Objectives

Grameen provides technical assistance to enhance cooperatives’ business growth and investment readiness; their management, operational, and financial skills; and regenerative agriculture and good agricultural practice skills by developing and deploying new training curriculum. Over the decade, Grameen has co-developed digital tools for more effective agricultural extension services, traceability, and integrated management systems to enhance the resilience and agency of cooperatives and their smallholder farmers.

The two main objectives are:

1. To improve the sustainable growth and development of coconut cooperatives as critical ecosystem players for both the upstream and downstream aspects of the value chain

2. To enhance the resilience of coconut smallholder farmers through targeted, tailored agricultural practices, improving livelihoods and impacting long-term income increases.

Key Results To Date

• 25,000+ MT copra deliveries to partner oil mills
• 11,748 profiled and registered in the Traceability system
• 5,700+ coconut farmer supplies recorded in the traceability system
• 5,075 trained on copra quality enhancement
• 3,184 trained in good agricultural practices
• 1,261 trained on diversified coconut farming
• 656 made aware of agro-chemical proper handling
• 28 extensions farmers trained
• 12 cooperatives linked to markets
• 10 capacity development plans created
• 6 organizational capacity interventions through Bankers without Borders (BwB)