Gambia Inclusive and Resilient Agricultural Value Chain Development Project (GIRAV)

The development objective of the Inclusive and Resilient Agricultural Value Chain Development Project for Gambia is to promote the development of inclusive, resilient, and competitive agricultural value chains, focusing on smallholder farmers and agribusinesses in project target areas. The project comprises of five components. The first component, improving the business environment for commercial agriculture development consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthening the capacity of key organizations and improving value chain coordination and partnership; (ii) developing critical marketing infrastructure; (iii) strengthening quality and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) control systems; and (iv) improving rural connectivity. The second component, building a productive and climate-resilient agri-food system consists of following sub-components: (i) promoting modern irrigation in women and youth-led agribusiness firms; and (ii) increasing access to technology, innovation, and advisory services. The third component, mobilizing productive private investments along the value chains will support private investments in productive activities and related services by addressing the major market failures that constrain the financing of investments in agricultural value chains. It consists of following sub-components: (i) building the operating capacities of partner financial institution (FIs); (ii) co-funding productive investments to leverage private capital mobilization; and (iii) technical assistance to smallholder and small and medium enterprise (SME) promoters of productive investment subproject (PISs). The fourth component, project coordination, monitoring, and knowledge management aims to ensure that the project is efficiently managed and monitored, and that performance and outcomes are carefully tracked by the country project coordination unit (CPCU) and implementing agencies. The fifth component, contingent emergency response component (CERC), with a...