GAFSP Missing Middle Initiative (MMI):

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Lunchtime Conference External Cooperation Infopoint

Iftikhar Mostafa, Senior Agriculture Economist, GAFSP November 13, 2018

Missing Middle Initiative (MMI)

Project ideas originate from Producer Organizations/Ag-CSOs

Triangulates Producer Organizations/Ag-CSOs, Smallholder Farmers and agriculture value chain actors

Provides access to finance, managerial, governance and technical capacity

Consults, Involves and Empowers POs/Ag-CSOs

Stimulates investments in Smallholder Farmers

Forms Partnerships

Crowds-in private funds

MMI Project: “Strengthening Rural Women’s Livelihood for a Sustainable Economic Development in East Senegal”

MMI Project: Increasing Access to Finance for Farmer Organizations in Bangladesh

MMI Project: Inclusion of Rural Youth in Poultry and Aqua-culture Value Chains in Mali

MMI Project: Using e-granary to deliver economic services to farmers in East Africa (Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda)

MMI Project: Quality Paddy for Higher Incomes in Mali

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

• Robust results-based management • At regular periodic intervals - Project level and MMI-wide level • Efficacy and relevance • Cost effectiveness

Monitoring Evaluation Continuous

Learning

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