Agriculture Competiveness

completed

The Project will enable Program (P599992) aim to work with governments to address key binding constraints to achieve impact in the selected sectors. Other parts of the Program (A2F and SBA) will work with private sector (banks and companies). This bottom-up (firm level work) and top-to-bottom (policy level work with governments) value chain approach will enable us to deliver impact and transform target sectors. This is regional project, and will be implemented as such. The Project will consist of three interconnected components addressing: 1) Trade facilitation, 2) Business regulations and quality infrastructure, and 3) Investment policy and facilitation. The Project will focus its work on Serbia, BiH and Kosovo, with engagement in Albania and FYR Macedonia narrowed to access to markets, trade corridor facilitation (enabling faster goods transiting to Serbia, Kosovo) and aggregation in selected parts of fruits and vegetable value chain. While each country will have a specific list of activities to be implemented, as agreed with governments and inserted into Administration Agreement with each government, Project activities will be regional in nature. We will not be doing sporadic country activities, but rather implemented regional activities on a country level to address key regional issues. Administration agreement will cover all activities for particular country under all components. In this way we propose integrated client solution for each country addressing key issues by combining relevant activities from each of the components.