ASNAPP

Agribusiness in Sustainable Natural African Plant Products (ASNAPP) was a USAID co-funded program established in 1999 to help develop the natural products sector in Africa by promoting income-generating activities for rural entrepreneurs in a way that improves the livelihoods of rural communities.  The programs included herbal teas, spices, medicinal plants and plant butters which are grown, harvested and sold by rural producers globally.

The Program was jointly developed and implemented by these organisations. The development and implementation of the program was based on the organizations’ belief that, the concerted action of forest sector actors will achieve greater impact in the promotion of sustainable forest management than any individual effort could. Under the programmatic approach, the partnership worked in three clusters namely:  Certification, Non- Timber Forest Products and Governance Clusters.

SOPMEP was a UNDP funded cross-border programme implemented in Ghana and Burkina Faso with spillovers in Niger, Mali and Benin. It was an onion productivity and market expansion programme designed to reduce poverty and improve food security in the two countries.

SIPMA is market-led agricultural transformation programme funded by AGRA that sought to attract both public and private sector investment, build systems (seed/fertilizer, finance, and market) that improve access and drive sustainability in the maize and soy value chain.

The agricultural vocation in the country had been declining as most of the formal institutes providing vocational training in agriculture had been converted into tertiary institutes leaving a gap for hands-on training in agricultural vocational training.

The €1,184,956.00 project was championed by Agri-Impact Consult (AIC) over the project period. AIC was instrumental in collecting baseline data on participating farmers for end of project evaluation, building the technical and managerial capacities of value chain actors in high value horticultural products to increase income and improve livelihoods.

The project’s implementing partners were, Research Triangle Institute (RTI), Cuttington University, University of Liberia, University of Michigan, and North Carolina State University.  ASNAPP/AIC served as the consortium lead on this project and performed various roles which included:

Entrepreneurship for Opportunity Actualization (EopAct) was a USAID funded program implemented in five African Countries (Ghana, South Africa, Zambia, Senegal and Liberia) as part of the Africa Lead II internship-based Agribusiness Leadership Program (ALP). The program sought to provide distinctive services to graduates, youth and women to build their technical, managerial and vocational capacities to fit into agricultural value chains, job markets and business opportunities capacities.