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7. Access recommendations

‘BOOST’ - incubator to support organisational effectiveness

‘BOOST’ Incubator to strengthen existing women & youth organisations

• 35% of women across the SAC focus markets are members of a co-operative or farmers group. This
Drivers ranges from 16% (Suriname) to 64% (Jamaica), illustrating the importance of these groups.
• BOOST will facilitate the support required to grow these organisations internally and externally

Established a targeted, well supported incubator model that will be implemented locally:
• Direct support for registered cooperatives, community groups, other value-chain players to

strengthen linkages and scale up change impacting women and youth
• Simple selection processes eg potential for scale, inclusion, change, magnification of impact
Description through wider community engagement activities etc
• Clear and approachable consultation process through to recommendations and support
• Engage few, dynamic and motivated institutions to support eg finance, equipment
• Clear targets: impact measurement, monitoring, evaluation
• Story-telling and social media engagement to capture processes, impact and feedback

Potential Private Sector: organizational change and capacity consultancies, financial services (accounting) and
Partners BSO’s in each country. Financial institutions with existing interests in the sector (banks, insurance)
NGO and Charitable: partnerships with existing foundations, funds and micro-finance

• Funding: Seed funding for programme development and launch
SAC role • Co-ordination: Facilitate focused group of partners to support women and youth.

• Implementation: Ensure country-led self-sustaining model

Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean (SAC) Project

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