Outcome and impact indicators
A series of example indicators are proposed below to measure the changes in the territory when interventions are made using tools and actions for rural entrepreneurship development.
Socioeconomic development and stimulation
Socioeconomic development and stimulation
- Increase in the net profit margin of the entire company (or producer organization)
- Increase in the net income of the members of the producer organization
- Increase in employment or family occupation
- Increase in the production value added
- Number of organizations and institutions involved in the territory’s economic development
Market access
Market access
- Increase in the production volume sold of the supported products
- Increase in the number of short and/or long chains after a market access investment project
- Number of partnerships between producer organizations and buyers
Technological and scientific innovation
Technological and scientific innovation
- Increase in the productivity of the production units of the beneficiaries of the investment
- Number of new technologies adopted by the project entrepreneur beneficiaries
- Number of new patents and licenses
- Increase in the business capital used for R&D investment
- Number of joint initiatives, research centers and agricultural-university-micro-entrepreneurships
Technical assistance and business enhancement
Technical assistance and business enhancement
- Increase in formalized and legalized producer organizations
- Number of supported producer organizations that handle their own accounting and hold themselves accountable to their members
- Number of agreements between producer organizations and service providers
- Number of established service networks
- Number of training activities carried out with producer organizations
Entrepreneur culture
Entrepreneur culture
- Degree of growth of networks and contacts among actors and entrepreneur organizations
- Number of effective activities and social events held by ecosystem agents
- Number of business development tools used by entrepreneurs
- Number of entrepreneurship publications disseminated
- Number of experience exchanges and trips