SN:Casamance Development Pole Project

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The objectives of the Casamance Development Pole Project for Senegal are to: (i) enhance the agricultural productivity of youth and female farmers for selected crops; and (ii) improve transport linkages in isolated rural communities in targeted areas of the Casamance region. The project has three components. The first component is support to agricultural production, post-harvest, and marketing for selected value-chains. This component responds to the demand by Casamance agricultural cooperatives, and small-scale private operators for support to production, marketing, and commercialization of agricultural commodities. The component supports activities aimed at restoring the missing links in the rice, horticulture, and oysters value-chains. The second component is rural accessibility. This component will carry out a program aiming at improving accessibility of the most isolated rural communities and improving communities' access to roads leading to local markets and agricultural production zones. The third component is project implementation and capacity building in Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR). This component includes four sub-components: (i) strengthening the capacity of key stakeholders, including the Agence Nationale pour la Relance des Activites Economiques et Sociales en Casamance (ANRAC) through consolidation of peace building processes and the fundamentals of DDR for ex-combatants; (ii) carrying-out of three strategic studies on: (a) developing a cadastral plan; (b) developing a geo-reference map of interventions in Casamance; and (c) support to the government in the definition and implementation of a strategy on poles development, which integrates a fiscal framework; (iii) support to project management, results monitoring and evaluation (M and E); and (iv) construction of office facilities for the Regional Development Agency (Agence Regionale de Developpement) (ARDs) and provision of related office equipment.