Republic of Tunisia Country Strategic Opportunities Programme 2019-2024

This country strategic opportunities programme (COSOP) follows on the country strategy note 2016-2018. It is intended to guide the IFAD portfolio in the Republic of Tunisia for the period 2019-2024 and covers two cycles of the performance- based allocation system.

The overall objective of the country programme is to improve the living conditions, incomes and climate change resilience of poor rural people, particularly women and young people. It will contribute to achieving several of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular SDG1 (no poverty), SDG2 (zero hunger), SDG5 (gender equality) and SDG13 (combating climate change).

The COSOP is articulated around three strategic objectives (SOs):

• better access to productive infrastructure and sustainable natural resource management;
• inclusion of poor rural people in more structured agricultural value chains;
• economic and social empowerment of vulnerable rural women and youth.