Bpi Submission Form

Submission Form Best Practices & Innovations (BPI) Initiative Agriculture & Rural Livelihoods I. Topic Areas Please check the topic and sub-topic area(s) that your best practice or innovation fits under: Access to financial services

Natural resources management

Credit

Biodiversity protection

Savings

Land reclamation

Insurance

Soil improvement/conservation

Access to markets Food quality and safety

Water management Watershed management

Access to market information

Non-traditional forest products

Produce marketing/sales

Partnership

Adaptation to climate change

Pest and disease management

Agricultural policy/enabling environment

Producer associations & cooperatives

Agro-forestry

Productivity

Extension services/farmer training

Access to production inputs (seeds, fertilizers, etc)

Fisheries and aquaculture

Irrigation/access to water

Gender integration/women’s participation

Agronomy

Horticultural production

Research

Staple crops

Value chain development

Land tenure and titling

Post-harvest storage

Livelihoods recovery (postconflict/disaster)

Post-harvest processing

Livestock production

Post-harvest transport

Nutrition

Other:

II. Contact Information (who can be contacted for more information on this practice or innovation?)

Name: Organization: Address: Tel:

Title:

Email:

III. Basic Information on the Practice or Innovation Intervention submitted as a (choose one): Innovation

Best Practice

Title: Location (please include all relevant information: regions, countries, districts/provinces, cities, etc): Start Date (mm/dd/yyyy): Scale (choose one): Local/Community State/Provincial/Sub-national National

End Date (mm/dd/yyyy):

Regional International

Target Population(s): Number of Beneficiaries: Partners: Funders/Donors: Total Funding: Website:

IV. Questions NOTE: Where possible, please support your answers to the following questions by referencing the relevant supporting documents provided in Section V below. 1. Background/Context What challenges or problems was the intervention designed to address? Why was the intervention needed?

2. Goals & Objectives What were the intervention’s goals and objectives? What was it meant to accomplish?

3. Key Activities Please describe the intervention’s main activities. What role did each partner play? If applicable, how is the intervention innovative?

4. Effectiveness/Evidence of Success What were the results of the intervention, and how were they measured? Who and how many people benefited from the intervention? What evidence do you have to support these results (e.g. field visit reports, internal tracking & monitoring, internal or external evaluations, etc.)?

5. Equitable Outcomes Describe how the intervention enabled the participation of and produced benefits for women. Please provide data showing the comparative benefits for men and women. If the intervention focused exclusively on men, please explain the rationale for doing so.

6. Efficiency/Cost-Effectiveness How do the intervention’s relative costs compare to the outcomes achieved? Please provide evidence to support your answer.

7. Sustainability Is this intervention sustainable in the long-term, socially, financially and environmentally? Please describe the steps the intervention took to ensure

services or impacts will be sustained over the long term, and the role of local partners or the beneficiary community in continuing the intervention.

8. Challenges & Lessons Learned What challenges or obstacles did you face and how were they addressed? What are the most important lessons a reader should take from this practice?

9. Enabling Factors & Recommendations What factors were critical to the success of the intervention? What should others know about this intervention before replicating it elsewhere?

10. Replicability/Adaptability Has this intervention been successfully replicated or adapted in another setting? If so, where, when and by whom?

V. Supporting Documents Please attach or provide links to evaluation(s) and/or other relevant documents that would support your answers to the questions above and facilitate the Selection Committee’s assessment of this intervention.

Thank you for your submission!