Focus on Multi-Stakeholder Platforms: Lessons learned about their role in IFAD value chain projects

This note is part of a review of value chain projects in relation to farmers’ organizations and their role in multi-stakeholder platforms (MSPs). Strengths and weaknesses of IFAD's support to MSPs are identified based on a literature review and operational documentation.

MSPs are one of the most effective tools promoted by IFAD for pro-poor value chain governance. The term encompasses all the formal or informal frameworks in which different links in a value chain meet, coordinate and make decisions.