At Ikore, we provide the following services in order to
improve our environment
Our approach to value chain development looks at market dynamics and relationships between the different actors in the chain with the objective of strengthening the whole market system...
We are working on a range of strategies for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in developing countries by partnering and supporting private enterprises and developing projects...
We build the capacities of individuals, organizations and societies through training and workshops to obtain, strengthen and maintain the capabilities to set and achieve their own development...
Women and youth participation and empowerment are at the core of all our projects to ensure that we can contribute towards mitigating the many issues that hinder women and youth...
We are working to create an enabling environment for rural entrepreneurship and development by working with the government and the private sector to create access to financial assistance...
Part of our vision is to ensure climate-smart agriculture by developing and implementing projects with an approach that helps to guide actions needed to transform agricultural activities towards a safer environment...
Ikore, meaning “harvest” in Yoruba language, is an international development organization, proffering innovative solutions to drive sustainable social and enterprise development.
Ikore’s view of the world is one of a complex system with inter-dependencies. And as such, we work with the private, public sector and other non-state actors to address barriers to access, achieving scale, efficiency, and innovation in agribusiness and other sectors. Whatever we do, we always aim to create a win-win situation for all actors, extending the access frontiers at every opportunity.
This initiative involves the training of rural women in profitable poultry and livestock production as well as entrepreneurial skill with which they can generate reasonable income thereby leading to reduced poverty in rural women. Gender equality is promoted with improved capacity for running sustainable businesses through strong structures and more access to productive resources for developing their enterprise.
We design evidence-based market solutions aimed at reaching the bottom of the pyramid, this
approach lessens economic burden at the last mile providing improved livelihood and building resilient households.
Ikore works directly with input suppliers to get desired production inputs to rural communities by either developing new retail points in target locality or expanding the product portfolio of an existing agro-vet retailer or a combination of the two. This approach allows for minimizing the inefficiency with multiple intermediaries in the chain.
We design evidence-based market solutions aimed at reaching the bottom of the pyramid, this
approach lessens economic burden at the last mile providing improved livelihood and building resilient households.
Our work ethics is amazing, our tangible results speaks for themselves, communities are transformed, poor families are empowered in sustainable manners. we achieve these because of our values.
Ikore emerged the best from a highly competitive process and so far they have completed work around the following areas;
• Design of research methodology
• Secondary data collection
• Design of pre-test tools
For all the completed tasks Ikore has met the expectations and has delivered quality outputs.
Ikore is also in charge of (4) advocacy work towards communities and (5) communication on the progress of the project towards stakeholders. The Ikore team proved to be very efficient and creative in these tasks, producing high-quality material and disseminating it using multiple channels of communication adapted to a variety of public targets.
One of the remarkable achievements of Ikore was the establishment of 10 rural-based retail outlet, which significantly enhanced the efficient last-mile delivery of top-notch veterinary input while curbing the proliferation of counterfeit products in the market. Additionally, Ikore took the initiative in training, equipping, and subscribing 50 Community Animal Health Worker to technology, empowering them to contribute to animal disease surveillance in the state.
Ikore surveyed the challenges of women-led businesses in northern Nigeria on behalf of ChananHill Enterprise and we are completely satisfied with their performance. The survey entailed evaluating the impact of religion on women's economic empowerment and understanding the effect of family responsibilities on women-led businesses. Ikore led in the research design, execution, analysis, and presentation of the report in a workshop session. I will recommend them for activities concerning research, impact assessment and analysis.
At Ikore, our clients are satisfied with the explicit services we deliver to them.
The Rural Resilience Activity is a Mercy Corps project that aims to protect economic recovery and growth in vulnerable, conflict-affected areas and sustainably move people out of vulnerability, and poverty through …
The Tree Planting and Market Linkage Initiative, also known as iCARM - Ikore Conservation and Restoration Model, addresses the pressing problem of land degradation and limited market opportunities for Non-Forest Timber Products …
Bin2bank is an initiative facilitating the sustainable reduction of plastic waste at the community level using a decentralized approach. The project aims to reduce the indiscriminate disposal of plastic waste by creating social awareness and engaging individuals within the project community....
In 2020, the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) provided 10 organizations with virtual training on resource mobilization and proposal writing. Fast-forward to 2022, Ikore was engaged to build on the initial training by assisting the organizations in creating strong proposals and submitting funding applications. Ikore was also required...
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), in partnership with GIZ and the Green Innovation Centre for the Agricultural and Food Sector in Nigeria, is currently implementing the Strengthening Nutrition in Priority Staples project in four focal states (Kaduna, Benue, Nasarawa, Oyo). Ikore’s services were engaged to conduct a mapping and needs assessment of businesses,...
The development of four select agricultural value chains (maize, cassava, rice, Irish potato) across eight Nigerian states is just one of the bilateral projects being implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) under the special initiative, The Green Innovation Centres for the...
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