North-west Rural Development Project
North West Rural Development Project
North-west Rural Development Project
The objective of the project was to increase farming families’ incomes, improve income distribution and facilitate communications and market access.
Activities had the aims of:
- increasing the production and farm-level storage of such food crops as maize and legumes, and providing loans, technical assistance and training for women
- increasing production of coffee, the most important cash crop in the province and the country at that time
- promoting and strengthening cooperatives
- restructuring and expanding extension services
- providing institutional support to the province’s planning activities and training centres
- improving physical infrastructure
The project has generally been considered a good example of integrated rural development.
Source: IFAD
