Indonesia – SUCCESS Alliance

Improving quality of business and technical services for Indonesian Farmers

ACDI/VOCA’s USDA-funded 416(B) SUCCESS Alliance–Business Service Provider (BSP) Capacity Building Project will increase access to and improve the quality of business and technical services available to cocoa farmers and their organizations’ local business service providers primarily in four provinces in Sulawesi, Indonesia. The project builds upon the technical training and cocoa farmer network that ACDI/VOCA has established in Sulawesi’s cocoa subsector over the last five years through its two-year, USDA-funded SUCCESS (Sustainable Cocoa Extension Services for Smallholders) Project and the subsequent three-year USAID-funded SUCCESS (Sustainable Enterprise Solutions for Smallholders) Alliance.

There is a strong need in Sulawesi for additional support for cocoa production improvement. Over the course of the two SUCCESS Programs, Dinas Perkebunan, a local Indonesian government agricultural service, cocoa farmers and the cocoa industry have witnessed the impact of improved farm management capacity on cocoa production. Also, the farmers, traders and exporters are strengthening their linkages with one another, increasing the demand for services at all levels of the value chain. Over the past five years this has been facilitated by ACDI/VOCA through SUCCESS projects. With the conclusion of SUCCESS activities, the market exists for these services on a fee-for-service basis.

The USAID-funded SUCCESS Alliance project supported its Indonesian staff to establish nonprofit BSPs in the four existing field offices. The developmental function of BSPs is to provide technical training to farmers, extension workers and the key actors in the supply chain, as well as to improve the linkages between farmers and buyers downstream in the value chain on a fee-for-service basis. The project will focus on further developing to a sustainable level the existing local BSPs.

The principal activities of this project will be the following:

• providing advisory services and management training to BSPs in Sulawesi and elsewhere that support development of smallholder agriculture
• providing advisory services and training in marketing, service/product development that respond to client demand and/or new research findings, and building/maintaining a client portfolio to support the long-term viability of BSPs
• supporting BSPs to design and implement training programs on a fee-for-service basis
• supporting BSPs to develop and implement strategies to build direct linkages between farmers and buyers

For more information, contact Kelly Keehan at kkeehan@acdivoca.org.

Updated: 9/07

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