Sudan Enable Youth Tender

Approval Date 30 Jun 2021Signature Date 11 Aug 2021Planned Completion Date 31 Dec 2026Sovereign Non-Sovereign SovereignSector Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentDAC Sector Code 31110Commitment U.A 20000000Status ImplementationProject General DescriptionThe proposed operation is Project II of the ENABLE Youth Sudan Program EYSP being implemented to create business opportunities and decent employment for the Sudanese youth along priority agricultural value chains. ENABLE Youth is one of the flagship operations under the Banks Feed Africa Strategy for Agricultural Transformation 2016 2025 and Jobs for Youth in Africa Strategy 2016-2025. The Government of Sudan was among the first Regional Member Countries to participate in the Banks ENABLE Youth Program. The Bank approved the EYSP Project I in November 2016 which covers five states Khartoum Gezira Kassala Gedaref and River Nile. The EYSP Project I has so far trained over 700 youth and another 1000 are currently enrolled in various incubation programs in all the five states. Therefore the Project I is on course to achieve its objectives of training and empowering 2000 youth out of which 1800 agribusinesses are expected to be established generating about 12000 direct jobs. The EYSP Project II aims to encourage the growth of commercially viable agribusiness small and medium sized enterprises SMEs in the country by providing entrepreneurship skills access to financing land and markets mentorship and post incubation follow up and monitoring. The project seeks to achieve this objective by identifying innovative potential-oriented entrepreneurs who are willing to pursue business opportunities in the agriculture sector. It will strive to have a demonstration or catalytic effect by encouraging a new generation of entrepreneurs to enter grow and advance the agribusiness sector thus fostering and accelerating the revival of Sudans agriculture sector and helping to increase agricultural incomes create wealth and jobs and reduce poverty. The project cost is estimated at UA 22.23 million of which AfDB is financing UA 20.00 million or 90 and the Government of Sudan will contribute UA 2.23 million or 10. Its implementation is expected to take five years.Project ObjectivesThe overall goal of the EYSP is to improve job creation food and nutrition security income generation and livelihoods for youths. The specific objective of the EYSP Project II is to create business opportunities and decent employment for young women and men along priority agricultural value chains by building entrepreneurship skills in agribusiness and supporting them with access to credit markets and other services for agribusiness development.BeneficiariesThe EYSP Project II will be implemented in ten 10 Youth Agri-Business Incubation Centres YABICs in Sennar White Nile Blue Nile North Kordofan South Kordofan and Darfur. The project will achieve these obj