Saambat will deliver two key outcomes:
Outcome 1: Poor Rural People’s benefits from market participation increased;
Outcome 2: Poor Rural People’s Productive Capacities Increased.
The Outcomes make clear that the purpose of SAAMBAT is to benefit poor rural people. “Poor rural people” means smallholder farmers and landless people whose livelihood is mainly from paid labour. “Poor rural people” must be understood to include people who have low incomes or are vulnerable to climate change and economic shocks, not only people who have ID-Poor cards. Some people who are not poor will benefit from SAAMBAT. For example, SAAMBAT may help a business owner (who is not poor) to expand his or her business. The expanded business employs more workers, who come from poor households. So, in this way SAAMBAT benefits the poor even though the direct beneficiary is not poor.”