Smallholder Irrigated Agriculture and Market Access Project- IRRIGA 1

The development objective of the Smallholder Irrigated Agriculture and Market Access Project for Mozambique is to improve smallholder agriculture productivity and market access in the project areas developed with irrigation and provide immediate and effective response to an eligible crisis or emergency. The project comprises of five components. The first component, institutional capacity building objective is to strengthen the institutional capacity and to improve the enabling policy environment, support the regulatory framework of the institutions involved in the development of irrigated agriculture, and enhance beneficiaries’ capacity for sustainable development and management of irrigated agriculture. It consists of following sub-components: (i) strengthening irrigation institutional capacity; (ii) strengthening agriculture institutional capacity and market linkages; and (iii) agriculture investment management unit. The second component, smallholder irrigation development and management will finance engineering designs of 5,000 hectares (ha) for irrigation development and construction supervision, equipment, and civil and hydraulic works for 3,000 ha of irrigated land in the project areas to improve water availability and resilience of irrigation services. It consists of following sub-components: (i) irrigation infrastructure investment; and (ii) irrigation infrastructure management. The third component, agriculture intensification and market linkages will improve productivity, production, cropping intensity, competitiveness, and market access for 9,000 smallholder farmers cultivating roughly 6,000 ha of land in the project area. It consists of following sub-components: (i) capacity building for smallholder farmers; (ii) investment support to enhance smallholder agricultural production; and (iii) matching grants for market-led production and value chain development. The fourth component, project management and monitoring and evaluation objective is to: (a)...