Value Chain Development for Decent Work A guide for development practitioners, government and private sector initiatives
The guide provides a systemic perspective, addressing not only value chain issues in the narrow sense but also important framework conditions, such as the relevance of the duration and cost of customs clearance, tariffs etc. Likewise, it addresses all relevant aspects that donors and other value chain facilitators need to take into account, including the need for institutional reform and its underlying incentive systems; issues of sustainability; the need to upscale project experiences; gender issues; etc.
The guide also focuses on action research, whereby value chain mapping and research can already contribute to mobilizing stakeholders and seeking solutions on a participatory basis. It provides many helpful details of how to organize stakeholder processes in practice, how to set up a monitoring
system, and so forth.
system, and so forth.