Tagline: Leveraging public-private partnerships
Champion: Shiferaw Tafesse
Team: CapDev Team, Small Ruminant Value Chain Development Team and LAF Program
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) have been defined as a collaborative venture between the public and private sectors built on the expertise of each partner that best meets clearly defined goals through the appropriate allocation of resources, risks and rewards (World Economic Forum, 2005).
PPPs may provide knowledge sharing, technical support, training or linkages to smallholder farmers and other actors in the value chain on top of financial support. PPPs emerged in follow-up to the 2002 United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), which emphasized the critical role of the private sector as a development partner, especially with regard to issues of capacity building, technology transfer and development financing, in tackling problems on a global scale and improving the living standards of the world’s poor.
As it is well known, smallholder farmers have very limited technical, financial and bargaining capacities among others. Even though, they are receiving various capacity developments supports from governmental institutions and NGOs, the existing capacity building services are not effective enough to help them develop the required capacity.
Developing PPPs is very crucial to enhance smallholder farmers’ capacity and income. It may enhance their capacities through various means including creating access to efficient animal health services, improved technologies, reliable market and other agricultural inputs. But it is imperative to figure out what PPP models and packages best fit to the context of the smallholder farmers to address their different challenges.
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