Uganda - Farm Income Enhancement and Forestry Conservation Programme - Project 2 (AFDB-P-UG-AAD-001)

Countries
  • Uganda
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
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
Active
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Bank Risk Rating
B
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
Jan 20, 2016
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 Uganda
A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.
Sectors
  • Agriculture and Forestry
  • Climate and Environment
The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.
Investment Type(s)
Loan
The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.
Investment Amount (USD)
$ 76.70 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.
Project Cost (USD)
$ 91.70 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
Campaign Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ AFDB website

Updated in EWS Jul 11, 2023

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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 bank provided information, the project specific objective is to improve household incomes, food security, and climate resilience through sustainable natural resources management and agricultural enterprise development.

The Farm Income Enhancement and Forest Conservation Programme – Project 2 (FIEFOC-2) is designed within the context of the Government of Uganda’s National Development Plan (NDP) and the long term development strategy, the Vision 2040 both of which promote of agricultural infrastructure and income enhancement. In order to realize the 2040 vision, the project will contribute to improvement of farm incomes, rural livelihoods, food security and climate resilience, sustainable natural resources management and agricultural enterprise development.

The project consists of four components namely:

  1. Agriculture Infrastructure Development;
  2. Agribusiness Development;
  3. Integrated Natural Resources Management; and
  4. Project Management with a total cost of USD 91.43 million.

The project seeks to consolidate and expand the notable achievements of the FIEFOC Programme first phase which was completed in December 2012.

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

The overall cost of the project is approximately USD 91.7 million, including approximately USD 5.9 million from Nordic Development Fund (EUR 5.25 million), USD 76.7 million from the AfDB and USD 9.1 million from the Government of Uganda.

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.

Coil Construction Company Limited is the contractor for the construction of project Infrastructure in the project area.

Private Actor 1 Private Actor 1 Role Private Actor 1 Sector Relation Private Actor 2 Private Actor 2 Role Private Actor 2 Sector
- - - - Coil Construction Company Limited Contractor Construction

Contact Information
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LOULSEGED Mekonnen Kifle
m.loulseged@afdb.org 

Borrower:
Government of Uganda

Implementing Agency:
Ministry of Water and Environment

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/ 

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