Evaluating DFID’s pro-poor programme in Nigeria Photo Credit: By Mike Blyth (Own work) [CC BY 2.5 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons In support of the Department for International Development (DFID), we recently finished a long-term evaluation of its programme seeking to increase the incomes of 650,000 poor men and women in Northern Nigeria and stimulate sustainable growth. The initiative, named Propcom Mai-karfi, began in 2012 and sought to increase the inclusion of poor rural farmers in markets by improving their access to agricultural markets, improving their commercial relationships, increasing private sector investment in rural markets, and raising the availability of goods and services to poor farmers, entrepreneurs, and consumers. With a mandate to

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