Donor Interventions in Value Chain Development, SDC VCRD CoP 2007

Description
These guidelines highlight the most important issues that development agencies need to consider when they engage in value chain development in rural areas. The paper offers guiding principles for development practitioners and policy makers, and points to further useful material.

This paper is based on the insights gained during the online debate on the forum 'Value Chains in Rural Development' operated by SDC starting in December 2004, with its various and sometimes contradicting examples, cases, perceptions and discussions. Over 120 persons, from around 35 countries joined and discussed practically relevant topics during 9 debate cycles. In this paper the main highlights of the work so far are pulled together and presented for discussion.

Individual syntheses from each of the 9 debate cycles are available here. The most recent addition is the Info Flash from November 2007.



Associated Activities and Documents
Programme Design
»	Synthesis of Discussion on ‘How to identify intervention and leverage points’, SDC, 2005
»	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