Developing a GPP4LFM

1. - RAeD Rural Agro-enterprise Development Developing a GPP4LFM GFAR, Cairo, 13th September, 2006 Shaun Ferris, C. Ostertag, M. Lundy, V. Gottret, W. Bourne and T. Wandschneider

2. - RAeD Rural Agro-enterprise Development Who is CIAT • International Institute of Tropical Agriculture • International Research Centre within the CGIAR. • Rural Agro-enterprise Development Project

3. What do we do? • Strategic R&D that focuses on specific issues to enhance market access for the poor. • Action oriented R&D on different interventions methods partners are using in an action based R&D platforms that • Field tests new methods, tools and application with partners to evaluate the impact of different approaches within a dynamic market situation

4. Our Clients and Beneficiaries • Clients • National / regional researchers • Service providers, NGOs, CBOs, • Universities • Private sector entrepreneurs / farmer associations, women’s groups • Beneficiaries • Poor smallholder farmers • Rural traders • Business service providers • Processors • Consumers

5. Fitting strategies to clients

6. Outputs • Research papers • Policy briefs • Best practise guides • Tools and applications • Business Information systems • Market information / intelligence systems • Innovation platforms via “learning alliance” • Profitability models and business tools

7. New methodologies for Value Chain analysis and development for small-scale producers www.ciat.cgiar.org

8. Strengthening BDS Using BDS to “Facilitate the Market” Public support Development Agenda Private payment, commercial orientation Private sector Enterprise Government agency Donor funding, NGO Provider Enterprise Donor / Government Facilitator Provider Enterprise Provider Enterprise Provider Enterprise Enterprise Direct service provision Facilitation of services based on demand

9. Getting the message tothe target groups • Developing appropriate information • Getting information nearer to people • Socialising the information

10. Layering Information and Methods • First layer is the guides to researchers and consultants • Second layer is the guides for practitioners • Third layer is information for farmers

11. Engaging with partners Web Rural FM Radio Telecentres Mobile phones

12. Educational processes Best practices delivered and debated with the community via local language radio programmes

13. 6 months Apply, monitor and follow-up 8 months Apply, monitor and follow-up 5 days 6months L L L Agroenterprise design and development of action plans Business Development Services and their assessment Evaluating and selecting enterprise alternatives Apply, monitor and follow-up 5 days Interest group formation and market opportunity identification 5 days Monitoring and evaluation 5 days The “Learning Alliance™” Achieving Impact through a process of co-innovation

14. Opportunities to:- • Build on the existing partnerships • Utilise existing information more effectively • Apply the information through • capacity building programs for market facilitators and • information systems, linkage mechanisms for private sector engagement. • Initiate an innovation process for market access through Global partnership program

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