2021 - IFAD-EU/CCAFS CSA Monitoring: Basona Werana Climate-Smart Village (Ethiopia)

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This dataset contains the files produced in the implementation of the “Integrated Monitoring Framework for Climate-Smart Agriculture” in the Basona Werana Climate Smart Village (Ethiopia) in February 2021.</p>
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This monitoring framework developed by CCAFS is meant to be deployed annually across the global network of Climate-Smart Villages to gather field-based evidence by tracking the progress on:
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<li>adoption of CSA practices and technologies, as well as access to climate information services and
<li>their related impacts at household level and farm level
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The CSA framework allows to address three key research questions:
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<li value="1">Who within each CSV community adopts which CSA technologies and practices and which are their motivations, enabling factors? To which extent farmers access and use climate information services? </li>

<li value="2">Which are the gender-disaggregated perceived effects of CSA options on farmers’ livelihood, agricultural, food security and adaptive capacity, and on key gender dimensions (participation in decision making, participation in CSA implementation and dis-adoption, control and access over resources and labour). </li>

<li value="3">Which are the CSA performance, synergies and trade-offs found at farm level? </li>
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(Note that this 3d. question was not addressed in this specific Basona Werana 2021 monitoring, as farm level data were not collected)
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The CSA framework proposes a small set of standard Core Indicators linked to the research questions, and Extended indicators covering aspects related to the enabling environment.
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At household level (17 Core indicators):</p>
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<li>7 Core Uptake indicators (they track CSA Implementation and adoption drivers; CSA dis-adoption and drivers; Access to climate information services and agro-advisories, Capacity to use them and constraining factors).</li>
<li>10 Core Outcome indicators (they track farmers perceptions on the effects of CSA practices on their Livelihoods, Food Security and Adaptive Capacity and on Gender dimensions.
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Those include namely: CSA effect on yield/production, on Income, on Improved Food Access and Food Diversity, on Vulnerability to weather related shocks and on Changes in agricultural activities induced by access to climate information.</li>
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Four are Gender related Outcome indicators (Decision-making on CSA implementation or dis-adoption, Participation in CSA implementation, CSA effect on labor, Decision making and control on CSA generated income). </p>
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<li>An additional set of complementary Extended indicators allows to determine and track changes in enabling conditions and farmers characteristics such as: Livelihood security, Financial enablers, Food security, Frecuency of climate events, Coping strategies, Risk Mitigation Actions, Access to financial services and Training, CSA Knowledge and Learning.</li>
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At farm level, 7 CORE indicators
<li>7 Core indicators are used to determine the CSA performance of the farms as well as synergies and trade-offs among the three pillars (productivity, adaptation and mitigation, via farm model analysis).</li>
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This integrated framework is associated with a cost-effective data collection App (Geofarmer) that allowed capturing information in almost real time. The survey questionnaire is structured around different thematic modules. </p>
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For the implementation in the context of the EU-IFAD/CCAFS project, some slight changes were made to the questionnaire in order to focus the data collection on tackling:
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<li>The impacts of Climate events</li>
<li>Farmers’ access and use of CIS</li>
<li>Farmer’s implementation of CSA practices, and</li>
<li>the perceived household level outcomes related to the implementation of CSA practices in the two targetted Ethiopian CSVs.</li>
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The adjusted survey questionnaire includes the following thematic modules:
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-M1A Demographic (few additional questions not included in the “MASTER” CSA monitoring questionnaire were added coming from Rhomis)
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-M1D Financial services (reduced set of original questions from the Financial Master)
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-M2, Climate events (no changes made)
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-M3, Climate Information Services
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-M5, CSA practices (no changes made)
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<p align="justify">** The Module Food Security from the Master questionnaire of the CSA framework was not included. Information on Food security captured using RhOMIS.</p>