Niger Fostering Rural Growth Reform Grant DPO Series

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The development objective of Fostering Rural Growth Reform Development Policy Financing (DPF) Project for Niger is to foster rural growth. It has two pillars: 1) Increasing rural productivity growth; and 2) Supporting growth enabling sectors. This document requires a DPF in the form of an IDA Grant and an IDA Credit. This is the first Of a programmatic series Of two single-tranche development policy operations. It is a single-tranche disbursement of 50 percent in the form of an International Development IDA regular credit terms with maturity of 38 years including a grace period of 6 years. The program supports the Government of Niger's growth and poverty reduction strategy through its emphasis on reforms for fostering rural growth reform. It builds on the World Bank Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD, August, 2017) and the incoming new Country Partnership Framework (CPF, 2018-2020).