Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (AVDP)

Improved livelihoods, food security and climate change resilience of rural farming households in Sierra Leone

COUNTRY/REC Sierra Leone

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD July 2019 - March 2026

PROJECT SITE Whole country

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of agriculture and forestry (MAF)
2 IFAD 52,613,715.00
3 OFID 20,000,000.00
4 National government 14,500,000.00
5 Contribution of beneficiaties 3,336,000.00
6 Private sector 1,424,000.00
7 Others 12,411,229.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 0 0 0
Loan 104,284,944.00 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 104,284,944.00 - 0
Project Goal

Improved livelihoods, food security and climate change resilience of rural farming households in Sierra Leone

Project Objectives

Increased incomes for smallholder farmers through the promotion of agriculture as a business

Project Outputs

"Volume and value of produce increased"

"Value chain organization and performance improved"

Project activities

Climate Resilient and Smart Agricultural Production

Agricultural Market Development

Project Coordination and Management

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Input suppliers
2 Rural households 34000
3 Female and youth 13600
Indirect Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number

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

Project challenges

Adequate access to land

Contact (implementing partner)

CARD