Empowering Sustainable Agribusiness through Inclusive Value Chains and Youth Employment
2018- 2021
The Netherlands Development Organization (SNV) has partnered with TAPBDS to drive sustainable agricultural and business development in Tanzania. Through initiatives focusing on the sunflower value chain and youth employment in renewable energy and agribusiness, these projects aim to enhance economic opportunities, improve market access, and foster inclusive growth. The following highlights detail TAPBDS’s critical role in implementing these transformative projects.
Inclusive Business in Sunflower Value Chain
Sept 2020- June 2023
TAPBDS was engaged to Provide Business Management Training, Access to Finance and Access to seeds and other inputs farm organizations, processors and women and youth sunflower oil retailers in Mbeya,Songwe,Katavi and Rukwa Regions. In total 200 women local sunflower processors were trained, 40 SMES- members of Mbeya Sunflower Processors Association (MBESOPA), 2 Offtakers and 10,500SHFs and 18 FOs signed market guarantee contracts. 21 SMEs (Processors) were supported to access working and investment capital of about $413,793 from 3 CRDB,NMB & TCB. Similar interventions was implemented in Songwe and Rukwa with focus on the beans value chain.
TAPBDS was engaged to Provide Business Management Training, Access to Finance and Access to seeds and other inputs farm organizations, processors and women and youth sunflower oil retailers in Mbeya,Songwe,Katavi and Rukwa Regions. In total 200 women local sunflower processors were trained, 40 SMES- members of Mbeya Sunflower Processors Association (MBESOPA), 2 Offtakers and 10,500SHFs and 18 FOs signed market guarantee contracts. 21 SMEs (Processors) were supported to access working and investment capital of about $413,793 from 3 CRDB,NMB & TCB. Similar interventions was implemented in Songwe and Rukwa with focus on the beans value chain.
Opportunities for Youth Employment (OYE), The SNV, Netherlands, Tanzania in 2014/15 (Renewable energy and Agribusiness)
September 2014 – March 2015
This was the intervention focused on developing a training curriculum for youth and women engaged in renewable energy and agribusiness. TAPBDS was engaged to develop the curriculum, train youth on business management, business plans and upgrade their life skills for creating sustainable businesses and increase the number of decent jobs and employability. The project was conducted in Tanga, Mbeya, Arusha, Moshi, Kisarawe and Manyara regions of Tanzania. More than 188 youth and women were trained by TAPBDS.
This was the intervention focused on developing a training curriculum for youth and women engaged in renewable energy and agribusiness. TAPBDS was engaged to develop the curriculum, train youth on business management, business plans and upgrade their life skills for creating sustainable businesses and increase the number of decent jobs and employability. The project was conducted in Tanga, Mbeya, Arusha, Moshi, Kisarawe and Manyara regions of Tanzania. More than 188 youth and women were trained by TAPBDS.