Value Chain CD Brochure Final En

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VALUE CHAINDEVELOPMENT

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VALUE CHAINDEVELOPMENT

OverviewThe question is thus not if, but how to integrate invalue chains in a way that allows for incorporation of a

growing number of the workforce and increasing levels ofproductivity and incomes.

(Altenburg, 2007)

Value Chains describe how value is created from theconception of a product to its nal consumption,concluding the different stages of input supply, design,production, distribution, retailing and support services.Value Chain Development (VCD) focuses on analysingthese chains, identifying key weaknesses and bottlenecksand contributing to their further development andimprovement.

Value chain development is an increasingly popularapproach to develop inclusive markets. By improvingthe access of the poor to markets, facilitating a betterfunctioning of markets and by promoting the ow ofknowledge and resources along value chains to small

What is a value chain?A value chain describes the full range of activities thatare required to bring a product or service from conception,through the intermediary phases of production [...],delivery to nal consumers, and nal disposal after use.This includes design, production, marketing, distributionand support services leading up to consumption (andoften beyond, when recycling processes are considered).

These activities can be contained within a single rm ordivided among different rms, as well as within a singlegeographical location or spread over wider areas. Theterm value chain refers to the fact that value is addedto preliminary products through combination with otherresources (for example tools, manpower, knowledge andskills, other raw materials or preliminary products) .As theproduct passes through the stages of the value chain, itsvalue increases.

Source: ILO: Value Chain Development for Decent Work:A Guide for Practitioners, Government and Private SectorInitiatives (Geneva: 2009)

enterprises and poor producers, value chain interventionscan enable the working poor to benet more frommarket development and take advantage of some of theopportunities offered by domestic and global markets.Through value chain development programs, practitionersempower small businesses to sell to more stable, highervolume or higher value markets. This occurs by linkingsustainable enterprises with the range of businesses inthe value chain and with support service providers andother stakeholders to increase the competitiveness ofthe industry and increase the benets for low-incomesustainable enterprises.


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A Market developmentapproach to pro-poor growthThe course is highly relevant for professionals developingand implementing Value Chain and enterprisedevelopment projects in rural and urban areas.

It offers a unique on-the-job learning opportunity using

practical tools and lessons from enterprise developmentprograms that have reached thousands of smallenterprises in rural and urban areas.

Participants select a work challenge as an assignmentduring the course and get support from internationalexperts that act as on-line tutors.

The nal output of the course is a Market DevelopmentImplementation Project designed by the participant.

A mid-course optional one or two weeks face-to-faceworkshop enable participants to meet and strengthennetworks among them and the international trainers,better adapt the learning to their target group and get anupdate on latest developments.

Title: Enterprise Development through Value Chainsand Business Service Markets

Modality: Distance + optional 2 weeks Face - to - Face

Target: The course is highly relevant for professionalsconducting small enterprise development through

value chains and business development servicemarkets. It is targeted to professionals workingin the following elds of practice: Micro, Smalland Medium Enterprise development; InclusiveMarkets development; Private Sector Development;Agricultural development; Local EconomicDevelopment; Livelihood security; Employment andMicronance.

Length: 8 month distance learning (March toNovember). Designed to be combined with theprofessional job

Assistance: On line tutors

Output: a Market Development ImplementationProject designed by the participant based on theproject he/she is currently working on in real life.

Contacts: [email protected]

www.itcilo.org/marketdev

ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT THROUGHVALUE CHAINS AND BUSINESS SERVICE MARKETS


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The four distance learning modules are interrelated asfollows:

MODULE 1 - Introduction to Value Chain andBusiness Service Market development.

MODULE 2 - Market Assessment, Monitoring andEvaluation: The course addresses the latest DonorCommittee for Enterprise Development (DCED) results

measurement framework. MODULE 3 - The Program Design Cycle: A Guide to

(Re-) Designing Market Development Initiatives. MODULE 4 - Implementing Market Development

Programs.


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Gender in VCD Partnerships and Business Linkages Market Assessment Results Measurements with DCED Standards

Value Chain FinanceBy the end of the course, participants will:

be able to understand the principles of Value ChainDevelopment for decent work reaching scale andinclusiveness;

be able to share knowledge with partners andstakeholders about Value Chain Developmentprinciples and applications;

have had the opportunity to exchange experienceswith Value Chain Development practitioners and willbe part of a peer network;

be able to contribute to the design andimplementation of market driven value chaindevelopment projects using a participatory approach.

ILO ITC course on VCD distinguishes from other courses by:

Promoting enterprise development andcompetitiveness not as a goal in itself but as a meanto create decent work and equal opportunities forwomen and men.

Seeking to understand local, national andinternational value chains that have the biggestchances of either increasing employment and/orimproving working conditions.

Promoting decent work through fundamentalprinciples and rights at work, employment promotion,social protection and social dialogue.

Focusing on job creation and job quality improvement Bringing together the core public and private

stakeholders in Value Chains. The tools seek tostrengthen - enterprises, business relationships,market structures, and the business environment.

Title: Tailor Made Course on Value Chain Development

Modality: face - to -face

Target: The course is highly relevant for professionals

conducting small enterprise development throughvalue chains and business development servicemarkets. It is targeted to professionals workingin the following elds of practice: Micro, Smalland Medium Enterprise development; Value ChainFinance; Inclusive Markets development; PrivateSector Development; Agricultural development;Local Economic Development; Livelihood security;Employment and Micronance.

Length: One week

Options: The organizers can choose electives (Genderin VCD, Communication in VCD, Partnerships andBusiness Linkages, ICT, Market Assessment, ResultsMeasurements with DCED Standards or Value Chain

Finance)Contacts: [email protected]


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This training aims to enhance understanding, drive, andskills of practitioners to offer value chain nance (VCF)methodologies effectives enough in helping nancialinstitutions and value chain markets to expand inways they generate improved income and employmentopportunities for people living near or under the povertyline.

By the end of the course, participants will::

Understand and be able to explain to others how valuechain nance can represent an important businessopportunity for different actors in the value chain and

specically for Banks and MFIs, and how it can have asignicant impact on economic development, povertyand gender equity

Be able to identify common opportunities and risks toVCF, including opportunities to increase inclusion ofwomen and other currently excluded groups.

Be familiar with tools to analyse nancial ows in avalue chain to better understand unmet demand fornance in a particular value chain

Use diagramming tools to understand viable valuechain nancial service packages and business models.

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5Overview toenterprisedevelopmentthrough ValueChains and BDS

Introductionto Value ChainFinance

The Value ChainDevelopmentProcess

Value Chainselection

Competitivenessand UpgradingStrategies

Value ChainAnalysis: Strengths& Constraints /Mapping

Analyzing theMarket for ValueChain Finance

SustainableSolutions

Value ChainFinance Solutions

InterventionSelection &Design, Planning& Management Market Facilitation

Market Entry &Piloting

Market Up-Takeand Exit

Scale-up andSustainability

Optional Modules

Study Visits

Action plans

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METHODOLOGY

An action-oriented, participative approach will be adoptedthroughout the workshop. Emphasis will be placed onsharing experiences and best practices - in the searchfor innovative and practical solutions to problems andchallenges, and how the value chain nance approach cancontribute to problem solving.

Title: Tailor Made Course on Value Chain Finance

Modality: face - to - face

Target: The course is highly relevant for professionalsconducting small enterprise development throughvalue chains and business development servicemarkets. It is targeted to professionals workingin the following elds of practice: Micro, Smalland Medium Enterprise development; Value ChainFinance; Inclusive Markets development; Private

Sector Development; Agricultural development;Local Economic Development; Livelihood security;Employment and Micronance.

Length: One week

Contacts: [email protected]

OUR EXPERIENCEIn the last years, the ITC-ILO has implemented more than20 courses either at the Turin Centre, Italy and in the eld(Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe) in partnershipwith ILO HQ and Regional Ofces. Training more than750 practitioners from the private sector, developmentagencies, UN agencies, researchers and traininginstitutes, micronance and commercial banks, chambersof commerce and government ofcials.


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The Value ChainDevelopment Guideaddresses the underlyingcauses of failures in theperformance of marketsystems, rather than lookingat symptoms in individualchains. It has a uniquefocus on how to achieveDecent Work. The essentialquestion it addresses is:

how can we achieve competitiveness while creating new

jobs and income opportunities for men and women andpromoting better working standards in value chains?

The guide is intended for Value Chain Analysis andDevelopment practitioners that need to understand the

nature of relationships between businesses and otheractors in the chain; that need to understand the roleof specic market functions and (formal and informal)rules that govern the value chain; and be able to identifyincentives and capacities of market players in order tofacilitate Value Chain Development.

It takes an action research approach, whereby valuechain mapping and research can already contributeto mobilizing stakeholders and seeking solutions on aparticipatory basis.

The guide takes the reader through Value Chain

selection, initial research, VC mapping and into analysis,interventions design and M&E questions. It builds onproject experiences of the ILO in Sri Lanka, Madagascarand Zambia and is currently being used by practitionersfor project design in Africa, Latin America and Asia.

TOOLSVALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT FOR DECENT WORK GUIDE


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MAKING THE STRONGEST LINKSA practical guide to mainstream gender analysis in value Chain development

Most current value chaindevelopment has failedto integrate genderanalysis despite gendermainstreaming policiesof donor agencies andthe commitments of thegovernments involved. Thisguide provides:

A framework andmethodology for Gender

Equitable Value Chain Action Learning and buildssustainable capacity and networks for Value ChainDevelopment.

Practical examples gender Good Practice indifferent types of VCD processes from privatesector development processes to more participatoryprocesses focusing on womens empowerment.

A core checklist for gender analysis for VCD, based oninternationally accepted gender mainstreaming principles.

Diagram tools which can be used in VCDs of all types andat all levels (policy makers to women who cannot read and

write) for planning, complex analysis and research andmonitoring and evaluation.

This is not a how to Guide to value chain analysis anddevelopment but it shows how gender concerns should beincorporated into value chain development.

The guide is intended for VCA and/or gender consultants,researchers and policy-makers involved in VCD who wish(i) to make their work more inclusive, (ii) to ensure thattheir recommendations empower women, maximising thecontribution to employment creation, economic growthand poverty reduction, and (iii) to acquire the tools forpromoting gender awareness.


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