Early Warning System

Regions

Africa

Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.

Countries

Tanzania

Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.

Specific Location

Njombe Region; Kilimanjaro Region

Whenever identified, the area within countries where the impacts of the investment may be experienced. Exact locations of projects may not be identified fully or at all in project documents. Please review updated project documents and community-led assessments.

Financial Institutions

African Development Bank (AFDB)

International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.

Project Status

Approved

Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.

Bank Risk Rating

Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."

Voting Date

Oct 16, 2024

Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.

Borrower

Government of Tanzania - MVIWATA

A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.

Sectors

Agriculture and Forestry

The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.

Investment Type(s)

Grant

The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.

Investment Amount (USD)

$ 2.90 million

Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.

Bank Documents

Primary Source

Original disclosure @ AFDB website

Updated in EWS Jun 27, 2025

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Project Description

If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

According to the Bank’s website, the project's development objective is to increase smallholder farmers' horticultural production and marketing in the context of the negative effects of COVID-19 pandemic. Specific objectives that will lead to the achievement of this development objective are to (i) increase adoption rates of sustainable agricultural technologies and practices, mainly through agroecological approaches; (ii) enhance value addition and marketing of horticultural crops grown by smallholder farmers, particularly women and youth; and (iii) increase access to reliable and profitable markets. The project supports farmers on nine (9) value chains, namely,i) cloves,ii) green peas,iii) tomatoes,iv) garlic,v) beans,vi) potato,vii) cinnamon,viii) ginger, andix) black pepper.

The project aims to increase smallholder farmers' horticultural production and marketing in the context of negative effects of COVID-19 pandemic. The additional primary beneficiaries would be 10,000 smallholder producers from the PO and local network organizations, of which 55% will be women, and 30% will be youth. Of the target, 7,500 will be potato producers in four districts in the Njombe Region and 2,500 will be ginger producers in Same district in the Kilimanjaro Region. Secondary beneficiaries would include at least 10 rural Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), 2 local business development service providers, and at least 100,000 urban and sub-urban consumers as tertiary beneficiaries. The project is targeted towards women (55%) with female heads of households identified through mapping and surveys. In particular, the project would support women-owned enterprises in business incubation, production and potato processing hubs, savings and credit groups, girls' clubs, and legal services for gender-based violence. Equally important, the project will address climate resilience through agro-ecological approaches including climate smart agriculture, adoption of low-water-use varieties, micro-irrigation, and agroforestry at farm and landscape levels. Nutrition will be addressed through increased production and productivity, crop diversification and income generation activities.

Early Warning System Project Analysis

For a project with severe or irreversible impacts to local community and natural resources, the Early Warning System Team may conduct a thorough analysis regarding its potential impacts to human and environmental rights.

Environmental Category: [2] Moderate Risk

Investment Description

Here you can find a list of individual development financial institutions that finance the project.

African Development Bank (AFDB)

Finance Type: Standard grant
Commitments (UA): 2,173,913
Conversion Rate USD (2024-10-30): 1,32990

Private Actors Description

A Private Actor is a non-governmental body or entity that is the borrower or client of a development project, which can include corporations, private equity and banks. This describes the private actors and their roles in relation to the project, when private actor information is disclosed or has been further researched.

MVIWATA is a network of farmers organisations in Tanzania.

Contact Information

This section aims to support the local communities and local CSO to get to know which stakeholders are involved in a project with their roles and responsibilities. If available, there may be a complaint office for the respective bank which operates independently to receive and determine violations in policy and practice. Independent Accountability Mechanisms receive and respond to complaints. Most Independent Accountability Mechanisms offer two functions for addressing complaints: dispute resolution and compliance review.

Salum RAMADHANI
Agricultural Economist, AHAI4
African Development Bank
s.ramadhani@afdb.org
www.afdb.org