Ghana - Agri-Based Rural Enterprises Project

The Agri-based Rural Enterprises Project (AB-REP) aims to contribute to the reduction of rural poverty by focusing its support on small-scale rural entrepreneurs. It's conceived because of the need to support a wide range of activities and economic operators in the rural world, in order to produce a significant impact on the poverty in rural areas. The project should provide a strategic combination of relevant services accompanied by local institutional capacity building, for sustainable Small Scale Enterprises (SSE) development, using a client demand-driven and cost-sharing approach. It should generate additional incomes through new jobs, strengthen existing ones and diversify present income-generating activities so as to increase income for an estimated 90 000 wage jobs and 40 000 SSE operations (self employed). The project comprises four components, namely: (i) technology transfer and skills development, (ii) rural finance access, (iii) rural enterprise institutions and (iv) project co-ordination.