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Integrating the Very Poor into Value Chain Program Interventions

Integrating the Very Poor into Value Chain Program Interventions. Mahawa Wheeler ACDI/VOCA Liberia. Who are the very poor?. Potentially a very large market Taxonomy: donor, policy, etc. Biggest target for free products and services Largest players in informal sector.

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Integrating the Very Poor into Value Chain Program Interventions

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  1. Integrating the Very Poor into Value Chain Program Interventions Mahawa Wheeler ACDI/VOCA Liberia

  2. Who are the very poor? • Potentially a very large market • Taxonomy: donor, policy, etc. • Biggest target for free products and services • Largest players in informal sector

  3. How do you engage the very poor? • Select value chains that match their capabilities • Work with the market not against it • Early channeling of subsidies through market players • Buy-down risks for market players

  4. How do you engage the very poor? • Target sectors with quick impact and lower risks • Make incremental but consistent investments • Challenges don’t mean no market interventions • Promote infrastructure and service delivery

  5. Successes • Out growers • Processors • Buyers of products and services • Financing interventions • We need more!

  6. The market is everybody’s oyster, find yours

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