Integrated enterprise and market systems assessment on the refugee and host community livelihoods in Sudan

Integrated enterprise and market systems assessment on the refugee and host community livelihoods in Sudan

This assessment has been conducted to help provide an analytical basis from which market-based refugee livelihoods programs can be developed. It will support development of the evidence-based interventions, necessary to address major constraints to value chain development including; traditional, labour intensive, and low yield output farming practices; absence of formal financing services; poorly coordinated and weak market actors; and a severe lack of access to market information.

The AIMS assessment was designed to provide a concrete analytical understanding of the market system as well as the dynamics surrounding entrepreneurship, Medium and Small-Scale Enterprises (MSSE), cooperatives, access to finance and financial literacy in the targeted states of East Darfur and West Kordofan.

With this Report, the ILO has been able to identify targeted push interventions that facilitate greater beneficiary engagement with the market through technical or entrepreneurial skills development, strengthening social networks, or through transfer of technologies and other assets. Pull interventions are being implemented to develop targeted agricultural value chains with potential to expand and diversify the economic and employment opportunities.

Finally, the assessment underscores the importance of enabling local actors to support the market system in a sustainable manner. Together these streams of the ILO’s technical assistance provide a comprehensive and multi-dimensional approach to strengthening the rural livelihoods in PROSPECTS targeted locations.