Transcript SSADP introduction presentation

South Sudan Agribusiness
Development Program
(SSADP)
Overview
(presentation Farmers Union meeting
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SSADP
• Duration 4 years starting middle February
2013 with a decision to continue after 2
years
• Financed by Royal Netherlands Embassy
• Implemented by Mott MacDonald
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Targets private sector in agri-business
(AB) through 3 components
1. Establishing and operating a guarantee
fund
2. Establishing Business Service
Providers who will provide business
support to AB
3. Facilitating and financing AB expertise
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Guarantee fund
• Provide partial guarantees to bank(s) for
loans in AB
• Banks are responsible for approval and for
ensuring repayment of loan by their clients
and will lose when client is defaulting
• Loans (initially) $ 10.000-100.,000
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Business Service Provision
• SSADP will train BSP (Consultants)
• Consultants will be contracted by SSADP to train
entrepreneurs
• Business training will be modular and targeted at different
stages of business formation and management.
• Business coaching and assistance will be provided to
entrepreneurs in such areas as: record keeping, marketing,
warehousing, business planning including equity
formation, HRD, procurement, and assistance with loan
applications
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Agri business component
• Facilitation and financing of AB experts
• Identifying potential beneficiary AB SMEs
• Selection through BSP with monitoring from
SSADP
• Training of banks in agri-business
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Target group: private sector
• Agri businesses (suppliers, agro dealers,
producers, processors, traders)
• Whole agricultural sector
• SMEs
• Viable
• > 5 employees
• Equatorian states initially
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Preliminary identification
• See spreadsheet
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Process of identification and
selection of (potential) clients (PC)
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Identifying and approaching entry points
Collecting names and contact data
Completing identification sheet by PC
Preliminary selection by AB team
Completion of specific questionnaires by BSS
Further selection by BSS
Monitoring by AB and BS team followed by
Business Training and providing AB expertise
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What do we desire?
Names and contact data of potential
• AB clients
• BSP i.e free lance consultants
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