Facilitating pro-poor market chain innovation: An assessment of the participatory market chain approach in Uganda.

Social Sciences Working Paper No. 2008-1. Facilitating pro-poor market chain innovation: An assessment of the participatory market chain approach in Uganda.

This report presents results of a study of the Participatory Market Chain Approach (PMCA) in Uganda commissioned by the Papa Andina Initiative and the Impact Enhancement Division of the International Potato Center (CIP) and the Regional Potato and Sweetpotato Improvement Network in Eastern and Central Africa (PRAPACE). The study was carried out to assess the process of introducing, validating, and refining the PMCA in Uganda, to assess the main results obtained in Uganda to date, to evaluate the prospects for future use of the PMCA in Uganda and elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, and to identify key elements of an effective strategy for introducing the PMCA in new settings.