Project ID: 1157
Executive Board Document: EB-2001-72-R-23-Rev-1

Livestock and Rural Finance Development Project

The overall objective of the project will be to develop a replicable model of sustainable, small-scale commercial livestock production, which will demonstrate the income-earning potential of the livestock sector and contribute to the revival of the rural areas. To achieve this, the project will seek to help the rural poor, men and women, in the development of small-scale, private-sector, market-oriented livestock production with a view to generating sustainable increases in household incomes, ensuring food security and contributing to the social stability and prosperity of rural communities. Specific objectives are to:

(i) support the development of smallholder livestock production through the provision of credit;

(ii) provide farmers with access to appropriate technical support services;

(iii) develop and improve linkages with the market with special reference to dairy marketing;

(iv) develop complementary/alternative non-farm income-earning opportunities that support the provision of backward and forward linkages for the livestock producers and contribute to the revival of rural services; and

(v) reconstruct essential rural infrastructure to provide an environment for people to return and pursue economic activities.

Around 21 000 households in 16 localities will benefit from the increase in incomes, enhanced food security and an improved rural environment. Women will benefit from access to credit, previously unavailable to them, thereby helping them to better provide for their families and to achieve a measure of economic independence; their knowledge and skills will be increased; and their recognition and influence in the community will be enhanced through their role as demonstration farmers and their involvement in the management of producers associations and savings and credit associations (SCAs).

Loan amount:

SDR 9.55 million (equivalent to approximately USD 12.0 million) highly concessional terms.

Total Project costs are estimated at USD 25.5 million, of which USD 5.0 million will be provided by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries Fund for International Development (OPEC Fund)

Cooperating Institution

United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)

Project ID: 1037
Executive Board Document:

Small Farm Reconstruction and Development Project

This two-year project will provide an immediate, basic means of subsistence through the provision of livestock and farm equipment on a credit-in-kind basis. It has been designed to lay the foundation for the development of small-scale, private, market-oriented agriculture. Project components are:

- livestock activities;

- agricultural machinery supply;

- a pilot credit scheme; and

- implementation support.

The project will target 5 267 poor smallholder livestock farmers and their families (about 25 000 people) either living on or returning to farms with good potential that were almost totally destroyed in the former front-line areas of the recent war.

Loan amount:

SDR 10.1 million (approximately USD 14.0 million) on highly concessional terms.

Total project costs are estimated at USD 16.0 million, of which USD 1.0 million will be provided by the United Nations Development Programme in the form of a grant and USD 1.0 million by the International Development Association (IDA).

Cooperating institution:

IDA.