RURAL SERVICES

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The Rural Services Design Project is to test the feasibility of, and most effective approaches to implementing innovative investments which could resolve constraints to agricultural development and which offer potential for raising the productivity and incomes of the rural population. The project will initially support ten subprojects. These activities involve improvements in : rural credit delivery to smallholders, including women's groups, and rural savings mobilization; livestock marketing; cooperative management; arid and semi-arid land management and development, including environmental rehabilitation and wildlife management; rural-based agro-processing; and monitoring and evaluation of agricultural sector strategies and policies.