| Approval Date | 08 Nov 2022 |
| Signature Date | 12 Dec 2022 |
| Planned Completion Date | 31 Dec 2025 |
| Last Disbursement Planned Date | 31 Dec 2025 |
| Sovereign / Non-Sovereign | Sovereign |
| Sector | Agriculture and Rural Development |
| DAC Sector Code | 31110 |
| Commitment | U.A 2,050,000 |
| Status | Approved |
This intervention concerns the strengthening Emergency Preparedness and Response to Food Crisis in Burundi, Comoros, Somalia and South Sudan. It aims to increase agricultural production, productivity and resilience of agricultural production systems in target countries to mitigate risks in the short and medium terms aggravated by the war in Ukraine. This will boost the local production of cereals and oil grains as the most effective and efficient way to build the resilience of Africa’s food systems to respond to these circumstances and mitigate risks to supply in the short to medium term. The proposed project will complement the ongoing AEFPF projects in Burundi, Comoros, Somalia, and South Sudan by supporting national institutions to scale up the production of early generation seeds for priority food and fodder crops and building institutional capacity for early warning and anticipatory actions. The project will be implemented through three (3) components: (i) Scale up production of early generation seeds; (ii) Expand and integrate digital platforms on early warning and anticipatory actions; and (iii) Institutional strengthening and Project coordination and management.
The overall goal of the proposed Multinational project is to increase agricultural production, productivity and resilience of agricultural production systems in the target countries to mitigate the short, medium and long-term risks aggravated by the crisis in Ukraine. The specific project objective is to strengthen national institutions in the four countries to better respond to current and future crises by scaling up the production and availability of EGS, leveraging existing tools and frameworks for emergency preparedness and developing investment operations to safeguard food security, particularly in the most vulnerable regions within the countries.
The direct beneficiaries are about 40 000 farmers (about 50% women and 20% youth) who will be involved in in-situ conservation of the early generation seeds. The early warning data systems and analytics will benefit the entire humanitarian ecosystem including governments, resource partners, UN agencies and NGOs, and ultimately benefit over 10,000 000 people in the four countries.
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Funding
Transition Support Facility
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| IATI identifier | 46002-P-Z1-AA0-157 |
| Last Update | 20 Mar 2023 |
| Name | Onesmus Waweru MAINA |
| o.maina@afdb.org |