Accelerating Progress towards the Economic Empowerment of Rural Women

To secure rural women’s livelihoods and rights in the context of sustainable development and the SDGs

COUNTRY/REC Liberia

PROJECT COVERAGE Multi-country

PROJECT PERIOD October 2014 - June 2020

PROJECT SITE Grand Bassa, Margibi, Maryland, River Gee, Sinoe

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Gender Children, and Social Protection
2 Ministry of Agriculture
3 National Rural Women’s Structure
4 Association of Women in Cross Border Trade
5 VOSIEDA
6 THINK Liberia
7 Farmers Assistance Programme
8 Liberia Marketing Association
9 EduCARE Liberia
10 FAO
11 WFP
12 UNWOMEN
13 Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF) 3,200,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 3,200,000.00 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 3,200,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To secure rural women’s livelihoods and rights in the context of sustainable development and the SDGs

Project Objectives

Rural women have improved food and nutrition security

Rural women have increased income to secure their livelihoods

Rural women have enhanced leadership and participation in their communities and inrural institutions, and in shaping laws, policies and programmes

Project Outputs

Capacity building of women in rural areas on agribusiness and income generating

Increasing food security reserves

Construction of warehouses (storages)

Provision of agricultural hand tools, power tillers, threshers, milling machines

Trainings for female farmers on agribusiness and management

Improvement of their literacy and numeracy skills

Trainings for County Agriculture Coordinators and community leaders from women farming groups on climate resilient agriculture

Project activities

Women empowerment

Village Savings and Loan Association (Agribusiness)

Agribusiness and Entrepreneur, Capacity building

Post-harvest and value addition

Marketing

Rice cultivation technique

Land and water management

Rice cultivation technique

Agricultural policies

RICE Approach: Areas of contribution by the project

Resilience Industrialization Competitiveness Empowerment
R1: Area under irrigation
I1: Capacity of industrial mills
C1: Share of local rice
E1: Access to financial services
R2: Quantity of resilient seeds
I2: Mechanization ratio
C2: Quantity of high-yielding seeds
E2: Access to technical services

SIEM

Policy / Institutional Infrastructure Human Resource Capacity Provision of Equipments or services Knowledge / Research
Seed
Fertilizer
Irrigation / water management
On-farm technology transfer
Mechanization
Quality Improvement
Access to market
Access to credit
Overall policy tools

Crosscutting

Women

Youth

Nutrition

Climate Change

Food system

Contact (implementing partner)

CARD
Ramon Garway