Sheladia Associates, Inc.

Five-year project serving as a catalyst to stimulate and galvanize Guinea’s private sector to invest in agricultural marketing and export. Project is the flagship of USAID/Guinea’s economic growth strategy in Guinea. Benefits will include increased investment, employment and income for agricultural producers, traders and agribusiness operators. Project includes: financing of agricultural marketing, agribusiness development activities and improved financial intermediation for agricultural marketing enterprises, training for private sector, policy studies, technical assistance and commodities.

Long and short term technical assiastance to:

• Increase the capacity of agricultural marketers and exporters to participate in domestic, regional and overseas markets
• Establish a demand-driven, service-oriented, non-profit, democratic and transparent Agricultural Marketing Foundation
• Establish market information to report on demand for Guinea’s agricultural products in domestic, regional and overseas markets; prices; quality requirement and importing country regulations
• Establish an Agricultural Marketing Loan Guarantee Fund that will facilitate the development of agribusinesses and/or agricultural marketing and export ventures
• Strengthen public-private sector interaction and dialogue pertaining to Guinea’s agribusiness sector
• Implement a system of assessing the project’s impact on the level of agribusiness, agro-industrial and agricultural marketing and export activities in Guinea.