Public-Private Partnerships in Smallholder Agriculture

Seminar - 13 November 2013

Beyond business as usual?

Programme of the seminar

09.00 Opening seminar

● Welcome by Jan Helder, course director CDI

● Opening address on PPPs, by Joost Guijt, senior advisor CDI

Keynote speeches

● Mr Mandla Nkomo, country director TechnoServe, South Africa

● Ms Marije Boomsma, senior consultant, KIT, The Netherlands

● Ms Kavita Prakah-Mani, Head Food Security Agenda, Syngenta

Questions and discussion on keynote speeches

Coffee break

Plenary debate – Statements & Discussion

Closing remarks guest speakers

12.30 Closure

Lunch in ‘t Hof van Wageningen

Roger Reuver, video camera

Key question for this seminar

Do PPPs effectively stimulate new market linkages that benefit low-income farmers, or do they just subsidise business as usual?

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PPP’s: some terms & assumptions

Opening Address: Joost Guijt

Centre for Development Innovation, Wageningen UR

PPP characteristics

Companies <-> public sector

Poverty reduction / public goods

Leveraging private investment

Core business investments

Beyond ‘business as usual’

Public Objectives

Do no harm

Improve livelihoods

Improve trading relationships

Raise productivity

Greater environmental sustainability

Private objectives

Potential for profit

Innovate

Proof of concept

Scale existing innovation

Why draw in business?

Share

●Resources

●Risks

●Rewards

Continuity

Scale

Hypothesis vs praxis

Sharing

●Resources: leveraging extra private investments?

●Risks: real risk?

●Rewards: downward accountabilit?

Continuity: business model?

Scale: investment pathway?

Means or ends?

Is any business engagement in development efforts worthwhile?

When is a PPP useful, when not?

What alternatives are there?

How effective is it compared to alternatives?

How cost-efficient?

Coffee Break Be back at: 11.00

Instructions for people with a tablet / iPad

Wifi code: 0000011111

(5x0 and 5x1)

Go to: www.socrative.com

Click on student login

Room nr: 429555

Statement 1

PPP’s are THE best way to get businesses to significantly source from small scale producers

Statement 2

• PPP’s are only held accountable to the public donor but not to the small scale producers

Statement 3

Business should pay the lions share in a PPP since they are going to benefit most from the outcomes

Statement 4

Businesses see PPP’s as a way to subsidise their normal activities, so it is not used as an opportunity for innovation, nothing beyond business as usual

Back to the key question – Closing remarks

Do PPPs effectively stimulate new market linkages that benefit low-income farmers, or do they just subsidise business as usual?

Key conditions, pitfalls, where PPP are not appropriate...?

Closing remarks by Marije Boomsma and Mandla Nkomo

Practical announcements

Course participants: please register before lunch for the afternoon sessions

1) Visit the Campus of Wageningen UR (departure 13.45 pm from hotel reception)

2) Continue discussion with Mandla Nkomo

3) Continue discussion with Marije Boomsma

Everybody is kindly invited to join us for lunch in ‘t Hof van Wageningen. Please collect a lunch ticket with us.

A short report and video impression will be available after the seminar

Thank you!

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Centre for Development Innovation

Enjoy your lunch