Sustaining Peace and Improving Social Cohesion through the Promotion of Rural Employment in Conflict Prone Areas

To sustain a youth-inclusive peace and improve social cohesion in the conflict prone regions of Liberia

COUNTRY/REC Liberia

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD February 2019 - June 2021

PROJECT SITE Bong, Lofa

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Youth & Sports
2 Ministry of Agriculture
3 Ministry of Labor and Ministry of Gender, Children, and Social Protection
4 Ministry of Internal Affairs
5 Cooperative Support Organizations
6 FAO 760,000.00
7 WFP 334,000.00
8 ILO 406,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 1,500,000.00 0 0
Loan 0 0 0
Governmental 0 0 0
Other 0 0 0
Total 1,500,000.00 - 0
Project Goal

To sustain a youth-inclusive peace and improve social cohesion in the conflict prone regions of Liberia

Project Objectives

Young women and men have increased access to local conflict resolution mechanisms, with a focus on land disputes, and become active agents of peace

Rural young women and men have access to sustainable agricultural livelihoods addressing key drivers of conflict

Project activities

Capacity building for Youth

Lowland development and water management

Agricultural inputs

Crop management

post-harvest techniques

Beneficiaries

Direct Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Young women and men household heads 1200
Indirect Beneficiaries
# Beneficiary Number
1 Indirect beneficiaries 5000

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 partner)

CARD
John Dennis