Approach/Outcomes

Approach

ATP and E-ATP engage in value chain and corridor–based trade facilitation to reach its primary objective and achieve its expected outcomes.

ATP focuses on three priority value chains with high potential for intra-regional trade:

• Ruminant livestock/red meat;
• Onions/shallots; and
• Maize.

While E-ATP focuses on:

• Poultry;
• Rice; and
• Millet/Sorghum.

They also emphasize key selected trade/transport corridors handling these products and linking landlocked countries to coastal countries, including: Burkina Faso, Mali, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria.

Expected Outcomes

ATP will contribute to four outcomes contributing to its primary objective:

1. Reduced incidence in physical and policy-related barriers to trade;
2. Enhanced linkages among actors in the selected value chains;
3. More effective advocacy for regional and national policies in support of a conducive environment for increased regional agricultural trade; and
4. Improved trade transactions and market access through improved regional market information systems.

E-ATP will contribute to five outcomes:

1. Reduced incidence of physical and policy-related barriers to moving agricultural and related commodities regionally in West Africa, with a special focus on facilitating the trade in staple foods from surplus to deficit areas. 
2. Enhanced linkages among agricultural producers and agro-input suppliers, agro-processors, and distributors.
3. More effective advocacy by regional private sector and other non-governmental actors for regional and national policies in support of a conducive environment for increased regional agricultural trade.
4. Improved trade transactions and regional market access, in particular through the improvement of regional market information systems and facilitation of market linkages.
5. Enhanced capacity of private poultry and animal health sectors to reduce the risk of avian influenza (AI) outbreaks and transmission, and the capacity to recover after highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreaks.

See also About Us and Objectives/Activities