Background

Agriterra and CTCF have been cooperating on different fields since 2012. From its inception in 2010, CTCF has developed into cooperation with 98 member coops (representing 6000 tea farmers) with a combined market share of 25% in the orthodox tea in Nepal. CTCF has become a strong and well known federation both internally as well as in the field of lobby and advocacy and service provision to its members. The cooperation between Agriterra and CTCF in 2017 will have an evaluative character. Having worked together for 5 years, it is time to evaluate and see if continuation of cooperation in the future is required and what this cooperation should be focusing on (which business case/BHAG to be realized). Apart from evaluative activities, the Action Plan will bring specific focus towards youth involvement in CTCF and its members. This Action Plan will also assist CTCF in testing paid service provision to its members through having them pay for the Agriterra Basic FMT.

Project Activities

• Implementation of action plan derived from Basic Financial Management Training conducted in December 2016.
• CTCF to provide organizational audit report 2016-2017 to Agriterra
• Provide support, advise and export services for the Tinjure-Maas tea export business case
• Implementation of action plan derived from Youth Council Awareness Training
• Implementation of action plan derived from Governance Training
• Basic Financial Management Training based upon service provision fee. 4/5 member PCs pay fee + margin CTCF
• Create awareness for youth council/sub- committee in 15 member PCs

Services by Agriterra

• Project Evaluation and Evaluative Company Assessment (Agripool)
• ToT: follow up on record keeping and bench marking training (Agripool)

Training Services

• Participation on Agriterra Governance Training
• Participate in awareness workshop on youth participation, formation of youth council, and youth council activities