Everyone deserves the opportunity to build a better future. This simple idea has been at the heart of TechnoServe’s work around the world for over 50 years. TechnoServe is a pioneer in leveraging the power of business and markets to create sustainable pathways out of poverty.
The low-income communities in which we work are full of enterprising people. Their small-scale farms and businesses are the keys to economic development. But they face many challenges: low literacy, lack of access to jobs and markets, unpredictable political dynamics and, increasingly, the effects of climate change. For many women and young people, the challenges are even more daunting. Working with TechnoServe staff, people around the world are lifting themselves out of poverty. The results are amazing...when incomes increase and living conditions for families get better, they are able to access health care and education previously out of reach. Communities and even whole countries are better off.
TechnoServe collaborates with Partners in Food Solutions (PFS), a non-profit organization that aggregates and links the corporate volunteer expertise of leading food companies - General Mills, Cargill, Buhler, DSM, Hershey, Ardent Mills and Smucker’s - with promising food industry entrepreneurs in Africa.
Under the USAID-funded Alliance for Inclusive and Nutritious Food Project, TechnoServe works alongside PFS to engage local food companies, identify their growth challenges, and link them with volunteer experts from PFS corporate partners. The project will build the efficiency and inclusiveness of food processors, improving production and profitability, increasing linkages with smallholder farmers, and growing distribution channels to better reach Base of the Pyramid (BoP) markets. The project is anticipated to run until March 2024.
The Market Linkage and Financial Service Specialist will facilitate upstream and downstream relationships for processors of nutritious foods, toward creating a more inclusive sector. Specifically, s/he will be the driving force behind assisting selected project-supported food processors in four key areas:
Specific Responsibilities Include:
Smallholder Supply Chains:
Low Income / Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) Markets:
High End Market:
Financial linkage:
In collaboration with ISF A2F Manager:
Establish and run the AINFP innovation grant; Serve as the local principal to support ISF to liaison between AINFP and food processors as well as financial institutions, including banks, micro-finance institutions, impact investors, and other financial service providers
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