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Pathways Out of Poverty: Tools for Value Chain Development Practitioners

Partner: ACDI/VOCA and United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Publication Type: Toolkit
Date: January 2012

This toolkit equips value chain development programmers with a set of tools that can be used for situation assessments, value chain selection and value chain analysis. The document presents an overview of each tool listed, including a brief description of its relevance to reaching the very poor in the context of a value chain development program. It also presents brief examples of how each tool can be applied and used to inform programming decisions.

Pathways out of Poverty Case Study: Savings Groups on the Pathway to Graduation: PSNP Plus in Ethiopia

Partner: ACDI/VOCA, United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Publication Type: Case Study
Date: January 2012

This is one in a series of USAID-commissioned case studies that examined interventions and approaches to creating pathways out of poverty that “pushed” the very poor towards productive engagement in markets and/or “pulled” the poor into markets. This case study looks at how the PSNP Plus project in Ethiopia piloted interventions to sustainably graduate households from dependence on cash and food transfers.

Pathways Out of Poverty: Applying Key Principles of the Value Chain Approach to Reach the Very Poor

Partner: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Publication Type: Report
Date: December 2011

This discussion paper provides guidance on how value chain and market development core principles can be adopted when working directly with the very poor. This paper is applicable to initiatives aiming to ‘reach down’ further and include the very poor in—or graduate the very poor more intentionally into—economic growth interventions, thereby creating a “pathway out of poverty.”

Livelihood & Food Security Conceptual Framework

Partner: Livelihoods and Food Security Technical Assistance (LIFT) / United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Publication Type: Report
Date: August 2011

The relationship between livelihoods and food security is complex and is influenced by a wide variety of factors that vary in importance across contexts and over time. This document presents a conceptual framework for integrating sustainable, market-driven livelihood strengthening into food security interventions.

Assessment of USAID/PEPFAR’s Economic Strengthening Programs in Ethiopia: August 2010 – October 2010

Partner: Livelihoods and Food Security Technical Assistance (LIFT) / United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Publication Type: Report
Date: April 2011

This paper presents an assessment conducted by the Livelihoods and Food Security Technical Assistance (LIFT) project of USAID Ethiopia’s economic strengthening (ES) activities within the office’s HIV/AIDS portfolio. This report contains the assessment findings together with recommendations for USAID/PEPFAR Ethiopia to support program activities. The goal of this assessment was to help mitigate the impacts of HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia by improving the quality and impact of ES interventions.

Beyond Financial Services: Combining Savings Groups with Agricultural Marketing in Tanzania

Partner: Aga Khan Foundation (AKF)
Publication Type: Case Study
Date: April 2011

This case study reviews a chickpea production and marketing project implemented by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in the Mwanza region of northern Tanzania. The project facilitated agricultural production and marketing support to savings groups comprised of chickpea farmers. This document presents the preliminary findings of the project in an effort to explore the sustainability and replicability of this integrated model.

Beyond Financial Services: A Synthesis of Studies on the Integration of Savings Groups and Other Developmental Activities

Partner: Aga Khan Foundation (AKF)
Publication Type: Case Study
Date: April 2011

This document summarizes the findings of a Learning Initiative carried out by Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) with support from the MasterCard Foundation, to study the integration of Savings Groups (SGs) and other developmental activities. It looked at nine projects that integrated SGs with other activities such as linkages to agricultural input and output markets, health education, and marketing of social products (i.e. solar lamps).

Assessment of PEPFAR Economic Strengthening Programming for PLHIV and OVC in Swaziland

Partner: Livelihoods and Food Security Technical Assistance (LIFT), United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Publication Type: Report
Date: March 2011

This assessment evaluated the potential of PEPFAR‘s Economic Strengthening programs in Swaziland to improve the well-being of People Living with HIV/AIDS, Orphans and Vulnerable Children and their caregivers, and identify new program opportunities and technical assistance options for strengthening existing programs.

Marketlinks Speakers Corner #32: Value Chains for Vulnerable Populations

Partner: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Publication Type: Online Discussion Transcript
Date: April 2009

This summary presents highlights of a three-day online discussion that explored how value chain development programs can effectively involve vulnerable populations, respond to crisis, and tailor their strategy to particular situation and populations.

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