Projects

Consultancy Services for Agribusiness and Marketing Project

01.12.2002 - 30.09.2003

Kyrgyzstan

Overall project value (EUR)	400000 Euro (500000 USD)
No. of staff provided	6
Name of Client	Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources (MAWR)
Financing agency	World Bank (WB)
Name of partners
Detailed Narrative Description of Project	The overall objective of the project was to enhance the efficiency of agricultural production, processing and marketing to increase income and employment of the population in the Kyrgyz Republic. The direct project objective of the consultancy services was to provide inputs for the preparation of the Agribusiness and Marketing Project document to be formulated by the Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Industrial Processing (MAWRIP).
Detailed Narrative Description of Services provided	Key consutling services were: - Analysis of the operation of internal markets; - supply chains from farm-gate to final consumer, including the operation of assembly and wholesale markets, transportation, storage, and the availability of market information. - Analysis of export market opportunities for agricultural, food and fiber commodities. - Review of the relevant legal and regulatory environment and identification of specific interventions. Analysis of the prospects for fostering development of agricultural marketing cooperatives. Identification of reforms in the agricultural research system, which could contribute to improved marketing of agricultural and food commodities. - Assessment of competitiveness of key commodities and growth potentials, including review of supply chain linkages and product quality. - Assessment of the availability of investment finance. - Primary input in the design of the stakeholder survey etc.