Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2020) include: (1) 211 entrepreneurs and agricultural advisors, including 119 women (end of project target: 54), have completed 258 mandates (end of project target: 282). These mandates resulted in more than 1,052 training sessions presented by the volunteers; (2) the education provided by the volunteers made it possible to train and sensitize 21,103 people from the partner organizations (end of project target: 24,800), including 12,408 women representing 59% (end of project target: 6,200); (3) the volunteers created 708 highly diversified tools that benefited 27,277 people, 56% of whom were women (15,368 people); (4) from 2015 to 2020, 3 technical, 6 organizational and 3 specialized internships were organized; (5) 93 delegates (of which 40 were women) took part in the South-North learning and experience-sharing missions; (6) 932,747 people (approximately 50% women) (end of project target: 150,000) were sensitized to Canada's development efforts; (7) 218,078 people (end of project target: 195,000), 59% of whom were women (end of project target: 51%), have benefited from the intervention of volunteers since the program began in 2015; (8) mandates were carried out in the following sectors: sustainable economic growth (25%), food security (36%), democracy (33%) and children and youth (6%); (9) 80% of the beneficiaries who are members of the community reported an increase in their social well-being as a result of the developing country partners' projects (60% of whom are women); (10) 77% of community beneficiaries reported a degree of change in their economic conditions as a result of developing country partners' projects (60% of whom are women); (11) 93% of projects and activities are considered to have had a positive impact on beneficiary communities (medium or significant increase); and (12) 1,326,296 Canadians have been sensitized to the international cooperation efforts of UPA DI, of its partners and of Canada.
