Burkina Faso Livestock Resilience and Competitiveness Project

The development objective of the Livestock Resilience and Competitiveness Project for Burkina Faso is to improve the productivity, commercialization, and resilience of key sedentary livestock production systems for targeted beneficiaries in project areas. The project comprises of four components. The first component, enabling environment and support services for livestock promotion is to strengthen the policy and regulatory environment and institutional foundations for improving the competitiveness of livestock production with a special emphasis on sedentary systems. It consists of following sub-components: (i) technical assistance to support to policy formulation, planning, and capacity strengthening; (ii) support to animal husbandry and advisory support services; and (iii) support to animal health services strengthening. The second component, climate-smart livestock infrastructure and value chains development builds on improvements in productivity arising from investments under component 1 (improved policy and regulatory environment, adoption of good animal husbandry practice (GAHPs) and improved breeds, and improved animal health) to foster stronger commercial and market orientation among small and medium producers, expand private investment in the sector, and promote the highest level of appropriate value addition in targeted value-chains. It consists of following sub-components: (i) support for climate-smart productive infrastructure and marketing; and (ii) support to access to finance. The third component, project management and coordination focus on all aspects related to project management and coordination. The fourth component, contingent emergency response component is a mechanism for financing eligible expenditures in the event of natural or manmade crises or disaster, severe economic shocks, or other emergencies in Burkina Faso.