African Agribusiness Supplier Development Programme

As part of its mandate, UNDP’s African Facility for Inclusive Markets (AFIM), has developed an African Agribusiness Supplier Development Programme (AASDP) in support of the AU and CAADP’s agriculture transformation and food security agenda. The objectives of the agricultural supplier development programme (ASDP) are three-fold: first, to improve the quantity and quality supply of agricultural products by farmers and SMEs to markets; second, to provide smallholder farmers and SMEs with support in accessing the growing agricultural supply chains of lead firms; third, to contribute to the development of national African economies by developing agricultural products that meet market quality standards.

African Agribusiness Supplier Development Programme Training Manual

This training manual complements the African Agribusiness Development Programme Toolkit and is to be used in introducing the African Supplier Development Program and its major elements and concepts to the relevant UNDP Country Office staff, relevant Government departments and agencies, lead firms and potential implementers. The manual contains a series of learning activities, helping learners to exchange and reflect on experiences and acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to develop and implement an ASDP. It follows the structure of the ASDP toolkit. For each phase, the training manual proposes a number of learning activities.