quality at 100 matching investment grants to Annual report lists matching investment farm farmer and farmer groups for improved grants equipment Grant agreements and grantee reports Field reports on grantees visits Project Agribusiness clusters Objective create by selling into national, East Africa regional and international/Dutch markets and agribusinesses (Market Pull Output 2.1 ABC actors 80% of participating farmers are part of Annual report lists clusters and their Farmers willing to work cooperatively undertake joint a cluster membership breakdown Ministry of Agriculture permits and purchasing, 1,000 cluster members are service M&E of AB clusters and cluster reports encourages entrepreneurial enterprise storage, and selling providers (agro-input dealers, traders, Field survey and reports development outside of existing national power transporters, agribusinesses, etc.) Market survey and analysis of crops structures 50 % of participating farmers that can stored. Turnover can be determined by factors potentially gain from storage and/or outside the control of the project, such as inventory credit have access to these sudden rise or drop in food prices tools Joint purchasing, storage, and selling 50 % of farmers participate in joint activities can take the form of collective procurements of inputs and/or joint action by cluster members or be sales of outputs undertaken by specialists (store managers, traders) depending on level of 100 matching investment grants to Annual report lists grants entrepreneurship and presence of farmer and farmer groups for improved agreements and grantee reports specialists. Each option comes with equipment and/or storage Field reports on grantees visits opportunities and risks, and needs to be 2 innovation grants will test innovations carefully analyzed. in input and output markets Attribution of cluster performance may be subject to interventions from different programs and initiatives Financial services or credit organizations are active in the region and willing to make loans at market interest rates Output Turnover of clusters increases 15% per M&E of AB clusters and cluster reports year and income of cluster actors Field survey and reports increases by 50% over life of project
quality at farm 100 matching investment grants to farmer and farmer groups for improved equipment Annual report lists matching investment grants Grant agreements and grantee reports Field reports on grantees visits Project Objective Agribusiness clusters create by selling into national, East Africa regional and international/Dutch markets and agribusinesses (Market Pull Output 2.1 ABC actors undertake joint purchasing, storage, and selling power 80% of participating farmers are part of a cluster 1,000 cluster members are service providers (agro-input dealers, traders, transporters, agribusinesses, etc.) 50 % of participating farmers that can potentially gain from storage and/or inventory credit have access to these tools 50 % of farmers participate in joint procurements of inputs and/or joint sales of outputs Annual report lists clusters and their membership breakdown M&E of AB clusters and cluster reports Field survey and reports Market survey and analysis of crops stored. Farmers willing to work cooperatively Ministry of Agriculture permits and encourages entrepreneurial enterprise development outside of existing national structures Turnover can be determined by factors outside the control of the project, such as sudden rise or drop in food prices Joint purchasing, storage, and selling activities can take the form of collective action by cluster members or be undertaken by specialists (store managers, traders) depending on level of entrepreneurship and presence of specialists. Each option comes with opportunities and risks, and needs to be carefully analyzed. Attribution of cluster performance may be subject to interventions from different programs and initiatives Financial services or credit organizations are active in the region and willing to make loans at market interest rates 100 matching investment grants to farmer and farmer groups for improved equipment and/or storage 2 innovation grants will test innovations in input and output markets Annual report lists grants agreements and grantee reports Field reports on grantees visits Output Turnover of clusters increases 15% per year and income of cluster actors increases by 50% over life of project M&E of AB clusters and cluster reports Field survey and reports
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