Access to Markets Project
The project’s goal is to contribute to increased incomes and enhanced economic growth in pastoralist communities. Its development objective is improved access and integration of smallholder livestock farmers into remunerative markets for their products, leading to improved and equitable returns.
ATMP will work with selected value chains and provide holistic and coordinated support to different actors in order to improve these value chains’ overall performance and increase their outputs. The project will invite champions in the pre-selected value chains who are willing to launch or deepen their sound business models through productive partnerships with producers and other value chain actors. Smallholder livestock producers, who are the project’s primary target group, will be represented in each selected value chain. Their income opportunities will improve through better integration into the market. Pasture users unions, facilitated by Kyrgyzstan’s Community Development and Investment Agency (ARIS) – building on the positive experiences of the Livestock and Market Development Programmes I and II – will play an active role in identifying and mobilizing target groups at the community level in a transparent and participatory manner to capture project opportunities and benefits.
Country
Approval Date
14 December 2016
Duration
2016 - 2023
Sector
Credit and Financial Services
Total Project Cost
US$ 55.55 million
IFAD Financing
US$ 25.4 million
Co-financiers (International)
Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund US$ 20 million
Co-financiers (Domestic)
National Government US$ 1.75 million
Beneficiaries US$ 8.39 million
Financing terms
DSF Grant/Highly Concessional
Project ID
2000001232
Project Contact