Where We focus

Sectors

Agriculture and Food system

The global population will surpass 9 Billion by 2050, while agricultural production limited both by land and other factors will not meet the increasing food demand unless agricultural systems are improved. According to FAO, almost 690 million people in the world (8.9 percent of the world population) are estimated to have been undernourished in 2019.

Food systems (FS) encompass the entire range of actors and their interlinked value- adding activities involved in the production, aggregation, processing, distribution, consumption and disposal of food products that originate from agriculture, forestry or fisheries, and parts of the broader economic, societal and natural environments in which they are embedded.

In the context of rapid population growth, urbanization, growing wealth, changing consumption patterns, and globalization as well as climate change and the depletion of natural resources, adoption of food system’s approach is critical.

As part of initiatives to end global hunger, Filatec experts in Agriculture and food systems have significantly contributed to adoption and implementation of approaches, policies and transformative solutions across the eastern and southern African countries.

Our Value chain development services in the productive sectors of Agriculture, Livestock, and Fisheries Value Chain include:

Input system: Seed systems etc
Climate-smart agriculture
Skills Development for smallholder farmers: GAP training, Post-harvest management, financial inclusion etc
Sustainable land use management
Value addition/processing
Market system development

Sectors

Resilience Programming

Resilience can be defined as the ability of people, households, communities, countries, and systems to mitigate, adapt to, and recover from shocks and stresses in a manner that reduces chronic vulnerability and facilitates inclusive growth is critical.

Resilience building relies on integrated programming—across-sectoral approach with a long-term commitment to improving the three critical capacities: absorptive capacity (disaster risk management), adaptive capacity (longer-term livelihood investments), and transformative capacity (improved governance and enabling conditions).

Our integrated approach ensures that partners and sectors work together to address key leverage points and adopt complementary, synergistic strategies that will ultimately strengthen resilience at all levels.

Sectors

Climate Change &Environmental Sustainability

The links between climate change and sustainable development are strong. Poor and developing countries, mainly least developed countries, will be most adversely affected and least able to cope with anticipated social, economic, and natural shocks due to climate change.

We help organization adopt measures to mitigate the negative impact of climate change for producers in the productive sectors

Private sector development - Inclusive Economic Growth and Trade

In recent years, donors have encouraged the implementation of private sector development (PSD) initiative to support economic growth especially among the developing countries. Private Sector Development (PSD) covers a range of strategies aiming to establish markets that function vibrantly and fairly, providing economic opportunities of quality to poor people at scale. In line with OCED’s approaches for PSD, Filatec expertise help implement inclusive economic models that will create jobs, fuel income growth, and improve the quality of life.

Market systems development (MSD)

This approach aims for large-scale, sustainable impact by understanding how poor people interact with market systems, and how these systems can be changed to improve their lives. Depending on the market failures identified, MSD may tackle these by using various PSD tools, e.g. linking value chain actors, BDS or regulatory reform..

Private sector engagement (PSE)

We help in implementing PSE by engaging domestic or international private sector as partners in achieving development objectives – based on the basic principles of shared costs, risks and benefits. These may include engaging the financial sector to leverage private finance for development; and engaging with companies around their core business activities.

Green Growth

Greater environmental sustainability requires new products, new markets and new production methods. We support our client in investement in greening economies which has been seen to be a business opportunity, including in the developing world.

Industrial Policy

Industrial policy is broadly defined as government intervention to promote productivity- based growth through support to high-potential economic sectors including manufacturing, agricultural or services sectors. For example the adoption of the African union’s industrialization policies will enable member countries foster their productive sectors an area Filatec has supported in recent years.

Inclusive Business (IB)

Inclusive Business models integrate the poor, either as consumers or on the supply side as distributors, suppliers or employees. Various PSD approaches can be used to promote Inclusive Business models, e.g. IB-oriented business environment reform, value chain development, or partnerships to share the costs of risky investments.

Business Environment Reform (BER)

Inappropriate or excessive regulation and taxation, a lack of fair competition, and a lack of voice for the private sector can stifle business growth and increase poverty. Based on BE analyses to identify key constraints, we can partner with governments to design and implement reforms, or support the private sector in advocacy through Public-Private Dialogue.

Women’s Economic Empowerment

We support women economic empowerment initiatives across Africa the world through Gender-sensitive and WEE-focused PSD interventions which seeks to provide men and women with equal opportunities to contribute to, and benefit from growth.

Local Economic Development (LED) and Clusters

LED focuses on enhancing the economic prospects of a particular region or municipality. We support implementation of LED that combines business environment reform, value chain development, infrastructure development, innovation policy, planning and/or skills development. Additionally, our expertise assist in implementation of Cluster development which focuses on geographic agglomerations of inter- connected companies, services and institutions.

Green Growth

Climate change is real. We believe that the private sector is central to mitigating and adapting to climate change, reducing pollutants, and reversing the loss of biodiversity loss and water scarcity. Greater environmental sustainability requires new products, new markets and new production methods. We support our client in investement in greening economies which has been seen to be a business opportunity, including in the developing world..

Small Enterprise Development

Across Africa, MSEs and SMEs play acritical role in creating employment nd support economic growth. We support implementation of SME development.

Employment Creation

While employment creation in developing countries is high on the agenda of most donor agencies, there are different views on how to best to achieve it – ranging from strategies to support small business, large business, or high-growth enterprises; stimulating economic sectors that with great employment potential for the poor (e.g. agriculture, light manufacturing) or creating an enabling business environment.

Promoting Access to Finance

Access to finance is vitally important to private enterprises in the developing world. We support implementation of several initiative to accelerate access to finance among individuals, nosiness and communities Increasing opportunities for refugees 25 million people are currently asylum-seekers or refugees. Fostering their self-reliance and harnessing refugees’ economic contributions are now widely seen as a more sustainable and desirable solution than humanitarian assistance. Donors and host governments can facilitate this through a variety of PSD strategies.

Sectors

Knowledge Management and Anlytics

Our teams are trained to undertake independent evaluations/assessments of projects. Project monitoring is designed to examine whether the implementation of project(s) are either on track, or require corrections and improvements to achieve impact and assess after closeout the sustainability and how the project has contributed to the organizational objectives. An essential tool in enabling analysis of programme results, impacts, and outcomes, evaluation provides tangible opportunities for the donor community, the executing agency, and beneficiaries to reflect on the results and gauge best practices as a means of improvement and remediation.

Baseline evaluation studies

Mid-Line evaluation studies

End line evaluation studies

Impact evaluation studies

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