Cape Verde - Support project for the agricultural census

The Support project for the agricultural census aims to address the problem of lack of up-to-date, complete and reliable statistical data on structure and production for the monitoring and evaluation of agricultural and rural development policies. It will upgrade agricultural statistics with a view to developing rural development and national accounts indicators. The project should also contribute to the provision of a mechanism for monitoring and evaluating the results and impacts of the country's development programme. The project also aims to strengthen the technical and operational capacities of the Statistics and Information Management Division of the Ministry of Rural Development (MDR). The different activities of the support project are classified into four main components: (i) technical and institutional capacity building, (ii) data collection, (iii) data dissemination and (iv) project coordination and management.