Nigeria Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project

The development objective of Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project for Nigeria is to improve rural access and agricultural marketing in participating states while strengthening the financing and institutional base for effective development, maintenance and management of the rural road network. This project has four components. 1) The first component, Improvement of Rural Access and Trading Infrastructure, has two subcomponents: (i) Major Civil Works; and (ii) Consultancies and Supervision. 2) The second component, Asset Management, Agro-logistics Performance Enhancement and Sector Reform, has the following subcomponents: (i) Other Civil works; (ii) Support to Agro-logistics Activities; and (iii) Consultancies Studies and Supervision. 3) The third component, Institutional Development, Project Management and Risk Mitigation, is to provide technical and material support for the rural transport and agrologistics capacity building, smooth functioning of the project and risk mitigation and resiliency activities. 4) The fourth component, Contingent Emergency Response, aims to address any emergency infrastructure needs following a natural disaster.