Achieving Scale in Value Chain

1. Experience in scaling - Depends on specific context - Access to Finance - Innovative marketing approach - Tailor made support services- Difficult to identify market players to scale

up through.- Scaling is limited to the budget - Plan scaling from the beginning

2. Constraint and Impediments

- Scaling cannot be the responsibility of the project only.

- Geographical and cultural limitations of the tested innovations.

- Poor capacity of Value chain actors. - Dependent on attitude of farmer. - Contradictory approaches of donors.

3. Strategies to reach scaling - Analyze the sector before planning - Plan for up-scaling from the onset- Involve all stakeholders- Comprehensive monitoring and

documentation- Engage private sector - Facilitation of the VC actors - Improve coordination among development

actors

4. Good practices and

1. Be flexible and Patient 2. Depend on the context 3. Difficult to identify

market players to scale up through.

4. Traditional approaches of development projects often don’t allow to scale up .

5. Plan scaling from the beginning

Lessons

1. PS does R&D activity 2. Access to Finance 3. Innovative marketing

approach 4. Tailor made support

service

5. What support We need

1. Capacity building on market systems development

And Who?

1. Market system and multi sector experience

1. Project (Study and Research)

2. Systemic approach 2. Policy dialog 2. Government