PAPAB+ Since early 2020 IFDC has been running a Dutch-funded project following PAPAB  called PAPAB+. PAPAB+ builds on the experiences of PAPAB and aims to support agricultural development in connection with food and nutrition security. The project will increase the resilience of vulnerable rural populations  as well as improving incomes through market linkages and private sector agribusiness development.
The PAPAB+ approach is driven by demand from the market through agricultural value chains. This can be through an aggregator  processor or through a larger commercial farmer who starts operating as a nucleus farmer where the small holder farmers will start operating as outgrowers. This can also involve cooperative enterprise initiatives in aggregation  processing and/or marketing.
PAPAB+ has identified formal value chains (white sorghum  patchouli  sunflower  passion fruit) and semi-formal to informal value chains (milk  amaranth and spinach  chicken and eggs  tree tomato  orange). The formal (or commercial) value chains are characterised by a higher level of organisation and institutionalisation requiring larger investments in processing and generally not directly usable for human consumption. Semi-formal and informal value chains are less organised  require less processing and in general are directly consumable without much processing requirements. The value chains are not fixed but have been selected as initial value chains based on their potential for linking the market to the farmers.
One of the result areas of PAPAB+ is the strengthening of farmer organisations and cooperatives and IFDC has requested Agriterra Burundi to present a technical and financial offer for its cooperative development services to become a part of the project. With this document Agriterra Burundi presents the technical and financial proposal for the scoping of 12 cooperatives  to be done in the final months of 2020. Based on the scoping reports  IFDC and Agriterra will be able to refine the cooperative development aspect of PAPAB+ in 2021. Agriterra is expected to complete the following deliverables:• Scoping tool shared with IFDC/PAPAB+ for analysis and validation• 12 cooperatives scoped;• 12 scoping reports shared with IFDC PAPAB+ The Dutch foundation Stichting Agriterra  registered under Dutch law  is the contractual partner of IFDC regarding scoping cooperatives. Agriterra’s daughter organisation in Burundi will be responsible this activity. The current size of the team  with 3 business advisors based in Bujumbura will suffice to successfully and efficiently implement the activities foreseen under this proposal and will be supported by an international business advisor and a finance and administration officer.Agriterra will undertake 12 cooperative quick scans (scopings) in November 2020. Prior to the actual scoping field work Agriterra will share the scoping tool with IFDC/PAPAB+ and organize a meeting to identify eventual additional information which should be gathered during the scoping of cooperatives. The cooperatives to be scoped have been selected out of the database of the PAPAB project  comprising of 40 cooperatives. Agriterra has found 18 of these cooperatives sufficiently promising to be considered for its cooperative development approach and expects that it can scope 12 of these 18 cooperatives.
The 12 quick scans will result in 12 scoping reports which will be shared with IFDC in the assignment report at the end of the action. Agriterra will collect all relevant legal and financial documents of the cooperatives for its own administration.