HEAD MINISTER  - KRZYSZTOF KONONOWICZ, 

•  Gmina Białystok
•  Powiat Białystok
•  Województwo podlaskie

PROGRAMME STRATEGIES AND APPROACHES

GASIP is built along four (4) strategic axis:

• Linking smallholder farmers to agribusinesses to enhance pro-poor growth.
• Nationwide scaling up of a successful value chain investment approach.
• Promoting and mainstreaming climate change resilience approaches in Ghana, in particular in the northern regions, financed through the Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme (ASAP).
• Knowledge management, harmonization of intervention approaches and policy support The programme adopts the demand and market driven approach. It will use the achievements of NRGP and RTIMP as starting point. Tools for a sector wide approach will be developed. Harmonized tools for value chain development as well as climate change vulnerability analysis will be used. A mechanism for financing value chain infrastructure at District level in line with decentralization will be institutionalized. A matching grant mechanism to leverage investments in equipment will be institutionalized and an initiative fund to support innovations in value chains will be set up.

The various strategies will be anchored on the following principles:

• Access to programme benefits will be based on clear eligibility criteria and opportunities for viable value chain ventures.
• Resources will be allocated to areas of most need with selection criteria being outlined for each component.
• Interventions must be participatory and demand driven.
• There will be wide publicity and information dissemination on activities, procedures and selection criteria.

The processes to access programme activities must be participatory involving communities, MMDAs, PFI, VCF, VCC and other stakeholders

The objective of the programme is to contribute to sustainable poverty reduction in rural Ghana, ensuring that agribusinesses including smallholders increase their profitability and resilience to climate change. The programme is national in scope. The implementation follows a demand and market-driven approach that will provide a basis for scaling up investments in pro-poor agricultural value chain development led by the private sector.

GASIP will competitively evaluate agribusiness development proposals from value chain cluster drivers (private sector, government, civil society, research, Farmer-Based Organizations, etc.) that show promise to positively impact on smallholder farmers and ultimately on Ghana’s economy.

The strategic focus of GASIP is on smallholder farmers, to make them more competitive by increasing their capacity to respond to market demands in terms of quality, price, time and volume thus contributing to Ghana’s agriculture objectives.