Objective
2SCALE is improving rural livelihoods, nutrition and food security in 12 countries across Africa, aiming to help 1.15 million smallholder families ultimately increase their productivity by 100 percent and their net incomes by 30 percent. A key component is the development of a portfolio of 500 robust and viable agribusiness clusters (ABCs) and value chains targeting regional, national and local markets, including commodity and food product markets for base-of-the-pyramid (BoP) consumers. 2SCALE focuses on the development of competitive rural agricultural systems, viable agro-enterprises and public-private partnerships (PPPs) to meet its goals.

2SCALE is implemented by a consortium of three partners – IFDC, Base of the Pyramid Innovation Centre (BoP Inc.) and the International Centre for development oriented Research in Agriculture (ICRA). Each 2SCALE partner brings unique strengths: IFDC’s capacity to facilitate entrepreneurship from the grassroots upward (local network-cluster-value chain-policy); BoP Inc.’s brokering skills, linking the project with Dutch private firms and bringing in innovation in base-of-the-pyramid marketing; and ICRA’s experience in training and interactive learning.

Implementation Partners – BoP Inc. and ICRA

Collaborators – Dutch knowledge centers, other agribusiness projects, private enterprises, ABCs and value chains

Donors – Netherlands’ Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS) (50 percent) and private sector enterprises (50 percent)

Locations – Benin, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, South Sudan, Togo and Uganda. Click Here To Download Application Form

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