Strengthening Inclusive Partnerships for smallholders in Rain-fed Areas (SIPRA), ZOA Lead agency

The SIPRA programme will bring about transformative change for smallholders. It will establish inclusive partnership modalities between organized producers with sustainable, climate-smart production and a motivated private sector with fair modalities for engaging with producers, focusing on empowered women and youth. Through strengthened agro-MSMEs sourced by large agri-businesses, investors and sellers’ reach will sustainably be linked to smallholder producers. An enabling business and policy environment will continually be fostered through advocacy and engagement with key stakeholders and knowledge institutions on systemic barriers impacting actors in the value chain. Driving the programme is the food systems approach and market-driven strategies which will select nutrition-sensitive value chains that are in sustainably high demand, and linked to state, national and possibly export markets. Population of targeted localities is 1.6 million, direct target group is 120,000 people (24,000 producer households).