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to increase the quantity and quality of wool and mohair produced while helping livestock producers to better market and sell their products. Infrastructure delivered by the project includes 20 new shearing sheds, the reha- bilitation of 46 more, the construction of 15 km of roads, the rehabilitation of three auction sales yards and one district slaughter slab, as well as the rehabilitation of three marketing storage facilities. Moreover, the rangeland under climate-resilient practices increased from 280,000 to 547,491 hectares. Despite several shocks faced by small wool and mohair farmers throughout the duration of the project, such as a drought in 2017/2018 and flooding in 2021/2022, there was a small, but important, reduction in the percentage of beneficiaries suffering from hunger: While falling short of the target of 17.5 percent, the proportion of households experiencing periods of longer than two weeks without sufficient food fell from 35 percent to 30 percent at completion. The project also enhanced climate awareness and was able to build smallholder farmers’ resilience and
adaptive capacities. The project also managed to margin- ally increase the Multidimensional Poverty Assessment Tool resilience score of beneficiaries from 0.42 at baseline to 0.44 at closure. Overall, the project reached 237,077 individuals, beating its target of 185,000. While the project far exceeded the target of reaching 32,000 male-headed households (145 percent of the target), it only reached 5,538 female headed-house- holds, short of the target of 18,000.
547,491 HECTARES. The rangeland under climate- resilient practices increased from 280,000 to
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