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This project is the Banks first contribution to the operationalisation of Pillars III and IV of the Agricultural Transformation Programme (PTA).The DRC Pact for Food and Agriculture (known as the Agriculture Compact) aims to ensure rapid structural transformation of the countrys agricultural sector. The Pacts subsidiary objectivesare to: (i) increase farmers’ productivity; (ii) ensure the connectivity of production areas to agro-industrial processing centres and markets; (iii) improve the quality of the human capital of farmers, women and young people; and (iv) improve the governance of agricultural value chains based on Decentralised Territorial Entities, processing centres and agricultural markets.
Project Objectives
The overall objective of the project is to support agricultural transformation in the DRC by improving the investment climate in the agricultural sector, the quality of the workforce and the promotion of entrepreneurship in agricultural value chains in support of the PTA. Specifically, the PAGDC-PTA aims to (i) improve the investment climate in the agricultural sector; (ii) support the skills training system and professional integration in agricultural value chains; (iii) strengthen the institutional framework and improve the business climate for youth and women’s entrepreneurship in the agricultural sector.
Beneficiaries
Project activities will focus on the target area of the first phase of the PTA-RDC. The target area is composed of the main growth and subsistence poles already identified in the context of previous studies conducted by the FAO in 2022, as well as the decentralised territorial entities (ETDs) that constitute the main production areas for eight priority commodities already identified under the Integrated Emergency Community Development Programme (PUIDC): (i) the growth pole around Kinshasa (western part);(ii) the subsistence pole in the northern forest areas; and (iii) the subsistence pole in the central and southern savannahs. The programme will be implemented in three phases. Based on the mapping of the growth poles, the first phase will focus mainly on 10ETDs in five provinces of the DRC, namely: Kongo Central, Kasaï-Oriental, Nord-Ubangi, Sud-Ubangi and Tshopo. The direct beneficiaries will be the 25,000 young people (50% young women) as well as the 500 (50% women) facilitators targeted in the 10 ETDs for skills development, agribusiness and capacity building; and the indirect beneficiaries will be the population of around 17 million people (51% women) in the five target provinces as well as the population of the DRC as a whole, who will benefit from the national reforms that will be implemented under the project (legal and regulatory environment, standardisation, certification, upgrading, capacity building of ETDs). |
