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DFID has been one of the leading agencies in Making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P), a market systems approach that works with the private sector to catalyze changes in markets that benefit the poor. DFID’s flagship M4P project in Kenya is the Market Assistance Programme (MAP), managed by Mike Field, a recognized leader in value chain and M4P approaches. Field and his team are exploring innovative, scalable solutions in cross-cutting systems and specific value chains.

The related resources below are products of the "Financing Value Chains" session of USAID's Meeting the Challenges of Value Chain Development: A Learning Event. Session Description:

SITE’s work in Kenya's warm milk trade has been an iterative process, relying on numerous types of facilitation to address each challenge as it unfolded, incentivizing a fragmented informal sector without lead firms to collaborate, improve its performance and increase the benefits to its participants. By demonstrating the benefits to regulation and formalization, there has been significant upgrading in the value chain, crowding in of new entrants, and substantial increases in the volumes of milk traded and profitability for the actors.

A significant body of knowledge exists on the relationship between poverty and conflict.

In this presentation, Sebstad and Manfre discuss a framework that considers how gender influences behaviors in agricultural value chains with a particular focus on upgrading.

Learn about using value chains and business development services to improve the avocado industry in Kenya.

Reviewing market accessibility as farmers work to comply with EUREPGAP process-based standards and certification.

Addressing gender considerations in value chain programming and implementation efforts.

Steve McCarthy presented, "Linking Smallholders in Ethiopia and Rwanda to Higher Value Coffee Markets." The seminar was the 31st installment of the Linking Small Firms to Competitiveness Strategies Breakfast Seminar Series sponsored by the USAID Microenterprise Development office.

Henry Panlibuton of Action For Enterprise presented, “Incentives for Change: Findings from an Impact Assessment of Tree Fruit Projects in Kenya.” The seminar was the 27th installment of the Linking Small Firms to Competitiveness Strategies Breakfast Seminar Series sponsored by the USAID Microenterprise Development office.

Moving poor individuals and households out of saturated, low-return activities and into higher-return, growing markets.

An impact assessment of two projects in tree fruit value chains in Kenya.