- The document summarizes the progress of IFAD's Country Strategic Opportunities Programme in Cambodia from 2013-2018. - It has 3 strategic objectives focusing on smallholder market access, resilience to shocks, and rural service delivery. - Key projects contributing to results include PADEE, ASPIRE, AIMS, and TSSD. - While some outcomes are on track, others will not be fully achieved by the 2018 deadline, so an extension is recommended.

1. IFAD Cambodia Country Strategic Opportunities Programme 2013-18
IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS
COSOP MID-TERM REVIEW WORKSHOP
21st APRIL 2016

2. COSOP has 3 Strategic Objectives
• SO1 Poor smallholders enabled to take
advantage of market opportunities
• SO2 Poor rural households and communities
increase resilience to climate and other shocks;
• SO3 Poor rural households improve access to
strengthened rural service delivery by
Government, civil society and private sector
agencies.

3. Where will the COSOP results come from?
• COSOP Results Management Framework (RMF) shows expected results
from PADEE, ASPIRE and AIMS
• TSSD is not mentioned
• ASPIRE and AIMS will not deliver major impacts till 2018 or later
• S-RET is an additional project not foreseen in the RMF
PROJECT 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
TSSD
PADEE
ASPIRE
S-RET
AIMS
COSOP IMPLEMENTATION YEARS

4. Projected Outreach
• Assumption: Full impact occurs when a household has
participated in project activities for 3 years
• Assumption: about 75% of participating households will achieve
the expected impact
Project Type
Outreach Impact Outreach Impact
PADEE / S-RET IGRF 49,200 36,900 49,200 36,900
TSSD LIG 27,314 20,486 27,314 20,486
ASPIRE Smallholders 9,000 6,750 100,000 75,000
AIMS Value Chain - 80,000 60,000
TOTAL 85,514 64,136 256,514 192,386
2018 2021
PROJECTION OF OUTREACH AND IMPACT

5. SO1 Poor smallholders enabled to take advantage of market
opportunities
Status of Outcome Indicators
Outcome Indicator Contributing Activities Measured
Results
Likelihood of
Achievement
Average labour productivity of 49,000
targeted households increases by 25%
(PADEE)
PADEE on target to reach
49,000 HH by 2015
MTR survey
indicates decline
in labour
productivity but
calculation
requires many
assumptions
Likely to be achieved
but this is an area that
would merit further
study as it is key to
demonstrating
agriculture can be a
pathway out of poverty
Average household non-rice agricultural
production of 49,000 targeted households
increased by 20% (PADEE)
PADEE on target to reach
49,000 HH by 2015
22% increase by
MTR (PADEE
survey)
On track
80% of IGRFs increase the size of their fund
by 30% after three years (not including
Group Conditional Capital Transfers)
(PADEE)
772 IGRF’s operating According to
MBWIn, IGRF
groups retained
profits equal to
11% of equity in
2015
On track

6. Status of SO1 Outcome Indicators (continued)
Outcome Indicator Contributing Activities Measured
Results
Likelihood of
Achievement
Average household agricultural production
value of 100,000 targeted households
increased by 15% (ASPIRE)
ASPIRE will start
extension activities in
2016 but will not reach
100,000 HH by 2018
Will not be fully
achieved by 2018
Net farming income of 1,500 poor farm
households with access to new land above
poverty line level (ASPIRE)
ASPIRE final design does
not include specific
activities for this group
Low. Review relevance
of indicator
15 innovation sub-projects at different
development stages approved for financing
under iRAD (ASPIRE)
IRAD concept modified in
final version of ASPIRE
(focus on testing CR-
agriculture)
Indicators needs re-
definition. However,
ASPIRE and S-RET will
support innovation
grants
Minimum of 20% increase in average net
farming income of 80,000 HH participating in
8 Value Chains (AIMS)
AIMS design scheduled
for 2016
Low chance of
achievement by 2018

7. SO2 Poor rural households and communities increase
resilience to climate and other shocks
Status of SO2 Outcome Indicators.
Outcome Indicator Contributing
Activities
Measured Results Likelihood of
Achievement
Value of household assets owned by
participating households increased on average
by 25% (PADEE)
55% increase in hh
assets measured by
PADEE MTR
On track
Percentage of children under 5 suffering from
chronic malnutrition disaggregated by gender
is reduced by 10% in targeted communes
(Mainstreaming Nutrition Activities)
Social market approach
to nutrition training
introduced by PADEE
MTR
Severely
malnourished
(height for age)
reduced from 40.1%
at baseline to 31.9%
at MTR (PADEE)
On track

8. SO3 Poor rural households improve access to strengthened rural service
delivery by Government, civil society and private sector agencies
Status of Outcome Indicators
Outcome Indicator Contributing
Activities
Measured Results Likelihood of
Achievement
A policy for climate sensitive Agricultural
Extension Services integrating public sector,
private sector and civil society roles is developed
and adopted (ASPIRE)
ASPIRE Component
1
Policy for Agriculture
Extension approved
in 2015 influenced
by ASPIRE design
On track: review of
policy will take place
after MTR of ASPIRE
40% increase in the number of agriculture
education and extension service providers that are
using good quality extension materials reviewed
and disseminated by MAFF (ASPIRE)
Baseline will be
measured by
Extension
Practioner Survey
(ASPIRE)
On track
At least three major policy studies and associated
publications will be produced by SNEC, discussed
with stakeholders and disseminated (Small
grants)
Supported under
ASPIRE Component
1
On track

9. Progress of Institutional and Policy
Objectives
• ON TRACK OR ACHIEVED:
• Improved, market-orientated extension materials in use
(PADEE)
• Policy for Agriculture Extension Services Adopted
• Provincial sub-programmes established (ASPIRE)
• NOT YET
• Improved knowledge on conditional cash transfers to poor
households (PADEE)
• Public-Private Partnership models for extension (ASPIRE)
• Mainstreaming climate resilience in extension (ASPIRE)
• Diversified models of extension service provision (ASPIRE)

10. IFAD Cambodia Country Strategic Opportunities
Programme 2013-18
RECOMMENDATIONS
COSOP MID-TERM REVIEW WORKSHOP
21st APRIL 2016

11. 1. Revise the Results Management
Framework
• Outcome level indicators should aggregate
results across projects on a common basis
• Milestone indicators to stay project-by-project
• TSSD results to be included
• REVISED indicator for productivity of labour: “3
major extension packages shown to increase
productivity of agriculture labour by 25%”
• DROP indicator on “non-rice agriculture
production value” (not strategically relevant)
• DROP indicator on “farmers with new land”
(no activities)
• New tracking indicator for targeting vulnerable
communities using the Climate Vulnerability
Index developed by MoE

12. 2. Extend the time-frame for
achieving COSOP results
• 3 options:
1. COSOP ends in 2018, with full results
not achieved
2. Extend COSOP to 2021, when results
will be largely achieved
3. Design a new COSOP, but carry over the
existing targets, to be achieved by 2021
• OPTION 3 is preferred

13. 2. Review Strategy for
Child Nutrition
• Childhood malnutrition is a core indicator
in IFAD RIMS system, and is an indicator
for Strategic Objective 2 (resilience)
• PADEE and TSSD address nutrition but the
activities do not seem to be given a high
priority and do not seem very effective
• PADEE MTR recommended a social
market approach
• IFAD and RGC should develop a common
approach to childhood malnutrition that
could be mainstreamed in all COSOP
projects

14. 4. Better Integration of Regional Grant
and Country Programme Activities
• Currently there are six agencies using regional grants from IFAD
to implement activities in Cambodia
• Coordination with the country programme is weak in most cases
• Grants are too small to achieve strategic impacts as stand-alone
activities
• Projects can benefit from technical cooperation with grant
agencies, while grant agencies can leverage project resources to
achieve scale
• Best practice example is cooperation between PROCASUR and
ASPIRE
• In future:
• Grants should be designed for congruence with COSOP activities
• Projects should be designed to take advantage of technical
cooperation from grant agencies
• Country programme management should more actively follow and
integrate grant activities.

15. 5. Establish COSOP Unit for M&E …
• M&E is performance is weak, especially for measurement of strategic outcomes
• Capacity, methods, tools and human resources can be shared between projects
• It is suggested to establish a small unit, including a long-term intermittent
international adviser, to conduct strategic M&E of all COSOP projects
• M&E staff would no longer be available as “spare bodies” for project
implementation work. This is a positive!
• Particular focus on developing, and mainstreaming within MAFF, improved
capacity for monitoring of economic impacts at household, community and
macro (agriculture sector GDP) level.

16. 6. … and for Knowledge Management
• Like M&E, knowledge management is a cross-cutting capacity
• Knowledge management advisers are relatively junior staff. Because they are hired
project by project, they do not benefit from expert advice to improve their skills.
• A COSOP knowledge management unit would:
• Identify opportunities for learning and knowledge sharing
• Identify and document lessons learned
• Design knowledge sharing events (like this one!) to a high standard
• Ensure a high standard and consistent output of multi-media knowledge products

17. Thank You