Business Skills for Emergency and Recovery Contexts
In collaboration with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, or CIAT, CRS developed the Skills for Marketing and Rural Transformation, or SMART. Paired with CRS’ Savings and Internal Lending Communities, or SILC, methodology, this toolkit can be tailored into a sustainable methodology that meets participants’ capacities wherever they find themselves on the pathway to prosperity: emergency, recover, build, grow or prosper.
![Nearly 90% of ginger produced in Nepal is exported[3], however, despite this strong export potential smallholder and women farmers are often not able to take advantage and benefit from higher profitability](/sites/default/files/styles/card_desktop_2x/public/2025/07/14/lessons_learned_iwrf_nepal-30sep2024-1.webp?h=f61ad192&itok=OWE1fyQk)
