📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P172769
Region: Africa west
Commitment Amount: Us$ 435.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 460.00 million
The project is designed as a Multi-Phase Programmatic Approach (MPA).This instrument will allowto tackle complex development challenges underpinning food system resilience for two principle reasons: (1) to guarantee the longer term commitmentrequired tobuild sustainable regional mechanisms andinstitutionswith sufficent substanceat a regional leveland (2) to allow a set of countries with varying degrees of readiness to adopt consistent approaches and accede to regional systems at appropriately differential speeds. Phasing the accession of countries according to their readiness will allow regional mechanisms to operate with maxium effectiveness.The project will include the followingfivecomponents and six sub-components:16.Component 1: Digital Advisory Services for Agriculture and Food Crisis Prevention & Management.This component aims at (i) strengtheningregional capacity and institutional sustainability to provide demand-driven digital advisory services including agro-advisory and impact-based hydromet/climate information and warning services and (ii) promote their use in agriculture and food crisis prevention, management and response •Regional Sub-component 1.1: Upgrading Food Crisis Prevention & Monitoring Systems.The sub-component would transform the regional system for food security relevant data collection, analysis and management in order to information and advisory servicesthroughstrengthening the capabilities, coordination and organization of AGRHYMET and other institutions mandated to fulfil these functions at regional level.•National Sub-component 1.2:Strengthening Creation and Provision of Digital Advisory Services for Farmers The sub-component would increase access to and use of location-specific information relevant to food security by decision makers and farmers via national extension systems, includingthrough capacity building and institutional strengthening activities for public and private hydromet and agromet service providers.
