EWB team for agriculture sector in Burkina Faso Entreprenariat Rural Agricole, Burkina Faso Overseas session for the EWB National Conference 2010 January 7 th 2010 Team presentation

ERA team! and Étienne… Catherine Charles Romesh Nasser Rosanne Florian Noémie Boris

EWB team for agriculture sector in Burkina Faso Entreprenariat Rural Agricole, Burkina Faso Overseas session for the EWB National Conference 2010 January 7 th 2010 Expertise and strategy presentation

Goals of the activity Participating deleguates understand: The challenges of the agric sector How the strategy of our sector team work on those challenges

Plan of presentation Reminder of our expertises and strategy of our team (6 minutes) Exchange and discussion period (18 minutes)

EWB’s expertises in Burkina Faso Strengthening the capacity of field workers Goal: enable field workers to better serve their member farmers Focus of the work: Coaching! Tools to support personnal development: self-evaluation and training tools for improving KSA

EWB’s expertises in Burkina Faso Support to « Conseil à l’Exploitation Familiale » (CEF) approach Goal: help farmers organizations to better implement their CEF services for their members Focus of the work: Co-facilitate the improvement of CEF aproach:  Segmentation Co-facilitate of multiple innovations  CEF-credit links and CEF-selling links, compile and share best practices of field workers, …

EWB’s strategy Axis 1. The quality of services given to farmers is improved Axis 2. CEF approach better answer to famers needs Axis 3. “ Create a national coherence around the practice of agricultural advising” – … work in progress…

Axis 1. Expected results 1. Field workers have better skills in facilitation and better tools to give services of his farmer union/federation [individual] Reporting, facilitation technics, … 2. Managers of unions/federations manage more efficiently their human, finacial, and information ressources [individual] Planning, strategic thinking Unions/federations partners has more efficient systems [organisationnal] Efficient meetings, M&E system of responsibilities in district, provincial, national boards, M&E system of impact…

Axis 2. Expected results 1. The CEF approache is integrated [approach] To programs of Input access, credit and markets They address women and men equally. 2. The CEF approach is evolutionary [approach] Resources mobilized for the starting producers are optimized Rservices for experienced producers are sophisticated Advisors are supported in their own improvement of KSA to better deliver CEF services 3. The federations are innovative organizations [organisationnal] which proposed new solution to their constituent groups Create and test pilots Scale up their innovations

Axis 3. « Expected results » 1. Evolve the relation between donors and the FOs towards [sector governance] A greater autonomy A greater investment in the innovation and management capacities of the FOs 2. Build on the existing management network so that different players [sector governance] agree on different action principles agree on a specification of services, so that the support to farmers become coherent. 3. Donors take into account the need to invest in implementaion capacities of CEF: human resources, M&E systems, etc. [sector governance]

Exchange and discussion period Your questions of clarification Your feedback questions Your critical view of our workplan Etc.