The study evaluates the ex-post impact of input and output market development interventions
on total household net income, intensity of input use and productivity, marketed surplus and
market orientation behavior of the households. Moreover, the study has assessed the change
in the institutional and organizational aspect of market of the woreda due to market
interventions. For quantitative analysis both program participant and non participant
respondents were drawn and cross-sectional survey data were collected from 200 households
in Gomma woreda. Propensity score matching method was employed to analyze the impact of
the project interventions quantitatively. This method was checked for covariate balancing
with a standardized bias, t-ratio, and joint significance level tests. Furthermore, sensitivity
analysis of the estimated participation effect to unobserved selection bias was checked using
the Rosenbaum bounds procedure. Results show that participation in market development
interventions has a significant, positive and robust impact on the outcome variables measured
using different indicators. However, for some outcome variable indicators such as household
income from coffee commodity, input use for apiculture and fruit production, productivity of
improved hives, land allocation for coffee and number of hives possessed by the household
are positive but statistically insignificant. The sensitivity analysis also shows that the impact
result estimates are insensitive to unobserved selection bias. The qualitative assessment
shows that the main changes were the private sector (including agro-industry) involvement in
supplying inputs by opening alternative village shops as well as the development of
community based input supply system, linking the farmers/private traders to the input
importer and potential buyers and innovative credit provision specifically meant to enhance
input and output marketing interventions. Furthermore, different platforms specifically for the
apiculture and sheep fattening has been set by the community which help them to abide by. To
hedge against the risk involved in sheep fattening practice, a kind of community based
insurance program was established. In order to alleviate access to market, establishing
farmers’ cooperatives and linking this cooperatives or individual farmers to potential buyers
(including exporters) was done. The thesis finally discusses these results in detail and draws
some recommendations.