FIPA Agribusiness development and capacity building strategy focus on improving youth and vulnerable women mainly farmers and entreprenuers’ employability in the agribusiness subsector through skills development to respond to the demands of the local and international labour market. Our goal for Revolutionizing Skills Development in hard to reach rural and urban poor with a focus on youth and marginalised women as well as profit returns to sustain and expand our operations and mission.
Our plan is to contribute to the following Sustainable Development Goals: #1 No Poverty, #2 Zero Hunger, #5 Gender Equality, #7 Affordable and Clean Energy, #8 Decent Work and Economic Growth, #13 Climate Action.
“We want to tackle youth employment with this project by empowering them to employ themselves. We provide financial education, financial resources, skills and information on how to fish so that they can save, borrow and invest.
Our main focus is on Maize and Vegetable value chains as well as White Meat Value Chains
Make Profit, re-invest profit into social entreprises to create and improve opportunities to accelerate youth and women to start their own business.
The Business Apprentice program in our selected villages. It runs for 5 -10 weeks equipping and coaching youth to run an agribusiness and the profit accrued enables youth to graduate with a startup pack. A group of 6 youth are incubated from a Village and they later form groups that are value chain linked. The Youth Agriprenuer Feeder, Youth Agriprenuer Producer, Youth Agriprenuer Marketer, Youth Agriprenuer Transporter, Youth Agriprenuer vendor and youth Agriprenuer Health Promoter.
Adopt a Village Entreprenuership Learning Association (VELA) – gives an opportunity to anyone in the world to support 6 value chain linked youth from a VELA of their choice to be incubated. The youth and women are trained at a fee in white meat value chain, vegatable and maize value chain
Value addition; incubation makes available value addition equipment for shared use to develop their minimum viable products ready for the market. VELA incubation takes incubation close to the youth at the village and at a minimum cost.