Regional Rice Value Chains Development Project (RRVCDP)

COUNTRY/REC Gambia

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD January 2019 - December 2024

PROJECT SITE Central River Region North, Central River Region South, Upper River Region

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Agriculture
2 IsDB
3 BADEA

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 29,800,000.00 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 29,800,000.00 - 0

Project Objectives

Raising Rice Production and Productivity

Strengthening the links to market

Policy and Institutional Supports

Project Management and Coordination

Project activities

Land improvement

Provision of infrastructure

Producer Public Private Partnership

Provision of resource for management and coordination

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

Contact (implementing agency)

CARD
Ansumana K JARJU