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Project to Support a Resilient Agriculture Value Chain Development in Congo and DRC (PRAFS)
The Republic of Congo (ROC) and the Democratic Republic of Congo(DRC) are 2 of the 6 countries that make up the Congo Basin – an area with the second largest tropical rainforest in the world. These two countries are therefore, home to a huge diversity of plants and animals that span across a variety of landscapes (including a mosaic of rivers, forests, savannas, swamps and flooded forests). The area has a huge agrosylvo-pastoral and fishery production potential, and is a vector for the promotion of the agroindustry as well as for creating benefit leading to a strengthening of the rural economy.
The objective of this project is to ensure that the existing agricultural landscape is better able to support any potential increase in demand for land and water resources while simultaneously ensuring an effective resilience to climate change. This should minimise the need for expansion of farmland into existing forest landscapes thereby avoiding forest degradation, deforestation, thereby reducing emissions and enhancing forest carbon stocks. The project includes three main components: (i) Enhancing the sustainability of agricultural landscapes; (ii) Capacity building, awareness raising and dissemination; and (iii) project coordination and management.
- Feasibility study on integrating DCAS into agricultural extension and design of the agrometeorological advisory flow and required investments for successful scaling up of advisory to small-scale farmers
- Identification of capacity building and enabling interventions to ensure uptake by of DCAS
- Training of producer organisations in the appropriate use of selected technologies
- Collaborating with ICS producers within the country to train female producer organisations in the production and distribution of improved cooking stoves
- Pilot study undertaken to test the potential of developing smoke-flavored products working with the local fish research institute
- Provision of 15 solar drying systems to 15 improved maize planting material producer groups of to facilitate the post-harvest processing and storage
- Provide 100 cassava producer groups with solar drying systems to facilitate processing and storage and bio
- Training of 60 farmer field school facilitators
- Establishment and running of farmer field schools
- 2 355 000 beneficiaries, which make up 2.5% of the population
- Enhanced abilities of regional and local-level decision-makers to promote appropriate agroforestry-based climate resilient technologies
- Promotion of increased climate resilient agricultural production landscapes using innovative technologies
- Promotion of producers, women and youth’s organizations
- Capacity development of personnel involved at different levels of planning and execution of agroforestry schemes and the farmers
- Strengthened institutional capacities to improve ecosystem services through agroforestry and enhance the climate-resilience of production landscapes
- Local communities, farmers and farmer groups trained in the management of climate-resilient agroforestry landscapes
- Use of energy efficient technologies for post-harvest processing promoted
USD 217.6 Million
Global Center on Adaptation and African Development Bank call for applications for the African Youth Adaptation Solutions Challenge
The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and the African Development Bank have launched a call for applications for the first edition of the African Youth Adaptation Solutions (YouthAdapt) Challenge.
The call encourages young entrepreneurs, innovators from micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and other youth-led and youth-owned enterprises in Africa, to implement solutions for building resilience and adapting to the adverse impacts of climate change. Young entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 35 are invited to respond to the call for the expression of interest and submit their business plan through the official submission portal.
With a strong focus on youth and gender, winners of the YouthAdapt Challenge will be awarded business grants of up to $100,000 each and the opportunity to participate in a 12-month business accelerator program to help them scale up their businesses, deepen their impact and create decent jobs. In addition, the winning youth-led enterprises will be provided with mentorship and support to expand partnerships, knowledge sharing and learning through a network of young entrepreneurs in climate adaptation.
The African Youth Adaptations Solutions Challenge is part of the ‘Empowering Youth through Jobs and Entrepreneurship’ pillar of the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP), a strategic partnership between the GCA and the African Development Bank aimed at galvanizing climate-resilient actions through a triple win approach to address the impacts of Covid-19, climate change and the economy.
The competition aims to leverage the resources, complementary expertise and networks of both organizations to support the ‘missing-middle’ of mid-sized companies in the areas of funding, thereby promoting sustainable climate adaptation and resilience practices on the African continent.
Announcing the YouthAdapt Challenge to a group of global leaders at the High-Level Dialogue: The Adaptation Acceleration Imperative for COP26 held in Rotterdam, Netherlands on Monday 6th September 2021, Patrick Verkooijen, CEO of the Global Center on Adaptation said: “Our vision is to empower one million young people in Africa with the financing and skills they need to pursue jobs and careers in climate adaptation. With this new challenge we aim to unlock the business opportunities in adaptation action by innovative youth-owned enterprises and prepare a new generation of African youth for the transition towards green and climate-resilient development.”
“The YouthAdapt Challenge will unleash the entrepreneurial drive and capacities of African youth to grow their businesses, address the continent’s pressing climate challenge and create decent jobs, building a more climate-resilient Africa”, said Akinwumi Adesina, African Development Bank’s President, affirming the Bank’s commitment to invest in the youth.
Twenty youth-led enterprises will be shortlisted at the end of the application window on 6th October 2021 and invited to submit videos for a jury panel review ahead of the finals and an award ceremony at COP26 in Glasgow on November 8, 2021. At this event, ten winners will be selected, 50% of which will be women-led enterprises.