Fair Economic Development

- Disjointed value chain actors coordination
- Irregular information flow
- Untimely response to actor needs by service providers

Current status

Training of farmer groups on importance of forming of an association.
Assessment farmer their needs for content development.
Developing of project proposal to fundraise for construction of irish potatoes stores.

Training of 3 marketing associations leaders on management of the associations.
Strengthen Post harvest handling and marketing for Irish Potatoes.
Fundraise for construction of improved storage.
Holding actors forums.
Training of farmers on good agricultural practices using ICT centre.
Linking the farmers to markets,quality inputs suppliers and financial services providers.
Building capacity of the staff on VCD facilitation.
Training farmers on market infromation access using mobile technology.

The project goal is to improve the incomes of smallholder farmers by 10% by end of 2012. To achieve this, the project seeks to pursue five objectives as follows.

1) Strengthening of chepkorio Irish potato value chain
2) Linking Dairy value chain to EADD initiatives
3) Strengthening of MEFAT SACCO to serve Farmers and Traders
4) Replication of Value chain concept to other 3 zones of ELRECO
5) Strengthen capacity of ELRECO to facilitate VCD

Target group:
The targets are smallholder farmers who are disjointed and work as individuals in production and marketing thus exposing them to exploitation by middlemen.Access to quality inputs and affordable credit is a challangethus making them produce not only poor quality products but also low output thus leading to reduced prices and incomes.Extension service access is another constraint to the target group.Market information access is critical to informed decision making by the target group yet lackin

Goals

• 6 progressive women entrepreneurs incorporated Potato VC
• 2 additional seed groups incorporated to Potato VC
• Formation and strengthening 1 marketing association
• Functional and established verticle and horizontal linkages
• Enhanced capacity of actors to play their roles effectively

Strenthening marketing associations and its leadership.
Formation and strengthening of management committee.
Strengthen internal resource mobilization through Savings and credit.
Build the capacity of chain actors to play their roles effectively.
Strengthen chain governance.
Build strategic linkages with all market actors for sustainable service delivery.