CI: Cote d'Ivoire E-Agriculture Project

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The objective of the E-Agriculture Project for Cote d’Ivoire is to increase access to digital services and leverage digital platforms to improve farm productivity and access to markets. There are four components to the project, the first component being extending digital connectivity in targeted rural and remote areas. This component will support the review and improvement of the digital service environment through provision of technical assistance to strengthen capacity of key stakeholders in defining, enhancing and enforcing an enabling environment conducive to providing digital services in rural areas. This component will also support the extension of digital infrastructure in rural areas, with a focus on increasing the number of female smallholders and female‐headed households that will be able to access both mobile services (voice and SMS) and the internet. This component includes two subcomponents: review and improvement of the digital services enabling environment: legal and institutional framework, and supporting the extension of digital infrastructure in targeted rural areas. The second component is the digital services for sustainable agricultural development. This component will be strengthening the capacity of farmers in climate smart production management and marketing and facilitating the formation or consolidation of farmer groups into more formal structures. It will also support the strengthening of the capacity of agricultural agencies. This component includes four subcomponents: smart agriculture and producer organizations, capacity building in digital solutions in agriculture, digital platform for the MINADER, and digital ecosystem and e‐agricultural services. The third component is the rehabilitation and maintenance of rural access roads. This component will finance the technical feasibility studies, environmental and social assessments and works related to the rehabilitation of about 560 km rural roads and the maintenance of 2,240 km rural roads over a period of four years. Finally, the fourth component is the program implementation and monitoring. This component will support the setting up of a dedicated Project Implementation Unit (PIU) and will also cover training, office equipment, operating costs, audits and communications as well as M&E, environmental and social studies, grievance redress mechanisms (GRM), their implementation and/or the monitoring of their implementation.