Market Systems Analysis of the Cassava, Palm Oil, Vegetables Sectors in the Districts of Port Loko, Bombali, Kenema and Bo of Sierra Leone

The Opportunity Salone Programme is a project implemented by the International Labour Organization (ILO) under the framework of the European Union’s Jobs and Growth Programme in Sierra Leone. The objective of the Programme is to contribute to large scale job creation and job quality improvement in sustainable enterprises for unskilled or semi-skilled youth, women, and persons with disabilities in the districts of Bo, Bombali, Kenema and Port Loko.

In promotion of its objectives, the Programme is pursuing 3 major outcomes: (i) Enhanced, conflict sensitive, agricultural value chain and entrepreneurship development for SMEs, youth, women, and persons with disabilities; (ii) Improved feeder road maintenance contributing to resolve infrastructure bottlenecks to immediate job creation; and (iii) Improved business environment for entrepreneurship development and feeder road maintenance.

Based on the ILO methodology on value chain development for decent work, four agricultural value chains - vegetables, palm oil, cocoa, and cassava – three of which were selected for interventions (palm oil, cassava, and vegetable).