Rural Empowerment Agriculture Tender

CountryIndonesiaApproval Date14 September 2017Duration2017 - 2023SectorAgricultural DevelopmentTotal Project CostUS 55.33 millionIFAD FinancingUS 40.89 millionCo-financiers InternationalPrivate Sector Foreign US 2.21 millionCo-financiers DomesticNational Government US 9.61 millionBeneficiaries US 2.62 millionFinancing termsOrdinaryProject ID2000001181Project ContactIvan Ramiro Cossio CortezIn Indonesia agriculture remains the main source of income for one third of the total population and for 64 per cent of the poor. Although well-commercialized in some parts of the country smallholder agriculture is less developed in the more geographically remote areas such as Sulawesi and the border districts in West Kalimantan and East Nusa Tenggara.READ SI builds on and scales up the successful Rural Empowerment and Agricultural Development project. It aims to deliver sustainable improvements in the livelihoods of the rural poor by further increasing smallholder household assets and incomes reducing chronic malnutrition in children improving access to markets and services and decreasing food insecurity. The project will directly benefit at least 342000 small farmers 50 per cent of whom will be women.