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Agripool - The next level With the shift of Agriterra's focus towards consultancy, an increased  demand for qualified experts from het Dutch supporting organisations and cooperatives is to be expected. In an earlier stage it was thought through how Agriterrra should develop its Agripool in order to anticipate this growth. 

Now it is time to put plans into practice and give a boost to the professionalization of the Agripool services and the extension of the Agripool network.

Alle activiteiten die te maken hebben  met het uitbreiden van het netwerk, het werven van kandidaten binnen deze netwerken, het matchen van kandidaten op adviesvragen, het verbeteren van de dienstverlening en efficiency bij uitzendingen en inkomende studietours, het verbeteren van de kwaliteiten van experts en het professionaliseren van communicatie-uitingen worden in dit project ondergebracht. 

Het is de bedoeling dat deze kosten aan het eind van het kalenderjaar naar rato van het aantal deelnemers zullen worden herbelast over alle uitgevoerde adviesopdrachten.

Professionalization of the Agripool services and the extension of the Agripool network.
Effective service provision for improved agricultural production and agribusiness Nyimba District Farmers Association was established in 200 with vision to have food secure and income secure households in the whole district through sustainable agriculture. NFDA has 1159 active members (46% women) and 1700 members in total. The members pay membership fees. NDFA is affiliated with ZNFU, and ZNFU runs national level programmes that are channelled through the NDFA to reach the members. Members are small/medium emerging farmers gradually producing for the market. Main commodities in the district are maize, groundnuts, sunflower, soya, sweet potatoes, cotton. 
BHAG: A financially self-sustaining organisation, able to cover its core costs in 2018 from membership fees; provide quality services to 3,000 members generated through agribusiness, focusing on improved crop production and productivity, improved marketing and a running a profitable agribusiness.
Through effective service provision using lead farmers this BHAG will be achieved. Support is needed in governance,  financial management, services provision and business development

A financially self-sustaining organisation, able to cover its core costs in 2018 from membership fees; provide quality services to 3,000 members generated through agribusiness, focusing on improved crop production and productivity, improved marketing and a running a profitable agribusiness.
Through effective service provision using lead farmers this BHAG will be achieved. Support is needed in governance, financial management, services provision and business development. As another donor supports the agribusiness component, Agriterra will not intervene in this implementation but will support in the marekting aspects.

A financially self-sustaining organisation, able to cover its core costs in 2018 from membership fees; provide quality services to 3,000 members generated through agribusiness, focusing on improved crop production and productivity, improved marketing and a running a profitable agribusiness.Through effective service provision using lead farmers this BHAG will be achieved. Support is needed in governance, financial management, services provision and business development. As another donor supports the agribusiness component, Agriterra will not intervene in this implementation but will support in the marekting aspects.
Steering towards break-even of the processing factory Tulaga Dairy Famers Cooperative is a Farmer Cooperatived Fully owned and led by farmers. Due to the challenges that the organization has been facing in milk marketing especially during the glut season, the Cooperative decided to venture into value addition-pasteurization of milk. Tulaga has a goal to produce, pasteurize and market 20.000 liters in five years. In order to realize this goal, Tulaga FC applied for a loan facility and procured a milk pasteurizing line which is yet to be installed. The partnership between Agriterra and Tulaga this year will therefore focus on supporting the cooperative in preparation and eventual initiation of processingwith a view that the processing facility runs efficiently and reaching break even point. The target for the year is to process and market atleast 6.000 liters of milk per day by the end of 2018.

          
   Project   Activities
       Production
   Develop   a Business Plan on how to utilize the capacity of the processing facility   operationally and ensure break even by end of the year
       Business
   Hire   a Productions Manager in Readiness for the processing
       Production
   Undertake   renovation for the Factory building in readiness for the plant
       Business
   Installation   of the processing plant
       Business
   Conduct   a Stakeholders meeting for all the dairy buyers for their milk
       Organisational Development
   Development   of HR Manual
       Organisational Development
   Staff   training on production
       Production
   Implemetation   of the Extension Plan Recommendations-training on ToT?(by SARAH)
  

The target for the year is to process and market atleast 6.000 liters of milk per day by the end of 2018.
Increase in Milk production per ltr per cow Chepkorio Dairy Ltd. was started on June 15, 2009 as a self-help group and later on upgraded to a Limited Liability Company on November 25, 2009. In 2013 the company has changed from a private to a public company. The company draws its memberships from the whole division comprising of seven locations; Kitany, Kaptarakwa, Mosop, Marichor East, Marichor West, Nyaru and Kabiemit. Currently Chepkorio Dairy Ltd. has 1,755 registered members of whom 1,133 are shareholders organized around 70 Dairy Management Groups (DMG) supplying an average of 15000L per day as at 2016. 
Chepkorio Dairy Ltd. has three collection centers. The offices and main collection center are located at Chepkorio (capacity 11,000 liters) and two satellite collection centers are located at Kabiemit (capacity 5,000 liters) and Kaptarakwa (capacity 5,000 liters). 

For the company to realistically realize its ambitions, it has to double the milk they receive from the farmers. They currently receive 15000L per day on average and it is advised that they need to grow this to at least 30000L per day before they start. 
  
After analysis of their current situation in terms of milk production and potential, finance, marketing and organizational capacity, the company has been advised to work towards their ambitions in two phases: Phase I: More milk/cow and more share capital and Phase 11: Focus on more kes/ltr to the farmer


see AP attached

Increase milk volumes from 15,000L/d to 20,000L/d
. Increase paying members by 20% at end of 2017
Business development - Ethiopia Agriterra professionalises ambitious farmer cooperatives and organisations worldwide.
  
Agriterra believes in farmer ownership to fight poverty and stimulates social-economic strong and vibrant rural areas. Cooperative expertise and peer-to-peer advice from the Dutch agri & food top sector are key principles; advice, training and exchange the key methodologies.
  
Agriterra developed a range of practical training products for cooperatives and agricultural organisations in developing countries.
  
Under this project, trainings on business development are covered. Agriterra developed several products and trainings on this topic:
  
•       Training of trainers My.COOP
  
•       Marketing basics training
  
•       Financial sustainable services
  
•       Value Creator

Professional farmer cooperatives and organisations, bankable cooperatives who are resulting in profitability, solvency and higher incomes for members.

Professional farmer cooperatives and organisations, bankable cooperatives who are resulting in profitability, solvency and higher incomes for members.
Estudios de niveles de descarte y factibilidad de un nuevo producto Este proyecto corporativo denominado ”Mejorar Gestión, Gobernanza y Eficiencia” surge por la necesidad de implementar las recomendaciones del chequeo de la salud financiera y auditorias externas realizadas por la Fundación Agriterra, a través de la contratación de expertos contables, financieros y administrativos, con el fin de mejorar la gobernabilidad y el compromiso de los socios para llevar adelante el desarrollo empresarial de la cooperativa.

             SN
   Tema
   Acción
   Resultados esperados
        
    
   Actividades   del proyecto
    
       P.1
   Governance
   Capacitación   y motivacion de directivos y socios en temas cooperativos y trabajo en   equipo.
   Al   menos 70 miembros entre directivos y socios capacitados.
       P.2
   Production
   Estudio   de niveles de descarte por sectores e identificación y cuantificación de las   causas de pérdidas desde el belloteo hasta la cosecha.
   Informe   elaborado y presentado al Consejo de Administración.
       P.3
   Governance
   Estudio   de factibilidad para utilización y negociación optima del banano descarte a   nivel de la cooperativa que incluye un estudio de mercado e identificación de   clientes y sus requerimientos.
   Informe   elaborado y presentado al Consejo de Administracion.
       P.4
   Governance
   Acompañamiento   y capacitación del Consejo de Vigilancia para la evaluación técnica de   registros financieros y cumplimiento de procedimientos administrativos.
   4   miembros capacitados en procedimientos contables y administrativos y tareas   de control interno (arqueo de caja, control de inventaros etc.)
       P.5
   Governance
   Elaboración   del reglamento del Comité de Jóvenes.
   Un   comite de jovenes creado y funcionando
       P.6
   Business
   Participación   en feria internacional con la intención de diversificar cartera de clientes.
   Conseguir   por lo menos 1 nuevo cliente para 20 contenedores
  

Realizar diversos estudios relacionados con el Banano de descarte y analizar la factibilidad de incluirlo como un nuevo producto dentro del negocio.
Improved financial services to farmers (2) 2015 will be third year of partnership between Wakulima SACCO and Agriterra. In 2016, more focus will be on improving the core business of Wakulima SACCO. In last quarter of 2015, a workshop on Capitalisation issues & benchmarking KPI's was conducted. Further monitoring will be based on the newly developed dashboard.

Activities planned in action plan 2016:

-Analyse and reschedule the current loan products-Member education days per region- Training of staff on customer care, credit management.-Implement Performance management for staff: set targets for staff and regularly monitoringReview and SP (Agriterra to be involved)-Implementing the dashboard key performance indicators-Monthly cash flow projections and compare with actuals-FM training to staff-Conduct member meetings together with the dairy cooperative and create awareness on the dairy products-Develop Promotional plan for mobile banking - Mission on marketing: member needs and loan products- Benchmarking event for mobile banking marketing activities- Training of the BOD on Governance

Improve financial services to dairy farmers, among others mobile banking.
Dairy Development Program FrieslandCampina - Deployment of dairy farming experts The world’s largest dairy cooperative, FrieslandCampina, wants to share its more than 130 years of knowledge and experience to increase the profitability of farms in its working area and to create shared value for the farmers and the company. The Dairy Development Program was implemented for external and internal reasons. External reasons are: pressure from governments to increase local supply, changing 
consumer preferences, increased competition and the route 2020 CSR policy, which calls for greater local involvement. Internal reasons are: compliance with FrieslandCampina quality standards, which calls for significant quality improvement. 

One element of the Dairy Development Program is the Farmer2Farmer project. A group of 15 Dutch dairy farmers have been selected for the project, to train and advise dairy farmers in Asia (Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand) on aspects of dairy farming, such as feeding and watering, calf-rearing, milking hygiene and practice, milking machine maintenance, hoof care and housing & barn design. The main goal of the Farmer 2 Farmer program is to improve milk quality and increase milk production on farms in the Asian countries. This project is one element of the Agriterra - Royal FrieslandCampina partnership.

This program will be extended with one more year until December 2014. 
Following the same Farmer2Farmer concept 3 advisory missions will be realized: 1 mission to Vietnam, 2 follow-up missions to Indonesia and Malaysia and 1 additional advisory mission on corn silage making to Vietnam. Furthermore a new call for candidates will take place to recruit and train a minimum of 5 new farmer advisors.

Dit project is onderdeel van de samenwerkingsovereenkomst tussen FrieslandCampina en Agriterra en omvat alle activiteiten voor werving, selectie en uitzending van leden melkveehouders van FrieslandCampina voor training en advisering van collega melkveehouders in Indonesie, Vietnam, Thailand, Maleisie en Nigeria.

The Farmer2Farmer program aims to train and advise dairy farmers in Asia (Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand) on aspects of dairy farming, such as feeding and watering, calf-rearing, milking hygiene and practice, milking machine maintenance, hoof care and housing & barn design. The main goal of the Farmer 2 Farmer program is to improve milk quality and increase milk production on farms in the Asian countries.
Sustainable service provision t0 poultry farmers a

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2017 goal: Run a pilot on cooperative output marketing of potatoes with 150 members. 

Long term goal:
Agriterra and Bajrabahari have the ambition that by the end of 2019, SFACL Bajrabarahi runs a profitable potato business on behalf of its members.
Latin America - Financial management of cooperatives and farmers' organisations Este proyecto se dirige a las actividades de fortalecimiento de la gestión financiera de las cooperativas y organizaciones y de sus directivos y personal en Perú y Bolivia. Se realizarán entrenamientos en gestión administrativa y financiera basica para cooperativas/organizaciones, gestion estrategica financiera avanzada para todamores de decision y formación a consejos de fiscalización.
Cinco facilitadores en la metologia basica son formados en Peru y  Bolivia.



Fortalecer la gestión financiera de las cooperativas y organizaciones y de sus directivos y personal en Perú y Bolivia
promotion center for cooperatives and enterprises null

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Pilot crowdfunding
Building up fundamentals for sound governance Ruihuang Cooperative is set up in a lean and mean manner. The tasks to be carried out by the cooperative are more limited compared to traditional cooperatives. The field work and marketing and sales is outsourced to other parties (subcontractors). The subcontractors are under the policies and directives of the cooperative, however the work to be carried out is planned through transparency and by mutual understanding. The subcontractors are highly involved because they have to serve the cooperative as well as themselves. The village committee has made a long-term development plan for Tianxing village. The overall vision is to develop the village into a green and sustainable community, combined with high value activities such as agro-tourism and horticulture. The cooperative and the subcontracted companies are the main executor of this plan. With the proposed project, Agriterra aims to validate its business planning and strategy, on the other hand improving the financial transparency.

Proejct Plan 2017: It is planned to support Ruihuang with a package combined of peer-to-peer advice and specialized training. The two main components are business operation and value chain analysis, governance and financial sustainability. The proposed project starts with a feasibility study of flower business, which the cooperative want to focus on in the future. Through a feasibility study, hopefully a sound business plan could be established thereafter. Business planning will be guided by Agriterra as well. Followed by Financial management training, to rise the awareness of financial management's importance. National Business Adviser will be responsible for action follow up and project monitoring. 
Project Plan 2018: Agriterra will support Ruihuang Cooperative on shaping their strategy. Strategic plan workshop is necessary at this phase. Thereafter, it is about implementation. Agriterra will facilitate the implementation process by capacity building trainings. 

The goals of the proposed project (2017) is to support the young cooperative to clearly define its business strategy within the long-term development plan of the village and improving the financial transparency with the subcontracted companies.  . For the year of 2018, the focus of Agriterra's advice is on governance improvement. As a young cooperative, the board has limited governance and managerial knowledge on cooperative. With continuous advice from Agriterra, he board gradually reconsigned the importance of sound governance. Agriterra will be a key advisor to support the cooperative on building up sound governance, with strong structure and competences in place.
Dairy Development Program FrieslandCampina: Farmer2Farmer project The world’s largest dairy cooperative, FrieslandCampina, wants to share its more than 130 years of knowledge and experience to increase the profitability of farms in its working area and to create shared value for the farmers and the company. The Dairy Development Program is part of the CSR house and has been implemented for external and internal reasons. External reasons are: pressure from governments to increase local supply, changing consumer preferences, increased competition and the route 2020 CSR policy, which calls for greater local involvement. Internal reasons are: compliance with FrieslandCampina quality standards, which calls for significant quality improvement. 
One element of the Dairy Development Program is the Farmer2Farmer project. A pool of 15 Dutch dairy farmers have been selected, trained and certified for the project, to train and advise dairy farmers in Asia (Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand) on aspects of dairy farming, such as feeding and watering, calf-rearing, milking hygiene and practice, milking machine maintenance, hoof care and housing & barn design. The main goal of the Farmer 2 Farmer program is to improve milk quality and increase milk production on farms in the Asian countries. This project is one element of the Agriterra - Royal FrieslandCampina partnership.



The Farmer2Farmer program aims to train and advise dairy farmers in Asia (Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand) and possibly Africa on aspects of dairy farming, such as feeding and watering, calf-rearing, milking hygiene and practice, milking machine maintenance, hoof care and housing & barn design. The main goal of the Farmer 2 Farmer program is to improve milk quality and increase milk production on farms in the Asian countries.
Agro-info, the organisation platform and project information Agro-info.net is initiated by Agriterra (Netherlands) with the intent to create a ‘centre of excellence’ for and about producer organisations throughout the world. Agro-info serves as the platform that enables an exchange of information that will contribute to the strengthening of producer organisations.

Agro-info.net is the meeting point for many producer organisations, experts, activities and projects in the field of agricultural development. 
An extensive network of farmers, women and young farmers and cooperatives in the Netherlands as well as Latin America, Africa, Asia and international federations are part of Agro-info.net. Information about organisations, projects, events, exchange visits and news can be followed through agro-info.net.
 

Approach
The agri-agencies united under AgriCord aim at connecting the knowledge of farmers in the developed countries to the needs of farmers in developing countries. They stimulate, support and finance international cooperation worldwide. Agro-info.net is utilized as central point of information. The website contains information for all parties involved and those interested about projects in execution, developments within projects, budget, results and interesting documents. 
On the one hand Agro-info.net functions as a management information-system, but also improves transparency. Donors and those interested have direct access to everything that is going on, how it is done and how it is going. This clarity towards the outside world is one of the principles of the agri-agencies.

This is an institutional project. A working group exists in which proposals regarding further development of Agro-info.net are discussed. The working group takes decisions regarding execution of proposals, or makes suggestions towards the Management if a proposal has consequences for the whole of Agriterra and the agri-agencies.
Through the working group further development of Agro-info.net is coordinated and synchronised between the agri-agencies and the departments within agri-agencies. 

Agro-info will be a platform with a broad scope for POs. Within the project more elements have to be developed to build Agro-info.net into and information tool for POs. 
For example: 
- Capitalise experiences of POs in cooperation with Inter-reseaux
- Intergrate discussion groups (per Work Area) about contents with stakeholders
- Develop and build website functionality for POs: more flexible and extended.
- Summarize projects information and financial support per back donor and per agri-agency

Doelstelling is de verbetering van de kwekerij van cacao- en fruitbomen door bescherming en enten voor de boeren (leden) van APPTA een lokale vereniging in Costa Rica (http://www.appta.org)
Sustainable and diversified service provision to members BHAG: Seyemti Adiabo Union is the best on Dairy and Fattening Agro-processing demonstration site in Ethiopia. Seyemti Adiabo Union is located approximately 30 km west of Shire city on the road towards the Eritrea border. The union was initially formed to provide inputs (mainly fertilizer) to its member PCs. However about 3 years ago the union has also started with output marketing in reaction to demands from mainly the individual farmers that were complaining about good markets for their produce. The union has a strong ambition to upscale the output marketing activities and become active in various forms of agro-processing to add value to the member’s produce and develop a more sustainable source of income for the union. Furthermore, as the area is very suitable for cattle, the union would also like to invest in animal fattening. Most farmers of the member PCs of the union are involved in the production of either maize, sesame, or cattle or a combination of those. The area is also suitable for irrigation farming of mainly tomato. The unions fixed assets consist of a warehouse for 3000 quintals of produce, a large compound with office, and 1 Isuzu truck. The union has recently also bought a mobile trashing machine to provide maize trashing service to the PCs. The union is rather liquid at this moment, it has investment capital available of around 6.4 million Birr.  

The main objectives of 2018 AP focused on:
1. Digitalizing the financial management system of the union and adopt good financial management in 22 PCs  2. Backstopping the union to engage in agro processing of Dairy and fattening project3.  Boosting output marketing of the union via improving the communication of union and primary coops

Seyemti Adiabo Union is the best Dairy and Fattening Agro-processing demonstration site in Ethiopia.