Assisting stakeholders along the entire value chain strengthen their private sector linkages and achieve long-term economic growth. We help local entrepreneurs, businesses, associations and cooperatives, from micro-enterprises to large-scale operations, in manufacturing, agribusiness, information and communication technology, tourism, and the service industry with capacity building to improve their ability to provide services on a sustainable basis.

Program Highlights

Lebanon Business Linkage Initiative
ACDI/VOCA is implementing the USAID-funded Lebanon Business Linkage Initiative (LBLI) aims to increase specialty foods exports by working with market-driven Lebanese firms engaged in food processing. Starting with an analysis of shoppers’ preferences, the program built more than 420 linkages between farmers and processors. Read more...

Product Development

Aid to Artisans help innovative and competitive products emerge from the collaboration between market-savvy designers and creative and inspirational artisans. Read more...

New Program to Drive Pakistan's Economic Growth

November 2011: CNFA has begun implementation of a five-year, $5.3 million program entitled the Agribus. Read more...

Access to International Markets through Information Technology (AIM-IT) in Lebanon.
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Resources

• The State – USAID Entrepreneur Toolkit: Successful Approaches to Fostering Entrepreneurship
• VEGA one-pager on Entrepreneurship

• Value Chain Approach: Bringing Small Enterprise into Competitive Industries in the Global Economy (PDF, 110 KB)
  

• microLINKS Note from Lebanon: Increasing Competitiveness through Cooperation in the Value Chain