Always return to the program logic. It is especially important in integrated projects that the rollout is coordinated with complementary activities. In the case of Irrigated Agriculture Project, this means the coordination of the farmer training rollout with the irrigation infrastructure activity and post-harvest marketing and access to credit components. Because the farmer training was not sequenced with the irrigation activity or completely geographically linked, assumptions around farmers’ access to reliable water were not held, potentially reducing the impact of the farmer training program on behavior change. In addition, other assumptions around importance of improved access to markets (post-harvest, processing and marketing component) and access to credit through existing or new structures did not hold during the evaluation period either. Farmer training began without discreet links to buyers—marketing efforts were delayed until the third year of the compact, and the Access to Credit Sub-Sub Activity served only a small number of farmers and did not succeed in promoting additional lending to the agriculture sector.
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