MCC NAMIBIA MONITORING AND EVALUATION SUPPORT

• Sponsoring Institution: Agricultural Research Service/USDA
• Project Status: NEW
• Funding Source: USDA INHOUSE
• Reporting Frequency: Annual
• Accession No.: 0423605
• Project No.: 3050-11210-008-14R
• Project Start Date: Sep 1, 2012
• Project End Date: Oct 31, 2014

Project Director
HERRICK J E

Recipient Organization
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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LAS CRUCES,NM 88001

Performing Department
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Non Technical Summary
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Animal Health Component

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Research Effort Categories

Basic

40%

Applied

60%

Developmental

0%

Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)	Subject of Investigation (SOI)	Field of Science (FOS)	Percent
121	0710	1070	80%
121	3310	1070	20%

Knowledge Area
121 - Management of Range Resources;

Subject Of Investigation
0710 - Desert and semidesert shrub land and shinnery; 3310 - Beef cattle, live animal;

Field Of Science
1070 - Ecology;

Keywords

rangeland

monitoring

evaluation

soil

vegetation

experimental

design

Goals / Objectives
Provide due diligence assessment and/or implementation support of the agricultural and/or land projects in Namibia. Specifically, this scope of work covers support from USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) for implementation support to monitoring and evaluating aspects of the Namibia Compact's Land Access and Management Activity of the Agriculture Project.

Project Methods
We will work with local collaborators (MCA-Namibia - Millennium Challenge Account) and under MCC guidance to develop and support implementation and interpretation of a rangeland monitoring and evaluation system for the Namibia Compact's Land Access and Management Activity of the Agriculture Project. This will include developing and modifying protocols, developing an electronic field data entry system, providing training, evaluating data quality, and providing data analysis and interpretation.

Progress 10/01/12 to 09/30/13

Outputs
Progress Report Objectives (from AD-416): Provide due diligence assessment and/or implementation support of the agricultural and/or land projects in Namibia. Specifically, this scope of work covers support from USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) for implementation support to monitoring and evaluating aspects of the Namibia Compact's Land Access and Management Activity of the Agriculture Project. Approach (from AD-416): We will work with local collaborators (MCA-Namibia - Millennium Challenge Account) and under MCC guidance to develop and support implementation and interpretation of a rangeland monitoring and evaluation system for the Namibia Compact's Land Access and Management Activity of the Agriculture Project. This will include developing and modifying protocols, developing an electronic field data entry system, providing training, evaluating data quality, and providing data analysis and interpretation. In 2013, we revised data collection protocols, improved the Android-app for field data collection, trained field crews in Namibia, and summarized and analyzed the resulting data. We also worked closely with our Namibian colleagues to ensure that the data may be used to support local objectives, in addition to addressing the requirements of evaluating the MCC project.

Impacts
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Publications