Ghana Tree Crop Diversification Project

The development objective of the Tree Crop Diversification Project for Ghana is to improve economic, climate, and social resilience in selected tree crop value chains. The project comprises of four components. The first component, institutional strengthening and value chain governance aims to strengthen the institutional capacity of Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) and Tree Crops Development Authority (TCDA) and improve sector governance for competitive and sustainable development of tree crops. It consists of following sub-components: (i) institutional capacity, policies, and regulations; (ii) value chain digitization for traceability; and (iii) preventing and responding to child labor. The second component, improving tree crops productivity and climate resilience supports the productivity, profitability, and climate resilience of tree crop farms. It consists of following sub-components: (i) demand driven research; (ii) on-farm productivity enhancement and resilience; and (iii) strengthening of farmer-based organization (FBOs). The third component, support for post-harvest management, value addition, and market access supports private investments in secondary value addition of small and medium enterprise (SMEs) in cocoa, cashew, and coconut value chains and in cashew and coconut processing units. The fourth component, project coordination, management, monitoring and evaluation (M and E) objective is to support project coordination, management, and M and E by the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) at COCOBOD and Project Coordination Unit (PCU) at TCDA.