A review of insights gained by Samriddhi in its support to livestock related and medicinal plant value chains in rural Bangladesh.
Intervention description
Enhanced the capacity of rural producer groups or Micro and Small Enterprises (MSE) in business management and in the acquisition of financial capital; strengthened local service provision through the capacity building of Local Service Providers (LSP) and their associations, the Service Providers' Associations (SPA), through collaboration with government line agencies and private sector enterprises.
Evidence methodology
Combining case studies and interviews, the report builds a comprehensive picture of the Samriddhi project - its results, its shortcomings and its relevance to other, market system development approaches.
- Results obtained via the Monitoring and Results Measurement system.
- To this, the report adds a log frame for assessing changes at the level of the producer groups' service providers, as well as other market actors.
- For the sake of measuring how these changes affected one another, and whether they indicated systemic change, the report used monitoring data in comparison with pre-existing M4P models as well as analysis, based on interviews with market value chain experts and caseworkers.
Useful for:
A useful example for anyone interested in the market systems approach, value chain coordination and development within the agricultural sector, specifically in areas where the population is food-poor. This includes donors, development practitioners, project implementers and policy makers.