USAID Tanzania Kilimo Tija (TZ Hort) project, seeks to increase economic opportunities in horticulture market systems, especially for youth by strengthening the organization of horticulture market systems to increase enterprise and employment opportunities; increasing access to commercially provided and productivity-enhancing agricultural technologies; and strengthening the enabling environment for market systems development. The project’s Zone of Influence (ZOI) are the regions of Morogoro, Iringa, Mbeya, Njombe, and Zanzibara and also targets market sheds outside of the ZOI including Dar es Salaam, Songwe, and Arusha. The project uses a market systems approach (MSD) with a heavy emphasis on changing behaviors to promote greater transparency, perceptions of fairness, and trust. DevPact was commissioned by DAI to prioritize and conduct detailed analyses of five horticulture and spice value chains in Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Mbeya and Morogoro with the objective of understanding the structure, scale, and dynamics of the value chains in order to design market-based interventions to improve the commercialization, inclusiveness, and competitiveness of those value chains. In addition to delivering the analyses, DevPact developed a case study per value chain recommending how the project could potentially engage with specific stakeholders/market system actors in the ZOIs to increase economic opportunities in horticulture market systems, especially for youth.

Partner: DAI

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