Rural Capacity Building Project

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The Rural Capacity Building Project Component aims to assist Ethiopia to strengthen agricultural services and systems for improved agricultural productivity, make them more responsive to clients' needs, and enhance the capacity of producers to become aware of and to adopt economically viable and environmentally sustainable technologies and practices. The project has six components, supporting 1) Agriculture Technical Vocational Education and Training Capacity Building: 2) Agricultural Extension Services, especially for market-oriented farmers and to enhance women's participation and gender equality mainstreaming in all aspects of the extension system and to support the emergence of non-public sector agricultural services; 3) Agricultural Research, particularly institutional strengthening of the National Agricultural Research System by enhancing the participation of key stakeholders in priority setting, resource allocation, and making it more efficient and effective in generating and disseminating client-demanded and market-oriented technologies and information; 4) Improving Information and Communication Systems within the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development; 5) Development of Agricultural Market Institutions, which finances analytical work geared toward understanding and developing practical solutions for market constraints. It would also support the development of an Ethiopian Agricultural Commodity Exchange, Finally, it would support strengthening and development of sanitary and phytosanitary standards and the institutions needed to utilize them; and 6) Project Management.