Kirgizië: Agricultural Investments and Services Project
Datum: 06.05.2008
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Fase: |
Board |
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Processing Stage: |
Active |
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Closing date: |
30-6-2013 |
| Abstract: PID 09-SEP-2007 The project objective is to improve the institutional and infrastructure environment for farmers and herders, with a strong emphasis on the livestock sector. More specifically, the project objective is to increase farmers’ productivity, particularly of livestock farmers in the project areas and reduce animal diseases which have a public health impact (i.e. brucellosis). The Project is an explicit part of the JCSS and supports all four of the programmatic JCSS areas. It will help improve the management of a major resource, the country’s pastures, and will do so with an explicit focus on fostering strong and sustained pro-poor growth and on long-term environmental sustainability. Description The project would comprise the following three main components: 11. (a) Pasture Management and Improvement. A participatory and community-based approach will be applied to pasture use and management, so as to ensure economically viable and socially and environmentally sustainable use. This will be supplemented by a facility for small community investment grants, which will provide the communities with some resources to invest in pasture infrastructure and related facilities. 12. In a participatory process of community mobilization, capacity building, learning-bydoing and institutional development, the rural communities will establish pasture management user associations and through these, and with advice from local technical agencies, develop Community Pasture Management Plans (CPMPs). These will include information on available pasture resources, principles for allocating user rights, potential revenues and the mechanisms to collect them, and plans for the use of such revenues for pasture management and improvement. Communities will receive training on participatory, consensus-based decision-making and on technical aspects of pasture management. To implement priority investments included in their CPMPs, communities will receive small block grants for two consecutive years; they will contribute a minimum of the equivalent of 25% of the grant from their own resources. 13. (b) Agricultural Support Services. The project will support the development and operation of market-oriented support services that will assist farmers with agronomic and farm management advice, market information, and animal husbandry, nutrition, health care and breeding. The objective will be to improve farmer access to relevant information and know-how and hence strengthen their knowledge, understanding and adoption of sustainable and profitable practices. 14. The project will support the final phase of institutional development of the Rural Advisory Service, established under the ASSP with the support of IFAD and SDC, so as to extend its reach, strengthen its professional expertise, reduce its operating costs, generate client payment for services provided, and thereby put it in a position where it can successfully function without further donor support. This will include strengthening its capabilities in fields such as soil fertility management, animal husbandry, and integrated pest management. 15. Livestock services will be improved through several measures, centered on regulatory and institutional reforms fostering the development of private livestock service providers. The aim is to promote the effective and country-wide provision of animal health and breeding services, including vaccinations, de-worming, pre- and post-slaughter inspection, artificial insemination, etc. This will be coupled with investments and capacity building of the State Veterinary Department and the Livestock, Pasture and Veterinary Research Institute to position them for effective fulfillment of their functions such as epizootic disease monitoring and control. The project will support extension and demonstration efforts regarding proper animal nutrition, particularly during winter, with emphasis on forage and silage production and the use of feed supplements and concentrates. Special attention will be given to the establishment of community seed funds, successfully introduced under the ASSP, for fodder crops. In addition, to foster the development of effective marketing chains for livestock products, the project will co-finance small-scale community investments in livestock processing and marketing facilities. 16. (b) Project Management. Overall coordination of project activities and the fiduciary aspects of project management will be handled by the Agricultural Projects Implementation Unit (APIU) in the Ministry of Agriculture. The project will finance staff, consultants, operating costs, some technical assistance and training, M&E activities, special studies, impact assessments, information dissemination and audits. |
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Financing Institution: |
World Bank |
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Total Project Cost |
USD 23.8 million |
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Contact: |
Bedard, Brian G. |
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Agency: |
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, WATER RESOURCES AND PROCESSING INDU |
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More information: |
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Bron: World Bank
Nummer: 182508
Trefwoorden:
Plattelandsontwikkeling - Projecten - Kirgizië - Wereldbank
Meer informatie over dit onderwerp is op te vragen onder vermelding van nummer 182508 bij Mila Bahadoer, e-mail: tio@info.agentschapnl.nl, telefoon: (088) 602 85 87, fax: (088) 602 90 26.
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