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IATI identifier 46002-P-CF-A00-004
Country Central African Republic
Sector Agriculture and Rural Development
High 5 Feed Africa
Sovereign / Non-Sovereign Sovereign
Environmental Category [2] Moderate Risk
Climate Safeguards Categorization [2] Projects may be vulnerable to climate risk.
Gender Marker System Categorization [GEN II] Gender Outcomes
Commitment 22,800,000
Project General Description
The PADFP-PEJA is the African Development Bank's response to the CAR's Agricultural Pact Investment Plan presented at the Dakar 2 African Food Summit "Feeding Africa: Food Sovereignty and Resilience", held from January 25 to 27, 2023, in Dakar, Senegal. CAR's National Pact for Food and Agriculture is part of the Government's overall vision to rebuild productive, profitable, sustainable, and wealth-creating agriculture. It aims to revive food production (crops, livestock, and fisheries) and promote market integration by focusing on the following priority sectors: (i) Crop production: maize, rice, cassava, and market garden crops; (ii) Livestock production: cattle and poultry (broiler chicken); (iii) Fisheries resources (fisheries, fish farming) (PADFP-PEJA).
Project Objectives
The project aims to improve agricultural production and productivity so as to help promote food and nutrition security and reduce poverty. Specifically, the project aims to: (i) develop local sustainable agricultural development plans (PLDADs) with climate issues to serve as a planning framework for all interventions in the agroforestry sector at local level; (ii) promote modern and climate-resilient technologies to boost the productivity of the crop and animal sectors (cassava, maize, rice, red beans, yams, bananas, cattle, and poultry) in Region 2; (iii) create jobs for young people and women by promoting agricultural entrepreneurship and agribusiness; (iv) establish an innovative matching grant financing mechanism to support and accompany the implementation of sub-projects from the PLDADs ; and (vii) improve the governance of the agricultural sector.
Beneficiaries
The direct beneficiaries of the project are: The Ministries of Agriculture, Livestock, Economy, Planning and International Cooperation, Youth and Sports, Environment, Labor, and Employment. The final beneficiaries of the project are: 1,000 women and young entrepreneurs, 60,000 producers and their families (300,000 people) benefiting directly from support in terms of inputs, training, and cooperative structuring. Intermediate beneficiaries are: (i) The decision-making structures of the 40 communes and the local populations of the 40 selected communes in the Nana Mambéré and Mambéré Kadéi Prefectures, estimated at 465,869 inhabitants, who will benefit from an improved economic and nutritional environment; (ii) Central African refugees from Cameroon and internally displaced persons; (iii) Beneficiaries of indirect employment along the value chain from the businesses created (5. 000 jobs, 50% of which will
