Senegal - The Anambe Basin Rural Development Project

The Anambe Basin Rural Development Support Project is in line with Government rural development and decentralization policy, and conforms with Bank Group strategy on Senegal. It aims at a sustainable increase in agricultural production and incomes through better agronomic performance, a higher capacity of the farmers to manage the large Anambe irrigated scheme and to unlock the production potential around it. The project meets the demand of farmer organisations grouped in unions and a federation and should provide support accordingly. The purpose is to make the rural communities and farmer organisations more autonomous technically and financially. Its implementation should permit the development of the Anambe scheme and enhance decentralized development throughout the Basin. The project should also increase the value added of developed land, irrigated and rain-fed crop output by making rural communities and vocational organizations accountable, even as it supports development through local credit - a key condition to sustainable development. The main project components are: A) Local government support; B) Produce development; C) Accommodating measures; and D) Project management.