Principles
AGCOT Partnership Principles
Promote the Partnership
Support and uphold the AGCOT Partnership Principles by helping each member understand their roles, responsibilities, and expectations within the AGCOT framework. Collaboration and transparency are foundational to sustained engagement.
Coordinate Corridor-Related Activities
Serve as a credible and professional focal point to help partners plan, implement, and review their activities. Ensure alignment with broader AGCOT-led initiatives across the corridors to maximize synergy and impact.
Act as an Honest Broker
The AGCOT Centre is a neutral convener—identifying partners, aligning efforts, and facilitating cooperation. While many organizations are already active in the agriculture sector, AGCOT enhances coordination to streamline efforts, amplify impact, and create lasting value.
Monitor and Evaluate Partnership Impact
While each partner is responsible for monitoring their own development, the AGCOT Centre tracks overall partnership performance. This includes investment volumes, growth and profitability of agriculture at various scales, and environmental and social outcomes—particularly regarding poverty reduction, gender, and youth inclusion. (See Inclusive Green Growth Tool: IGG Tool)
Core Commitments of AGCOT Partners
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Agreement on AGCOT’s Objectives
Commit to AGCOT’s goals of responsible commercial growth, food and nutrition security, and inclusive value chain development. All partners are expected to integrate smallholder farmers into viable business models. -
Engagement with the Partnership and AGCOT Centre
Actively support the AGCOT Centre’s coordination efforts through communication, collaboration, and mutual trust, especially as long-term benefits become more visible. -
Pursue Innovative Financing Mechanisms
Embrace new investment models that catalyze private sector engagement while ensuring tangible benefits for smallholder farmers. This may require embracing risk and adapting traditional practices to new realities. -
Support Agro-Industrial Investment
Work with AGCOT to identify and realize industrial investment opportunities, including those led by farmers, cooperatives, SMEs, and larger agribusinesses. -
Support Farmers Through Partnerships
Strengthen smallholder farmers through coordinated value chain partnerships that promote farming as a business and enhance access to markets, finance, and services. -
Promote a Stronger Enabling Environment
Engage with policymakers and regulatory bodies through AGCOT’s platforms to identify and advocate for key policy and infrastructure reforms needed to unlock agricultural growth. -
Collaborate for Harmonized Strategy and Action
Ensure activities are aligned with AGCOT’s coordinated approach—collaborating across the corridors on planning, investment, implementation, and reform. -
Contribute to Resolving Policy and Infrastructure Barriers
Identify and raise critical constraints that hinder local and national agricultural development. Partners must be ready to contribute to practical, context-driven solutions based on their capabilities and roles.
Agreement to adhere to the Inclusive Green Growth principles
(to get the guiding tools, please visit https://agcot.org/index.php/mdocuments-library/ )
| Organization Type | Annual Fee |
|---|---|
| Large Companies (Global Turnover -> USD 5 million) | TZS 4,000,000 |
| Medium Companies (USD 1 million <- Global Turnover <- USD 5 million) | TZS 1,000,000 |
| Small Companies (Global Turnover <- USD 1 million), Development Partners, Research Organisations, CSOs and Government Agencies or Institutions |
TZS 250,000 |
| Apex or Farmer Organisation | TZS 50,000 |
Development partners, along with Government Ministries, and Knowledge and Academia Partners will also be members of the partnership; however, given their significant contributions to the funding of the SAGCOT Centre and/or within the corridor itself, they will not be expected to pay the membership fee. All fees are renewed annually from 1st January. Non-payment of fees within three years consecutively will result in membership being first suspended and then withdrawn completely.