Synthesis of Discussion on ‘How to identify intervention and leverage points’, SDC, 2005

Description
This paper summarizes the second cycle of SDC's community of practice on Value Chains in Rural Development discussion. It focuses on how to identify intervention and leverage points. The discussion covered the following topics:

The starting point for interventions: The invervention process considers five important steps and four basic rules. It may take only a brief business talk or up to several months of research, networking and facilitation before deciding on where to focus interventions.

The "Just-do-it" approach: A learning by doing approach that raised an intensive discussion about the necessity of analyses and planning procedures.

Different interventions for different actors: The diverse perspectives and motivation of various actors in VC development is an ongoing discussion on the platform.

Obstacles to VC competitiveness: Several areas for VC failures are discussed.

Trust, competitors and losers: Critical success factors are the handling of trust, competitors and possible losers of VC interventions.

For the summary of the first cycle of the discussion on analyzing value chains in rural areas, see the link to "Value Chain Analysis" below under Associated Activities and Documents.



Associated Activities and Documents
Market Assessment
»	Value Chain Analysis, 2007
Programme Design
»	Synthesis of Discussion on Value Chains in the Poverty Alleviation Context, SDC June 05
Implementation
»	Synthesis of Discussion on Implementing Value Chain Interventions in Rural Areas, SDC April 05
Impact Assessment
»	Synthesis of SDC Value Chains in Rural Development CoP 9th Cycle on Impact Monitoring, 2007
Synthesis Documents
»	Compilation of insights from the online debate of Value Chains in Rural Development, SDC, 2006
»	Donor Interventions in Value Chain Development, SDC VCRD CoP 2007