Co-operatives' Learning & Innovation Series
Key words:
Youth
Women
Producer-groups
Market Linkages

Donor

Project

USAID Enabling Market Integration for Rural Group Empowerment (EMIRGE) Program

 Partners
  • Nutrition
  • Gender
  • Youth
  • Effective linkages with the private sector
  • Performance measurement tools
  • Social indexing tools
  • Stakeholder forums
  • Role of the development project

Overview of EVI activities

The EMIRGE program assists smallholder farmers in the dairy and vegetable value chains to increase their production yields and link to markets. EVI is designing a learning series on lessons learned on small to medium sized producer-managed co-operatives to be used by development staff to improve programming. This includes visits with field staff and market actors in Mongolia, Rwanda and Uganda.
​Learning themes include:

Target Region(s)

Mongolia
Rwanda
​Uganda

Time Period

2015 - 2016

Target Beneficiaries

Low income smallholder dairy and vegetable farmers who are members of 46 cooperatives and groups.

Resources / Links

Publications:
Learning Series Notes from the Field
Presentations / Tools:
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Links:
EMIRGE website