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136 Rebuilding West Africa’s food potential

6. The lack of a comprehensive framework to manage all operations in order to capitalize on achievements
   and to report on the sector’s progress. Work is underway to establish a sectoral program^6 that aims to
   be the sectorial strategy’s framework for programming and monitoring and evaluation.

(^6) Livestock Agriculture Sectoral Program (LASP).
Table 5. MINADER Programs and projects involved in supporting food chains
Project / program name Focus of intervention Areas of
intervention
Other
observations

1. National Agricultural
   Extension and Agricultural
   Research Program (PNVRA).
   Target / beneficiaries:

• Grassroots Producer
  Organizations


• Socio-professional
  Associations of Producers
  
  
  • Improved technical assistance scheme to producers
  
  
  • Developing farms’ potential and production
  
  
  • Conservation management of natural resources and
    protection of the environment
  
  
  
  

Country wide Initially funded

by the World

Bank and IFAD,

the program is

currently funded

from internal

resources (BIP

HIPC)

2. Competitiveness of
   Agricultural Operations
   Improvement Program
   (ACEFA).
   Target / beneficiaries:
   The EFA members of
   producer groups, producer
   groups and professional agri-
   cultural organizations of the
   second and third levels (CIG
   unions, Cooperatives and
   Cooperative Unions)
   
   
   • Capacity building of secondary and tertiary level professional
     organizations to improve the services provided to EFA
   
   
   • Financing of producers’ productive projects and their
     organizations to increase the capacity of family farms
   
   
   • Establishing an advisory support mechanism co-managed
     by the state and the profession
   
   
   
   

Northern,

Adamawa,

South,

Southwest

and West

Regions

Ongoing

program

financed by AFD

/ C2D resources

3. Grassfield Participatory and
   Decentralized Development
   Project (GP-DERUDEP).
   Target / beneficiaries:
   Smallholders
   
   
   • Agricultural Development
   
   
   • Capacity building for decentralized MINADER services,
     municipalities and agricultural socio-professional organi-
     zations in community development
   
   
   • Support for the rehabilitation of rural roads
   
   
   
   

North-West

Region

Ongoing project

funded by the

AfDB

4. Rural Development Project
   in the Region of Mount
   Mbappit.
   Target / beneficiaries:
   Rural people / farmers
   
   
   • Agricultural and rural infrastructure
   
   
   • Animation / Awareness, training and support to benefi-
     ciaries of agricultural extension
   
   
   • Acquisition of agricultural inputs and equipment;
   
   
   • Management and monitoring / evaluation of the project
   
   
   
   

Department

of Noun,

Western

Region

Financed by

the Islamic

Development

Bank

5. Rumpi Area Participatory
   Development Project.
   Target / beneficiaries:
   Rural populations in the
   South West
   
   
   • Capacity building of stakeholders
   
   
   • Improved agricultural production and productivity
   
   
   • Improved market access and support to local develop-
     ment initiatives.
   
   
   
   

South West

regions

Project funded

by the AfDB