Guangxi Rural Poverty Alleviation Pilot Project

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The development objective of the Guangxi Rural Poverty Alleviation Pilot Project for China is to increase income generation opportunities through demonstration of value chain development models in the project counties. The project comprises of four components. The first component, improvement of pro-poor value chains aims to address market failures in the development of agricultural and non-agricultural rural value chains and key industries with a particular focus on increasing the value of economic activities of targeted farmer cooperatives. It consists of following sub-components: (i) cooperative development fund; and (ii) matching grant for enterprises. The second component, public infrastructure and services will support the establishment and strengthening of public infrastructure and service systems in support of value chain and key industry development under component one. It consists of following sub-components: (i) rural infrastructure; and (ii) risk management. The third component, enhancing investments in poor areas will improve and facilitate investments in poor areas by existing and new micro-entrepreneurs and business entities, such as small and medium enterprises (SMEs), migrant returnees, or cooperatives. The fourth component, project management, monitoring and evaluation (M and E), and learning will strengthen the administrative and technical capacity of the staff of the project management offices at the county, prefecture, and regional level.