Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

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  • Alfons Eiligmann
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    Fortbildungsworkshop zur Förderung internationaler Wertschöpfungsketten, Oestrich-Winkel, 23.-27. Juni 2008
    ValueLinks Introductory Training Seminar

    There is widespread agreement that economic growth is a precondition for reducing poverty. Developing policy aims at generating “pro-poor growth” creating jobs for the dispossessed and providing small-scale suppliers with new opportunities. It is in this context that “value chain promotion” has emerged as a key concept of economic development. The value chain approach helps development programmes addressing issues of economic change that are critical for the poor. In the era of globalisation, these are mainly related to the competitiveness of food production, rural industries and light manufacturing that provide livelihoods for large numbers of people. In most weak economies, business communities need to get much better organised and become more market-oriented. The investment of government and private enterprises has to be coordinated.

    Building on these ideas, GTZ has developed an action-oriented methodology that compiles the most important tools for value chain promotion called ValueLinks . It provides the framework for a systematic approach to strengthening national and regional competitiveness and includes know-how for development organisations and public agencies active in the field of economic promotion. ValueLinks is organised along the steps in a project cycle and is being used in many countries to guide economic development programmes and enhance the capacity of local institutions.

    Objectives of the seminar
    The objective is to enhance the skills of participants in designing, implementing and monitoring value chain upgrading projects. The know-how covers both technical subjects and facilitation skills working with groups of entrepreneurs, business associations and public institutions.

    Participants
    The training seminar is intended to serve consultants, planners and practitioners working in development agencies, consulting firms, business associations or Government agencies active in economic development - in developing or transition countries. The number of participants is limited to 20.

    Main contents of the training seminar
    The seminar gives participants a profound introduction into the concept and methodology of ValueLinks, the value chain promotion approach developed by GTZ. ValueLinks is one of the most recognised VC development approaches and currently implemented by a large number of programmes worldwide. The training follows an interactive method, in which the presentation of concepts, facts and methodology alternates with exercises to apply hands-on tools and know-how to concrete cases. The seminar develops the methodology inductively. Participants apply the concepts in working group sessions and get insight into real-world practice during a field trip to a wine industry cluster in Germany.

    In particular, the training covers the following subjects:

    • Designing value chain promotion projects at the interface of regional and sectoral economic development,
    • Selecting value chains based on promising pro-poor growth opportunities,
    • Mapping and analysing subsectors and value chains,
    • Developing a vision and strategy for chain upgrading,
    • Process design and facilitation skills for working with chain actors and engaging in public-private partnership,
    • Facilitating market linkages and the business organisation of small-scale enterprises and rural producers,
    • Embedding financial and service arrangements in private business transactions,
    • Introducing standards on product quality and safety
    • Making public agencies more responsive to business needs, and
    • Conducting impact monitoring in value chain projects.

    Facilitators
    The seminar will be facilitated by Dr. Andreas Springer-Heinze, main author of the ValueLinks methodology and editor of the ValueLinks Manual, and Alfons Eiligmann, General Manager of the IDC Unternehmensberatung GmbH.

    For further information and registration, please visit http://www.idc-aachen.de/2_4.html
    • 04 Mar 2008, 2:50 pm