The programmes and projects that Kilimo Trust will implement in partnership with, and/or on behalf of, governments, international and regional organizations, and private sector, shall be designed to deliver the following Three General Outcomes;

Sustainable Markets: Elements of this outcome will include reduced market failures and thus enhanced performance of entire value chains, especially those targeting the entire in the EAC Common Market.

Viable and Strong "Private-Private Partnerships": This is one of the strongest pillars of sustainable markets, therefore, securing of "private-private partnerships" driven by market/profit incentives within the sector value chains, will be given priority in KT's interventions.

Supportive Policy and Strategies: The target will be to influence several innovations in high level policies, strategies and institutions – necessary for making markets work better especially at regional level. Kilimo Trust will pursue and implement interventions which will influence change of the frameworks (such as enforced grades and standards), and services (such as commodity exchanges), which determine the efficiency of markets and market incentives.

Outputs

The main generic outputs, expected to come out of the programmes and projects that Kilimo Trust will implement in partnership with, and/or on behalf of, governments, international and regional organizations, and private sector, shall include the following:

Knowledge: This will be in the form of statistics, databases, and substantive documents which can be used more widely to inform investment and business decisions.

Sustainable Institutions: making markets work for the reduction of poverty through agriculture requires improvement of institutional arrangements. Operation of a market system or value chain needs the support of many different institutions. There are three main aspects of institutions which require attention:

Public sector institutions: such as national and local governments, law and order, and legal systems;

Business institutions – such as associations of smallholders producers, traders, processors, and consumers.

Institutional networks – which is the interaction of the business institutions among themselves, and between them and the national, regional and global regulatory institutions.

Commercialized New Products: making markets work for the reduction of poverty through agriculture requires improvement of profitability coupled with equitable distribution of such profitability. One intervention necessary to support this would be the introduction of new or improvement of the product lines towards higher value products.

Commercialized Services: business development services are vital to building and up-grading agricultural value chains. Most of the necessary services are rarely available commercially. Therefore, KT interventions will contribute to making the necessary and sufficient business (or value chain) development services to be readily available commercially, especially for the smallholders.

Platform for promoting regional solutions for local problems: the Partner States of the EAC have made tremendous progress towards a common market. However, it has become apparent that joint implementation of programmes and projects, pooling resources for common good is only being talked about but hardly implemented. The ambition of KT is to be among few regional organizations that provide a neutral platform for programmes that promote regional solutions for national and local problems.