TechnoServe

TechnoServe will transform business in low-income communities to dramatically reduce poverty while having a positive impact on climate change and nature. Over the next ten years, millions of TechnoServe clients will earn $3 billion more in sustainable incomes.

In order to a create transformative impact at scale, TechnoServe helps grow strong markets that create income and jobs in poor communities by being a catalyst and partner at all points in competitive markets. We work with individuals and businesses to address the constraints that prevent a market system from operating efficiently, including skills, technologies, availability of information, market linkages, access to finance, infrastructure, governance or policies. We address these constraints by:

1. Developing capacity: helping individuals and communities acquire skills, share knowledge and apply the technologies needed to build successful farms and businesses.
2. Strengthening market connections: coordinating among industry players and connecting emerging businesses and farms to capital, networks, and suppliers.
3. Improving the business environment: encouraging self-sustaining economic activity by addressing the policies, information, and incentives that help markets function better.

TechnoServe is a pioneer in leveraging the power of business and markets to create sustainable pathways out of poverty. Smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs gain the skills, connections, and confidence they need to create viable businesses, improve their incomes, and build brighter futures. We work directly with farms and businesses and across whole market systems to make them more sustainable—environmentally, socially, and commercially.

TechnoServe works with our clients to overcome fundamental barriers to better incomes, like gender inequality, climate threats, and systemic market challenges.
Our new strategic plan will deliver significantly more impact to significantly more clients around the world. Key parts of this strategy include:

1. Improving Incomes and Ecosystems: to respond to the growing threat our clients face from climate change and
environmental degradation, TechnoServe will embed “regenerative business” practices across all our programs.
This approach helps people increase their incomes while also improving the environment and reducing their
emissions footprint.

2. Strengthening Food Systems: poor people around the world rely on local food systems for their incomes and
their sustenance. As food systems strain under climate change and other threats, TechnoServe will scale up our
work to help make these food systems more inclusive, more sustainable, and more nutritious.

3. Expanding Job Opportunities, Especially for Youth: reliable employment is critical for security, health, and
economic development. But millions of people in low-income countries—especially the world’s record numbers
of youth—struggle to find good jobs. Drawing on its business training expertise, TechnoServe will expand its
work helping people secure productive employment, enabling businesses to create new jobs, and empowering
youth with marketable skills.


To learn more about how TechnoServe rigorously measures its impact, visit: http://www.technoserve.org/our-work/impact