Member profile
Ms. Cleopatra Ngulube
Country:
South Africa
Field(s) of expertise:
- Action plans and road maps
- Measurement and assessment
- Agricultural development
- Capacity development
- Children and youth
- Climate change
- Economic development
- Emergencies and resilience
- Food security
- Food systems
- Gender
- Markets and trade
- Partnerships and networks
- Policies, strategies and guidelines
- Programme and project implementation
- Rural development
- Small-scale farming
I am working on:
Consolidating my 20+ years of experience in designing, implementing and evaluating sustainable, resilient and inclusive agriculture-led economic development programs and looking to share the lessons learnt from the experiences.
An accomplished International Development Professional with more than 20 years of experience successfully providing technical and strategic leadership in the design, implementation, and evaluation of technically and geographically diverse Resilient and Inclusive Economic Development Programs.
Ms. Cleopatra Ngulube
SOFA Hidden Costs
Though there is no recorded case of use as a TCA methodology, the market systems development (MSD) approach is a potentially useful tool that can be used to identify and understand the underlying causes of the hidden costs in agrifood systems. While the approach largely lends itself to the development of interventions to promote the inclusion of marginalised people in market systems; its focus on addressing the factors that influence outcomes of relationships and transactions between people, organisations, and institutions in the market system makes it a suitable approach to identifying the hidden costs. Furthermore, by placing the value chains at the centre of the framework of the approach, it can apply to a range of scopes which include the global, sectoral, and single-product scopes. The SOFA 2023 already had tenets of the approach when considering the markets, institutional and policy failures in the agrifood system but what may be required is to analyse the root causes of these failures which is what policy can try to address.