📋 Tender Overview
Project sponsor: CARE Austria, Association for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid
Country: Cote d'Ivoire Funding amount: € 195,000.00 Start: 01.03.2024 End: 29.02.2028
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
project goal
The aim of this project is to increase the contribution and leadership of women and young adults in the value chains for vegetables, cassava and plantains, thereby ensuring the availability of these products in national and international markets, as well as the accessibility of these food products to consumers.
expected results
1. 1,500 organisations bringing together 15,000 actors from one of the three sectors (cassava, plantain, vegetable products and by-products) will develop an inclusive governance system that enables women and youth to fully contribute to the development of the three value chains;
2. A sustainable extension system based on community self-learning and promoting climate-smart agricultural techniques, in which 17,000 women and youth increase their knowledge and capacities for production, processing and marketing;
3. 7,500 women and young producers have access to agricultural inputs and information to increase their income from the three value chains;
4. Financial products adapted to the actors of the three value chains will be developed by a microfinance institution and 3,750 actors, of whom at least 80% are women and young people, will receive loans enabling them to increase the profitability of their activities.
target group
ADC funds directly reach 909 beneficiaries.
(a total of 18,150 direct beneficiaries in 4 northern regions: Bagoué, Poro, Tchologo, Warodougou; 4 central regions: Bélier, Haut Sassandra, Gbéké, N'Zi; 4 southern regions: Me, Sud Comoe, Indénié-Djuablin, Lagunes)
Measures
• Developing the entrepreneurial and leadership skills of 17,000 women and young adults;
• Developing leadership skills of women/youth from 1,500 VSLAs and promoting their networking;
• Supporting the learning of 17,000 actors from the three value chains on technological innovations;
• To provide agricultural inputs and equipment to individuals/groups experimenting with innovations;
• Promoting the use of digital platforms by 7,500 young adults/producers;
• Development of three financial products and establishment of guarantee programs that enable 3,750 youth/women to obtain at least one loan.
background information
The production of cassava, plantains and vegetables in Côte d'Ivoire has increased significantly in recent decades. However, the production of these product groups does not meet the requirements of regional, national and international markets. In some regions, food products have to be imported, and the gap between production and consumption has become increasingly large.
For this reason, vegetable farmers now only cover 10% of their needs in seeds and seedlings, and cassava farmers even less than 1%. There is a lack of organizational or management structures in the areas of production, proc
