As stated by the AfDB, the project development objective is to increase climate-smart local food production, enhance food and nutrition security for women, youth and vulnerable groups in 12 selected districts in the Savannah Zone. The project is expected to contribute to Government’s flagship programme, Planting for Food and Jobs 2.0 (PFJ 2.0) which focuses on 11 prioritized commodities including maize, soybean, rice, sorghum, plantain, yam, cassava, vegetables (tomato, pepper and onion) and poultry.

The project is an additional financing to Savannah Investment Program (SIP) for Building Resilience for Food and Nutrition Security in the Northern Savannah Ecological Zone of Ghana. The Savannah Investment Program (SIP) is the base Project for the Additional Financing. The overall goal of the Program is to reduce importation of animal protein, enhance competitiveness of the poultry industry, improve small ruminants breeds and contribute to improved food and nutrition security. The project has four main components, namely: i) climate resilient agricultural production for women and youth; ii) women and youth participation in poultry production; iii) sustainable value chain development; and iv) project management and institutional support.

The additional financing will support individual farmers who are dispersed in 12 districts of the Savannah Ecological Zone of Ghana. The subprojects or the individual farmer’s undertakings will be on existing farmlands. The size of these undertakings is very small and when individually taken will have low environmental and social risks. The use of agrochemicals, especially fertilizers, which the project will procure for farmers will pose moderate environmental and social risks.

The AfDB categorized the project risks as follows -
Environmental Category: 2
Climate Safeguards Categorization: 2

AfDB Team Leader:

Philip Boahen
Email: p.boahen@afdb.org

Borrower - Ministry of Finance:

Address: 28th February Road, Finance Drv, Accra
Phone: +233 302 747 197
Email: info@mofep.gov.gh
Website: https://mofep.gov.gh/

Implementing Agency - Ministry of Food and Agriculture:

Phone: +233 (0) 50 916 3727
Email: info@mofa.gov.gh
Website: https://mofa.gov.gh/site/

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

You can submit an information request for project information at: https://www.afdb.org/en/disclosure-and-access-to-information/request-for-documents. Under the AfDBÕs Disclosure and Access to Information policy, if you feel the Bank has omitted to publish information or your request for information is unreasonably denied, you can file an appeal at https://www.afdb.org/en/disclosure-and-access-to-information/appeals-process 

ACCOUNTABILITY MECHANISM OF AfDB

The Independent Review Mechanism (IRM), which is administered by the Compliance Review and Mediation Unit (CRMU), is the independent complaint mechanism and fact-finding body for people who have been or are likely to be adversely affected by an African Development Bank (AfDB)-financed project. If you submit a complaint to the IRM, it may assist you by either seeking to address your problems by facilitating a dispute resolution dialogue between you and those implementing the project and/or investigating whether the AfDB complied with its policies to prevent environmental and social harms. You can submit a complaint electronically by emailing crmuinfo@afdb.org, b.kargougou@afdb.org, b.fall@afdb.org, and/or s.toure@afdb.org. You can learn more about the IRM and how to file a complaint at: https://www.afdb.org/en/independent-review-mechanism/