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Promoting Pro-Poor
Opportunities in
Commodity and Service
Markets (PrOpCom) is an
innovative project
funded by the Department
for International
Development of the
United Kingdom (DFID) to
facilitate functionality
and efficiency of
Nigerian commodity and
service markets in such
a way as to assure these
markets benefit the
poor. It is implemented
by SAII Associates Ltd/Gte,
an associate company of
Chemonics International
Inc., a Washington,
DC-based consulting
firm.
PrOpCom’s goal is to
improve livelihoods by
facilitating growth and
pro-poor outcomes in
commodity and service
markets and to
contribute to the
overarching (DFID/Nigeria)
goal of poverty
alleviation in support
of NEEDS and the
attainment of the
Millennium Development
Goals. PrOpCom will use
a “Making Markets Work
for the Poor” (M4P)
approach to address the
systemic reasons that
prevent commodity and
service markets from
functioning effectively
for the poor in Nigeria.
In doing so, it will
contribute to delivery
of the vision for growth
in the non-oil economy
outlined in NEEDS. The
project purpose is to
support systemic change
in markets on which the
poor rely to produce
pro-poor outcomes and
opportunities such as:
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Enhanced
incomes;
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Increased jobs; |
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Improved access
to markets;
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More options and
choices; and |
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Reduced risks.
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PrOpCom emphasizes
market-led development,
linking market
developments to policy
reform. The programme
contributes to removing
constraints to efficient
market operations and
linking market actors to
work together and serve
each other on a
sustainable basis. The
programme addresses poor
market functioning, with
the objective of
improving access and
returns to the
livelihood assets of the
poor.
During the first
two-year pilot
implementation phase,
PrOpCom focused on the
rice value chain in Kano
and South-western
Nigeria, and began to
build capacity of
stakeholders within
these value chains. In
Phase III, the programme
has expanded its
activities beyond rice
and now has 15
interventions spanning 5
markets & “themes”,
including policy
support, agricultural
mechanization,
agro-inputs and service
markets such as
enterprise training.
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