Lebanon Green Agrifood Transformation for Economic Recovery (GATE)

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The GATE project is designed to (i) stabilize the agri-food sector in the short to medium term; and (ii) promote a pathway towards sustainable transformation of the sector through a farmer-centric, demand-driven and integrated approach focused on clusters of rural agricultural areas. The project is structured into three substantive components supplemented by components for project management and a Contingent Emergency Response component (CERC): The project would be an Investment Project Financing (IPF) with total financing of US$250 million and implemented over a five-year period. Component 1 will catalyze climate-smart investments in agri-food value chains by providing technical and financial support to farmers, farmer groups and agribusinesses to sustainably implement climate-resilient agricultural productivity and competitiveness in agri-food value chains in support of diversified livelihoods and jobs creation. Component 2 will restore basic public services and infrastructure at local and service area levels, including greening and improving access to services such as irrigation, community-scale water and wastewater facilities, and solid waste management through rehabilitation and introduction of renewable energy sources. Component 3 will improve the enabling environment for agri-food development at national level, including enhancing the institutional enabling environment, building capacity to accelerate the use of climate smart innovation and digital technologies, and improving the enabling environment for food safety and export. Together, the three components form an integrated support package that removes destructive constraints imposed by the current crisis and advances a transition towards a more sustainable future. The project has a gender sensitive design to improve equity and ensure women have equal access to project’s activity; it will seek to reduce some of the gender gaps identified in the country. Focus groups with women beneficiaries could be held regularly to ensure the activities effectively target women’s needs.