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Purchase for Progress (P4P). Connecting farmers to markets. P4P Quick Facts. Beneficiaries : target of at least 500,000 smallholder farmers
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Purchase for Progress (P4P) Connecting farmers to markets
P4P Quick Facts Beneficiaries: target of at least 500,000 smallholder farmers (One million smallholder farmers are members of farmers’ organisations engaged in P4P, of which 500,000 are in Ethiopia). Clear focus on engaging women to enhance both social and economic empowerment. Duration: 5 years (Sept 2008 - December 2013). Final Evaluation: 2014. Total funding: US$151.8 million for technical capacity for 5 years (food not included), including sub-grants to partners. Key donors: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Howard G. Buffett Foundation, European Union, Governments of Belgium, Canada, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, United States of America and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 21 Pilot countries Africa: Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia Asia : Afghanistan and Laos Latin America: El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
Three Fundamental Components Connecting Smallholder Farmers to Markets through Market and Agricultural Development • Supply-side Partners • Providing technical expertise in • agriculture & market development • Building capacity • Empowering Women • WFP’s demand • Pro-smallholder competitive tendering • Direct contracting • Forward contracting • Learning and Sharing • Monitoring & Evaluation • Lessons Learned/Best Practices • Informing policy By end of the pilot, will have identified approaches that can be scaled-up and become national programmes, By end of the pilot, best practices will be mainstreamed into local procurement procedures. • WFP Local Procurement – the Foundation of P4P • Principles of acceptable, timely and cost efficient food procurement remain the same for P4P purchases
Reliance on Partnershipsacross the value chain Capacity Development Capacity Development
Targeted P4P Market Entry Points Consumers Retailers WFP Point of Entry RP/LP WFP Point of Entry RP/LP Large-scale Food Processors/Large-scale Millers/ Large-scale Wholesalers Blended Food or Small-scale Processors Commodity Exchange WFP P4P Point of Entry Warehouse Receipts System WFP P4P Point of Entry Medium-scale Traders Farmer Organizations Third Tier Second Tier First Tier *Levels and characteristics of FOs are different in each P4P country Small-scale Traders (Collectors) Agricultural. inputs & services Smallholder Farmers
Main Achievements Main Achievements
Main Achievements Main Achievements