Family Farming Diversification Tender

Approval Date11 December 2019Duration2019 - 2026SectorAgricultural DevelopmentTotal Project CostUS 65.77 millionIFAD FinancingUS 16.16 millionCo-financiers InternationalAdaptation Fund US 7 millionKuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development US 15 millionAbu Dhabi Fund for Development US 15 millionCo-financiers DomesticNational Government US 7.66 millionBeneficiaries US 4.95 millionFinancing termsDSF GrantHighly ConcessionalProject ID2000001605Project ContactGianluca Mr CapaldoThe projects overarching goal is to sustainably increase the income and dietary diversity of rural households in the countrys eastern and northern regions. Its development objective is to provide assistance for family farming diversification and adaptation to CC to increase access to markets and dietary diversity in the Bafat Cacheu Gab and Oio regions while fostering entrepreneurship among rural youth and women persons with disabilities and migrants who have returned to the country and their integration into regional and subregional trade corridors. The project will be implemented over a six-year period. Its intervention area will span the four regions of Bafat Cacheu Gab and Oio which are the poorest most extensive and least populated regions of the country with 0.9 million inhabitants out of a total population of 1.625 million 55 per cent.