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

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The development objective of the Adaptable Program Lending for West Africa Agricultural Productivity Program Project (WAAPP-1C) is to generate and accelerate the adoption of improved technologies in the participating countries' top agricultural commodity priority areas that are aligned with the sub-region's top agricultural commodity priorities. There are four components to the project, the first component being enabling conditions for sub-regional cooperation in the generation, dissemination, and adoption of agricultural technologies. This component aims at strengthening the institutional mechanisms and procedures for generating, disseminating, and adopting improved agricultural technologies and tools at the national level to allow Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) member countries to benefit from those technologies within a regional framework for technical and scientific cooperation. The second component is the strengthening national centers of specialization and strengthening of the research system. The third component is the support to demand-driven technology generation, dissemination and adoption. This component aims at financing priority-focused agricultural research and advisory services within participating countries and complement core program activities financed under second component. Finally, the fourth component is the project coordination, management, and monitoring and evaluation.