Poor rural households engaged in the cassava and rice value chains serve as the primary target group, including smallholder farmers cultivating up to five hectares of land, small-scale processors and traders. The entry point is through organized groups of producers and processors, with particular attention to both women and youth groups. To ensure that programme interventions is demand-driven and respond effectively to needs, an institutional mapping of these organisations, particularly farmers’ organizations, has been carried out to determine their maturity levels, needs and scope of activities in order to effectively strengthen them. Through the Additional Financing 2019, VCDP’s target increased to 135,000 direct beneficiaries comprising of 69,000 men (51%) and 66,000 women (49%), a minimum of 150 people with disabilities will be strategically targeted. The breakdown is (121,000 smallholder farmers; 14,000 processors/ marketers.