National Agricultural Export Promotion Project

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The project aims to strengthen the incentives framework and remove the obstacles to the supply response in the agricultural export sector. In this sector that offers promising investment opportunities, it will assist in the application of the policy measures designed to create an enabling environment and increase the operational context for private sector activities. The project will include the following strategies: (a) institution building, by strengthening professional organizations dealing with the export sector; (b) support to export production, by providing specialized technical services (research, extension, management assistance, etc.) to producers (small and large, including producer groups and cooperatives); this component will include access roads to open up producing areas; (c) special programs, (Mutual Credit and Private Investment Fund schemes) addressing financial constraints to agricultural exports; and (d) project management, through a project management contract with a private consultant firm (the "Project Manager") that will have full delegation of authority to implement the project.