Expansion of Community-Based Smallholder Irrigation Development Project (E-COBSI)

To enhance food security of Zambia by promoting community-based smallholder irrigation schemes

COUNTRY/REC Zambia

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2019 - January 2024

PROJECT SITE Central, Copperbelt, Luapula, North-Western, Northern, Muchinga

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Agriculture
2 JICA 5,430,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 5,430,000.00 0 0
Grant 0 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 5,430,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To enhance food security of Zambia by promoting community-based smallholder irrigation schemes

Project Objectives

To promote COSBI through the introduction of small-scale irrigation and improvement of O&M

Project activities

Capacity development

Training

Baseline survey

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Personnel of MoA 750
2 Farming households 19999
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

Contact (implementing agency)

CARD
Emmanuel Mabvuto Nyirenda

Contact (implementing partner)

CARD
Tatsuya Ieizumi