Assistance to Address Food Insecurity in Ebola Affected Farming Communities in Peri-urban and Rural Montserrado County

COUNTRY/REC Liberia

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2016 - December 2016

PROJECT SITE Montserrado

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 WFP
2 WFP
3 GoJ 1,000,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 1,000,000.00 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 1,000,000.00 - 0

Project Objectives

To improve Food Insecurity in Ebola Affected Farming Communities in Peri-urban and Rural Montserrado County

Project Outputs

Rehabilitation of 5.4 km community feeder roads

Capacity building of smallholder farmers group on rice cultivation, maintenance of agro-processor machienes, leadership and management

Construction of workshops/drying floors

Provision of agricultural inputs and milling machienes

Project activities

Capacity building

Rice cultivation techniques

Agricultural inputs

Feeder roads

Post-harvest techniques

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