Lebanon: Green Agri-food transformation for economic recovery (GATE)

The development objective of the Green Agri-Food Transformation for Economic Recovery (GATE) Project for Lebanon is to improve the resilience of farmers and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Lebanese agri-food sector. The project comprises of five components. The first component, climate smart investments in agri-food value chains objective is to provide access to finance to strengthen the resilience and improve the competitiveness of farmers and SMEs involved in agri-food value chains. It consists of following sub-components: (i) development of climate smart value chains; and (ii) support to agri-food SMEs. The second component, climate-smart infrastructure and services for agri-food sector development objective is to restore service delivery, build operational capacity and ensure the sustainability and climate-resilience of public infrastructure underpinning the agri-food sector. It consists of following sub-components: (i) improving rural community infrastructure for agriculture; and (ii) restoring access and protecting agency-managed infrastructure and services underpinning agriculture. The third component, improving the enabling environment and restoring support services for agri-food sector development objective is to restore and strengthen the capacity of sector institutions to support the recovery and transformation of the agri-food sector. It consists of following sub-components: (i) improving access to climate-smart agriculture practices, data, and knowledge; (ii) strengthening food safety; and (iii) improving agri-food export promotion and marketing systems. The fourth component, project and knowledge management will support the coordination and management of the implementation of the project. The fifth component, contingent emergency response component (CERC) will have zero funding allocation at the onset and will only be triggered in emergency circumstances; the project will support the preparation of a procedure manual governing the CERC...