Making markets work for poor people

Practical Action East Africa, Aim 2

Programme aim 2: Our work aims to enable poor women and men to use technologies effectively in systems of production, processing and marketing to build secure livelihoods

The aim has an integrated approach that ensures that young people, poor women and men use technologies effectively in systems of production, processing and marketing to build secure livelihoods. The target groups include small-scale farmers, pastoralists, forest users, fishers and rural non-farm enterprises.

The programme's approach entails linking with existing project work of Aim 1 and 3, while at the same time seeking to develop a pure Aim 2 portfolio. In the bigger picture, Aim 2 is working out strategies to establish programme areas in the rest of the Eastern Africa region with a guiding principle for the Aim's work will be scale and sustainability of interventions.