📋 Tender Overview
IATI identifier 46002-P-TN-AAD-001
Country Tunisia
Sector Agriculture and Rural Development
High 5 Feed Africa
Sovereign / Non-Sovereign Sovereign
Environmental Category [2] Moderate Risk
Climate Safeguards Categorization [3] Projects are not vulnerable to climate risk.
Gender Marker System Categorization [GEN II] Gender Outcomes
Commitment (UA) 12,533,453
Project General Description
The project aligns with Tunisia's commitment at the Dakar 2 Summit, which focused on food sovereignty and resilience in African countries. It also plugs into the Paris Climate Agreement and Goal 7 of the African Union Agenda 2063 which envisages environmentally sustainable and climate-resilient economies and communities. The project further consolidates the outcomes of the Bank Group's operations in Tunisia and represents an opportunity and added value for the Bank to illustrate its unique experience in implementing SCF/FIP-financed projects in several African countries.
Project Objectives
The development objective of the project is to restore forest landscapes in the State's public domain and agroforestry in the private domain in three Governerates (Béja, Siliana and Bizerte) to facilitate the development of rural areas and restore landscapes for carbon sequestration in Tunisia. The project aims to increase carbon sequestration in ecosystems, thereby mitigating the negative effects of climate change and generating significant environmental and socio-economic co-benefits. Combating forest fires, which are a real scourge in Tunisia, will be strengthened by the project to reduce carbon emissions from forest cover exposed to fires.
Beneficiaries
The local project-affected communities in the three governorates of Béja, Siliana and Bizerte will be involved through a demand-driven sub-project approach. The direct beneficiaries of the project are the following: (i) around 1,500 private landowners (households), i.e. 7,500 people for the three governorates (at a rate of 5 people per household), targeted for agroforestry and forestry investments; (ii) around 9,000 beneficiaries who will benefit from support for the processing of agricultural, silvicultural and pastoral products and around 42,000 members of the population who adopt forestry, agroforestry, production and value chain best practices; (iii) around 3,000 beneficiaries who will be supported in accessing agricultural inputs (seedlings, organic fertiliser, materials and equipment, etc.); (iv) around 300 individual beneficiaries and 20 organised entities that will be supported in developing partnerships with market operators; and (v) around 43,000 people (men and women) who will benefit from basic infrastructure (service roads, water points, etc.). In addition, around 200 executives at the central, regional and local level (DGF, DGFIOP, DGPA, APIA, IRESA, AVFA, CRDA, etc.) will be involved in implementing the project and will benefit from capacity building.
