Approx. value of the contract:
PKR 5.49 million (PKR 5,499,792)
Name of Client:
Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF)
Country:
Pakistan
Duration of assignment (months):
3 Months
Start date (month/year):
September 2019
Completion date (month/year):
January 2020
Narrative description of Project:
Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) received a grant from International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD) for ‘National Poverty Graduation Program (NPGP)’, which aims to ‘assist the ultra-poor and very poor in graduating out of poverty on a sustainable basis; simultaneously improving their overall food security, nutritional status and resilience to climate change’. To achieve this objective, the program is designed to catalyse change at the grassroots to pull people out of poverty, building largely (but not exclusively) upon BISP beneficiaries and leveraging Prime Minister’s Interest Free Loan (PMIFL) to develop a ‘seamless service’ where the poorest can move from consumption support to asset transfers to interest fee loans to microcredit. NPGP is expected to begin in 2020 and will target districts across four provinces of Pakistan. The program will follow a tested social mobilization based approach for community targeting, organization and implementation in which PPAF will engage existing and new suitable partners in target areas for the delivery of project interventions.
PPAF has hired service of Associates in Development Pvt. Ltd. to conduct market assessment and value chain analysis in 13 targeted districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (10) and Balochistan (3).
Description of actual services provided in the assignment:
The objective of the assignment was to identify and systematically analyze (off-farm and on-farm) potential pro-poor value chains with maximum benefit that could be taken forward under the programme to improve livelihoods, living conditions and income generative capacities of poor households, especially of the women and youth in the targeted UCs. The assessment helped identify gaps and constraints in knowledge, technology, access to finance and issues related to backward and forward linkages to be address those under the programme.
List of training needs/ training opportunities/ accredited institutions were identified that can provide training under the programme in the target districts. Specifically, the assessment was carried out by conducting Key Informant Interviews and Focus Group Discussions with market actors, community members, relevant local public administration officials and non-governmental organizations in all targeted districts. AiD produced a UC-level matrix of prioritized value chains and a detailed district-wise analysis of these value chains.
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