Philippine Rural Development Project Scale-up

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The development objective of the Rural Development Project Scale-Up Project for Philippine is to improve farmers and fisherfolk access to markets and increase income from selected agri-fishery value chains. The project comprises of five components. The first component, national and local level planning component (I-PLAN) will support the planning and refinement of strategies to guide and evaluate: (a) the effectiveness of investments under the project; and (b) their contribution to the agri-fishery sectoral transformation goals of the Philippine development plan (PDP) (2023-2028) and national agriculture and fisheries modernization and industrialization plan (NAFMIP) (2021-2030). It consists of following sub-components: (i) operationalization of the NAFMIP; and (ii) support to NAFMIP implementation. The second component, rural infrastructure, and market linkage component (I-BUILD) will finance the current and new types of public infrastructure subprojects covered under the Philippine Rural Development Project (PRDP). It consists of following sub-components: (i) value chain infrastructure support; and (ii) approaches for improving the effectiveness and sustainability of infrastructure investments. The third component, enterprise development component (I-REAP) will support implementing proponents, defined as legally established and registered farmer cooperatives and associations (FCAs), FCA clusters (composed of two or more FCAs which have bonded together to implement the enterprise), or local government unit (LGUs), which are selected according to the eligibility criteria as per the project operations manual (POM). It consists of following sub-components: (i) rural agri-fishery enterprise cluster productivity enhancement and increased access to markets; and (ii) increased competitiveness of agri-fishery enterprise clusters. The fourth component, project implementation support component (I-SUPPORT) will finance project management, technical assistance, studies, training, and capacity building for project staff during the project period. The fifth component, contingent emergency response component (CERC) will allow for rapid reallocation of uncommitted project funds towards urgent needs in the event of a geophysical, climate-related, or man-made disaster or public health emergency.