Benin - Milk and Meat Sub-Sector Development and Livestock Enterprise Promotion Support Project (PRODEFILAV-PEL)

Project Summary

Approval Date	02 Dec 2021
Signature Date	23 Feb 2022
Planned Completion Date	30 Jun 2027
Sovereign / Non-Sovereign	Sovereign
Sector	Agriculture and Rural Development
DAC Sector Code	31163
Environmental Category	2
Commitment	U.A 20,000,000
Status	Implementation

Project General Description

The proposed intervention involves a UA 20 million ADF financing comprising a UA 10.62 million loan and a UA 9.38 million grant to the Republic of Benin to finance the Milk and Meat Sub-sector Development and Livestock Enterprise Promotion Support Project (PRODEFILAV-PEL). The project will be implemented over a five-year period, from 2022 to 2026. It will prioritize climate-resilient and low-carbon solutions as well as the implementation of innovative financing mechanisms to involve the private sector in the creation and promotion of modern livestock enterprises. PRODEFILAV-PEL will provide livestock enterprises with: (i) easy access to financing and markets; (ii) easy access to best stockbreeding practices and innovative business models; and (iii) an enabling environment for job creation. The project will support young entrepreneurs in designing sound business strategies, thus helping to improve the productivity of milk and meat value chains. It will also contribute to implementing Benin’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Climate Agreement. It is one of the priority projects designed to support the implementation of the country’s revised NDCs.

Project Objectives

The project development goal is to improve the productivity and profitability of the milk and meat sub-sectors in a sustainable and climate-smart manner in its impact area. To achieve this goal, the project aims in the short term to: (i) improve access to quality factors of production; and (ii) improve access to production development equipment and infrastructure. To achieve these specific objectives, the project will seek to remove the main constraints on the development of the milk and meat sub-sectors.

Beneficiaries

The direct beneficiaries are: (i) agro-pastoralists; (ii) livestock traders; (iii) processors (butchers and women milk processors); and (iv) professional sub-sector organizations at the municipal, county and national levels. The project indirect beneficiaries will be the people who will consume the final products and benefit from sensitization on best nutritional practices, as well as the actors involved or associated at various levels. These are mainly the Territorial Agricultural Development Agency (ATDA) 2 and 4, the 12 Divisional Directorates of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (DDAEPs), the Directorate of Livestock (DE), the Directorate of Rural Legislation, Professional Organization and Agricultural Entrepreneurship Support (DLROPEA), the Directorate of Agricultural Extension, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training (DCAI FE), the Benin Food Safety Agency (ABSSA), the Central Food Safety Control Laboratory (LCSSA), Facultie s of Agronomy and Schools of Agriculture, the National Agricultural Development Fund, decentralized financial services (DFS) and trained health workers. The project will benefit 66 640 people (7 people/farming household) directly and about 1 409 515 rural dwellers indirectly.

Participating Organization

Funding

African Development Fund

Implementing

MINISTERE DE L'AGRICULTURE DE L'ELEVAGE ET DE LA PECHE

Information

IATI identifier	46002-P-BJ-AAE-006
Last Update	16 May 2022

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Contact Details

Name	MANOMI Ibro
Email	i.manomi@afdb.org

Geographic Location

Country	Benin

Project Classification

Finance Type	Aid Loan Excluding Debt Reorganisation
Flow Type	ODA
Aid Type	Project Type Interventions

Commitments

U.A 20,000,000

African Development Fund

U.A 10,620,000

African Development Fund

U.A 9,380,000

Document Type	Language	Document
Environmental Study	fr	viewer
Environmental Study	fr	viewer
Environmental Study	fr	viewer
Appraisal report	en	viewer
Appraisal report	fr	viewer

Indicator	Indicator Measure	Target Year	Target Value
Average annual income of stockbreeding households	XOF	2021	1234610
Annual milk production in the project impact area	Millions of litres	2021	169,5
Annual meat production in the project impact area	Thousands of tonnes	2021	110,3
Stockbreeders who have had access to inputs thanks to the project	Number	2021	60000
Stockbreeders who have had access to inputs thanks to the project - of which women	Number	2021	18000
Milk and meat sub-sector actors using processing infrastructure built/rehabilitated and equipped with solar energy	Number	2021	430
Milk and meat sub-sector actors using processing infrastructure built/rehabilitated and equipped with solar energy - of which women	Number	2021	129
Milk and meat sub-sector actors using marketing infrastructure built/rehabilitated and equipped with solar energy	Number	2021	4000
Milk and meat sub-sector actors using marketing infrastructure built/rehabilitated and equipped with solar energy - of which women	Number	2021	1200
Private promoters engaged in fodder production and marketing	Number	2021	10
Surface area of community animal grazing spaces developed	Ha	2021	2500
Retaining reservoirs rehabilitated	Number	2021	10
Boreholes with solar equipment sunk	Number	2021	57
Improved breeding stock introduced - cattle	Number	2021	100
Improved breeding stock introduced - small ruminants	Number	2021	200
Improved breeding stock introduced - pigs	Number	2021	100
Cows inseminated over a 3-year period	Number	2021	15000
Annual bovine pasteurellosis, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, and foot-and-mouth disease annual vaccination coverage rate	%	2021	60
Annual contagious pustular stomatitis vaccination coverage rate	%	2021	30
Annual Newcastle disease vaccination coverage rate	%	2021	30
Young people and women trained and set up in milk and meat sub-sectors	Number	2021	100
Young people and women trained and set up in milk and meat sub-sectors - of which women	Number	2021	30
Guarantee fund set up within the FNDA	Number	2021	1
Milk and meat sub-sector actors trained in climate-resilient and low-carbon production and business management techniques	Number	2021	8500
Milk and meat sub-sector actors trained in climate-resilient and low-carbon production and business management techniques - of which women	Number	2021	2550
POs structured/reinvigorated	Number	2021	6
Livestock markets constructed	Number	2021	3
Livestock markets rehabilitated	Number	2021	6
Killing floors with solar equipment built/rehabilitated	Number	2021	12
Modern slaughterhouse with solar equipment constructed in Parakou	Number	2021	1
Health workers trained in new guidelines on the proper management of malnutrition	Number	2021	60
Radio broadcasts and demonstration and sensitization sessions carried out	Number	2021	14
Quarterly progress reports prepared	Number	2021	20
Monthly ESMP implementation reports prepared and validated	Number	2021	60
Annual audit reports prepared and approved	Number	2021	5
Annual environmental and social performance audit reports prepared and approved	Number	2021	5
Disbursement percentage	%	2021	100