Positive enabling environments represent a first step in creating opportunities for industries and businesses to expand. Changes in industry competitiveness involves promoting private sector-driven market initiatives, increasing institutional capacity, and forging meaningful relationships between the private and public sectors. Under a USAID-funded project in Uganda, IBI organized a participative consultation and network-building process which brought together stakeholders from the public sector, private sector, and civil society. Our approach focused on Uganda's lack of a trade strategy that supported the ability of its agricultural sub-sectors to become competitive in global markets. The ongoing private-public sector dialogue resulted in strategies to address this issue in the coffee, cotton, and fisheries sectors. Barriers to the integration of women into value chains, as well as new opportunities for women to take advantage of, were identified and incorporated into sectoral assessments.

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