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Rwanda
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696-003
USAID MISSION: Rwanda
PROGRAM TITLE AND NUMBER: Food Security and Economic Growth (Pillar: Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade)
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE AND NUMBER: Increased Ability of Rural Families in Targeted Communities to Improve Household Food Security, 696-003
STATUS: Continuing
PLANNED FY 2002 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $4,449,000 DA
PROPOSED FY 2003 OBLIGATION AND FUNDING SOURCE: $5,100,000 DA
INITIAL OBLIGATION: FY 1997 ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE: FY 2004Summary: USAID activities focus on:
- agricultural technology development and transfer;
- agricultural policy development;
- agribusiness and private sector development;
- food assistance: market development, increased production and improved conservation practices; and
- human capacity development.
Inputs, Outputs and Activities: FY 2002 Program: Working through the international agricultural institutes, USAID will assist Rwanda's agricultural research institute to increase its capacity to disseminate improved crop varieties. Under ongoing agreements with American universities, technical assistance will be provided to the Ministry of Agriculture to generate reliable food production statistics and to the National University of Rwanda and other learning institutions to help re-build human resource capacity that was devastated by the genocide. USAID partners are assisting agribusiness enterprises in business development, trade, marketing and competitiveness, particularly for coffee, Irish potatoes, and pyrethrum. USAID will continue to strengthen small banks and the largest credit union in Rwanda in order to increase delivery of financial services to micro and small-medium scale agribusinesses and individuals. Food assistance will continue supporting community-based producer associations and cooperatives to increase incomes and improve livelihoods of rural people.
Planned FY 2003 Program: USAID will build on progress achieved under the FY 2002 program to further food security and economic growth in competitive, innovative ways. USAID plans to: 1) improve technology and dissemination of high-yielding, quality seed varieties in response to market demand; 2) promote private sector growth through enterprise development, trade, and investment; 3) extend nationally financial services for micro- and small-medium scale agribusiness; 4) create human resources through applied training opportunities that build capacity and institutional leadership; 5) expand community-based activities to raise living standards, income and employment; 6) use food distribution and sales proceeds for programs to improve soil and water conservation, business development, farming techniques, production of high value crops, and support AIDS-affected families; 7) further strengthen natural resource management that underlie USAID's agricultural and economic growth activities; and, 8) support policy analyses that advance progressive national agricultural plans, strategies and policies.
Performance and Results: The yield of staple crops such as beans in targeted areas has doubled. Continued support for agricultural technology development and dissemination will further improve crop varieties and yields for small-scale farmers. USAID launched an agribusiness center that identified and serviced 17 client enterprises, linking farmers to agricultural processors and traders. Continued support will enable start-up assistance to more enterprises through a cost-sharing initiative, further advancing private sector development. Through the provision of food assistance, USAID assisted over 15,000 people affected by HIV/AIDS to mitigate the impact of the disease on household food security. Food assistance will continue safety net assistance for 27,000 vulnerable people and for 550,000 poor farmers. USAID support for policy analysis resulted in the development of an agriculture-led poverty reduction strategy. Additional agricultural policy analysis in such area as free trade will enable Rwanda to expand markets in the globalized economy. In the area of microfinance development, over 5,500 members of informal credit schemes have saved $22,000 and 90% have repaid small loans. Further support for the rural finance sector will enable the national credit and savings union to increase outreach, coverage and capacity.
Through USAID support for the Ministry of Agriculture and its statistical unit, crop production and land use surveys are conducted each season. These surveys will enable the Ministry to assess the effect of HIV/AIDS and malaria deaths on household labor allocation and cropping patterns. In the crosscutting area of human capacity development, USAID sent 17 professionals from the National University of Rwanda and National Agricultural Research Institute for graduate training in the United States. Further support in the area of human capacity development will enable the country to rebuild its institutional and human resource base devastated during the 1994 genocide.
Principal Contractors, Grantees, or Agencies: The prime contractors and grantees are: Chemonics, Texas A&M, Michigan State University, World Council of Credit Unions, International Executive Service Corps, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, International Rescue Committee, Abt Associates, World Vision International, Catholic Relief Services, Agriculture Cooperative Development International/Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance (ACDI/VOCA). World Relief and Caritas are subcontractors.
US Financing in Thousands of Dollars
696-003 Increased ability of rural families in targeted communities to improve household food security DA DFA Through September 30, 2000 Obligations 19,619 262 Expenditures 6,230 262 Unliquidated 13,389 0 Fiscal Year 2001 Obligations 3,882 0 Expenditures 2,642 0 Through September 30, 2001 Obligations 23,501 262 Expenditures 8,872 262 Unliquidated 14,629 0 Prior Year Unobligated Funds Obligations 0 0 Planned Fiscal Year 2002 NOA Obligations 4,449 0 Total Planned Fiscal Year 2002 Obligations 4,449 0 Proposed Fiscal Year 2003 NOA Obligations 5,100 0 Future Obligations 10,000 0 Est. Total Cost 43,050 262
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