Climate Resilient Post-Harvest and Agribusiness Support Project

COUNTRY/REC Rwanda

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2014 - December 2019

PROJECT SITE Whole country

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources
2 IFAD 13,500,000.00
3 IFAD ASAP 6,900,000.00
4 DSF 13,500,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 41,700,000.00 0 0
Loan 41,700,000.00 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 83,400,000.00 - 0

Project Objectives

provide opportunities for smallholder farmers to acquire the skills, knowledge and access of specialized service providers

create and operate businesses able to deliver larger volumes of improved produce to the market

improve the management of climate risks in post-production processes.

Project Outputs

facilitate hub-identified business investments in improved climate-resilient and low-carbon post-harvesting

support cooperatives, farmers’ organizations and SMEs

incorporate climate risk management into the planning and implementation

Project activities

Climate resilience

Productivity

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 rural households in 10 districts in the country’s northwest, southern and eastern regions. 155518
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