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Integrating the Very Poor into Value Chain Program Interventions

This program highlights strategies for engaging the very poor in market systems, emphasizing that this demographic represents a potentially large market. Key interventions involve selecting value chains that match their capabilities and working collaboratively with market players. By channeling subsidies effectively and investing in targeted sectors, practitioners can promote infrastructure and improve service delivery. Success stories include out-growers, processors, and innovative financing. Encouraging consistent investments will help tackle challenges, ensuring that market opportunities are accessible to everyone.

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Integrating the Very Poor into Value Chain Program Interventions

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  1. Integrating the Very Poor into Value Chain Program Interventions Mahawa Wheeler ACDI/VOCA Liberia

  2. Who are the very poor? • Potentially a very large market • Taxonomy: donor, policy, etc. • Biggest target for free products and services • Largest players in informal sector

  3. How do you engage the very poor? • Select value chains that match their capabilities • Work with the market not against it • Early channeling of subsidies through market players • Buy-down risks for market players

  4. How do you engage the very poor? • Target sectors with quick impact and lower risks • Make incremental but consistent investments • Challenges don’t mean no market interventions • Promote infrastructure and service delivery

  5. Successes • Out growers • Processors • Buyers of products and services • Financing interventions • We need more!

  6. The market is everybody’s oyster, find yours

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