Central African Republic Tender

The Central African Republic and the African Development Bank signed Monday February 22 in Bangui two memoranda of understanding for grants to finance the modernization of Bangui airport and fight against food insecurity in two prefectures in the center-north of country.The Central African Minister of the Economy Planning and Cooperation Flix Molou and the country manager of the African Development Bank Mamady Souar initialed the protocols which relate on the one hand to the Project of support for the modernization of the Bangui-Mpoko international airport phase II PAMAB II and on the other hand on the Project to support resilience and food and nutritional security in the prefectures of Kemo and Ouaka PARSANKO.Mamady Souar welcomed the signing of these agreements reflecting the excellent cooperation between the Central African Republic and the Bank and conveyed to the government a personal message of support from the President of the Bank to the Central African people.PAMAB II funded to the tune of 11.44 million US dollars 6.23 billion CFA francs aims to consolidate the role of air transport in serving the Central African Republic through secure safe efficient airport services. and quality in accordance with international standards. This second phase completes PAMAB I and the Support Project for the National Civil Aviation Authority. The entire airport modernization project has a budget of some 18.36 million dollars 10 billion FCFA including the national contribution.The activities selected within the framework of PAMAB II concern the improvement of airport safety and quality facilitation and signage as well as support for the aviation sector. The project will thus make it possible to upgrade the terminal improve passenger control baggage handling and better equip the freight area.PARSANKO whose funding amounts to 27.39 million dollars 14.92 billion FCFA includes co-financing from the multilateral fund Global Agricultural Food Security Program GASFP. This project supports the transformation of the agricultural sector. It should make it possible to stimulate investment in agriculture promote the national private sector and youth employment through the training-employment balance. It will promote the emergence of micro small and medium enterprises MSMEs with the aim of improving the employability of young people in this sector.The realization of PARSANKO aims to support agro-pastoral production and community initiatives. For crop production priority will be given to the maize cassava peanuts and paddy rice sectors. The focus will be on poultry pork and goats and sheep for animal production.In order to enable the beneficiary populations to benefit from the project on a sustainable basis efforts will be devoted to financial education the structuring and professionalization of producers unions and the development of rural entrepreneurship in particular that of young people and women. PARSANKO will also support the promotion of nutrition access to water and health through support for school canteens the construction of health centers and boreholes.