Making Value Chains Work Better for the Poor

Publication: Making Value Chains Work Better for the Poor

A toolbook for practitioners of Value Chain Analysis

The toolbook is designed as a concise document aimed to provide value chain practitioners with an easy to follow set of tools for value chain analysis, focused on poverty reduction.

Whilst there are a number of handbooks on Value Chain analysis already in existence, the aim of this toolbook is to bridge the gap between value chain analysis and pro-poor development. Hence the tools that are presented here are similar to those presented in other handbooks, but the main special feature of the toolbook is that within each of the tools there is a clear focus on how to apply the tool in order to analyze the impact of the value chain from the point of view of the poor.

The toolbook is organized in 2 main sections. The first section gives a theoretic background to value chains and also explains the pro-poor entry points for Value Chain analysis described in this toolbook.

The second section contains a set of 8 value chain analysis tools, the first four of which are considered to be “Core Tools” that should be undertaken to form a minimum pro-poor value chain analysis. The next 4 tools are” advanced tools” which can be undertaken in order to provide a more comprehensive picture of some pro-poor dimensions of the value chain.

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