[{"bbox": [171, 153, 1134, 260], "category": "Text", "text": "A.1.5.2 Embark on strong social and behavioral change communication and cooking demonstrations of local infant foods popularizing baby food through community structures, community champions, promotions, billboards, radio programmes and social media targeting mothering women / primary caregivers."}, {"bbox": [97, 270, 1088, 326], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**SO2: Improve use of market opportunities by Sierra Leoneans, in particular of women and youth that participated in TVET programmes.**"}, {"bbox": [97, 337, 1132, 392], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities relating to Output 2.1: **Farmers institutions strengthening**, for service provision, aggregation and value addition, as well as market linkages and potentially export."}, {"bbox": [171, 402, 1132, 455], "category": "Text", "text": "A.2.1.1 identification and Selection of strong cooperatives, associations or ABCs (membership-based) active within the selected value chains⁴¹;"}, {"bbox": [171, 468, 1132, 549], "category": "Text", "text": "A.2.1.2 Training of institutions cooperative principles, business planning, governance and accountability. This includes training of members, staff and lead farmers especially those who are women. Support will be provided through technical assistance, with hands-on, tailor-made, long-term approaches."}, {"bbox": [171, 560, 1132, 613], "category": "Text", "text": "A.2.1.3 Train both women and men FFS master trainers amongst institutional staff and/or lead farmers, as a channel for outreach extension and advisory services to farmers"}, {"bbox": [171, 626, 1132, 733], "category": "Text", "text": "A.2.1.4 Support farmer based institutions to take on aggregation and quality assurance, as well as value addition (primary processing or other), including upgrade of existing infrastructure and/or installation of aggregation capacity. Should more support be required, the institutions may benefit from the acceleration programme."}, {"bbox": [171, 745, 1132, 826], "category": "Text", "text": "A.2.1.5 Strengthen the national farmers umbrella institution for farmers, including their role in monitoring and act as guarantors for their members, their representativeness, their ability to negotiate with Government, private sector and others on behalf of the farmers they represent."}, {"bbox": [97, 836, 796, 864], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Activities relating to Output 2.2: Enhanced capacity of TVET institutions**"}, {"bbox": [171, 876, 1132, 930], "category": "Text", "text": "A.2.2.1 National qualification framework and certification/accreditation processes strengthened, including decentralization decision making structures"}, {"bbox": [171, 941, 1088, 969], "category": "Text", "text": "A.2.2.2 Support review of curricula in line with existing or emerging market and policy orientations."}, {"bbox": [171, 980, 1132, 1061], "category": "Text", "text": "A.2.2.3 Support retraining of technical instructors (esp. those who are women) at TVET institutions (Government Technical Institutions and selected private TVETs), at universities and from international experts, in selected agricultural courses"}, {"bbox": [171, 1073, 907, 1100], "category": "Text", "text": "A.2.2.4 Upgrade selected GTIs to Centres of Excellence in selected value chains"}, {"bbox": [171, 1111, 1132, 1165], "category": "Text", "text": "A.2.2.5 Ensure availability of dormitory facilities to ease access to technical training, especially for women in all their diversity and persons with disabilities"}, {"bbox": [171, 1177, 1025, 1204], "category": "Text", "text": "A.2.2.6 Facilitate close and structured dialogue between private sector and TVET institutions"}, {"bbox": [97, 1216, 942, 1244], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Activities relating to Output 2.3: Increased certification opportunities for Sierra Leoneans**"}, {"bbox": [171, 1255, 1132, 1309], "category": "Text", "text": "A.2.3.1 Conduct a mapping of courses being offered at GTI or other TVET institutions in or around production hubs, to select relevant courses."}, {"bbox": [171, 1321, 1132, 1402], "category": "Text", "text": "A.2.3.2 Provide scholarships to selected students (min. 50% women) to acquire agricultural and/or supporting skills (including but not restricted to, agricultural engineering, mechanical- and electric engineering and business-oriented courses) through certified national institutions."}, {"bbox": [97, 1412, 1132, 1467], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Activities relating to Output 2.4: Enhanced capacity for coordination, implementation and monitoring of policy and regulatory framework**"}, {"bbox": [171, 1478, 1132, 1532], "category": "Text", "text": "A.2.4.1 Provide technical support to sectoral coordination of Agriculture and food systems transformation, including TVET."}, {"bbox": [85, 1620, 819, 1646], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁴¹ Umbrella organizations and regulators may play a role in identification of institutions."}, {"bbox": [1023, 1680, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 15 of 33"}]