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Integrated Rural Development Project/Ngozi III

The project was implemented throughout the province of Ngozi, known for the highest population density in the country. About 90 per cent of the 150,000 smallholders’ families participating in the project had incomes below the poverty line.

The six-year project helped farmers increase the production of food crops and coffee. Fifteen new coffee washing stations were built to raise the quality of Burundi’s processed coffee and to make coffee more competitive on the international market. The programme also included reforestation, erosion control and the building of water wells and roads, as well as development of swamps for dry-season farming.  

Source: IFAD

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Contact information
Mr Hamed Haidara
Country programme manager
IFAD
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
00142 Rome, Italy

Tel: +39 0654592604

Fax: +39 0654593604
h.haidara@ifad.org

Facts and figures

Total cost: US$28.9 million

IFAD loan: US$7.0 million

Cofinancing:

  • International Development Association (US$16.0 million)
  • Kuwait Fund (US$3.0 million)
  • Government of Burundi (US$ 2.9 million)

Duration: 1983-1989

Geographical area: Ngozi province in central Burundi

Directly benefiting: 150,000 households

Status: closed

Partners
  • Government of Burundi: Ngozi Regional Development Company (NRDC)
  • International Development Association
  • Kuwait Fund