Samoa Agriculture & Fisheries Productivity and Marketing Project (SAFPROM)

The development objective of Agriculture and Fisheries Productivity and Marketing Project for Samoa is to increase the productivity and access to markets by selected producers, to improve management of targeted productive natural resources and, in the event of an eligible crisis or emergency, to provide an immediate response to the eligible crisis or emergency. This project has four components. 1) The first component, Strengthening National Institutions, aims at creating an enabling environment for increased productivity and access to markets for target farming and fishing households and private sector along the targeted value-chains. It has the following subcomponents: (i) Institutional capacity building for crops and livestock; and (ii) Strengthening management of the region’s shared oceanic and coastal fisheries. 2) The second component, Strengthening the performance of selected value-chains, has the following two subcomponents: (i) Public Good Infrastructure; and (ii) Matching Grant Program. 3) The third component, ASCD establishment and project management, Monitoring and Evaluation, and communications, aims to support the establishment of the agriculture sector coordination division (ASCD). 4) The fourth component, Contingency Emergency Response, aims to draw from the uncommitted grant resources under the project from other project components to cover emergency response.