Vietnam: Van Noi Commune, Dong Anh District, Hanoi, and Phu Thuan commune,  Phu Van District, Hue

Kenya: Maili Saba,
Kajiado District

Achieve: Learn from positive experiences among pace setters agri-SMEs
to give intellectual support to their colleagues among the Poor; What to do, and what not to do to improve life
Aims:
- Test a process approach
- Enhance access to markets
- Building networks for up-scaling
- Encourage women entrepreneurs, CBOs, cooperatives through capacity building

Specific orientation for the pace setters:
- Stakeholder approach to monitor dynamics
- Gender approach (3 out of 4 cases)
- Mobilize community development on community initiative to get out of poverty

(a) Vietnam

(b) Kenya

Component 1 in Vietnam: Sub-project 1: Fish sauce women group in Hue

Subproject 2: Safe vegetable cooperative in Van Noi, Hanoi

Component 2 in  Kenya: Subproject 1: Milk production and marketing in Kajiado / Kibwezi

Subproject 2: Honey and other bee products production in Kibwezi

From largest: Interest in safe and hygienic food products growing in both countries, markets developing in pace with urbanization, poverty eradication and the millennium goal give rise to awareness and international commitments, WTO process

- Lack capacity in management, technology application, marketing knowledge
- Lack of market strategy, limited access to the market in high competitiveness of the market
- Lack of production equipment, capital
- Quality of fish sauce does not yet meet demand from customers (color, smell, taste, preservation period). It links with the technology application in production process

Collective activity in society: A quickly growing awareness, beginning in urban populations, about the connection between food and good health, and so there is a public debate that has become substantial during the project period