Shaanxi Poor Rural Areas Community Development Project

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The development objective of the Shaanxi Poor Rural Areas Community Development Project for China is to increase incomes of targeted beneficiaries in selected poor counties of Shaanxi. The project comprises four components. 1) Farmer cooperative and value chain development aims to support the improvement of value chains for selected agricultural products with local competitive advantage, establish new farmer cooperatives or strengthen existing cooperatives to become effective business entities and strengthen forward and backward linkages. the specific activities supported under this component are arranged in two sub-components: (i) cooperative development and (ii) competitive grant for enterprises (CG); 2) economic infrastructure and services support aims to improve the economic infrastructure connecting project communities to large value chains; 3) technical assistance and capacity building support aims to support both technical and institutional capacity building for participating farmers, village committee members, community economic groups, farmer cooperatives and advisors, agricultural technicians, agro-enterprises and companies, etc.; 4) project management, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) aims to strengthen and develop the administrative and technical capacity of Project Management Office (PMO) staff through: (i) capacity building for the provincial, municipal, county PMO and cooperatives to strengthen project management; and (ii) development of Management Information System (MIS) and an M&E system for project activities which includes monitoring physical project progress, compliance with environmental and social safeguards, and project impact monitoring.