Empowerment Nutrition Sensitive Tender

Country
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Approval Date
28 December 2022
Duration
2022 - 2030
Sector
Agricultural Development
Total Project Cost
US$ 213.55 million
IFAD Financing
US$ 45.2 million
Co-financiers (International)
Agence française de développement US$ 53.5 million
Central African Forest Initiative US$ 40 million
Co-financiers (Domestic)
Domestic Financing Institutions US$ 31.88 million
National Government US$ 18.9 million
Beneficiaries US$ 6.88 million
Financing Gap
US$ 17.19 million
Financing terms
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Project ID
2000003920
Project Contact
Valantine Mr Achancho
The overall goal of the project Empowerment through Nutrition-Sensitive, Inclusive and Resilient Agricultural and Rural Entrepreneurship (AVENIR) is to contribute to the reduction of rural poverty and improvement of the nutrition of rural groups in the provinces surrounding Kinshasa. Its development objective is to support a sustainable transformation of family farming and better management of natural resources in order to contribute to climate-change mitigation, income improvement and food diversity of rural households.

The project will finance:

development of agrosystems;
improved productivity of family farming;
the promotion of agricultural and rural entrepreneurship for women and youth;
improved access to production basins;
capacity-building of stakeholders;
application of existing policies aimed at promoting entrepreneurship for women and youth and the representation of the rural poor in local decision-making bodies.