Congo, Democratic Republic of - Agriculture Rehabilitation and Recovery Project : additional financing (English)

The development objective of the Agriculture Rehabilitation and Recovery Project for Congo, Democratic Republic of is to increase agricultural productivity and improve marketing of crops, and animal products by smallholder farmers in targeted areas.The... See More + The development objective of the Agriculture Rehabilitation and Recovery Project for Congo, Democratic Republic of is to increase agricultural productivity and improve marketing of crops, and animal products by smallholder farmers in targeted areas.The main changes that the AF will bring to the parent project are: (i) a slight modification of the PDO from “to increase agricultural productivity and improve marketing of crops, and animal products by smallholder farmers in targeted areas” to “to increase agricultural productivity and improve marketing of crops, and animal products in targeted areas of the Recipient’s territory” to broaden the scope of project beneficiaries; (ii) expansion of the geographical scope of the project to include two additional territories, namely Libenge and Bongadanga; (iii) enhanced value chain development including perennial value chains such as coffee and cocoa; (iv) addition of activities to address cross-cutting issues such as nutrition-sensitive activities, climate smart agriculture, gender, and job creation; (v) implementation of a rural roads maintenance strategy that was prepared under the parent project; and (vi) addition of PDO and intermediate indicators and adjustments to some results targets to reflect the AF activities. To enable the implementation launch of these additional project activities, the parent project closing date has been extended from January 31, 2017 to November 30, 2017.  See Less -