ACCESS's on-field livelihoods projects are implemented under three broad sectoral activities: sustainable agricultural development, forest-based activities and handicrafts.
SPARC (Small Producers Assistance Resource Centre)
SPARC is the core of ACCESS project implementation. It is an ACCESS innovation to bring prudential norms, discipline and sustainability of resources invested in livelihoods interventions.
SPARC is conceptualised as an embedded service within a cluster to support the primary producers with need-based services that they desire and integrate them into value chains. Typically a SPARC is manned by a Professional Team headed by a Team Leader, one subject matter specialist, one social processes expert and one value chain expert. One SPARC can service about 500 primary producers in the non farm sector and about a 1000 primary producers in the farm sector. While usually the SPARC is an ACCESS team, in the case of complex projects, SPARC is hired by ACCESS but seconded to the NGO or Community Organisation. Wherever there are good local NGO partners, the social processes expert is located within the partners.