Pro-poor Growth and Promotion Employment in Nigeria (SEDIN) (as a component of Competitive African Rice Initiative, CARI)

COUNTRY/REC Nigeria

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2017 - December 2020

PROJECT SITE Ogun, Niger, Plateau

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 GIZ 34,977,937.00
2 BMZ 10,122,233.00
3 Nigerian Ministry of Budget and National Planning

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 24,743,235.00 55 13,608,779.25
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 24,743,235.00 - 13,608,779.00

Project Outputs

Employment and income opportunities for small enterprises in selected sectors have improved.

the credit portfolio of the 15 microfinance banks supported by the project grew by 13 percent to approximately EUR 7.6 million.

The income of microfinance banks increased by 47 per cent and the number of borrowers rose by 31 per cent.

The proportion of women borrowers was 59 per cent.

69,827 people have improved their financial literacy through training courses

Of the 346 men and women (50 per cent) who participated in start-up courses, one third have started business operations. A total of 32 newly registered companies have created 131 additional jobs.

Project activities

Access to market

access of MSME to financial services

entrepreneurial management skilss

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