A TOOL FOR PLANNING Ruth Campbell ACDI/VOCA

The Challenge  To design projects that are based on a strategy to address priority opportunities and constraints in market systems in order to achieve both growth and poverty reduction. priority opportunities and constraints strategy design projects

Assumptions  Value chains have already been selected  Workshop results will feed back into an ongoing process Rice Millet and Sorghum Cassava Dairy Livestock Small Ruminants Horticulture Cocoa Fisheries

What Are We Trying To Achieve? Days 1-2:  A process for designing interventions that address underlying constraints to competitiveness and broad distribution of benefits Day 3:  A process for prioritizing interventions based on country context or regional advantage

Day 1  Prioritize market opportunities  Identify constraints to key opportunities  Constraint or symptom?  Vision  Outline needed changes to get us there priority opportunities and constraints strategy design projects GenderNutritionPovertyCapacity

Day 1 Declining global production, growing demand Increasing perceived disincentives Weak producer group capacity Infrastructure constraints East Africa reputation for some of the finest coffee in the world CURRENT STATE East Africa is the world’s leading supplier of fine coffee There is less market volatility Male and female smallholder farmers benefit from increased competitiveness throughout the value chain VISION Infrastructure improved Capacity of producer groups strengthened Coffee quality increased (GAP and good post- harvest handling) Production costs decreased (infrastructure, GAP, policy environment) Greater and more equitable involvement of women in the value chain CHANGE NEEDED

Day 2  Identify interventions  Roles of key actors GenderNutritionPovertyCapacity priority opportunities and constraints strategy design projects

Day 3 Day 3:  A process for prioritizing interventions based on country context or regional advantage  Potential “spillover” effects  Impact on gender, nutrition, poverty

Day 3  What programs currently (could) address recommended interventions?  What new programs are needed?  What are the specific capacity building needs?  Where do we go from here? GenderNutritionPovertyCapacity

At The End Of The Workshop  A process for designing interventions that address underlying constraints to competitiveness and broad distribution of benefits  A process for prioritizing interventions based on country context or regional advantage  Initial identification of capacity building needs  A set of next steps for applying this process back in your country