SAPP Exit Strategy Workshops

SAPP Exsit Strategy Workshop 2026

Ensuring sustainability, protecting public investment, and empowering communities for a lasting impact.

7

Provinces Engaged

7

Regional Workshops

100+

Government
Officials

9

Years of
SAPP Impact

Tahe SAPP Exit Strategy

The SAPP should complete all the development activities by 30 June 2026, and thereafter, the closing of the financial activities should take place from 1 July – 31 December 2026. To protect the relatively large amount of public investment and interest, and sustainability of the SAPP programs and projects, their continuation, further development, spilling over the SAPP good practices and knowhow to the society around and monitoring and evaluation activities of the same should be formally handed over to relevant public institutions before the programme exit.

To protect the relatively large amount of public investment and interest, and sustainability of the SAPP programs and projects, their continuation, further development, spilling over the SAPP good practices and knowhow to the society around and monitoring and evaluation activities of the same should be formally handed over to relevant public institutions before the programme exit.

The Provincial Government level of the country is identified as the best administrative level to direct the SAPP initiated projects and programs toward ensuaring a greater sustainability as all of the SAPP programs are based on agricultural and livestock farming  productions and producers, highly depend on the public administrative, technical and physical services, they need, governed by the provincial ministries of agriculture, and the SAPP has already signed MOUs with the Provincial Chief Secretaries to get the support of the provincial bodies while implementing the SAPP projects in their designated areas.

Collaborative Handover for Lasting Impact

On this backdrop, the SAPP proposed to conduct discussions with the Chief Provincial Secretaries of the SAPP implemented areas to explore as to how the handing over process of the SAPP projects is done in a seamless, trustworthy and sustainable manner.

Accordingly , the SAPP conducted separate discussions with the top-level public officials of the Central, Southern, North-central, North-western, Uva, Sabaragamuwa and Eastern provinces separately, and the relevant district secretariat offices, representing the central government, were also participated in.

Kurunegala Workshop

UVA Workshop

Galle Workshop

Kandy Workshop

Anuradapura Workshop

National Youth Agripreneur Showcase & B2B Connect

Together, we are building a stronger future for

rural entrepreneurship and

agricultural innovation.

🌾 Empowering the Next Generation of Agripreneurs! 🌱 

The Youth Forum and Exhibition, named the ‘National Agripreneur Showcase and B2B Connect’ was highly successfully conducted by the Smallholder Agribusiness Partnerships Programme (SAPP) in Waters Edge and the Diyatha Uyana, Battaramulla, from 28 to 29 April 2026 with the objectives of enhancing market access, promoting business visibility, facilitating commercial partnerships, and strengthening entrepreneurial capacity among rural and youth-led enterprises which are helped by the SAPP program during the last 9 years since June 2017.

YOUTH FORUM

28th April 2026

400 Youth Participants

The Youth forum was held on 28th April 2026 with the participation of 400 youth; delegates of foreign donor agencies and government officials form agricultural and budgetary line agencies around the country.

The Hon. Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya was the chief guest for the youth forum that had several technical and entrepreneurial sessions to build social and youth confidence towards the agripreneurship, acknowledge the youth participation to agribusiness and increase the spillover of the SAPP proven practices to a higher scale that enhances the food security of the country.

EXHIBITION

28th – 29th April 2026

Waters Edge & Diyatha Uyana, Battaramulla

The Exhibition of agri products and services of the SAPP youth in the agribusiness was really a memorable gathering that showcased the achievements of youth Agripreneurs, strengthened the partnerships, and created new opportunities for sustainable agribusiness growth in Sri Lanka.

KEY OBJECTIVES

Enhancing market access

Promoting business visibility

Facilitating commercial partnerships

Strengthenung entreprenurial capacity among rural and youth-led enterprises