Billion Dollar Business Alliance for Rainwater Harvesting
Description
The multi-actor Billion Dollar Business Alliance (BDBA) adopts a business approach to scaling up farm pond technology in SSA, which will initially be piloted, tested and perfected in Kenya before rolling it out to other potential countries in Eastern, Southern and Western Africa that fall within a predetermined biophysical and socioeconomic criteria. The choice of Kenya is strategic due to her long history in promoting rainwater harvesting for agribusiness development. This notwithstanding, other countries ready to roll out the business plan are immediately welcome to join the initiative and concurrently implement it through joint co-learning. The BDBA’s business approach is to create a platform for converging like-minded practitioners that need to collaborate to ensure successful scaling up of farm pond technology. The BDBA is a ‘one-stop-shop’ for smallholder farmers to acquire all the necessary ingredients/inputs (technology, financing, training/capacity, inputs, markets, etc.) to support the production system and enhance linkage with markets; hence foster value-chain based agro-enterprise development. To ensure better production and faster returns on investment, the BDBA will adopt an innovative financing mechanism, Built, Manage and Transfer (BMT). BMT will reduce risks to both the farmers and financial institutions (lending partners). Under the BMT financing model, BDBA will guarantee production, marketing and repayment of loans by farmers by working closely with farmers to build the system, manage it to ensure optimal production, link farmers to markets, and once the investment cost is recouped, transfer operation and maintenance to farmers while continuing to strengthen marketing linkages. The BDBA will also incorporate agro-enterprise insurance to further reduce the risks to farmers and lenders. BDBA will ensure that farmers have access to appropriate technology (dam-liners, drip irrigation, pumps and greenhouses) alongside technical support from government, NGO’s and private sectors (inputs and marketing) who will ensure that the farmer’s crops are profitable and marketable, in order for farmers to repay loans. With such support, farmers can jump-start their household's pathway out of poverty. Such transformation is what is happening in many WFP sites in Kenya as well as in ICRAF supported sites in Nakuru and Makueni Counties in Kenya, and otherpilot areas in eastern and southern Africa.
The adaptability of farm pond technology is based on low skill requirements, which makes it easier to train local artisans to site, construct and operate the technology. Scaling up of the technology will lead to mass training and employment for youth groups, and rural entrepreneurship for construction and technical backstopping. Appropriate local capacity building and awareness creation on farm pond technology and responsive financing mechanisms will enhance on-farm production skills as well as financial inclusion. In addition to technical and financial training, there will a strong focus on community organization and planning in order to enhance group dynamics, social reciprocity and collective responsibility. There will also be training for strengthening of marketing groups and/or cooperatives.
Not yet determined, however a Secretariat will be established at Searnet/ICRAF, Nairobi, in the coming months.Current status: 1. The BDBA partners have committed institutionally to the project.2. Partners have the technical support in place with the skills to advise farmers on the proper siting and construction of farm ponds. These technicians are both private entrepreneurs and partner/agency staff. 3. Communities are already being mobilized by WFP and WVI through current or new producer groups, farmers’ groups, or women’s groups. 4. Loan programs are being developed, spearheaded by a bank, a micro-credit institution, or an NGO. In Kenya, several banks including Equity Bank, Chase Bank and Rafiki DTM, have launched loan programs to target Kenyan farmers and youth. As these programs grow in size they will be further capitalized by investors/donors, and risk coverage provided by insurance underwriters (WFP is testing a pilot insurance scheme in October, 2016). An exploration of how village savings can be linked with credit institutions to facilitate upscaling is taking place.5. Through WFP's P4P programme, markets are being linked to smallholder producers to provide the profitable opportunities for expanding their production. Value chains need to be developed. 6. The plan has strong support of the Kenyan and county governments in providing technical assistance and the enabling environment for transforming livelihoods.7. The plan has budget commitment from most of the partners and a commitment by them to begin implementation in July. 8. The plan has been presented to donors at the global level (at COP21) and in Kenya to the ASAL Donor Group. A number of funding proposals are pending.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 15
Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
15.1
By 2020, ensure the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements
15.1.1
15.1.2
15.2
By 2020, promote the implementation of sustainable management of all types of forests, halt deforestation, restore degraded forests and substantially increase afforestation and reforestation globally
15.2.1
15.3
By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation-neutral world
15.3.1
15.4
By 2030, ensure the conservation of mountain ecosystems, including their biodiversity, in order to enhance their capacity to provide benefits that are essential for sustainable development
15.4.1
15.4.2
15.5
Take urgent and significant action to reduce the degradation of natural habitats, halt the loss of biodiversity and, by 2020, protect and prevent the extinction of threatened species
15.5.1
15.6
Promote fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and promote appropriate access to such resources, as internationally agreed
15.6.1
15.7
Take urgent action to end poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna and address both demand and supply of illegal wildlife products
15.7.1
15.8
By 2020, introduce measures to prevent the introduction and significantly reduce the impact of invasive alien species on land and water ecosystems and control or eradicate the priority species
15.8.1
15.9
By 2020, integrate ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts
15.9.1
(a) Number of countries that have established national targets in accordance with or similar to Aichi Biodiversity Target 2 of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 in their national biodiversity strategy and action plans and the progress reported towards these targets; and (b) integration of biodiversity into national accounting and reporting systems, defined as implementation of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
15.a
Mobilize and significantly increase financial resources from all sources to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity and ecosystems
15.a.1
(a) Official development assistance on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity; and (b) revenue generated and finance mobilized from biodiversity-relevant economic instruments
15.b
Mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation
15.b.1
(a) Official development assistance on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity; and (b) revenue generated and finance mobilized from biodiversity-relevant economic instruments
15.c
Enhance global support for efforts to combat poaching and trafficking of protected species, including by increasing the capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities
15.c.1
Goal 2
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
2.1
By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
2.1.1
Prevalence of undernourishment
2.1.2
Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)
2.2
By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
2.2.1
Prevalence of stunting (height for age <-2 standard deviation from the median of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age
2.2.2
Prevalence of malnutrition (weight for height >+2 or <-2 standard deviation from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age, by type (wasting and overweight)
2.2.3
Prevalence of anaemia in women aged 15 to 49 years, by pregnancy status (percentage)
2.3
2.3.1
Volume of production per labour unit by classes of farming/pastoral/forestry enterprise size
2.3.2
Average income of small-scale food producers, by sex and indigenous status
2.4
By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
2.4.1
Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture
2.5
By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed
2.5.1
Number of (a) plant and (b) animal genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in either medium- or long-term conservation facilities
2.5.2
Proportion of local breeds classified as being at risk of extinction
2.a
2.a.1
The agriculture orientation index for government expenditures
2.a.2
Total official flows (official development assistance plus other official flows) to the agriculture sector
2.b
Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
2.b.1
Agricultural export subsidies
2.c
Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
2.c.1
Indicator of food price anomalies
Goal 13
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
13.1
Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
13.1.1
Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
13.1.2
Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
13.1.3
Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies
13.2
Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
13.2.1
Number of countries with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
13.2.2
Total greenhouse gas emissions per year
13.3
Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
13.3.1
Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment
13.a
Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
13.a.1
Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025
13.b
Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
13.b.1
Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
SDG 14 targets covered
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Randall Purcell, Senior Advisor and Manager, Rural Resilience