National Agriculture Development Program

The development objective of the National Agriculture Development Program Project for Congo, Democratic Republic of is to improve agriculture productivity and market access of smallholder farmers in selected project areas. The project comprises of four components. The first component, agriculture productivity will support the increase of smallholder farmers’ agriculture productivity (of crops and animal products) through the adoption of climate smart agriculture (CSA) and Nutrition Smart Agriculture (NSmartAg) technologies (within the framework of national standards and directives) and practices and access to finance. It consists of following sub-components: (i) direct smallholder farmer support; (ii) smallholder farmers technical assistance and financial access; and (iii) agriculture preparedness and emergency response. The second component, smallholder farmers market access will support the reduction in transaction costs for smallholder farmers to access markets and the inclusion of smallholder farmers into farmer groups (cooperatives and associations) and agriculture micro, small, and medium enterprise (AgriMSMEs). It consists of following sub-components: (i) rural transport infrastructure; and (ii) support to smallholder farmers’ market access. The third component, agriculture public goods and services will provide national and provincial actors with capacity-building opportunities to perform support functions during project implementation. It consists of following sub-components: (i) capacity building for delivering agriculture public services; and (ii) project management and monitoring and evaluation. The fourth component, contingency emergency response enables a swift response in the event of an eligible crisis or emergency, defined as an event that has caused, or is likely to imminently cause, a major adverse economic and or social impact associated with natural or man-made crises or disasters.