COVID-19-Best-Practices-in-Private-Sector-Development-(PSD)

COVID-19 Best Practices in Private Sector Development (PSD)

Covid-19 also challenges projects on private sector development. The cases below illustrate some of the emerging best practice examples of the Covid-19 response by SDC projects.

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The Alliances Caucasus Programme (ALCP) studied the effects of COVID-19 on ALCP client businesses in the dairy, meat, honey, wool and agricultural input sectors from March 18th to September 18th, 2020. This report is an amalgam of the findings of monthly reports shared by the program on the effects of COVID-19 on farmers, businesses and wider sectoral effects, as well as the results of a questionnaire, which amongst other things asked businesses to compare their business health now and pre pandemic. The main research questions focused on the effects of the COVID-19 restrictions on all aspects of business, to ascertain how businesses are coping and what additional support businesses now need in light of the ongoing crisis. The findings of this report will be used to adjust the course of ongoing interventions, develop risk mitigation strategies and provide input to the donor on development strategies for the near future.

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The Innovations for Agribusiness (InovAgro) project has worked to support relationships between market actors in Northern Mozambique since 2011. The project leads initiatives to develop stronger, more inclusive, commercially driven and competitive market systems for agricultural input supply, output marketing, agri-services and financial services. Covid-19 restrictions changed the ways businesses and farmers in Mozambique must operate. Learn more about how Inovagro and the related Farmers Resilience and Rebuilding Initiative have responded to these new challenges under Covid-19.

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The Opportunities through Technologies and Innovation (OPTIM) Project aims to stimulate Moldova’s market systems and to generate better economic opportunities for women and men, particularly among excluded groups. OPTIM has selected two sectors, namely the information and communication technology (ICT) and the agri-food sector. In the full project description you will find out how the project has turned Covid-19 challenges into opportunities by supporting innovative solutions in the ICT and agri-food sectors and what initial experiences and lessons were learnt.

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