cassava project

1. The ENABLE TAAT Compact and
Opportunities for Agripreneurs
Paul L. Woomer
Agripreneur Technical Adviser

2. African Youth in Crisis
 364 million Africans between 15-
35 yr old, by 2045 this number
will double
 12-16 million youth enter job
market every year, most fail
 Youth become marginalized, many
attracted to dangerous lifestyles
 Solutions to Africa’s chronic
“jobless growth” are required
More youth must become job creators, rather than job
seekers, through agribusiness startup and growth.
Under-employed university graduates best situated to
achieve this!

3.  ENABLE TAAT is one of 15 Compacts
comprising the Technologies for African
Agricultural Transformation Program (TAAT)
 Funded by the African Development Bank
and led by the International Institute of
Tropical Agriculture ($2.38 M for 1 Year).
 Within TAAT there are nine Commodity Value
Chain Compacts and six Enablers Compacts.
 The purpose of the Value Chains is to
champion modern agriculture in Africa.
 Enablers offer them specialized services to
help them do so.

4. Two types of Compact arrangements within TAAT
address needs of modernizing agriculture …
Compact type Roles Targets
Value Chain
Compacts
(9)
Promote improved
agricultural
technologies through
collaborative
dissemination
campaigns
Food and nutritional
security, increased
income &
employment,
production increase,
technology adoption
Enabler
Compacts
(6)
Provide direct
backstopping support
to the Value Chain
Compacts & their
NARS partners
Extension training,
youth & gender
equity, policy
support, land & water
management, special
response (e.g. FAW)

5.  Self-sufficiency in rice (approved, $2.3 m)
 Cassava intensification (IITA leads, approved, $2.3 m)
 Sorghum and millet for Sahel’s Food Security (approved,
$2.1 m)
 Water efficient maize (IITA partners with AATF,
approved, $2.4 m)
 Advancing Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato (approved,
$2.2 m)
 Promoting High Iron Beans in Africa (approved, $2.3 m)
 Expanding wheat production in Africa (approved, $2.4 m)
 Increasing aquaculture (IYA is a partner, approved, $2.2
m)
 Improving small livestock production (under revision)
Nine Value Chain Compacts approved by the
PSC, IITA leads or partners in three of them …

6. Purpose: assist in the promotion of TAAT's key agricultural
technologies, operate technology and innovation centers for
young people and stimulate youth-led agribusiness start-up.
Objectives 1 and 2.
 Expand agribusiness opportunities. Realize
opportunities for agribusiness and employment
available to youth through TAAT's priority value
chains (agribusiness incubation and
completion)
 Provide agribusiness support. Provide
advocacy, ICT and agribusiness support
Services to over 5000 youth and link them to
the parallel efforts of other TAAT Compacts
(advocacy and communication).

7.  Improve human nutrition. Raise
awareness and access to improved
nutrition in rural areas through the
promotion of nutrient-fortified TAAT
commodities (food basket outreach).
 Advance youth empowerment
mechanisms. Develop project
coordination and management structure
that advances youth empowerment (IYA
coordination and management).
Purpose (continued). Objectives 3 and 4.

8. Resource Allocation
(of $2.38 million)
Coordination
& Services
Management
Youth
Advocacy
Agribusiness
Completion
“Quick Wins”
Food Basket
Outreach (3%)
12%
6%
24%
Agribusiness
Incubation
7%
49%
ENABLE TAAT
Resources

9. Agribusiness Completion is the Quick Win for 2018
 Agripreneurs encouraged to develop business
plans but …
 Headquarters slow to develop financing
 ENABLE TAAT provides start-up opportunities
 Our compacts promises 39 quick wins
 To date, business plan database & summaries
prepared, applications submitted
 Some conditions placed upon eligibility
 Youth Agricultural Parks becoming a factor
 Interaction between completion and new
incubation tasks

10. Value Chain Enterprises Countries Partners Investment Return B:C
bean 2 2 5 30,000 86,500 2.9
cassava 9 3 24 135,205 292,861 2.2
fish 11 3 26 166,518 393,412 2.4
grain 5 1 12 74,281 258,001 3.5
horticulture 6 2 11 95,435 264,157 2.8
livestock 3 2 6 44,821 70,548 1.6
maize 3 2 7 43,558 238,422 5.5
mechanization 1 1 3 14,386 14,617 1.0
sweet potato 1 1 1 21,727 50,186 2.3
poultry 6 3 16 143,661 374,017 2.6
sorghum 1 1 3 14,867 33,839 2.3
value addition 3 1 5 25,114 86,536 3.4
total (avg) 51 4 119 809,573 2,163,095 2.7
Agribusiness plans were submitted to the
workshop organizers and aligned with TAAT
value chains
We expect many of these to be funded!

11. bean
cassava
fish
grain
other VCs
livestock
sweet
potato
poultry
2%
14%
18%
14%
14%
5%
3%
15%
Reasonable but not perfect balance between submitted
business plans and the TAAT Value Chains. Coordinators will
be forced to make some adjustments.

12. Level of
participation
EYP
EYP
EYP
EYPEYP
EYP
EYP
EYP
FAO
WB
AID

13. ENABLE TAAT Services Included in Compact
Communication & ICTBusiness Planning
Advocacy Outreach Training/Mentoring
Product Development

14. This meeting’s task: Plan of work for ENABLE TAAT
Opening: Sets the stage (1)
Main Session:
Agribusiness
presentations (2,3,4a)
Workplan Session:
Strategy for HQ and
groups (2,3,4b)
Country and group-level
Activities (7)
Agribusiness pitches and
review by Ekimiks (5)
Implementation Plan finalized:
Advocacy, M&E, Outreach,
Incubation & Completion (8,10)
Agribusiness refinement (6a,9) Workplan refinement (6b)
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3

15. We are assembled to develop a solid implementation
plan that meets the needs of both TAAT and the
Agripreneur Movement
 We must advance quickly to qualify for funding in 2019
 Agripreneurs must move from group members to
independent entrepreneurs
 Groups must expand the scope of operations within the
Compact (Advocacy, Youth registration, Outreach)
 New incubations must fill TAAT Value Chain gaps (e.g.
HIB, OFSP, fattening, wheat)
 Within a week we must have a detailed Implementation
Plan
 Everyone must work hard to achieve this ambitious task,
familiarize yourselves with all workshop materials
 Enjoy yourselves and learn from one another