The toolbook is designed as a concise document aimed to provide value chain practitioners
with an easy to follow set of tools for value chain analysis, focused on poverty reduction.
Whilst there are a number of handbooks on Value Chain analysis already in existence the
aim of this toolbook is to bridge the gap between value chain analysis and pro-poor
development. Hence the tools that are presented here are similar to those presented in
other handbooks, but the main special feature of the toolbook is that within each of the tools there is a clear focus on how to apply the tool in order to analyze the impact of the value chain from the point of view of the poor.