production like cavia (guinea pig) and hens, to ensure their food and healthy nutrition. Most of the time, the families ask the
promoters to make a technical assistance or training on his/her or on their own land, and they invite many families on the
neighborhood to participate, and end up adopting at least one good agricultural practice, to improve their production.
Number of households that have incorporated at least one new source of income
IMPACT
Beneficiaries (x5) 2,435 people 2500 people Venta de productos Nuevos ingresos
agrícolas. Principal: por venta de
Café productos
Alternativos: agrícolas:
Frutas (cítricos y Cuy, Huevos y
bananas); Aves hortalizas.
(gallina) y porcino.
Analysis
This year, only the 20% of the families sold animals and vegetables, however the 80% had their new nonfarm (salary or
remittances). The possible reason to have 20% is the strong drought and high temperatures that affect not only the coffee
production but also the crop diversification like the cabbage that need less temperature or celery that needs moist soil, also
crop and animal production distressed by “caloric stress”, having low weights and production. Most of them must be
consumed or sold quickly.
En 2016, se evidencia que la venta de cosecha de café continúa siendo una actividad importante en la
vida de los participantes del proyecto con el 61% de ingresos proveniente de la venta de café; sin embargo,
se ha reducido en un 17% respecto a la Línea de Base.
Ha tenido un pico pero ha bajado por las condiciones climáticas y se ha recuperado
Antes las familias dependían en mayor medida de los ingresos del café . linea base 78.14% y en el
2016 la cosecha del café representa casi un 17 % menos de los ingresos (61.15%). Otras actividades
han completado este espacio , sobretodo la venta de animales. Esta venta se ha aumentado en más que
el doble : Línea Base 5.68 , y en 2016 representa el 13.33 % de los ingresos familiars promedio .
Number of households who have reported a decrease in food insecurity from baseline (as measured by
the Household Hunger Scale)
The percentage of
families who say they
have not faced of food
scarcity was 46.43%
(2.27% at baseline
compared to 46.43% in
2016).
Worst months
Analysis
The number of months with a right provision food was increased to an average of 10.44 months than 9.05 months on BL. This
is very important considering the coffee family producers’ incomes, which doesn´t change over the years; the project looked
for a land diversification to ensure the food along the year and increase the coffee incomes. The family percentage with any
scarcity month has increased significantly (BL: 2.27%, 2016: 46.43).
El promedio general de los ingresos mensuales asciende a S/. 763.25 a diferencia de los S/. 558.43 de la Línea de Base. La
población en pobreza extrema se redujo en un 21.06% respecto a la Línea de Base. Se ha incrementado en +14.27% las
familias que en la actualidad se encuentran fuera de la pobreza.
Con respecto a los meses de adecuada provisión se puede reportar sobre los meses de noviembre y diciembre que siendo
una epoca recurrente de escases , una mucho menor cantidad de familias las que reportan escazes en esos meses . En la
Línea de Base, los meses con mayor frecuencia de escasez de alimentos fueron enero, febrero, noviembre y diciembre; en
comparación a la Línea de Base, la frecuencia de escasez de alimentos en estos meses ha bajado significativamente en 2016.
Noviembre 25.56% 16.87%
Diciembre 60.00% 27.71%
No se ha logrado incrementar al 100% el porcentaje de familias con conocimientos y prácticas sobre el consumo de alimentos
apropiados; sin embargo, hay un incremento del 5.08% respecto de la Línea de Base. En la actualidad, 11.90% de familias han
mejorado sus conocimientos y prácticas sobre el consumo de alimentos gracias a las capacitaciones y recursos entregados
por el proyecto. Esta información fue corroborada por los promotores en el taller de evalucaión, quienes se evaluaron pues
consideran que aún
Number of households who have reported improved dietary diversity from baseline (as measured by the
Household Dietary Diversity Score)
Analysis
The diet diversity decreased since 2015, however it is still a little bit lower than the BL (BL: 7.26, 2014: 8.91, 2015: 10.03,
2016: 7.11). While the diversity decreased, the number of food kept on 3, which joined to the number of month with good
provision, means that the families have enough food to eat, although their low diversity.
With the farm diversification, many families stopped to buy food and they stocking up with their own production, increasing
the percentage of families that eat their own production than the BL in the next groups: root crops (BL: 9.3%, 2016: 40.5%),
vegetables (BL: 23.1%, 2016: 51.2%), Meat (BL: 38.9%, 2016: 56.7%), eggs (BL: 73.3%, 2016: 87.2%) and Legumes (BL: 2.1%,
2016: 26.0%). The vegetable, meat, eggs and legumes production are results from the Project delivered inputs. Even though
the family percentage who consume and produce this food increased since the BL, it decreased from 2015 to 2016, because
of the large drought that affect the animal and plant production, mainly the more susceptible that must die or disappear,
staying the ones that have more resistance from drought.
Difference
Households 1,028 families 1,000 families We didn’t The projects don’t use this
OPTIONAL Number of producers actively affiliated with target Organizational diagnostic score
organization
Coop 1: Mountain Baseline 640 (480 males, 160 females) The criteria to consider affiliate partner in
Coffee the cooperatives are similar, regularly
(increase on 0.8%) Report 645 (480 males, 165 females). registered in the cooperative record:
Coop 2: CEPROAP Baseline 250 (220 males, 30 females) - Respect the duties and rights as a
(reduction on partner, that appear in the
26.8%) Report 183 (153 males, 30 females). institutional charter.
- Participation on the assembly and
Coop 3: ACPC Baseline 300 (238 males,62 females) elections.
(increase on 1.7%)
Report 305 (240 males, 65 females)
Analysis.
We can see a little increase from the BS for cooperatives like Mountain coffee and ACPC, between 0.8 and 1.7%,
however, CEPROAP has a reduction of 26.8% of their partners. The main problem that happened from partners
from CEPROAP is about the certification, some of them have used chemicals fertilizers and strong pesticides that
affected their production, that couldn´t be collected and sold, so they don´t be considered this year, now they
must wait 3 years of evaluation to return. It is important to say that the ROYA had its consequences, that could
be to control very fast by powerful pesticides that affect also the quality and the health of the coffee, that is an
election and responsibility of each coffee producer. However, most of the producers change their coffee varieties,
renewed the old ones or mix coffee with another crop or species to control the pest. The partners affected by the
exclusion, are not definitely separated or they are gone forever, but they must wait until they can achieve good
conditions to get good coffee production, with good quality.
Es importante mencionar que los directivos de CEPROAP están ausentes pero los promotores han continuado
realizando sus labors de acompañamiento y seguimiento a las familias , en la medida de sus posibilidades (en el
reporte de Evaluación interna)
A Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index study concluded in December 2016. Implemented with
support from the Clinton School of Public Service,6 the study evaluated the impact of projects on women
coffee growers in 36 communities in Pichanaki and Junin. The index reflects women’s decision‐making power
in production, in decision‐making and access to productive resources, assets and/or credit, in income, in
leadership, and in the use of their time. According to the study, 55 percent of participating women are
empowered. The areas of greatest change are in leadership and decision‐making regarding production.
However, there are still aspects that weaken women’s empowerment. The first is the number of hours that
women work – averaging more than 14 hours per day. The second is a lack of control over assets and credit
for purchasing, sales and transferring assets, which accounts for 32 percent of the weakness in women’s
empowerment.
- Local Promoters:
The role of promoters is getting more relevant. Families recognize them and demand their service at least once
per month to monitor their production (coffee, bio-garden, organic fertilizers, and animal production). Some of
them are working out of the community, like Robert Condor, Edgar Ambrosio and Marleni Oscorima, who work at
the coops and in a coffee business (processing, toast, mill and sales).
Project promoters have shown to be valuable resources in their cooperatives as they continue to provide
training and technical assistance after active funding ends. Promoters also continue liaising with and
advocating with local governments. Since July 2016, eight project promoters ‐ six women and two men ‐ have
been developing a business profile for a new project with the organization Terre des Hommes.
Finally, during the project self‐evaluation conducted in April 2017, promoters expressed their commitment
to working for the sustainability of the project. They feel that they have strengthened their cooperatives
thanks to their community leadership. Their next step is to advocate on behalf of their families and
communities before local and regional governments, through the participatory budgeting process, and public
policy. Promoters also feel the need to involve more producers beyond participating cooperatives through
the Passing on the Gift process.
Learned lessons:
One of the strategies than the project implement to build sustainability is Passing on the Gift. Original
project participants are ready to pass on the resources to other families (cooperative’s member and
nonmembers). This commitment is not anymore at Heifer hands, now its cooperatives responsibility.
Project participants have made already 7 POG, some centralized, another decentralized, but now they
plan for another one in December. In that event, they will also explain how 12 cornerstones help them
to reinforce social network and improve their relationship with their family, partners and neighbors.
The role of the promoters is paramount, we can see it in each visit or technical assistance to the
families; however, they need a continuous training and generate income from their service, to make
their role sustainable. Will be important to consider some good practices from other projects which
work through “solidarity founds” (gotten from POG events). So, each promoter with some families can
join a group and start to become resources in a cash, creating a found which can be used as a credit
to improve and make bigger their business.
As one of the objectives of the project is to “foster the participation of women in their daily functions
and foster linkages with local governments”, Café Selva was focused on improving the livelihoods and
12
A 12 percent administrative cost is covered by Heifer International for this project.
Nothing is by chance. First the “roya” then the climate change effects on production system, so coffee
producer and coops started to consider an alternative crop that let them to develop and to get high
incomes, one of the possibility is the cacao, because of the climate is getting hotter and their
management is easier than the one of coffee, also the market is good and the prices remind steady, so
could be an alternative instead to migrate.
Next steps:
The project is presently in the follow ‐ up phase. Next steps include additional follow ‐
up by promoters and continuation of Passing on the Gift in coordination with the cooperatives. The Final
External Evaluation will be developed on July through September and the final report will be submitted
to KGM by October 1st, 2017.
Heifer Peru plans to organized an ‘After Action Review’, a learning activity to identify lessons and
knowledge arising out of the project. One product of this is to facilitate themes to be synthesized as
part of the knowledge generation (about the promoter’s formation program, diversified production
system, healthy homes and good agronomic practices for the coffee crop inside a Roya´s pest context,
for example).
Average Question
Average farm area Q1: What is the total area of your farm –
4.05 Ha x family including all crops grown – and land used for
pasture if any?
Average portion of farm area 3.43 Ha (The families use 84.60% Q2: What is the total area you use to produce
used for coffee of their land for coffee coffee? This includes all coffee plots and any
production) land where coffee is inter-planted with other
crops.
Average portion of farm area Percentage of used land for Q3: Was there any change in the farm used
used for coffee compare to coffee crops: for coffee production in the last production
previous year 2015: 3.63 Ha (90.09%) year? (Compared to the previous year)
2016: 3.43 Ha (84.60%)
Difference: 0.2 Ha
Average income from sales of Average total income of USD Q5: How much money did you receive (in total
coffee ($USD) 3,537.64 per family. for the production year) from sales of coffee?
How did you get involved, and how have you participated in the project?
What do you think has been the most important change in your life or in your community’s life because of this project?
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