Monitoring and evaluation: Experience from smallholder farmers training feedback in Tanzania

This paper presents monitoring and evaluation aspects of training drawing from field experience of 50,000 smallholder farmers trained on good agronomic practices and post-harvest management in maize crop value chain in Tanzania. Training feedback was collected through evaluation questionnaire administered to 2,000 respondents selected randomly with gender lense among beneficiary farmers. Overall, majority (90%) of trained farmers report positive feedback. However, farmers report lack of finance as major bottleneck in the adoption of technologies, knowledge, and skills acquired from the training. The results therefore challenges the project to integrate appropriate mitigation mechanisms to overcome thefactors hindering adoption.