Benin - Ouémé Valley Agricultural Infrastructure Support Project

The Ouémé Valley Agricultural Infrastructure Support Project (PAIAVO) is the fruit of a participatory approach involving all stakeholders, particularly farmers’ organizations, municipal councils and decentralized technical services. Consultations with these stakeholders helped to conduct a thorough overview of the prevailing situation and to identify agricultural development needs and the most suitable project implementation arrangements. Largely, the design of PAIA-VO also took into account lessons learned from implementing Bank projects in Benin and in the sub-region as well as operations financed by other development partners by taking advantage of past experiences while building synergies and complementarities. Given the strategic orientations of the country and the Bank, project design focused on: (i) food and nutrition security; (ii) development of value chains; (iii) youth employment; and (iv) climate change. The project has three main components, namely: (1) Structuring Agricultural Infrastructure Development; (2) Development of Value Chains; and (3) Project Management.