IITA Youth Agribusiness: ENABLE-TAAT

1. IITA Youth Agribusiness: ENABLE-TAAT Presented on 28 August 2018 Ibadan

2. Outline • Introduction to TAAT • Overview of ENABLE TAAT • Compact’s Components • Opportunities for the Youth

3. Introduction TAAT is part of AfDB’s “Feed Africa” Strategy 150m people adequately fed / 100m people lifted out of poverty / 190m hectares with restored productivity TAAT supports Feed Africa by providing needed, proven agricultural technologies and implementation strategies for inclusion within AfDB's loans to Regional Member Countries.

4. TAAT Objectives 9 Value Chains, 6 Enablers, Activities in 27 African countries

5. Principles of TAAT

6. ENABLE TAAT Compact Goal: to reduce the economic marginalization of African youth through the introduction of modernized agricultural technologies in a way that leads to new agribusiness and greater employment opportunities Components • Agribusiness Completion • Agribusiness Incubation • Advocacy • Youth Registration • Food Basket Objectives T A R G E T S Investing in at least 19African countries • Expand Agribusiness Opportunities • Provide Agribusiness Support • Improve Human Nutrition • Advance Youth Empowerment Mechanisms Reach 5,000 youth in 3 years At least 39 start-up enterprises as quick win in year 1 Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, DRC, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zambia

7. Agribusiness Completion • Committed to refine and spin-off youth-led enterprises (at least 39 in year one) • Keen focus on TAAT’s value chains • 61 business applications were received from 6 countries (DRC, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) • 34 agribusinesses received CBTA support (first batch), 23 approved for second Batch Yeka Farms: one of the start-ups

8. Agribusiness Completion (contd.)

9. Agribusiness Completion (Awardees)

10. Agribusiness Completion (Awardees)

11. Agribusiness Completion (Awardees)

12. Agribusiness Completion (Awardees)

13. Agribusiness Incubation . • ENABLE-TAAT supports the establishment of new agribusiness incubations at 7 locations • The incubation activities include; • Preparation of incubation implementation. • Selection of Agripreneurs. • Upgrade of incubation hosts. • Conduct incubation of Agripreneurs

14. Advocacy and Outreach • Sensitization • Project documentation • Resource mobilization It is intended to guide others toward agribusiness incubation and youth-led enterprise development

15. Food Basket • This includes cross cutting priority of Improved nutrition using the youths who are well positioned to advance this cause (OFSP, Beans, Cassava, Maize). • Strategy to develop a network of nutritional food basket demonstrations (mother fields). Report FBO findings to Value chain leaders and program management office.

16. Youth Registration • Intended to develop a system of agribusiness support and mentorship • Developing a database that provides information on youth and the benefits they receive along the value chains • The database to be completed through the activities in ENABLE TAAT components in countries of engagement

17. Opportunities for the Youth

18. Thank You!