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Impact Monitoring of the CEFE training program for agricultural producers in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka

Author : Haas, O.

Acc. No: 641-S

Category: Soft Documents

Subjects: Impact Monitoring

Type of Resource: North Western Province, Poverty alleviation programmes, Livelihood development

Languages: No

ISBN: English

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The North Western Province Dry Zone Participatory Development Project (NWP-DZPDZ) started in early 1993 and has covered an implementation period of 7 years. The DZP has been operating in the Dry Zone of the North Western Province of Sri Lanka and was designed as a poverty alleviation programme, which aimed at supporting poor farming communities and families in improving their livelihood. The target group of DZP is living in a remote area of the North Western Province and mainly working in agricultural business. The majority is also running micro and small enterprises in various other sectors which are not directly related to agriculture. In line with the objective to promote commercial agriculture with those farmers who have the capacities and resources, the project got assistance of CEFE1 in developing a CEFE training module which is adapted to the specific situation of micro- and small-scale agricultural producers, but also includes “off-farm” enterprises. The range of the present income in the project area generated from agricultural and non-agricultural activities varies from 0 to 45.000 Rupees per month2, whereby the participants of the CEFE training for the project area fell into the comparatively higher income range. Before participating at the training programme most of the participants had started a business already and had basic “entrepreneurial knowledge”. The CEFE training was attended by micro-scale entrepreneurs, whereby the majority was working in non-agricultural business. Overall 4 training courses had been conducted in which 100 participants have participated and finalized business plans.
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