Benin - Mono and Couffo Rural Development Support Project (PADMOC)

Mono and Couffo Rural Development Support Project (PADMOC) was designed in order to consolidate the achievements made at Mono by Mono's Integrated Rural Development Project (PDRIM) to extend them to Couffo. PADMOC aims to secure agricultural production. This project is part of the national rural development policy and embodies the Government's strategy, formalized in 1991 in the Letter of Declaration of Rural Development Policy (LDPDR), which highlights the diversification of agricultural and agricultural production and emphasize the role of the state in its essential functions (design, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of development actions), the production and marketing functions are now in the non-public sector (farmers' organizations). The project is structured around three (03) components, including: A) strengthening rural infrastructure; B) support to the rural world; and C) project management.