Post on 10-Jul-2020
Measures of Success within the
ENABLE Youth Program
Dr. Paul L. Woomer
IITA Agripreneur Technical Advisor
AfDB Consultant to ENABLE-Youth
Email plwoomer@gmail.com
What is success in terms of
agricultural productivity, viable
business enterprise and job
creation?
How do we measure and
monitor these indicators?
Higher education across Africa has grown more
rapidly than the regional economies that its graduates
were meant to accommodate (skill set mismatch).
Despite economic growth, large numbers of frustrated
and resigned job seekers (jobless growth).
What was intended to be the solution, better
educated youth driving growth, has become a
problem, dissatisfied youth and dangerous lifestyles.
This is a situation that must and can be corrected to
society's advantage (realm of Social Engineering).
Social dilemma or developmental
low hanging fruit?
A major objective of the AfDB ENABLEProgram and IITA AgripreneurMovement is …
“to create business opportunities anddecent employment for young womenand men along priority agriculturalvalue chains”.
Measures of Success require that departing
Agripreneur Interns and their start-up
agribusiness be tracked through voluntary
monitoring. Indicators include loan repayment,
profit/loss, employment offered, others.
Coordination Office provide administrative andtechnical support to hosts, trainers and mentors.
Agribusiness incubation conducted for cropproduction, marketing and value addition.
Pilot enterprises established, expanded & replicated. Other rural youth groups are engaged. Youth develop detailed business plans and loan
applications. Departure strategies are designed with financial
institutions to improve creditworthiness of youth. Agribusinesses created, employment generated and
additional youth out-growers linked to markets. Enterprises include a wide range of agricultural
services (not covered in this presentation).
Agripreneur Conceptual Model and
Theory of Change
Provides flexible guidelines to
the establishment and
operations of agribusiness
incubation
Intended to assist new and
existing Youth Agripreneur
Groups to expand in both
number and size.
Allows for adjustment to site-
specific situations and national
requirements
Principles include youth
leadership, gender balance,
democratic norms, and
experiential learning
Interns learn from both a series
of core group agribusiness
ventures and group
organizational tasks
IITA’s approach formalized
into published guidelines
and training material
Youth
Coordination
Office
Hosts,
Trainers &
Mentors
Rural Youth
Group 1
Rural Youth
Group 2 to x
Core
Youth
Operations
Modern
Farming
Facility
Marketing
Facility
Business Plans
& Loan
Applications
Value
Addition
Facility
Product
Markets
Agribusiness
1
Agribusiness
2 to x
outgrowers
spin offs
agribusiness opportunity
Intern
operations
training harvest
Intern operations
Intern
operations
Intern operations
outgrowers
administrative,
logistical &
technical support
facility &
technical
support
Larger
Farming
Community
Office funded,
M&E,
reports issued
ID hosts,
mentors &
trainers
Type &
economic
return
Terms of credit,
loans offered
& repayment
Number trained,
cost per youth &
departure outcomes
Type &
economic
return
Type &
economic
return
Number of groups and
members, joint activities
Number.
&
volume
Type, profits.
&
employees
Type, profits.
&
employees
Wider
agribusiness
engagement
Agripreneur M&E Tool
Developed under IFAD-YADI
Project
Includes routine monitoring and
Knowledge Management
components
Three-page, 18 query repeated
questionnaire
Expanded into digital format for
electronic reporting (right)
Questionnaire components: Submission details, Group
status, Officers and leadership, Hosts, Enterprises,
Mentorship, Training received and provided, Remuneration,
Group dynamics, Finances, Innovation, Difficulties and
solutions, Major achievements, Coordination and
supervision, Photographic support, Any other comments
I. When was your group founded ? 22nd August 2012
II. Status
Is you group registered with national or local authorities ? YES
If yes, as what sort of organization NGO/CBO
III. Officers
Do you have elected officers ? YES
If yes: When last elected 1-Jan-14
Akinyele Bankole
Ohanwusi Evelyn
Odusanya Dare
Olaniyi Jibola
Olaide Jinandu
How many of this officers are young women 3
if no: how is your group led? Please provide a comment
Are group officers election planned ? Yes
IV. Members
How many youth belong to your group ? 35
How many young women 20
What are the ages of youngest members of your group ? 24
What are the ages of oldest members of your group ? 33
Do new members continue to join your group? Yes
If yes ,how are they recruited ?
Interview: For youths who
completed their NYSC in IITA
If no,why not ? Please provide a comment
V. Hosts
What organizations hosts your group ? IITA
How often does your organization meet ? Daily
Do you pay rent? NO
C – CHECKLIST – QUESTIONNAIRE
Specify officers(no more than five)
Modern Farming: High value crops
produced near markets
Start-up: tent-style greenhouse, drip irrigation, mist
blower, hybrid seeds, stacking cartons
Transaction: Complex rotation, fluctuating prices
Marketing: Youth engage as agrodealers
in commodity trading
Start-up: Market space, Quality Standard
compliance, scales and misc. equipment
Transaction: Overlapping purchase and sales
Agro-processing: Youth establish a
bakery using biofortified flours
Start-up: Relatively large including ovens, mixers,
baking supplies, delivery racks, transport
Transaction: Co-investment, several products
Makueni, Kenya
Borno, Nigeria
Bukavu, DRC
Knowledge Management through Case Studies
So many opportunities: agricultural eco-tourism; animalfeed production; cereal, legume and root crop production;establishing out-grower networks; greenhouse and fieldvegetable production; farm input supply; fish farming; fishhatchery and fingerlings; floriculture; irrigation and ponddesign and services; flour milling and blending; herb andspice production; land conservation services; leather works;market aggregation centers; organic fertilizer production;pest control services; plant propagation; potting mixtures;poultry raising; private extension services; productrepresentation; seed production and marketing; soymilkmanufacture; tree seedling nurseries; value addition toagricultural products; vermiculture and more!
Intern outcome Frequency Agribusiness outcome Employees
Non-commercial 0.12 strategic employment 1
Value chain "fixes" 0.15 Modern farming start-ups 3 to 5
Proprietorships 0.24 Medium agribusiness 5 to 7
Partnerships 0.23 Larger agribusiness 8 to 12
Larger businesses 0.23 Agro-processing 12 or more
Total 0.97 Diverse agribusinesses 8 per intern
Likely Agribusiness Incubation
Outcomes by Departing Interns
Impacts depend upon the outcomes following
agribusiness incubation but different outcomes can be
fostered. Returns to investment in agribusiness
incubation can range between 4 to 6:1
Cote d’Ivoire
Ghana
Nigeria
Cameroon
DR Congo
Zambia
Tanzania
Kenya
Uganda
Sudan
Malawi
16
20
1
5
372
2
1
1
6
11
5
11
1
1 Established groups
Planned groups
12
Cote d’Ivoire
Ghana
Nigeria
Cameroon
DR Congo
Zambia
Tanzania
Kenya
Uganda
Sudan
Malawi
16
20
1
5
372
2
1
1
6
11
5
11
1
1 Established groups
Planned groups
12
National
Coordination
Office
Local
Coordination
Units
Agribusiness
Incubations
Agripreneurs, Pilot
Enterprises and
Agribusiness
Attachment
Agribusiness
Start-ups
and Employees
Loans and
Risk Sharing
Technical
Backstopping,
Business Planning
& Tracking
Enabling
Environment
Creditworthiness
Resource
Access
Economic
Advance
Technical and
Business
Training
Enabling Environment
Experiential
Learning
Business Finance
Training & Backstopping
National
Coordination
Office
Local
Coordination
Units
Agribusiness
Incubations
Agripreneurs, Pilot
Enterprises and
Agribusiness
Attachment
Agribusiness
Start-ups
and Employees
Loans and
Risk Sharing
Technical
Backstopping,
Business Planning
& Tracking
Enabling
Environment
Creditworthiness
Resource
Access
Economic
Advance
Technical and
Business
Training
Enabling Environment
Experiential
Learning
Business Finance
Training & Backstopping
ENABLE-Nigeria
ENABLE Program Expansion
Projects are adjusted to Regional
Member Country needs and plans
Rapid expansion of ENABLE
across Africa is underway
Aggregated benefits (economic
gains: cost per program)
Measured through country and
regional economic statistics
Observations and Conclusions Youth empowerment through agribusiness start-up is
necessary and timely
Flexible projects that involve mindset change,
experiential learning, agribusiness attachment,
business plan development and loan mechanisms are
underway
Success is being made in reducing collateral
requirements and interest rates through de-risking
strategies by AfDB
Measures of success operate at different scales, from
individual case studies to complex program and
geographic aggregation
Mindset change as a psychological condition is
complicated to measure but easy to observe
But we do not need a sociologist to understand that
something very special is happening as youth are
successfully reoriented toward agribusiness