Inclusive Markets

Project completed

The Inclusive Markets project is being implemented in Bolivia with funding from the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), for the period from November 2017 to December 2021. It is based on the first phase of the Rural Markets project, which was funded by SDC during the period 2014 to 2017.

Country/region Topic Period Budget
Bolivia
Agriculture & food security
Employment & economic development
Agricultural development
Agricultural financial services
Agricultural services & market
Agriculture value-chain development (til 2016)
Employment creation
Financial policy
01.03.2013 - 31.12.2023
CHF  3’200’000
Background Although Bolivia has improved poverty rates in general, the situation in rural areas clearly shows that there are still disparities compared to cities. The gap between moderate poverty in rural areas (55%) and urban areas (31%) is evident. In a proportion of 8 per 100 inhabitants, the Rural Household Production Units provide 37% of the country's food, cultivating in conditions of low productivity and constant changes and threats as a consequence of climate change.
Objectives Improve the living conditions of men and women who work in agricultural activities in rural areas, helping to reduce their poverty situation by increasing their income, access to opportunities and development of capacities.
Target groups Men and women who carry out agricultural, livestock or other activities (with an emphasis on women and youth), in producer families, particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and food insecurity, located in the Altiplano and Inter-Andean Valleys.
Medium-term outcomes
  • Capacity building in key actors (producers, companies, marketers and others) for the development of: short marketing circuits, productive articulation, commercial articulation and promotion of the consumption of foods with high nutritional value. 
  • Development of business models (private providers) and management models (public providers), which make it possible to lift the barriers to access of the target population to inputs, technologies and information services, advice and technical assistance, in a context where the provision of these is inadequate and even non-existent. 
  • Facilitate access to financing under adequate conditions, in addition to financial education and risk transfer from the development and / or dissemination of insurance and micro-insurance products.
  • Facilitate the implementation of public and private services that develop capacities and skills in public officials to increase the socioeconomic resilience of rural families. 
  • Strengthening the capacities and abilities of women in different areas (techniques, management, leadership, etc.) through the provision of services and technologies that contribute to reducing the workload of women, the articulation with specialized entities.
Results

Expected results:  

  • 10,000 families sustainably increase their real net income by up to 35% upon project completion. 
  • 16,000 men and women improve their employment and self-employment conditions. 
  • 5,000 families increase their resilience to the effects of climate change. 
  • 4,000 women develop capacities and improve conditions that allow their empowerment (they know services for the protection of violence and / or reduction of time in reproductive roles and / or improvement of the participation of women in decision-making bodies and access to productive services, resources and information).


Directorate/federal office responsible SDC
Credit area Development cooperation
Project partners Contract partner
Private sector
Foreign state institution
Swiss Non-profit Organisation
  • Central State of South East
  • National State Institute North
  • Swiss Private Sector
  • SDC Field Office
  • Swisscontact

Implementing partner
  • Swiss Foundation for Technical Development Cooperation (Swisscontact) 
  • Foundation for Productive and Financial Development (PROFIN)

Coordination with other projects and actors
  • Foundation for the Promotion and Research and Promotion of Andean Products (PROINPA) 
  • Latin American Center for Rural Development (RIMISP)
  • Pesticides Foundation Bolivia (PLAGBOL)
Budget Current phase Swiss budget CHF    3’200’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF    10’372’567
Project phases Phase 3 01.01.2022 - 30.09.2023   (Completed) Phase 2 01.01.2018 - 31.12.2021   (Completed) Phase 1 01.03.2013 - 30.06.2018   (Completed)