📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P173480
Region: Latin america and caribbean
Commitment Amount: Us$ 150.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 178.00 million
The proposed Project will prioritize investments in select, strategic Value Chains (VCs) pre-identified by the Ministry of Economy (MINECO). Project-supported beneficiaries will be eligible micro, small and medium agribusinesses and agro-industry, producers’ associations, and producers’ groups (hereinafter referred to as MSMEs). 12. Component 1: Emergency Response to COVID-19 Impacts on Agro-industrial Economic Activities. This component will invest in two strategic priority areas (i) Emergency relief to MSMEs through a MINECO partial guarantee fund, and (ii) Skills development for greater employability through training and an on-line labor matching platform. 13. Component 2: Investments to Enhance MSMEs Efficiency and Resiliency. This component will operate at a national level, focusing on subprojects in select, strategic VCs. Eligible beneficiary MSMEs will receive financial support based on approved business plans to improve the quality of their productive processes through investments in post-harvest practices, including activities such as storage, agro-logistics, aggregation, and transformation of harvested products along the selected VCs. The Project will provide grants and beneficiaries will be expected to provide contributions. The grants will be provided by MINECO with both IFAD and World Bank resources. 14. Component 3: Institutional strengthening in support of Guatemala’s agri-food system. The objective of this component is to strengthen public sector institutions that are considered strategic in supporting the efficiency of the country’s agri-food system. It is divided into two sub-components: (i) improving public infrastructure to enhance SPS standards, food safety, food quality and traceability and (ii) institutional strengthening of key public sector institutions, including MINECO, MAGA, and National Quality System and INE.
