Are you working in the cashew, cocoa, maize, or livestock (cattle, sheep, goats) sectors in a member state of the Organisation of African, Caribbean, and Pacific states? Are you from the private sector, with a high interest in resilience, competitiveness, or direct supply linkages with off-takers for sustainability?
Do you have an innovative idea that makes the above-mentioned value chains less fragmented, more inclusive, particularly for women and youth, sustainable, and profitable? This also includes innovations for by-products of the sectors.
Then this is a unique opportunity for you to realize your goal!

Describe the format of your programme.:

Your objective is to improve performance and skills of rural MSMEs and their professional organisations? You have an innovative project idea on becoming more climate resilient? Please contact us.
We manage and provide knowledge, approaches, tools, and networks in 3 areas:
– Skills for Agribusiness
We promote and advise on the implementation strategy, adaptation of training material, sustainable roll-out and how to achieve scaling of the following tried-and-tested agribusiness training approaches. All our trainings are developed for a face-to-face format. In our new blended learning approach, we combine the face-to-face trainings with e-learning modules. This fosters not only a better understanding of the theoretical background but also the digital literacy of our participants and trainers.
– Competitive Matching Grant Fund
The competitive Matching Grant Fund (MGF) is designed to maximize outreach across countries and value chains, foster excellence, and ownership. We aim to mobilize additional resources for implementation through introducing and scaling this innovative financial instrument (MGF) that facilitates private investments and promotes the transformation of smallholder agribusinesses. The MGF will support the upgrading of our targeted value chains for competitiveness and resilience with regard to climate change and markets. It includes a readiness programme to accompany potential applicants throughout the process.
– South-South Exchange & Policy Dialogue
We valorise our experiences, achievements, knowledge and learnings with partners for creating South-South Cooperations and to further scale and institutionalise our approaches.
– Vocational training for agribusiness
Needs assessment showed that skills on agricultural entrepreneurship and economics are missing in the agricultural sector. Therefore, we cooperated directly with Agriculture Technical Vocational Education and Training (ATVET) institutions from 2021 until end of May 2023 with the aim to qualify them as multipliers for tried-and-tested agribusiness training approaches to foster growth and job creation in the agribusiness sector.

Brief detail of instructors used:

Other partners and funders: Agri Business Facility for Africa, ComCashew

Non Financial Support Provided: Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

Financial Support Provided: Grant