West African Food System Resilience Program (FSRP)
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Project summary
The Food System Resilience Program (FSRP) is an initiative of regional organizations (ECOWAS, CILSS/AGRHYMET and CORAF) and member states aimed at strengthening regional integration in three interconnected priority areas.
Award dates : May 31, 2022 - Dec 31, 2027
Grant project number: IDA-D929 TF0B8257
Geographic focus: Burkina Faso, Chad, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Type of grant : Contract
Indicators
- 1. Note on organizational capacity for the NSC, SRC and REC
- Number of people trained (broken down by type of training - short, medium and long-term - and by gender and age group)
- Number of partnerships established between international agricultural research centers (CGIAR) and CNS, CRS and CRE
- Number of R&D projects implemented jointly by international agricultural research centers and NSCs, SRCs and RECs
- Number of modern, high-performance tools/approaches made available to countries to develop organic farming
Countries of operation
MAIN OBJECTIVES
Strengthen preparedness for food insecurity and improve the resilience of food system stakeholders, priority landscapes and value chains in the areas covered by the program.
EXPECTED IMPACTS
- Program beneficiaries (farmers with access to agricultural assets or services)
- Producers adopting climate-smart agricultural technologies and services
- Producers adopting climate-smart agricultural technologies and services
- Area subject to integrated landscape management practices (hectares (ha))
Visualizations
Key indicators
7 Number ofpartnerships established between international agricultural research centers (CGIAR) and CNS, CRS and CRE
Strengthen and expand regional R&D networks.
364 Number ofpeople trained (broken down by type of training - short, medium and long-term - and by gender and age group)
Strengthen national and regional research centers.
11 Noteon organizational capacity for NSC, SRC and REC
CORAF has strengthened regional agricultural research and extension systems through (1) 1,800 people reached, 42% of them women, at technology open days, (2) 3 MITAs (Markets for Agricultural Innovations and Technologies) organized with 272 technologies presented, (3) 7 centers of specialization evaluated on the basis of performance criteria, (4) 9 PhD fellowships funded, (5) 10 student immersion fellowships in centers of specialization (dry cereals, aquaculture and fruits and vegetables), (6) 7 grants funded for 26 research institutions, (7) 304 scientists trained, including 22% women and 17% young people (gender, bioinformatics, biostatistics, data collection, proposal writing, ILM), (8) 10 technology parks created in 9 countries (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Chad, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Togo, Benin), (9) 15 modern, high-performance extension tools/approaches identified.
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(+221) 33 869 96 18
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