GHANA AGRICULTURAL SECTOR INVESTMENT PROGRAMME (GASIP) Grant No. IFAD: 994-HGProvision of Value Chain and Agribusiness Management Services

Description of the project and Services provided:

The overall goal of GASIP is to contribute to sustainable poverty reduction in rural Ghana. The Programme Development Objective (PDO) is: “agribusinesses, including smallholders, have enhanced their profitability and climate change resilience”

GASIP is built along four (4) strategic axis:

(i) linking smallholder farmers to agribusinesses to enhance pro-poor growth nationwide; (ii) scaling up of a successful value chain investment approach; (iii) promoting and mainstreaming climate change resilience approaches in Ghana, in particular in the northern regions, financed through the Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP); and (iv) knowledge management, harmonization of intervention approaches and policy support.

The results of the programme are:

• Management support to the implementation of all VC activities of GASIP
• Develop FBOs, VCCs, contracts among businesses;
• Establish financing plans with PFIs, build capacity where necessary;
• Use matching grants to leverage finance, investment and increase VC efficiency;
• Use innovation grants to develop high potential technologies and processes that don’t automatically attract private sector investment;
• Invest in infrastructure as and when appropriate to support chosen value chains

The services provided are:

• Project/programme implementation/management
• Institutional capacity building/strengthening
• Organisation of study tours
• Seminars and conferences organisation
• Training
• Training needs analysis
• Design and implementation of awareness campaings
• Know how transfer