Risk Management for Sustainable Value Chain Promotion

The growing number of people living on Earth as well as increasing competition worldwide due to globalisation and improvements in information and communication technologies requires an approach to enable small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing and newly developed countries to participate and remain in the market. Value chain promotion is a pro-poor growth-oriented approach that strives to add personal and financial value at every link of the chain from the first step in production to the sale of a product. Based on literature research semi-standardised expert interviews and project monitoring it is attempted to answer how upgrading strategies should be developed for a successful implementation and how challenges and risks have to be coped with. Therefore the usability of strategies such as inclusive business triple bottom line cycle of learning public-private-partnerships (PPP) SWOT and gap analyses as well as monitoring systems are tested in the main part. Finally the transferability of supply chain risk management (SCRM) on value chains is researched in order to find solutions from various perspectives.