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About 34,000 Rural homes to benefit from AVDP Project


By: Alusine Rehme Wilson – (AR-WILSON)

At a day’s workshop organized by Agriculture Value Chain Development Project (AVDP) in Makeni on Tuesday March 31, 2020 for Smallholder farmers, stakeholders and other farmers group, there has been much excitement among farmers who participated in the workshop since AVDP Project Manager, Abdulrahman Bob Conteh announced a new project which is aimed at eradicating rural poverty through modernizing agricultural skills, enhancing rich self sufficiency in about 34,000 rural homes and empowering women and youths in Sierra Leone.


According to Mr. Conteh, the project will last for six years with funds from IFAD, the Government of Sierra Leone, would be project beneficiaries plus a private sector investment.




“We will maintain high transparency and accountability level to ensure there is improved crop diversification, rice self sufficiency and rural poverty reduction” he concludes.
  
“Women and Youths will have to form the bulk of the project beneficiaries and all SMEs, ABCs, and other farmers group have equal opportunity to benefit from the grants, all they need is to match up with the grants requirements as they have heard and learnt from this workshop” said AVDP Grant Officer, Asmiru Jah.



 The Tonkolili District Agricultural Officer, Samuel Sam and Haja Sundu Marrh, Koinadugu Vegetables Association’s Chairlady both spoke on behalf of participants and respectively made commitments to monitor and embrace the project and thus called on farmers to embrace this project with zeal.

They acknowledge that they have indeed received a comprehensive understanding about the project and also expressed confidence in AVDP and its partners requesting that they speed up to launch the project soonest and starts implementation amidst threats from COVID19.

AVDP will receive about $5.9 million as funding and the same amount as grant from International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), $1.4 million from the private sector, $ 8.1 million from the Government of Sierra Leone and $ 1.4 million from the project beneficiaries to improve virtually 34,000 rural homes in Sierra Leone as part of the project package.





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