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Propcom Mai-karfi (PM) was a nine-year, rural and agricultural market development programme funded by the UK Government. The £27 million first phase of PM (2012-2017) targeted the 19 states in Northern Nigeria. A £24 million extension was approved for an additional 31 months to March 2021, bringing the total value to £51 million. In April 2020, a final 9-month time extension was approved, taking the Programme to December 2021. PM sought to stimulate sustainable pro-poor growth in selected rural markets using a ‘Making Markets Work for the Poor’ (M4P) approach. The Programme worked as a ‘market facilitator’, identifying constraints in market systems and facilitating changes to enable rural markets to work better for the benefit of poor smallholder farmers and rural small-scale entrepreneurs…