Competitive African Rice Initiative (CARI) 2

COUNTRY/REC Ghana

PROJECT COVERAGE Multi-country

PROJECT PERIOD July 2018 - December 2019

PROJECT SITE Greater Accra, Northern, Volta

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 John Agyekum Kufuor Foundation (JAKF)
2 GIZ
3 ECOWAS

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 1,539,000.00 100 1,539,000.00
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 1,539,000.00 - 1,539,000.00

Project Objectives

Smallholder farmers have increased their incomes and provide their families and the entire region with high-quality rice.

Project Outputs

Promoting inclusive business models among the value chain actors

Project activities

Increased experience sharing amongst actors of the rice value chain

Sustainably improved inclusive business relationships

Improved access to financial services for actors of the rice value chain

Improved policy framework for the rice value chain

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Small scale farmers 5000
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

Contact (implementing agency)

CARD
Jean-Bernard Lalanne