Hiring of Consulting Firm for Impact of Matching Grants and Progress against Output Indicator 3.1 through Evidence Collection

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Consulting Firm for Impact of Matching Grants and Progress against Output Indicator 3.1 through Evidence Collection

1. Introduction of PPAF:

Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) is the lead apex institution for community-driven development in the country. PPAF was registered in February 1997 under Section 42 of the Companies Ordinance 1984 (now Companies Act 2017) as a not-for profit company. PPAF’s mission is to transform the lives of the poor to create a more equitable and prosperous Pakistan. It has outreach in 147 districts across all four provinces and regions of the country, supporting communities to access improved infrastructure, energy, health, education, livelihoods, finance, and develop resilience to disasters. It serves the poorest and most marginalized rural households and communities across the country providing them with an array of financial and non-financial services. PPAF aims to ensure that its core values of social inclusion, participation, accountability, transparency and stewardship are built into all processes and programmes. For a complete profile, please visit our website at http://www.ppaf.org.pk

1. Introduction of GRASP:

The Growth for Rural Advancement and Sustainable Progress (GRASP) is a six-year programme, funded by the European Union and implemented by a consortium led by the International Trade Centre (ITC), including the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) as implementing partners. GRASP’s overall objective is to support poverty reduction and sustainable and inclusive economic growth in rural areas of Pakistan. The programme’s specific objective is to support gender inclusive income and employment generation, enhanced productivity and profitability of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) involved in primary production, service provision and value addition in and around selected clusters of production. The project is being implemented in 96 Union Councils (UCs) belong to 22 selected districts of Balochistan and Sindh. Targeted value chains are Onion, Dates, Olives, Grapes, Livestock: Sheep (live animals, wool, and meat), Goat (live animals and meat), backyard poultry (and related products) in Balochistan and Onions, Dates, Tomatoes, Mangoes, Banana, Livestock; Cattle (live animals, milk and meat), Goat (live animals and meat) in Sindh province. PPAF has engaged seven Partner Organizations (POs) in 22 districts. PO-wise district list is attached as Annex-I.

As such, the GRASP contributes directly to the attainment of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), specifically SDG 1 (No Poverty), SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 5 (Gender Equality), SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth) and SDG 13 (Climate Action).

GRASP focuses on selected product lines within livestock and horticulture value chains. The project intervenes in three main ways:

• Improving the eco-system for rural SME development through building institutional capacity and improving the business environment
• Building production and quality of primary products through support to SME agribusiness service providers and business intermediary organizations in rural areas
• Increasing added-value and marketed volumes through developing value chains and supporting SMEs to improve management, increase access to finance, apply sustainable technology to add value and improve quality and reduce waste throughout the system.

1. 1. Project Objective, Key Outcome and Output Indicators:

Overall Objective/Impact of GRASP:

GRASP aims to support poverty reduction and sustainable, inclusive economic growth in rural areas of Pakistan. The key indicators for overall objectives are:

• 1% decrease in Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MPI) in each of the targeted province (the indicator is linked with SDG 1).
• 2% decreasein MPI in each of the targeted districts of Balochistan and Sindh.
• 2% increase in economic growth in each of the targeted provinces.
• 3% increase in agriculture productivity in each of the targeted districts in targeted value chains.

Specific Objective/Outcome GRASP:

To support gender inclusive income and employment generation, enhanced productivity and profitability of SMEs involved in primary production, service provision and value addition in and around selected clusters of production.

The key indicators for project specific objective/outcome are:

• 50% of agribusiness and business environment-related policies, strategies or regulations implemented in favor of the competitiveness of SMEs.
• 30% increase in area cultivated by supported SMEs brought under sustainable practices.
• 50% increase in sales turnover of supported SMEs in selected value chains.
• 50% increase in agribusinesses sourcing from producer SMEs within targeted value chains.
• 30% increase in full time equivalent (FTE) jobs supported in assisted SMEs (disaggregated by age, sex and province).
• 40% increase in investment in the targeted value chain by supported SMEs.
• USD 9 million amount of finance accessed by SMEs in selected sectors including green finance.
• 13,852 (Men 80% and Women 20%) SMEs having invested in environmentally sustainable cleaner production technologies.