Training on Agriculture Value Chain Management and Market Linkages

About the course

Value chains encompass the full range of activities and services required to bring a product or service from its conception to sale in its final markets—whether local, national, regional, or global. Value chains include input suppliers, producers, processors, and buyers, as well as the support services and enabling environments that form a dynamic market system.

This course is aimed at equipping the participants with principles and practices of the value chain management. The participants will understand the designing and managing, monitoring and evaluating value chain projects and creating market linkages.

Course Outline

Introduction to Agriculture Value Chain

• Overview of value chain approach
• Features of value chain approach

Market Systems Framework

• End Markets
• Business Enabling Environment
• Vertical Linkages
• Horizontal Linkages
• Supporting Markets

Value Chain Financing

• Introduction to Value Chain Financing
• Demand for Finance within Value Chains
• Constraints in Value Chain Financing
• Type of Value Chain Finance
• Implications in Design and Implementation

Agricluture Value Chain Cycle

• Overview of the Project Lifecycle

• Key principles of the Project Lifecycle

Agriculture Value Chain Analysis

• Introduction to value chain analysis
• Tools and techniques in value chain analysis
• Mapping a value chain
• Value chain analysis process
• Case study: Value chain analysis

Agriculture Value Chain Project Design

• Market Research
• Situational Analysis
• Formulation of the project goal statement
• Project causal pathway design
• Development of a logical framework

Monitoring and Evaluation of VC Development Projects

• Selection of Key Indicators
• Development of Performance Measurement Framework
• Evaluation of VC Projects
• Impact Assessment of VC Projects

Gender Mainstreaming in Agriculture Value Chain

• Gender Analysis in Value Chains
• Integrating Gender Issues into Agricultural Value Chain Process
• Constraints in Gender Integration in Value Chains

No. of Days:

5