Programme profile

Mercados Rurales

Bolivia Latin America and Caribbean

Programme Index Listing

Location
Bolivia
Main implementer
Swisscontact and PROFIN
Donor
SDC
Duration
2014 - 2017
Total budget
US $ 7.9 million
Annual budget
US $ 1.9 million avg
Status
Completed

To increase the net income of 11,000 people and improve the access of at least 22,000 smallholder farmer families in the Western region of Bolivia (highlands and Inter-Andean valleys). Focusing on financial and non-financial services and the provision of technologies and inputs.

Market systems and interventions

Improving the business environment

  • Improving the business environment for SME and smallholder farmers

Improving provision of and access to technical assistance services

  • Improving the provision of and access to technical assistance services for SME and smallholder farmers through innovative business models together with private and public stakeholders.

Financial services

  • Improving the provision of and access to financial services (loans, insurances and financial literacy programmes) for smallholder farmers through innovative business models together with private and public stakeholders.

Supplier development

  • Strengthening of agriculture input providers (seeds, seedlings, fertilizers, etc.) and facilitating business models with embedded-services.

Market development

  • Development of new products and/or improving quality, price, costs and delivery of existing products; and improving access to industrial and end-consumer markets.

Regional development and tourism

  • Facilitating regional and tourism development in the Cintis region of Bolivia.

Results so far

  • More than 13,000 smallholder farmer families have increased their net incomes by more than US $80 per month on average
  • More than 17.000 smallholder farmer families improved their employment conditions

  • More than 32,000 smallholder farmer families have improved their access to provision of technologies, goods, inputs and financial and non-financial services
  • B/C (benefit cost): 2.57

[updated in Dec 2017]