Learning the Smart Way: Lessons Learned by the Reaching Agents of Change Project.

The Reaching Agents of Change (RAC) project was a pilot that advocated for increased investment in orange-fleshed sweetpotato to combat vitamin A deficiency among young children and women of reproductive age. It was implemented by the International Potato Center and Helen Keller International primarily in Nigeria, Mozambique, Tanzania and to a lesser extent in Ghana and Burkina Faso between 2011 and 2014. The project had multiple deliverables in advocacy for raising of new investment, policy change and strengthening of institutional and individual capacities in the project countries. RAC incorporated a systematic and comprehensive results-based monitoring and evaluation system and continuously documented the implementation process over the project period. This booklet shares the learning process that RAC adopted and highlights some useful and replicable lessons learned

Orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP). Investment guide.

OFSP investment guide aims to unpack the investment opportunities in the OFSP value chain and offer a decision tool for determining where the key opportunities are and the activities for transforming them, including details on the human, financial and physical resources required. This guide is targeted at national level technical experts in public, private and development institutions, to support them through multisectoral and multi-stakeholder actions to identify and attract investments and implement pro-poor, nutrition-sensitive agricultural growth programmes to reduce vitamin A deficiency

Orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP). Investment summary.

This OFSP Investment Summary is part of a set of three OFSP investment products: The OFSP Investment Guide that unpacks the investment opportunities along the OFSP value chain, offering a decision tool for identifying where they exist and the activities needed to transform them, including details on the human, financial and physical resources. And the OFSP Investment Implementation Guide that is targeted at those involved in the implementation of OFSP investment programmes such as local government or NGO field staff. It provides a brief overview of the reasons for investing in pro‐poor, nutrition‐sensitive agricultural growth and vitamin A deficiency reduction programmes such as the promotion of OFSP

Orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP). Investment implementation guide.

This OFSP Investment Implementation Guide is targeted at those involved in the implementation of OFSP investment programmes such as local government or NGO field staff. It provides a brief overview of the reasons for investing in pro-poor, nutrition-sensitive agricultural growth and vitamin A deficiency reduction programmes such as the promotion of OFSP. It presents a decision tool for determining where the key opportunities exist in the OFSP value chain. It then unpacks each of the investment areas in detail and presents the activities for achieving its transformation, including details on the required human, financial and physical resources. It assumes such an investment will be undertaken using a multisectoral approach

The Building Nutritious Food Baskets Project ‘Insights from the Field’

This booklet is a compilation of insights and success stories from the field during the implementation of the Building Nutritious Food Baskets (BNFB) project; a three-year project (November 2015 to October 2018) implemented in Nigeria and Tanzania and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The objective of compiling these insights and success stories is to showcase and highlight BNFB’s experiences and interactions with various stakeholders during implementation, highlight successful partnerships and to provide a ‘human touch’ in narrating the process and how the project was able to deliver results, outcomes and the emerging impact of these efforts

What is required to scale-up and sustain biofortification? Achievements, challenges and lessons from scaling-up Orange-Fleshed Sweetpotato in Sub-Sahara Africa

This review presents results of the ex-post survey on Reaching Agents of Change (RAC) project, highlightingexperiences, lessons, challenges and recommendations for scaling up orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP). TheRAC project was a three-and halfyear initiative (2011 and 2015), implemented in three primary countries, namelyTanzania, Mozambique, Nigeria, and to a lesser extent Ghana and Burkina Faso. The project advocated for policychange and increased investments to scale-up the orangefleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) to combat vitamin A defi-ciency. RAC planned to generate new investments totaling US$ 18 million for OFSP activities in the three years ofits life but exceeded this target by 20%. RAC further expected to benefit at least 600,000 households directly andis currently on track, having reached 309,974 direct beneficiaries (of whom 20.3% were women). The RACexperience demonstrated a potential scaling-up model for biofortified crops based on the hypothesis that scalingup can be achieved through supportive policies (and investments), strong institutional capacities and appropriateinnovative technologies working through a partnership of governmental and non-governmental organizations andcivil society