Activities
In support of Tetra Tech’s implementation of CEERC, Resonance contributed to the effort to strengthen green economy sectors by facilitating private sector engagement and identifying potential partnerships and innovative resources. Resonance contracted with a Private Sector Lead-Business Incubator (PSL) to work closely in-country with the project team and stakeholders, and led a rapid innovation and partnership assessment (RIPA).
- Identify high-potential green industries/value chains in ROC and analyze market systems drawing on the RIPA to identify potential partners in the “green” value chains and industries prioritized by CEERC.
- Identify partnerships and innovative resources and solutions to support conservation through regular outreach and stakeholder engagement. Through this, the PSL will explore collaborative mechanisms that can support value chains and facilitate links between communities and market system actors.
- Work with companies, enterprises, finance providers, and others to facilitate the development of alliances and business partnerships in target areas and sectors based on CEERC’s priorities.
Key Results
Resonance’s support of the CEERC Activity’s objectives yielded the following results:
- Facilitation of local stakeholder consultation meetings that identified market aspirations and barriers within value chains, as well as internal and external drivers of change. Also identified areas of alignment from which to build the foundation for partnerships.
- Facilitation of technical consultations to share knowledge, verify initial findings, and develop strategy and tools for private sector engagement (PSE) in alignment with CEERC’s objectives and priority value chains.
- Organization of a workshop to validate the preliminary partnership concepts.
- Development of a due diligence screening tool to help CEERC and USAID assess potential risks to partnering with specific private sector entities, which is especially important in a thin market that is dominated by extractive industries.
