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Project objectives

General Objectives

The long-term objective of the project is to promote the development of the sustainable production and use of bamboo products in East African countries, with a focus on markets as the driving force behind such sectoral development. The project will contribute to the reduction of poverty in rural, degraded and marginalized areas by turning bamboo -the ”poor man’s timber”- into a cash crop for wood substitution and for food processing creating rural and urban employment and value-addition to ultimately improve the economy of LDC’s.

The project will do this by addressing technical input requirements in present bamboo product production systems to increase quality and value, by the development of new products with large sustainable markets, by providing increased access to markets for producers and by enabling more equitable sharing of benefits amongst stakeholders. Supports to ensure long term sustainability of the options trialled will be developed, and to promote greater dissemination of the results. Options trialled in one location can then be replicated in other locations as part of the project and models produced for replication outside the project.

Specific Objectives

The specific objectives of the project are targeting employment and income generation for poverty alleviation and sustainable development through improving the technological and skills inputs in bamboo processing, developing capacity for the sustainable supply of raw bamboo materials as well as improving technical, functional and aesthetic aspects of bamboo products and diversifying into new markets.

Section Links

» Project background

» General and specific objectives of the project

» Constraints to development of Bamboo industries

» Instituions involved and responssibilities

» Members of NPSCs and Implementing Agencies (IAs)

» Project rationale

Related Topics

» Bamboo trade in Africa

» Accomplished and planned activities

» Commodity strategy

» African Bamboo diversity

» Organizational structure and Management