Gabon - Technical Support to the Green Gabon Initiative for the Preparation of the Graine Programme – Phase II Project

The present mission subject to the financing of the FAT-PRI (Technical Assistance Support Fund in favor of Middle-income Countries) is part of the perspective to support the transformation of the agricultural sector through the support to the GRAINE program (Gabonaise des Réalisations Agricoles et des initiatives des Nationaux Engagés - Gabon organization for Agricultural Achievements and National Engaged Initiatives). The technical support in question will consist in preparing a second project in support to the GRAINE Program - Phase 2 (PAPG.2). This project will extend the areas of intervention of PAPG.1 (Support Project to GRAINE Program - Phase 1) and promote the most growing agricultural sectors (vegetable and food crops; oil palm, etc.). This suppport specifically aims: (a) to diversify and increase production and competitiveness throughout the chains of values of the channels that have been developed by the project, (b) to contribute to the improvement of the concerned populations’ living conditions, and the attractiveness of rural areas for the urban unemployed youth. In addition, the project will consolidate the first project achievements (PAPG.1) by extending it on new areas of intervention. The project will take place over a period of eighteen (18) calendar months, and will be executed by the General Secretariat of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agricultural Entrepreneurship responsible for the implementation of the Program GRAINE (MAEAPG).