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Project ID: 1277
Western Sudan Resources Management Programme The programme plans to assist the pastoralist and farming communities through: (i) land zonation for herding and for traditional and mechanized farming to limit encroachment; (ii) demarcation of the stock routes based on land zonation and registration of the stock routes to herders' groups; (iii) improved access to water for domestic and livestock use; (iv) marketing modalities that improve the market value of the crop or animal sold; (v) improved coverage of extension services; and (vi) strengthening the role and accountability of community and local government organizations. Destitute households also form part of the target group. These households basically survive on wage labour and charity, and constitute 15% of the population. The programme will assist this section of the population through livestock restocking, vocational training and the financing of value added enterprises. To ensure that women participate in the programme and benefit from its assistance, safeguards are provided in the form of: (i) the recruitment of women extension workers to reach out to rural women; (ii) gender sensitization and training as part of the capacity-building of community organizations; and (iii) quotas for women"s participation in technical activities and in community organizations. The indirect and direct beneficiary population has been identified on the basis of the main investment thrusts of the programme, i.e., natural resource management, marketing, extension and community development. An estimated 200 000 households, living around 17 stock routes and six markets in the programme area of North, South and West Kordofan will benefit from the programme. Out of these, it is anticipated that 44 000 settled households and 7 000 pastoralist households will be direct beneficiaries. Women will be mainstreamed into the programme activities through a series of direct and proactive targeting measures. The programme will create an enabling environment for strengthening community organization by: (i) promoting legal incentives for the devolution of natural resource management to user communities; (ii) providing market-based incentives for community organizations through the dissemination of market information, the piloting of the market pre-finance system and an open auction system for livestock; and (iii) making resources available for reinforcing community organizations and locality outreach systems. A poverty-based and gender-disaggregated monitoring system, based on the results and impact management system, will ensure that participation and benefits are equitable. Loan Amount SDR 10.45 million (equivalent to approximately USD 15.3 million) on highly concessional terms Total programme cost: USD 28.7 million Cooperating Institution: United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS |
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| Project ID: 1263
Gash Sustainable Livelihoods Regeneration Project The overall goal of the project will be to regenerate the livelihoods of 67 000 poor households in and around the Gash Delta in a manner compatible with the efficient and sustainable use of the land and water resources and based upon a shared vision of development and the stability of the related institutional arrangements. The purpose of the project is to ensure the efficient, equitable and sustainable operation of the Gash Agricultural Scheme and the integration of the scheme into the local economy. The specific objectives of the project are (i) the elaboration and maintenance of a shared vision of development, (ii) the establishment of the related institutional arrangements appropriate to the shared vision, (iii) rehabilitated water and other social infrastructures and water-harvesting devices, (iv) improved crop and livestock husbandry practices, (v) the establishment of financial services, and (vi) strengthened state planning capacity. Loan Amount: SDR 17.45 million (approximately USD 24.9 million) on highly concessional terms Total project cost: estimated at USD 39.0 million, of which beneficiaries will provide about USD 4.7 domestic financing institutions USD 465 000 and national Government USD 8.9 million. Cooperating Institution: UNOPS Project ID: 1140
South Kordofan Rural Development Programme - Visit the project website The overall goal of this ten-year IFAD-initiated programme is to improve and sustain the living standards of smallholder farming and pastoralist households by ensuring food-security and providing social services in a safe environment managed by the communities themselves. More specifically, the programme seeks to: (i) enhance the productivity and incomes of individuals and groups within crop and livestock enterprises through the provision of community-based extension services and technical and input support; (ii) encourage equitable management of communal rangelands and farmland - for the purpose of reducing conflict - through changes in the Governments land-use policy and agreements among the groups involved and local councils; (iii) reduce the incidence of disease and mortality by establishing community-owned and -managed potable water supplies and basic health facilities; (iv) improve rural roads and co mmunity access to markets and public services; (v) create sustainable rural credit services; (vi) provide rural communities (both men and women) with the capacity to plan, implement and manage their development activities and resolve group conflicts through training and provision of technical assistance; and (vii) establish local-council and state-level institutions to provide cost-effective assistance to rural communities. Given the widespread incidence of rural poverty, the broad target group will encompass the States entire smallholder and pastoralist population, which accounts for more than 95% of the rural population. This will involve 84 900 households, or 840 000 persons, with average annual incomes of USD 145 compared to a GNP of USD 290 per capita. About 30% of all rural households, or 260 000 persons, in more than 260 communities will benefit directly from the programme and significantly increase family incomes. The majority of the rural population will gain from community, social and infrastructure investments and from sustaial and local government services in the 30 localities of the State. Women and youth constitute special target groups and the former, who will be given equal opportunity to participate in all project activities and have access to its services and productive inputs, will be involved in community-level planning and decision-making. Innovative features: There is a growing consensus that lack of development in The Sudan has been a major cause of the armed conflict. In response to this challenge, the programme aims to support the peace process through post-crisis rehabilitation and development. It will empower rural communities, local government and civil society with the tools needed for improved and sustainable natural-resource management. This programme, IFADs first state-wide decentralized intervention in The Sudan, will be implemented by locality councils, which are the first level of local government. Programme support at the co mmunity level will be conditional on communities supporting the process of poverty alleviation and gender equity. An empowerment process will provide rural communities with additional skills to plan, implement and manage self-sustainable and self-financing development and to access assistance from the State. The programme will nurture and support partnerships. Other international financiers and agencies will be encouraged to channel assistance for essential social and community infrastructure through the decentralized and participatory framework to be established by the programme. Appropriate international and local NGOs will be used to strengthen the capacity of locality cadres to deliver programme services to insecure areas inaccessible to government staff. Loan amount: SDR 13.3 million (approximately USD 17.9 million) on highly concessional terms under the FLM. Total programme costs: Estimated at USD 39.6 million, of which USD 16.1 million will be provided by a cofinancer to be determined, USD 405 000 by the Agricultural Bank of The Sudan, USD 150 000 by an IFAD grant, USD 4.2 million by the Government and USD 872 000 by the beneficiaries. Cooperating institution: UNOPS. |
| Project ID: 1045
North Kordofan Rural Development Project The State of Kordofan, like the rest of the Sahelian Sudan zone, suffered from the increasing frequency and severity of drought that occurred from 1970 to 1996. This seven-year IFAD-initiated project, to be directly supervised by the Fund, covers Bara and Um Ruwaba, two of the State's four provinces. The goal of the project is to ensure that the communities in Bara and Um Ruwaba have assured food security, an enhanced resilience to drought and expanded income-generating opportunities. Specifically, the project is designed to: - enhance the productivity and income of individual farmers, villagers and groups from crop and livestock production and from non-farm enterprises through targeted technical, logistical and financial ser vices and commercial/extension support; - provide village communities with the capability to plan, execute and manage development schemes through training and on-the-job experience and by providing the technical or professional assistance initially required; - establish, at the rural council and province level, the institutional capability to assist communities in the development process, while, at the same time, emphasizing cost-effectiveness; and - foster communal natural resource management to support increased but sustainable levels of production through changes in policy and agreements implemented at the rural council and village levels. An important feature of the project will be the provision of financial services through the sanduq system, a traditional participatory savings and credit fund. The principal advantages of such a fund are the low cost of servicing, repayment pressure internalized in the social system, and the possibility of its use by illiterate villagers. Ease of access to markets and reduced isolation from economic opportunities will result once the Obeid-Bara road has been constructed, with financing from IsDB. This will be of great benefit to the vast majority of the population in the project area - rural dwellers who are, for the most part, small-scale farmers, livestock herders and farm labourers. About 90% of the population (118 000 households), including nomadic pastoralists, constitutes the target group. Women, who traditionally participate fully in all farming and livestock production activities, will be encouraged to participate in all project activities and to choose women representatives to local administrative bodies. Project activities focus on villages where the basic needs of the inhabitants are not being met and where there is interest in participating in self-help programmes. By the sixth year of the project, it is expected that 320 villages (an estimated 67 000 families) will become primary beneficiaries. Of this number, about 25% (17 600 households) are expected to participate in all project interventions. Innovative Features: - The project has been formulated and appraised through a strong consultative and participatory process. Central Government, line departments, state ministries, provincial administrations and local council staff (as well as NGOs, beneficiary communities and individual stakeholders) have been involved throughout. This highly participatory process will continue during implementation. - This is one of the first state-based projects in The Sudan. Its effectiveness will be enhanced by: a high degree of beneficiary participation and responsibility; flexibility of contingent funding; optimal use of existing knowledge, resources and expertise, including the labour and skills of local people; further development of systems of small farmer group credit, still in the early stage of development in the country; and training, orientation, advice and follow-up support to bolster community-group and local authority capabilities. - Local councils and their cadres will be among the principal recipients of resources, training and expertise. Personal skills will be dramatically increased as individuals learn how to better plan and manage revenue-raising systems; as a group, they will benefit from local-area economic growth and enhancement of the self-reliance of the community organizations themselves. Loan Amount: SDR 7.8 million (approximately USD 10.5 million) on highly concessional terms. Total Project Costs: Estimated at USD 23.7 million, of which USD 9.1 million will be provided by the IsDB, USD 2.9 million by the Government and USD 1.2 million by the beneficiaries. Cooperating Institution: The project will be supervised directly by IFAD. |
