Mauritania Agriculture Development and Innovation Support Project

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The objective of the Agriculture Development and Innovation Support Project for Mauritania is to improve land resource management and foster inclusive and sustainable commercial agriculture in selected areas of Mauritania. The project has four components. (1) Community-driven territorial development and preservation component will enhance agriculture sustainability under changing climatic conditions and strengthen the resilience of beneficiary rural households in selected rainfed areas of Mauritania. (2) Inclusive commercial agriculture, focusing on intensive large-scale production under irrigated conditions in ZOCAs will support the development of commercially oriented intensive agriculture production systems by large agribusiness investors and SMAEs under PPPs established between the Government, the investors, and the local communities. (3) The project management, monitoring, and evaluation (M&E) activities component will support the operations of the Project Management Unit (PMU) at central and regional (wilaya) levels. The component will finance (i) the equipping of the national and regional PMUs, including vehicles, office furniture and IT equipment, field tools, etc., and attendant running costs such as staff salaries and subsistence allowances, consultant fees, internal and external audits, etc., as well as all expenditures related to utilities; (ii) staff training (with focus on the Environmental and Social Management Framework – ESMF, MIS and Kobotool Box, financial management and procurement, as well as Grievance Management and Gender-Based Violence prevention measures). (4) is a zero-allocation Contingency Emergency Response Component (CERC) that will provide a swift response in the event of an eligible crisis or emergency, defined as an event that has caused, or is likely to imminently cause, a major adverse economic and/or social impact associated with natural or man-made crises or disasters.