Bahia Sustainable Rural Development Project

The development objective of the Bahia Sustainable Rural Development Project for Brazil is to enhance resilience of family farmers in targeted states. The project comprises of five components. The first component, increasing agricultural productivity, access to markets, and resilience to shocks will finance technical studies, technical assistance (TA), and matching grants to co-finance business and the development plans of Producer Organizations (POs) and to support investments in climate-smart agriculture (CSA). It consists of following sub-components: (i) development of business plans and strengthening capacities of POs and family farmers; (ii) implementation of business and ethno-development plans; and (iii) improving access to complementary agricultural public policies. The second component, supplying safe drinking water services to rural communities will fund water infrastructure to improve food and nutrition security of low-income rural households through the expansion of access to drinking water services from rural dwellers, its main objective will be to support the Bahia’s efforts to develop a rural water state policy and bringing about institutional changes in the water sector to mainstream a strategy for managing rural water services. It consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthening and consolidating the multi-community management model for rural water supply services; and (ii) investments in rural water infrastructure and monitoring of service delivery. The third component, designing and scaling innovative solutions for agrifood production and commercialization will finance the scaling of innovations that can have a positive impact on the long-term sustainability of the interventions on POs (Component 1). It consists of following sub-component: (i) scaling innovations to improve productivity and access to markets. The fourth component, contingency emergency response component (CERC) is a mechanism for Borrowers (Bahia) to access funds rapidly...