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From food systems to enterprise reactivation — scalable, community-driven development.
ActiveTHABAT PP — Business Development Services for Awarded SMEs
Through the Business Clinic, SAS is delivering structured Business Development Services to 87 grant-awarded SMEs in Kassala, River Nile, and Northern State under THABAT PP. Support combines diagnostics, tailored Business Development Plans, coaching, field follow-up, workshops, market-linkage facilitation, and Mahsool digital market access, strengthening governance, financial management, operations, market participation, and post-grant sustainability across wheat, sorghum, and vegetable value chains.
- Sector:
- Agribusiness / SME Development / Food Systems
- SAS Programmes:
- Business Clinic
ActiveAl-Mafaza Food Processing and Technology Transfer Complex
SAS is supporting Mufazy to formalize ownership and land-use over an approximately 10,000 m² site in Al-Mafaza and develop an integrated food-processing and technology-transfer complex. The proposed complex combines water purification and ice production, animal-feed processing, horticultural preservation and value addition, and a Technology Transfer and Food Systems Collaboration Center. SAS support spans land formalization, business and investment case development, technical preparation, and phased capital planning.
- Sector:
- Food Processing / Local Economic Development / Technology Transfer
- SAS Programmes:
- Asset Registry, Business Clinic, Investment Readiness
ActiveResponsible Sourcing Strategies for Sudan's Gum Arabic Value Chain
SAS is supporting Avaaz to develop responsible sourcing strategies for Sudan's gum arabic value chain, combining systems analysis, field research, and stakeholder consultation. The work examines producer livelihoods, supply continuity, and conflict-related sourcing risks, and develops practical pathways around sustainable productivity, resource digital traceability, institutional linkages, and community access.
- Sector:
- Gum Arabic / Responsible Sourcing / Natural Resource Value Chains
- SAS Programmes:
- REsource
CompletedTriangle of Value — Food Systems Development
In collaboration with the UNDP Accelerator Lab, SAS developed and tested the "Triangle of Value," a food-systems model linking Farmer Producer Organizations, Consumer Cooperatives, and finance through coordinated demand, supply, and investment. The horticulture pilot connected three consumer cooperatives in Khartoum State with one FPO in the Gezira Scheme, supported an offtake arrangement, and engaged Ebdaa Bank around production and consumption finance. The work later expanded into nationwide cooperative mapping, identifying more than 2,000 cooperatives across Sudan as a foundation for future market-system interventions.
- Sector:
- Food Systems / Cooperatives / Market Systems Development
- SAS Programmes:
- Food Systems Strategy (legacy initiative)