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The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank on 21stSeptember2021, approved The Gambia Agriculture and Food Security Project (GAFSp), with a grant funding of USD16million from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP), and USD1.37 million as counterpart contribution from the Government of The Gambia. The Bank’s engagement in The Gambia through GAFSP in contributing to tackling Gambia’s overarching development challenge led to the successful approval of the Gambia Agriculture Food and Security Project (GAFSp) with funding of USD 16 million following the 5th call for proposal in 2020. Based on the promising results achieved during the first year of implementation, a USD 12 million grant was subsequently approved as additional financing to the initial project, following the GOTG response to the GAFSP 7th Call for Proposals for Additional Financing in 2022.
Project Objectives
The project development objective for the additional financing remains the same as the parent project which seeks to increase food and nutrition security as well as household income for the vulnerable households in the project area. There is no change in geographic coverage with the Additional Finance. The same five administrative regions of The Gambia: Central River Region (CRR), Upper River Region (URR), North Bank Region (NBR), Lower River Region (LRR)and West Coast Region (WCR) are targeted. The selection of the regions has been based on five main criteria: (i) poverty levels; (ii) malnutrition of Children Under Five (CUF); (iii) food insecurity; and (iv) production potential. These selection criteria remain relevant with the AF. |
