The purpose of this technical assistance programme is to support access to finance for the agricultural sector in Malawi and Zambia by (i) enhancing financial institution’s capacity to assess, execute and monitor longer-term investment projects in agri-food value chains that aim to integrate smallholder farmers in the respective value chain and (ii) supporting potential final […]
Indonesia is one of the few remaining cocoa producers in South-East Asia, ranking first in regional production. MARS is committed to the sustainable development of the cocoa sector in Indonesia, with a strategic interest to continue investing in producers and their productive assets, processing infrastructure, and initiatives that contribute to maintaining sustainable livelihoods strategies.
Imani Development […]
Imani Development managed a programme of work packages aimed at ‘Optimising carbon sequestration opportunities in community wealth building in Argyll and Bute’. This required local knowledge through our Scottish office of the Scottish Highlands and Islands, in particular Argyll & Bute region.
The project required in-depth learning and sense-checking with economic and environmental agencies, stakeholders including […]
Introduction
On Africa Day, we celebrate 60 years since the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now the African Union (AU). Created in 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the African Union (AU), has always celebrated “Africa Day” on 25 of May, in recognition of the vision and milestones achieved towards “An Integrated, Prosperous and […]
Imani Development is pleased to announce the launch of the Green Economy Transition Facility (GETF), an initiative aimed at catalysing green business solutions in Malawi.
The GETF, financed by UNDP and Irish Aid, is birthed out of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s Growth Accelerator, and designed to support private sector companies in initiating and scaling […]
It is with great sadness that we have learnt of the passing of Mwansa James Musonda one of our Trade Policy, Trade Facilitation and Regional Integration expert in the SADC and COMESA region.
Our work with James goes back to 1998, when he was a member of the team that launched the COMESA Free Trade Area. […]
Background and Introduction
Many of Zambia’s women farmers continue to face challenges which constrain their productive capacity, limiting their incomes and the extent to which they can contribute to productive and efficient agricultural value chains. Key challenges include –
Inequality of access to […]
The World Bank Group contracted ICL to conduct 500 surveys with non-micro (4+ employees) SMEs in Blantyre and Lilongwe cities. The surveys measured certain capabilities and characteristics of business owners and managers to inform the Bank’s development of firm graduation/evaluation criteria and ultimately inform future support to SMEs in the country. Imani worked collaboratively with […]
Midline study which sought to update quantitative and qualitative figures which ICL collected at baseline, to gauge impact and progress against AVCP’s goals for project implementation. As at baseline, the study sought to analyse how cross-cutting issues affect the target group (e.g. environment, nutrition and marginalized groups – youths, women, people living with HIV/AIDS) and […]
RTI international approached Imani to conduct research on two nutritious value chains – fish and dairy – in Malawi, with specific reference to the external domain and market-side factors impacting accessibility and availability to rural households. ICL contributed to RTI (with direction from USAID)’s selection of value chains, devised a research methodology to meet RTI’s objectives, […]
