📋 Tender Overview
Project ID: P175269
Region: Africa east
Commitment Amount: Us$ 200.00 million
Total Project Cost: Us$ 0.00 million
Development Objective
To increase productivity and strengthen resilience of rural livelihoods in Targeted Areas in Madagascar.
The operational rationale, the development objectives, and the technical design of the proposed project are grounded in the World Bank’s renewed and increasing engagement and support to Madagascar’s agriculture sector and upstream ASA. Following a mutli-year dialogue between the Bank and the GoM, the operation was initiated in response to a request for Bank support from the Government of Madagascar. The proposed focus on the country’s rice sub-sector responds directly to current GOM priorities as they relate to the achievement of self-sufficiency in rice production and strengthening food security. The project’s results chain and proposed interventions have been informed by a series of upstream analytical work, including: i) Scaling up Smallholder Inclusion in Agri-Food Value Chains: Insights from the Rice and Dairy Sectors (WB 2018); and ii) ) Unlocking the Potential for Irrigated Rice Schemes in Madagascar (WB 2020). These studies highlight the myriad and systemic deficiencies that impede the productivity ofrice production systems and that stifle investments. The studies also highlight strong scope to unlock the sector’s latent growth potential with targeted investments and support to stakeholders across the rice value chain. As envisioned, the proposed Project will support the Government of Madagascar and its priorities as they relate to improving food security and achieving self-sufficiency in rice production. As a first phase in a multi-phased strategic approach,the Project will catalyze intensification of rice production in Madagascar by prioritizing the rehabilitation and upgrading of existing irrigation infrastructure and strengthening the organizational and resource management capacity of actors and institutions across the rice value chain. Project investments will also aim to enhance farmer connectivity (via infrastructure upgrades and digital technologies) to input and output markets while strengthening the enabling environment for sustained productivity-enhancing investments and for more competitivedomestic rice markets. At household level, investments will aim to enhance water use efficiency and diversify production systems for improved livelihood resilience and nutrition outcomes. To address binding constraints to rice intensification, the Projectwill seek to identify the most promising innovations, through dedicated support to research, for field testing, adaption, and validation by farmers before scaling up. Robust monitoring and evaluation of activities will generate lessons and empirical evidence that will help to generate new data, fill knowledge gaps, and inform the design of downstream investments
