Welcome !!

Sesame sector stakeholders meeting

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• Distinguished Guests,

• Ladies and Gentlemen!

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• We are delighted to have you here to participate and share in the 3rd sesame value chain stakeholders annual meeting.

• Thank you all for accepting our invitation and coming to the event.

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• That many of you travelled long distances serves to remind us all just how important our work and the stakeholders network established before 2 years in the North West is.

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• This workshop is organized under the theme of

“INVEST MORE TO GAIN MORE”.

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Why? Please try to get the answer from

the presentations in the two days.

Objectives

1. Sharing experiences and learning lessons from activities that took place

2. Introducing and exchanging over the strategic agenda and new activities planned for 2015/16

3. Creating a platform for stakeholders to come together and seek out new interesting opportunities in working together

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• Dear workshop participants!• Ladies and gentlemen!• In these two days stakeholders of the network

will present papers on their – achievements, – lessons learnt – challenges faced and– entertaining programs

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• Organizers hopefully think that beyond learning on the outcomes • It is a forum where you plan:– what to do in the coming one year,–share tasks and –Engage yourselves/promise to

accomplish responsibly

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• Wishing you a happy a stay in Mekelle• I now kindly invite Ato Fiseha

Bezabeh, Deputy head of the Tigray Agriculture Bureau and Director of the Extension Directorate for delivering the opening speech

Opening speech

Sesame sector stakeholders meeting

Sesame Business Network Ethiopia

Mekelle, March 20th 2015

Introduction of programme and participants

1. Farmers2. Cooperatives and Unions 3. Processors4. Traders5. Research6. Extension7. Cooperative promotion 8. Policy makers (different levels) 9. Financial supporters: banks, MFI’s, insurance10. Other supporters : machinery providers, transporters, seed

providers, packaging, ...--------------------------------11. Donors and projects

We would like to know from which stakeholder group you are:

3. Stakeholder network and collaboration 4. Production side: increasing production and

quality5. Key issues for further roll-out of best

agricultural practices and yield improvement

First day – morning

6. Quiz: sharing of the main findings of the production and credit cost action research

7. Addressing rural finance challenges8. Understanding others 9. Wrap up first day programme and

announcement of results of the quiz

First day – afternoon

10.Common sense presentation 11.Positioning of Ethiopia in a turbulent and

demanding world market12.In country value addition13.Direct supplier-buyer relations14.Farmer and cooperative entrepreneurship15.Labour management in the sesame sector

Second day – morning

16.World café: towards action points on 4 introduced subjects

17.Risk management18.Wrap-up of the two days programme and

orientation

Second day – afternoon

Sesame Business Network Ethiopia

Mekelle, March 20th 2015

Stakeholder network and collaboration

Tach Armachiho

Metema

Mirab

Armachiho

Quara

Tegede

Kafta Humera

Tsegede

Wolkaiet

Sesame corridor; Tigray sesame zone and Amhara sesame zone

• Innovation network driven by sector stakeholders

• Market system perspective : private and public sector stakeholders work together

• Goal : competitive, sustainable and inclusive sesame value chains

Stakeholder collaboration

( የሰሊጥ ምርትና ግብይት መረብ)

MarketValue chain operators Farmers processorsCoops/Unions Traders

Collaboration on the value chain

1. Farmers2. Cooperatives and Unions 3. Processors4. Traders

Support functions

Collaboration with supporters

Value chain supporters

Value chain operators

Farmers processors Consumers

9. Financial supporters: banks, MFI’s, insurance10. Other supporters : machinery providers,

transporters, seed providers, packaging, ...

Coops/Unions

5. Research6. Extension7. Cooperative promotion 8. Policy makers (different levels)

Value chain enablers

Support functions

Institutions and governance

Value chain supporters

Institutional actors (mainly public sector)

Value chain operators

Farmers processors Traders

Showing value chain enablers

Coops/Unions

The meat is in the middle .....

e.g. value chains .....

Think of a hamburger

Market system perspective

Mainly private sector

Mainly public sector

Donors and projects:at the sideline

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Bulking node

Chain operators

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Public institutions

Support functions

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Rural Innovation System and Entrepreneurship

Market system

Rural innovation system

Different stakeholders

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ባንክና አነስተኛ ገንዘብተkማት

አቀናባሪዎች

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የአርሶ አደር መሰረታዊማህበራት

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ንግድናእንዲስተሪ

Clusters : stakeholder collaboration at local level

SBC’sSesame Business Clusters

Currently: 38 local clusters - 20 in Tigray- 18 in

Amhara

1. Farmers2. Cooperatives and Unions 3. Processors4. Traders5. Research6. Extension7. Cooperative promotion 8. Policy makers (different levels) 9. Financial supporters: banks, MFI’s, insurance10. Other supporters : machinery providers,

transporters, seed providers, packaging, ...--------------------------------11. Donors and projects

Participant groups

• All participants in the form of a hamburger ......

Now we want to take a beautiful picture ......

1. Farmers 2.Cooperatives /Unions

3. Processors 4. Traders

Enablers

Supporters

5. Research6. Extension 7. Cooperative

promotion

Value chain operators

8. Policy

makers

9. Financial

supporters

10. Other supports Transporters, machinery providers, packaging

11. Donors and projects

Instructions for the photo• Remember the number of the box you

belong to• Outside this figure is drawn on the

parking lot• Go stand in the box of your number

• And....smile