Climate Smart Agriculture Support Project

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The development objective of the Climate-smart Agriculture Support Project for Niger to enhance adaptation to climate risks, to improve agricultural productivity among the Targeted Communities and in the event of an eligible crisis or emergency, to provide immediate and effective response to said eligible crisis or emergency. The project is organized into four components. 1)Investments for scaling up climate-smart agriculture (CSA) are to provide financing to scale up proven technologies and practices, both at commune and individual level, leading to increased agricultural productivity and income while building resilience to climate change in the project area and reducing or removing carbon emissions. This component comprises two subcomponents: i) financing CSA-integrated subprojects at the commune level and ii) inclusive enterprise development for sustainability of CSA; 2) Innovative practices and improved service delivery for mainstreaming CSA is to support the financial investments in Component 1 and adopt innovative practices to achieve the triple outcomes of CSA, farmers’ capacity needs to be strengthened and they will need access to a number of services from private and public institutions. This component will focus on improving service delivery by national and local institutions and farmers adoption of innovative practices. It will also focus on public sector institutions to improve the policy and enabling environment and facilitate delivery of relevant services by national and local public sector institutions. In addition, this component will work directly with the private sector and attempt to develop market mechanisms for sustained service delivery during and after the project. This component contains three subcomponents: i) Technology transfer, ii) Improved access to information and iii) Support to national institutions for improved service delivery, policy dialogue and iv) Supporting innovations for agriculture development; 3) Contingency emergency response will finance emergency works in case of another disaster event by including a “zero-dollar” Contingency Emergency Response Component (CERC). This will help reduce damage to infrastructure, ensure business continuity, and enable early rehabilitation. In parallel, following an adverse event that causes a major disaster, the Government of Niger (GoN) may request the Bank to channel resources from other components into an Immediate Response Mechanism (IRM); 4) Project Coordination and Management will be implemented under the Nigeriens Nourish Nigeriens (3N) initiatives institutional arrangements. This component has two subcomponents: (a) Coordination, management, and implementation support; and (b) Monitoring and evaluation (M&E), communication, and knowledge production and sharing.