Promote household income generation through improvement of micro-enterprise innovation, management and marketing skills;
Promote rural employment opportunity by fostering inter-household cooperation to achieve relative economies of scale and clustering group activities to achieve supply chain integration and diversification;
Develop at the national level a core support base consisting of a demonstration site, trainers and support persons providing entrepreneurial assistance to rural enterprises; and
Link production or technology based projects to market opportunities through creation of a rural based entrepreneur culture making technology transfer recipient driven as opposed to donor driven.
Its immediate objectives included the following:
Training of national focal persons in a portfolio of skills required to stimulate and sustain rural enterprises;
Upgrading popular traditional food products for identified markets within the regional tourist sector;
Developing safe, hygienic practices based on traditional processes and upgrade packaging, supply and distribution;
Establishing in each country a pilot site, functioning as an active, sustainable enterprise and collectively harnessing the output of a number of households; and
Adding value to on-going technology transfer or credit orientated projects.
