Your needs

Processing locally what we produce

“Our products leave raw. The value, the jobs and the revenue are created elsewhere.”

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What is happening

Your situation

Your territory produces cocoa, cassava, milk, timber, market vegetables, livestock products. Goods leave in raw form, often with no guaranteed price or outlet. There is no cold chain, no storage, no primary processing unit. Cooperatives and young people want to start businesses, but have no file, no buyer and no operator for a unit.

What you risk

Every tonne sold raw leaves the added value, the jobs and the tax revenue outside the territory.
A processing unit built with no identified buyer and no designated operator stops, like many facilities before it.
Demanding buyers, particularly for export, require a traceability that the territory cannot yet provide.

Who is concerned

Local and regional authorities Exporters and agricultural supply chains Works contractors and delegated contracting authorities

Our answer

What we do

We start from the market, not from the building. A value chain analysis shows where value is lost and what can be processed locally. We size the unit, structure the cooperatives and businesses, look for buyers and purchase contracts, then build a bankable file that names the operator, its revenue and its maintenance. Where the sector requires it, we add a traceability system.

In the Central African context

Sectors vary by area: cattle, milk and cotton in the Far North, market gardening on the highlands, cocoa, cassava and timber in the forest zone, fishing on the coast. We do not propose the same unit everywhere. The European deforestation regulation makes traceability a constraint, but also an advantage for territories that can prove it.

The decisive lever

A processing unit only holds if someone runs it and someone buys from it. It is the operator and the buyer, identified before the investment, that tip the file.

What you receive

Deliverables

Things delivered, not intentions.

Value chain analysis of the selected sector
Business plan for the processing units
Structuring of the cooperatives and operating businesses
Purchase contracts or commitments from identified buyers
Bankable file, with operator, revenue and maintenance
Traceability system, where the sector requires it

Services involved

DEC-105 — Land tenure due diligence and market analysis STR-202 — Business plan and financial modelling STR-205 — Technical structuring and bankable file TRC-403 — End-to-end traceability platform

ODT structures and operates territorial programmes. XP-NOVA delivers the engineering.

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Recommended first step: A value chain analysis on a single sector, to see where value is lost and what can be processed locally.

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