The RISE project’s goal is to minimize the impacts of the Ukraine war on the livelihoods, resilience and food security of IFAD’s target group. As well the project development objective is to maintain and improve climate-smart agricultural productive capacity, post-harvest, and resilient water infrastructure access for small-scale producers affected by the Ukraine crisis by contributing to conducive agro-ecological and market conditions, protecting productive livelihoods of beneficiaries and tapping new market opportunities to reduce small-scale producers’ vulnerability, enhance their resilience to the shocks from the Ukraine crisis. In relation to targeting, the project interventions will target rural smallholder farmers, pastoralists, and agro-pastoralist communities.
INSIDHTS conducted an End-line and impact assessment aimed to cover all key components and the sub-components of the project implemented in the project target districts and to assess the project intervention, activities and inputs provided. The End line Survey and Project Impact Evaluation focused on impact, outcome and inputs indicators by a collection of verified information through systematic data collection from beneficiaries and the project stakeholders for a set of evaluation questions (IFAD impact assessment standard questionnaire and project related questionnaire) in conjunction with the above-mentioned impact domains