Prospero enhances the competitiveness and value of locally produced food items in both domestic and international markets. We collaborate with private sector-led consortiums to develop geographically focused value chains and strengthen business relationships in order to achieve more efficient market systems, resulting in growth opportunities for our intervention partners as well as income-generating opportunities for Prospero’s target beneficiaries, primarily smallholder farmers.
We promote competitiveness in our three initiative areas, which are small livestock, legumes, and fruit and vegetables, by ensuring:
Helping SMEs reach new buyers and expand beyond borders.
Strengthening value chains to boost productivity and reduce costs.
Engaging policymakers to create supportive regulations and policies.
Connecting businesses with funding that drives social and economic impact.
Bringing small enterprises into bigger supply chains for shared growth.
Promoting climate-smart practices to build resilience and protect ecosystems.
Supporting production of healthy, homegrown food to improve diets.
We seek to integrate livestock-producing MSMEs into formalized value chains, thereby increasing competitiveness in domestic, regional, and international markets. The Small Livestock initiative will expand on the goat breeding and production pilot work done in 2020 and test similar consortium-based, market-led, geographically focused value chain initiatives in the sheep and pig sub-sectors. Prospero provides technical assistance such as business networking and consortium formation, as well as returnable and standard grants.
We enhance the legume industry and form private-sector-led consortiums through close coordination among grain producers, aggregators, processors, and retailers. This results in the manufacturing of high-value items for both domestic and foreign markets. The 2021 Legumes initiative plan focuses on three value chains: soya beans, common beans, and groundnuts, and it supports efforts to increase knowledge and skills in legume production.
We foster a collaborative and inclusive fruit and vegetable value chain by implementing innovative support mechanisms, as well as local sourcing and production of high-value goods for domestic, regional, and international markets. The Fruits and Vegetables initiative strengthens horticultural consortia and promotes more market-driven, geographically focused value chain initiatives in the fruits and vegetables sub-sectors. We help viable firms create agroforestry business prospects and access export markets by improving the enabling environment and ensuring compliance with export standards. We provide technical assistance in the form of business linkages and consortium creation, as well as returnable and standard funding.
Empower local farmers and agribusinesses to build resilient, sustainable food systems.
