⠀Project Activity and Approaches

-⠀Capacity Building: for poultry associations and other stakeholders of the poultry value chain to define organizational priorities, establish strategic development plans and develop effective advocacy platforms, improve policy and regulatory framework for the poultry industry, and support trade-related associations to expand market opportunities
-⠀Financial Services: improve access to affordable financing by promoting partnerships among financial institutions, buyers, and suppliers, and encouraging the development of contract/outgrower supply chains and input quality control management systems for poultry producers; implement a subgrant program on a matching basis to leverage public and private investment
-⠀Input Markets and Services: reinforce the linkages between suppliers, distributers, and retailers of veterinary products in collaboration with Veterinary Services, strengthening their capacity to extend diagnostic and prophylactic health services to producers; reinforce commercial linkages with input suppliers by promoting sales contracts/agreements with buyers brokered by the project
-⠀Increase Market Access: support for poultry associations to organize forums where poultry producers can interact with a range of buyers and input and technical and management service providers; connect poultry businesses with end-market buyers to develop and promote value-added segmentation of poultry end-markets; support GNAPF to coordinate and monitor policy initiatives to support and expand the local procurement of poultry products by importers; implement market development activities to ensure that local production is increasingly capable of meeting the price, quality, delivery requirements, packaging, and other specifications of end-market demand for imported poultry products; initiate social marketing campaigns to heighten awareness of consumers to locally produced poultry products
-⠀Training: ensure the adoption of best management practices in areas such as animal husbandry, vaccinations, and other related areas through the delivery of training by poultry farms to outgrower businesses, where GPP will initially help buy down the cost of technical assistance; assist poultry producer associations to provide demonstrations on cost-effective input management, veterinary, and animal-husbandry best practices for their members; support poultry processing firms to improve the cost efficiency and quality of poultry processing, including linking producers with integrated processing firms and testing toll processing opportunities.