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IFAD photo by Robert Grossman
United Republic of Tanzania - Mara Region
Cattle owners Gaudensia Ndibalema and Mossi Kassim herd cattle towards a dip in the town of Surubu, Tarime District. Some 600 households, owning a total of 5,948 head of cattle, use this facility, which was rehabilitated by the IFAD-assisted Mara Region Farmers' Initiative Project.
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Programme area. The geographical coverage of the Agricultural Sector Development Programme (ASDP) will be maintained, i.e. 132 rural districts of the mainland where about 90 per cent of the poor - defined as those living on less than a dollar a day - live. Some 80 per cent of the country's rural poor are engaged in agricultural activities.
Target group. The target group includes poor women and men in the rural districts of the United Republic of Tanzania who have the potential to improve their agricultural productivity and incomes, in addition to food-insecure men and women.
Programme objectives. The ASDP has two objectives: (i) to improve farmers' access to and use of agricultural knowledge, technologies, marketing systems and infrastructure, all of which contribute to higher productivity, profitability and farm incomes; and (ii) to promote private investment based on an improved regulatory and policy environment.
Programme description. The proposed supplementary loan will support the existing components of the ASDP:
- Local-level support. This component aims at supporting agricultural sector activities at the village, ward and district levels. This is achieved through: (i) priority local agricultural investments made in accordance with district agricultural development plans on a cost-sharing basis, with beneficiaries contributing labour and locally available materials; (ii) a shift to contracting of agricultural services and greater control of resource allocation decisions by farmers; and (iii) the building of district planning capacity, agricultural reforms, farmers' empowerment and the development of private-sector service provision.
- National-level support. This component is designed to assist the agricultural sector lead ministries in implementing the policy and institutional reforms envisioned in the Agricultural Sector Development Strategy and to provide an enabling environment for commercial activity in the sector. This involves support to: (i) agricultural services, primarily research and extension; (ii) irrigation development; (iii) market and private-sector development; (iv) food security; and (v) coordination, monitoring and evaluation.
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IFAD photo by Robert Grossman
United Republic of Tanzania - Mara Region
A smallholder farmer in Tagota village showing the high quality of his first harvest of coffee beans.
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Important features. The proposed supplementary loan will strengthen ASDP's capacity to meet the goals of the National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (MKUKUTA) for the sector. The programme will operate through a basket fund arrangement. IFAD has already provided two loans to the ASDP Basket Fund - valued at US$36.0 million - through the Agricultural Services Support Programme and Agricultural Sector Development Programme - Livestock: Support for Pastoral and Agro-Pastoral Development. The programme is consistent with IFAD's country strategic opportunities programme for the United Republic of Tanzania, the IFAD Strategic Framework 2007-2010 and the MKUKUTA. Innovative features of the ASDP include:
- Pooling of resources. All funding for agricultural development (both external and domestic) has been brought together under a single sector programme and expenditure framework, owned and led by the Government, with development partners progressively aligning and harmonizing their procedures with country systems. This is in line with the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and in complete contrast with the separate project mode employed in the past by different development partners and the Government itself.
- Deepening and widening of development partnerships. The design and implementation of the ASDP has brought together development partners according to their relative comparative advantages and provided an opportunity for a more holistic view to agricultural development.
- Government leadership. The ASDP is providing an opportunity to test the use of the sector-wide approach (SWAp) in the Tanzanian agricultural sector, in order to reduce transaction costs, align and harmonize development aid around country systems, and deliver sustainable development results. Government officials now lead the joint implementation review of the ASDP. This innovation, apart from being a radical departure from the supervision practice of traditional donor-assisted projects, has proved an effective approach for building confidence and capacity among government officials. Already, the Tanzanian experience with SWAp is being explored by Rwanda and Zambia for possible application to the agricultural sector.
Potential cofinanciers and domestic contribution. Current commitments by the development partners to the ASDP Basket Fund for the period 2006-2013 include: the World Bank (US$90 million.), the African Development Bank (US$60 million), IFAD (US$36 million - initial), the European Union (US$8.5 million.), Irish Aid (US$1 million - initial), and the Embassy of Japan (US$3 million.). The domestic contribution is expected to amount to US$51.9 million (US$28.7 million from the Government and US$23.2 million from the beneficiaries).
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| Facts and figures |
- Region: Eastern and Southern Africa
- Programme ID number: 1420
- Nature of programme: Agricultural development
- Programme cost: US$315.6 million
- Estimated IFAD loan: US$56.0 million (supplementary loan)
- Cofinancing gap: See section on potential cofinanciers
- Domestic contribution: US$51.9 million
- Proposed terms: Highly concessional
- Stage of programme cycle: Design completed and loan negotiated
- Next step in programme development: Executive Board presentation
- Tentative date for consideration by the Executive Board: December 2008
- Programme duration: Seven years
- Tentative project start-up date: March 2009
- Implementing agency: Ministry of Agriculture Food Security and Cooperatives, together with other sector lead ministries and district councils
- Borrower: United Republic of Tanzania
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| Contact information |
Mr I. De Willebois
Director, Eastern and Southern Africa Division
Mr S. Eremie
Country Programme Manager
e-mail: s.eremie@ifad.org
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Via Paolo di Dono, 44, 00142 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 0654591
e-mail: ifad@ifad.org |
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