Agriculture Value Chain Management and market Linkages Training

Agriculture Value Chain Management and market Linkages Training

About the Program

Value chains encompass the full range of activities and services required to bring a product or service from conception to sale in its final markets either 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. A value chain details the complete selection of activities which are needed to take something or maybe system from conception, from the intermediary phases of delivery and production to last consumers, and final disposal after use. In agriculture, it could be regarded as a set of procedures and passes from the inputs to output to processing, marketing and to the final the consumer. It includes activities like design, marketing, production, support, and distribution services up to the last customer.

Program Objectives

By the end of this training, the participants will be able to understand about:

• The market systems
• Value chain cycle
• Value chain financing
• Designing and implementing value chain project
• M&E of Value Chain Project
• Risk management in value chain

Target Audience

This training on agriculture value chain management and market Linkages targets participants working in agriculture research, value chain and market development projects managers, government institutions, NGO staff, and agribusinesses.

Training Period

• Classroom: 5 Days
• Online: 7 Days

Modules

Module 1: Introduction to Agriculture Value Chain

• Definition of value chain.
• Key concepts in value chain.
• Value chain cycle.

Module 2: Value Chain Analysis

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

Module 3: Market Analysis and Development

• Introduction to market analysis.
• Supply, demand, and price setting.
• Standards and certification.
• Analyzing competition.

Module 4: Market Linkages

• Introduction to market linkages.
• Types of market linkages.
• Factors affecting success of linkages.
• Enabling environment in market linkages.

Module 5: Value Chain Governance

• Introduction to value chain governance.
• Importance of value chain governance.
• Types of value chain governance.
• Analyzing value chain governance.

Module 6: Value Chain Financing

• Introduction to Value Chain Financing.
• Type of Value Chain Finance.
• Instruments to promote agricultural value chain finance.

Module 7: Agriculture Value Chain Project Design 

• Formulation of the project goal statement.
• Project causal pathway design.
• Development of a logical framework.

Module 8: Monitoring and Evaluation of VC Development Projects

• Selection of Key Indicators.
• Development of Performance Measurement Framework.
• Evaluation of VC and Market Linkages Projects.
• Impact Assessment of VC and Market Linkages Projects.

Module 9: 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.

Delivery Period

This program is taught through a mix of practical activities, theory, group work and case studies. Training manuals and additional reference materials are provided to the participants.

CERTIFICATION

Upon successful completion of the training, participants will be awarded a certificate of course completion