Additional Financing to Tunisia Emergency Food Security Response Project

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The Project will support activities aimed at protecting producers and consumers from global market disruption in the short term, while enhancing the resilience of the grain supply system to price, supply and climate shocks in the medium term. In the short term, GoT’s objective is to support domestic production through the availability and accessibility of agricultural inputs and to ensure the availability and accessibility of food, in particular to vulnerable households. At the same time, GoT wants to use this crisis as an opportunity to strengthen the resilience of its grain supply chain to market and climate shocks by providing the right incentives to grain producers to stimulate domestic production, while reducing the burden on public finances and better targeting food subsidies (including reducing waste and improving nutrition). The project will consist of three components providing a balance between short-term urgent responses, through support to producers (Component 1), short-term wheat purchases (Component 2) and medium-term measures (Component 3) to improve the whole grain supply chain organization and adjust the associated public support program. It is part of a coordinated package of funding with other partners (to secure grain purchase and support producers) and will develop synergies with other donor interventions (reform preparation, storage facility improvement, etc.).