Regional Rice Value Chain Project (RRVCP)

To reduce high importation rate of rice and enhance economic growth

COUNTRY/REC Sierra Leone

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD March 2020 - December 2024

PROJECT SITE Bonthe, Kambia

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of agriculture and forestry (MAF)
2 IfDB
3 Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA)

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 34,120,000.00 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 34,120,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To reduce high importation rate of rice and enhance economic growth

Project Objectives

To improve production and productivity in a sustainable manner, processing, and marketing

Project Outputs

Support government’s efforts to substantially increase the production and productivity of rice using the private sector value chain led approach

Increase smallholder farmers income and reduce poverty and food insecurity

Improve the livelihood of the rural population

Create commercial opportunities for targeted rice farmers with the objective to generate access to markets

Project activities

Raising Rice Production and Productivity

Strengthening the Links to Markets

Enabling policy and Institutional Environment

Project Implementation and Coordination Support

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Farmers 7000
2 Capacitate farmer cooperatives(Women and Youth) 90
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