Market Development Interest Group

2 December 2015

MEER; 11; 9%

SARO; 31; 26%

WARO; 13; 11%

EARO; 28; 23%

SAPO; 16; 13%

EASO; 13; 11%

LACRO; 8; 7%

APs with Value Chain Programming, by Region

120+ APs

• 35 countries

• 120+ APs

• 1820 groups

• 75,875 group members

Value Chain programming for 2015

*Proceed with caution regarding data accuracy!

Africa: 72+•Angola (2?)•Congo (DRC) (?)•Ethiopia (3)•Kenya (2)•Lesotho (3)•Malawi (4)•Mali (4)•Niger (1)•Rwanda (13)•Senegal (3?)•Sierra Leone (5)•South Sudan (1)•Swaziland (2)•Tanzania (4)•Uganda (5)•Zambia (16)•Zimbabwe (4)

Asia: 47+Bangladesh (6)Cambodia (20+)•Indonesia (8)•Laos (6)•Myanmar (4)•Mongolia (?)•Philippines (?)•Nepal (2)•Vietnam (1)

Pacific Timor Leste: 11•Timor Leste [3]•Solomon Islands [4]•Vanuatu [2]•PNG [2]

MEER: 11+•Afghanistan (?)•Armenia (5)•Albania (?)•Lebanon (2)•JWBG (2)•Romania (?)

Current Value Chain Programming120+ APs

Key(#) = AP[#] = Project

Latin America•Peru (8)

LVCD Grants – Review of 2015

New projects & Wins in 2015• Rwanda (JICA)• Vietnam (MFAT New Zealand)• Cambodia (DFAT Australia)• Indonesia (DFAT Australia)• Ethiopia, Kenya (DGIS)

Losses in 2015• Indonesia (Mondelez)• ?

LVCD Grants Pipeline

Proposal phase• TOMAK – Timor Leste (DFAT

Australia• LIFT – Myanmar (LIFT

consortium -13 donors)

Design• AMENCA II (DFAT Australia)

Any other projects in the pipeline?

Pipeline LVCD/Value Chain Programming

Africa•Ethiopia (scale)•Kenya (TA)•Senegal (TA)•Swaziland (TA)•South Africa (TA)•Lesotho (TA)

EASO•Myanmar (grant)•Mongolia (TA)

Latin America•??

MEER•Expanding

SAPO•Timor (grant)•Indonesia (TA)•Nepal (TA + grants)•Sri Lanka (TA)•Vanuatu (PTL TA) Key

TA = LVCD in Technical Approach

Evidence & learning in 2015

• LVCD indicators provided for Horizon

• M&E results accumulating:– Ethiopia – Chencha Apples– Bangladesh – Nobo Suchana– Tanzania – House Resilience Project– Indonesia – Social Return on Investment

eLVCD University (PALS)

• Intake II: graduated Nov 201511 countries: Angola, DRC, Laos, Malawi, Mongolia, Swaziland, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Senegal, Uganda, Zimbabwe

• 21 Graduated (31 registered)– 10 incomplete: DFAT project closure in Uganda– 10 high or very high performers

• Intake 3 will commence early 2016: register now: Mark.Harwood@worldvision.com.au

https://www.facebook.com/groups/eLVCDalumni/

LVCD Facebook Group: (re) launched

Why join the LVCD Facebook group?

Purpose: to be a supportive online community for World Vision LVCD practitioners. A place to share successes, challenges and seek advice.

Membership of the group is restricted to World Vision staff interested in LVCD or already managing an LVCD project.

Activities:• New academic/NGO research; best practice examples• Connections to other staff• Information about conferences, training and events• Polls

https://www.facebook.com/groups/eLVCDalumni/

Priorities for 2016

• Gender– Addressing lack of women in producer groups– Doing more than disaggregating indicators– Modified approaches to include women in Situation

Analysis, Value Chain Analysis, Groups, Marketing• System analysis/Root Cause Analysis– Categorising common ‘problems’ and providing

analysis of possible root causes– Linking analysis to tools with research-based results

LVCD website http://lvcd.projectmodel.org/

Website functionality

Tools• Events calendar• Register your project • Blog• Ability to subscribe

Coming soon• Global Map of projects• Project statistics

What else would you like to see?