Document Type: Financial Statement Report No.: AUD0008828 Document Date: JUL 17, 2017

Author: Akpo,Leissan Augustine Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Auditing Document Report No.: AUD0008781 Document Date: JUL 17, 2017

Author: Hayfron,Charlotte Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Auditing Document Report No.: AUD0008761 Document Date: JUL 12, 2017

Author: Hayfron,Charlotte Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Auditing Document Report No.: AUD0008761 Document Date: JUL 12, 2017

Author: Hayfron,Charlotte Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR27648 Document Date: JUN 30, 2017

Author: Souhaid,Anne Cecile Sophie Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR28937 Document Date: JUN 30, 2017

Author: Abdoulaye Toure Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Procurement Plan Report No.: STEP2596 Document Date: JUN 29, 2017

Author: Philippe Zoungrana Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR26604 Document Date: JUN 28, 2017

Author: Lajaunie,Marie-Laure Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR28556 Document Date: JUN 28, 2017

Author: Clark,John Paul Disclosure Status: Disclosed

Ratings for the Second Series of Project under the First Phase of the West Africa Agriculture Productivity Program for Burkina Faso, Cote dIvoire, Nigeria, and CORAF were as follows: outcomes were moderately satisfactory, the risk to development outcome was moderate, the Bank performance was satisfactory, and the Borrower performance was moderately satisfactory. ... See More + Some lessons learned included: Regional projects that (i) are supported by Economic Community of West Africa (ECOWAS), and (ii) address similar constraints and have the same PDO can have more benefits and a much higher impact on the participating countries than projects limited to individual small countries. By stimulating interactions between professionals in different countries, their world view changes and they become more open to innovations and change. Need for multidisciplinary research teams. Need to connect agricultural technology with entrepreneurship and employment creation, especially youth. Strengthening producer organizations must be one key element of agricultural Technology generation and dissemination (TGD) programs.Technology packages are more important than single innovations.Need to initiate impact evaluation studies early to enable testing of methodologies and address analytical and inferential challenges, which has been a bottleneck in the preparation of this report  See Less -

Document Type: Implementation Completion and Results Report Report No.: ICR4132 Document Date: JUN 27, 2017

Disclosure Status: Disclosed