West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program APL (WAAPP-1B)

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The development objective of First Phase West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program Project (WAAPP1-B) for Africa is to generate and accelerate adoption of improved technologies in the participating countries' top agricultural commodity priorities areas that are aligned with the sub-region's top agricultural commodity priorities as outlined in the Economic Community of West African States Agricultural Policy (ECOWAP). There are four components to the project. Component one: enabling conditions for sub-regional cooperation in the generation, dissemination and adoption of agricultural technologies aims at setting up a sustainable mechanism for funding agricultural technologies generation and adoption, strengthening technical and regulatory capacity, including property rights, mainstreaming climate change and gender into agricultural technology generation and adoption. Component two: National Centers of Specialization (NCOS) by strengthening the operational capacities of national agricultural research systems of participating countries in national priority areas, which are aligned to regional priorities. Component three: funding of demand-driven technology generation and adoption aims at accelerating the adoption of readily available technologies through the generation and dissemination of readily available improved technologies, facilitation of access to improved genetic material and the development of a yield prediction tool. Component four: project coordination, management, monitoring and evaluation aims at ensuring an effective and efficient management and coordination of the project at the national and regional levels.

FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry

World Bank

Project

Fertilizers, Raw Materials, Government, Automotive