📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P174002
Region: Africa east
Commitment Amount: Us$ 250.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 450.00 million
The proposed Sustainable Rural EconomyPforRProgram, or SREP (the Program ) will support Mozambique’s PODERS (the program ).It will focus on the Government’s ambition and need to increase significantly public investments in the agrarian sector, while leveraging additional sources of funding to support this ambition. It will therefore focus on promoting theproductivity and intensification of agriculture through climate resilient and sustainable practices that reduce the impact of agriculture on natural forests and ecosystems, while enhancing ecosystem services (soil, water, forests) that rural production depend on, and diversifying the rural economy to new sustainable productive activities (forestry, fisheries, nature based tourism) that reduce the dependence and associated land-use change from agriculture in rural areas of Mozambique.22.To this end, the SREP boundaries are defined in terms of Program duration and time frame and the Program results areas and activities supported.In terms of timeframe, the Program will support the same phase (5 years) as the overall government program (PODERS). It will help to strengthen the government systems, institutions and processes for more effective delivery of investments into the rural economy, as well as critical policy reforms. In terms of results areas and activities, the SREP will support three strategic results areas: (i) Promoting the sustainable productivity of the agrarian sector, (ii) Developing sustainable and competitive agrarianvalue chains, and (iii) Preserving the provision of key ecosystem services and production landscapes. Proposed DLI are still indicative and will be adjusted, in close coordination with theGoMand based on final PODERS and its M&E system.23.SREP’s main group ofbeneficiariesin theagriculture sector will bethesmallholderstargeted by theSustentaExtensionistaplan.SustentaExtensionistaisdraftplan aimedat bringingasignificant additional number of extension agentstemporarily into the extension network, later supporting themtobecome PACES.In the first phase ofSustentaExtensionista, FNDS would bring an additional 2,000 extension agents into the public network, expecting to cover about 150,000 smallholders (i.e. 75 smallholders per extension agent). These extension agents would be allocated model plots in select productive areas. Theywould be intensely trained to implement developed technological packages and support adjacent smallholders. After graduating, these extension agents would be supported to become PACEs through Matching Grantson the condition that theirbusinesplans continue to include smallholders, leaving the public extension network7.The plan isreportedlyunder implementation, withpart of the requiredplots alreadyidentifiedand recruitment
