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PROGRAMME\nRef No: [TRADE Programme 2024/ 2025 Procurement Plan 1.1.1.6]\nSeptember 2024\nTerms of Reference (TOR)\nBACKGROUND OF TRADE PROGRAMME (see \u0013 HYPERLINK \"http://www.tradeprogramme.org\" \u0014www.tradeprogramme.org\u0015 for more details)\nTRADE Programme is a six-year Programme which was financed as a successor Programme of Rural Livelihoods and Economic Enhancement Programme (RLEEP). The Programme is being co-funded by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID). The goal of TRADE is to improve sustainable livelihoods of rural people in Malawi. The development objective is “Increased value chain commercialization and resilience of rural poor and smallholder producers”. The development objective is being achieved through a holistic approach to addressing the agriculture commercialization challenge (building on RLEEP and informed by IFAD’s Engagement in Pro-poor Value Chain Development). TRADE will seek to:\nIncrease production and productivity by smallholder farmers,\nFunctionally upgrade smallholder farmers and the rural poor to undertake new functions such as processing, storage, packaging to capture more value,\nImproving horizontal linkages by strengthening the capacities of cooperatives to provide market access functions to smallholder farmers\nImprove vertical linkages between stakeholders at different functional levels of the commodity chain, including private sector. TRADE is also supporting rural entrepreneurs, focusing on youths and women to develop and sustain their agribusiness enterprise opportunities and ensuring that commodities are nutrition sensitive.\nThe Programme aims to achieve its outcomes through the delivery of the following outputs:\nCreation of win-win partnerships between producers, private and public actors.\nEnhancement of business skills among smallholder farmers\nStrengthening Farmer Based Organizations\nLinking smallholder farmers to rural financial services\nEnhancing crop and livestock production skills among smallholder farmers.\nPromotion of climate smart agriculture technologies / practices\nIncreased policy Influencing capacity and formal business arrangements\nConstruction of Commodity support infrastructure.\nTRADE Programme’s investments are market driven, facilitation oriented and risk buy-off.  These approaches culminate into horizontal and vertical linkages of smallholders farmers to enhance their productivity and value chain upgrading efforts. These however require the presence of vibrant Farmer Business Organizations (FBOs) filled and managed by farmers with relevant agribusiness skills and orientation and capable of accelerating smallholder commercialization. It is on this basis that TRADE Programme intends to engage business coaches who will provide hands-on-ground agribusiness coaching and mentorship services to FBOs to address various agribusiness constraints in their respective FBOs in order to promote the commercialization of the target value chains.\nBackground to the business coaching assignment\nIn Malawi, 80% of farmers produce most of the food for domestic consumption and surplus for the market. Smallholder producers are facing challenges to commercialize their agriculture and effectively participate in input and output markets. There are a number of barriers affecting the performance of FBO which include the following:\nThese include low production and productivity,\nWeak and unsustainable partnerships with private sector,\nLack of business skills to operate as commercial enterprises,\nWeak FBO management skills which result in inability of FBOs to provide key services to their respective members such as access to inputs, finance and market opportunities,\nLow value addition efforts due to limited access to finance","cbCaigJSAG79u6Xe","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigJSAG79u6Xe","docx",119527,"English","# Background of TRADE Programme\n## Goals and expected outputs\n# Background to the business coaching assignment\n## Challenges limiting FBO commercialization\n## Focus areas of business coaching\n# Role of business coaches\n## Assessment and capacity enhancement\n## Change management and business planning","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the business coaching assignment for Chandumba Potato FBOs?\",\"answer\":\"To provide hands-on agribusiness coaching and mentorship that helps FBOs address agribusiness constraints and improve commercialization of the targeted value chain.\"},{\"question\":\"Which main challenges affecting FBO performance does the coaching address?\",\"answer\":\"Low production and productivity, weak private-sector partnerships, lack of business skills, weak FBO management and governance, and limited value addition due to poor access to finance and markets.\"},{\"question\":\"What activities will business coaches carry out with the FBOs?\",\"answer\":\"Coaches will assess willing FBOs, facilitate organizational assessment and capacity enhancement through handholding, support change management, develop or review business plans, and help build strategic business partnerships.\"}]","Ntchisi - Kasungu Cluster - Terms of Reference for Business Coaching Services for Chandumba Potato FBOs - September 2024 | DOCX",6]