📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: CARE Austria, Association for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Aid
Country: Ivory Coast Funding amount: € 195,000.00 Project start: March 1, 2024 End: February 29, 2028
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall 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, and thereby ensure 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 organizations 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-friendly agricultural techniques, in which 17,000 women and youth expand 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, at least 80% of whom are women and young people, will receive loans that will enable them to increase the profitability of their activities.
Target group / Beneficiaries
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)
Activities
• Developing the entrepreneurial and leadership skills of 17,000 women and young adults;
• Developing the 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 young people/women to obtain at least one loan.
Context
The production of cassava, plantains, and vegetables in Côte d'Ivoire has increased significantly in recent decades. However, production of these product groups still falls short of the demands of regional, national, and international markets. As a result, some regions rely on imported food products, and the gap between production and consumption has become increasingly wide.
For this reason, vegetable farmers now only cover 10% of their needs with seeds and seedlings, and cassava farmers even less than 1%. There is a lack of organizational or ma
