Eastern and Central African Agricultural Transformation (ECAAT) Project

To improve productivity, resilience, and competitiveness of selected agricultural commodity value chains and increase smallholder farmer access to the regional market for food commodities and products

COUNTRY/REC Kenya

PROJECT COVERAGE Multi-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2018 - December 2022

PROJECT SITE Whole country

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, State Department of Livestock
2 World Bank 170,000,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 170,000,000.00 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 170,000,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To improve productivity, resilience, and competitiveness of selected agricultural commodity value chains and increase smallholder farmer access to the regional market for food commodities and products

Project Objectives

To enhance regional collaboration

Project activities

Develop new rice varieties through adaptive research

Multiplication of breeder seed of popular rice varieties

Dissemination of newly developed technologies

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Smallholder farmers 115000
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