230802 AGNP A2F Sector Study_DSU_Final Clean FORMATTED

The work provides a good legacy and the UK’s investment in the two sectors is testament to the hard work of the Élan team and partners, who operated in a very difficult context.20 It also provides a foundation that can be built upon, not least as the markets remain fragile and many systemic constraints remain, particularly the more binding constraints in the DRC of infrastructure, logistics, and 2. [...] The structure of this report follows the sequence of the evaluation questions in line with the other sector studies done to date,27 as follows: The Introduction (this Section 1) introduces the study including the evaluation questions, with a brief summary of the methodology and its limitations. [...] Section 2 outlines a brief introduction to the Élan project, the development of the sector approach and the allocation of resources to the AgNP and A2F sectors. [...] Section 3 is the central chapter on Élan’s work in the AgNP sector, this includes on the relevance of design in meeting the key constraints in the market and needs of target beneficiaries (Section 3.1); the effectiveness of interventions and extent to which systemic change was achieved (Section 3.2); the impact that can be estimated achieved (Section 3.3); and the sustainability of changes broug. [...] Findings from the document review included on the following: identification of assumptions that led to the design of interventions; understanding of the relevance of the sector and how interventions were designed to achieve changes and meet the needs of market actors and target beneficiaries; and identification of external factors, including contextual changes, that could have affected the i.