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End of Project Evaluation for Building Rural Income Through Associations Project
The BRITA III project dates back to 2007, when Norges Vel and RUDI first started collaborating and has since been supporting smallholder rice farmers in Kilombero, Mbeya and Iringa region in Tanzania. Focusing on productivity, post-harvest handling, collective marketing, warehouse receipt system, entrepreneurship and income generation as well as organisation of farmers, the project has built a history of progress towards a commercialised approach for smallholder farming. With the evaluation we wanted to shed light on the relevance of the models used for providing continued support to smallholders in Tanzania, to gather lessons learned and to know the degree of achieved objectives. The objective of the study was to: a) Assess the extent to which the objectives of the project had been achieved b) Extract the main lessons learned and c) Assess the relevance of the project model as a basis for providing continued support to smallholders in Tanzania.