DRC - Agriculture Rehabilitation and Recovery Support

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The objective of the Agriculture Rehabilitation and Recovery Support Project for Congo, Democratic Republic of is to increase agricultural productivity and improve marketing of crops and animal products by smallholder farmers in targeted areas. There are three components to the project, the first component being improving agricultural and animal production. This component supports activities to enhance the capacity of about 105,000 farm households or about 735,000 people to produce rainfed crops (Equateur), irrigated rice (Pool Malebo), small ruminants, and poultry. This component will also support activities to develop the capacity of farmer organizations in the project areas, with the view to promoting their effectiveness in marketing agricultural inputs (primarily seed) and outputs and in building linkages with private agri-business. The second component is the marketing infrastructure improvement. This component includes the rehabilitation of feeder roads and rehabilitation or construction of a few local markets in Equateur province. Finally, the third component is the capacity-building support to the Ministry of Agriculture (MinAgri) and Ministry of Rural Development (MDR), and project management. This component includes three sub-components: (i) capacity-building support to MinAgri and MDR; (ii) project management; and (iii) monitoring and evaluation (M&E).