Welcome !! Sesame sector stakeholders meeting

WELCOME ADDRESS Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen!

WELCOME ADDRESS We are delighted to have you here to participate and share in the 3 rd sesame value chain stakeholders annual meeting. Thank you all for accepting our invitation and coming to the event.

WELCOME ADDRESS That many of you travelled long distances serves to remind us all just how important our work and the stakeholders network established before 2 years in the North West is.

WELCOME ADDRESS This workshop is organized under the theme of “INVEST MORE TO GAIN MORE”.

WELCOME ADDRESS Why? Please try to get the answer from the presentations in the two days.

Objectives 1.Sharing experiences and learning lessons from activities that took place 2.Introducing and exchanging over the strategic agenda and new activities planned for 2015/16 3.Creating a platform for stakeholders to come together and seek out new interesting opportunities in working together

WELCOME ADDRESS Dear workshop participants! Ladies and gentlemen! In these two days stakeholders of the network will present papers on their – achievements, – lessons learnt – challenges faced and – entertaining programs

WELCOME ADDRESS Organizers hopefully think that beyond learning on the outcomes It is a forum where you plan: – what to do in the coming one year, – share tasks and – Engage yourselves/promise to accomplish responsibly

WELCOME ADDRESS Wishing you a happy a stay in Mekelle I now kindly invite Ato Fiseha Bezabeh, Deputy head of the Tigray Agriculture Bureau and Director of the Extension Directorate for delivering the opening speech

Opening speech Sesame sector stakeholders meeting

Sesame Business Network Ethiopia Mekelle, March 20 th 2015 Introduction of programme and participants

1.Farmers 2.Cooperatives and Unions 3.Processors 4.Traders 5.Research 6.Extension 7.Cooperative promotion 8.Policy makers (different levels) 9.Financial supporters: banks, MFI’s, insurance 10.Other supporters : machinery providers, transporters, seed providers, packaging, Donors and projects We would like to know from which stakeholder group you are:

3.Stakeholder network and collaboration 4.Production side: increasing production and quality 5.Key issues for further roll-out of best agricultural practices and yield improvement First day – morning

6.Quiz: sharing of the main findings of the production and credit cost action research 7.Addressing rural finance challenges 8.Understanding others 9.Wrap up first day programme and announcement of results of the quiz First day – afternoon

10.Common sense presentation 11.Positioning of Ethiopia in a turbulent and demanding world market 12.In country value addition 13.Direct supplier-buyer relations 14.Farmer and cooperative entrepreneurship 15.Labour management in the sesame sector Second day – morning

16.World café: towards action points on 4 introduced subjects 17.Risk management 18.Wrap-up of the two days programme and orientation Second day – afternoon

Sesame Business Network Ethiopia Mekelle, March 20 th 2015 Stakeholder network and collaboration

Tach Armachiho Metema Mirab Armachiho Quara Tegede Kafta Humera Tsegede Wolkaiet Sesame corridor; Tigray sesame zone and Amhara sesame zone

Innovation network driven by sector stakeholders Market system perspective : private and public sector stakeholders work together Goal : competitive, sustainable and inclusive sesame value chains Stakeholder collaboration ( )

Marke t Value chain operators Farmers processors Coops/Unions Traders Collaboration on the value chain 1.Farmers 2.Cooperatives and Unions 3.Processors 4.Traders

Support functions Collaboration with supporters Value chain supporters Value chain operators FarmersprocessorsConsumers 9.Financial supporters: banks, MFI’s, insurance 10.Other supporters : machinery providers, transporters, seed providers, packaging,... Coops/Unions

5.Research 6.Extension 7.Cooperative promotion 8.Policy makers (different levels) Value chain enablers

Support functions Institutions and governance Value chain supporters Institutional actors (mainly public sector) Value chain operators Farmers processors Traders Showing value chain enablers Coops/Unions

The meat is in the middle..... e.g. value chains..... Think of a hamburger

Market system perspective Mainly private sector Mainly public sector Donors and projects: at the sideline

6 Bulking node Chain operators Enablers Supporters Donors and external facilitators Producers Consumers Public institutions Support functions POPO 1 Value chain Rural Innovation System and Entrepreneurship Market system Rural innovation system Different stakeholders

k Clusters : stakeholder collaboration at local level

SBC’s Sesame Business Clusters Currently: 38 local clusters -20 in Tigray -18 in Amhara

1.Farmers 2.Cooperatives and Unions 3.Processors 4.Traders 5.Research 6.Extension 7.Cooperative promotion 8.Policy makers (different levels) 9.Financial supporters: banks, MFI’s, insurance 10.Other supporters : machinery providers, transporters, seed providers, packaging, Donors and projects Participant groups

All participants in the form of a hamburger Now we want to take a beautiful picture......

1. Farmers 2.Cooperatives /Unions 3. Processors 4. Traders Enablers Supporters 5. Research 6. Extension 7. Cooperative promotion Value chain operators 8. Policy makers 9. Financial supporters 10. Other supports Transporters, machinery providers, packaging 11. Donors and projects

Instructions for the photo Remember the number of the box you belong to Outside this figure is drawn on the parking lot Go stand in the box of your number And....smile