Multinational - The Bugesera Natural Region Rural Infrastructure Support Project (Grant to the Republic of Burundi)

The Bugesera Natural Region Rural Infrastructure Support Project (PAIR) aims to enhance food security in the Bugesera region through sustainable increase in agricultural production. The project will help to improve the food security by building irrigation infrastructure, access roads and storage facilities, increasing agricultural production and conserving water and the soil. It will introduce a new hillside irrigation method and disseminate technical and organizational knowledge on that method to its beneficiaries. The development of the method will contribute to better mastery of water resource management and ensure greater profitability of farm holdings by increasing and securing farm output. The project implementation focuses on the following actions: (i) Irrigation Development; (ii) Other Rural Infrastructure; (iii) Project Coordination and Management. PAIR activities will begin in 2010 and will span six years. The project impact area is the crossborder region astride Rwanda and Burundi and particularly around Lakes Rweru and Cyohoha and Akanyaru marshlands which are shared by both countries, as well as their watersheds. The total project cost is estimated at UA 30 million (equivalent to FRW 26 340 million or FBU 55 185 million).