Monitoring and Analyzing Food and Agricultural Policies – Phase II

To create sustainable policy monitoring systems and carry out a consistent set of policy and public expenditure analyses across a wide range of agricultural value chains

COUNTRY/REC Tanzania

PROJECT COVERAGE Multi-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2014 - December 2019

PROJECT SITE Whole country

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 FAO 14,485,980.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 0 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 14,485,980.00 0 0
Total 14,485,980.00 - 0
Project Goal

To create sustainable policy monitoring systems and carry out a consistent set of policy and public expenditure analyses across a wide range of agricultural value chains

Project Objectives

Build on the partnerships and evidence created to support governments in the reform of food and agricultural policies that are currently constraining agricultural development, especially for smallholders

Expand its activities to other countries, including Bangladesh, Benin, Burundi, Rwanda, Senegal, and South Sudan

Project activities

Collect, assemble and use targeted and policy-relevant data, including prices, market access costs and public expenditure, in support of the food and agricultural sector, as well as policy decisions

Consolidate and strengthen national policy monitoring systems to measure policy effects and identify current policy 'problems' that affect the competitiveness of agricultural producers

Articulate policy options and assess respective ex-post and ex-ante analysis to support suitable government reforms

Engage national stakeholders and development partners in policy dialogue, as part of a more inclusive policy reform process.

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