West Africa Selected Projects

29/06/2012 - The project to rehabilitate the agricultural and rural sectors (PRESAR) was designed in the context of a country emerging from conflict. It aims to achieve food security and fight rural poverty. More specifically, the project aims to improve rice production and market gardening as well as livestock

Categories: Guinea-Bissau, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Water Supply & Sanitation, Food Production

08/05/2012 - An example from Ghana. The Rural Enterprise Project (REP) aims at alleviating poverty, slowing rural-urban drift, contributing to the creation of sustainable jobs. The project also aims at addressing the low level of technology and productivity, low income and un-competitiveness in production, processing and distribution in agriculture. REP aims at addressing this deficiency through transfer of technology, thereby improving the low level of technology and productivity, as well as aiding in improving the low income levels of beneficiaries.

Categories: Ghana, Human and Social Development, Youth

08/05/2012 - Le Togo a traversé une crise sociopolitique de 1990 à 2005. Cette crise a affaibli l’organisation et le fonctionnement de l’administration togolaise, en diminuant ses ressources humaines et matérielles. Soucieux de normaliser progressivement la situation économique et sociale au Togo, le gouvernement togolais a élaboré un projet d’amélioration de la gouvernance économique et financière. Ce projet visait à rénover le cadre institutionnel afin de susciter la reprise de la coopération financière internationale et surtout à améliorer la transparence dans la gestion des finances publiques.

Categories: Togo, Economic & Financial Governance

02/04/2012 - More than 140,000 small-scale farmers across the Gambia have enjoyed greatly increased crop output after formerly unproductive land was put to the plough as a result of a USD 17.5 million watershed management project, started in 2006 and co-financed by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Gambian government.

Categories: Gambia, Water Supply & Sanitation, Agriculture & Agro-industries

28/03/2012 - Aquatic plant proliferation is an environmental scourge. These weeds invade waterways and irrigation channels, impeding their economic operation. Fishermen have suffered rising costs, and farmers have to spend more time cleaning their irrigation canals, resulting in lost production and productivity.

Categories: Benin, Niger, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Climate Change, Agriculture & Agro-industries, Environment

01/04/2010 - Given the shortage of health research, health personnel and health services, particularly in rural areas, the Government of the Republic of Benin sought to create a public health institute in Benin with support from the World Health Organization.

Categories: Benin, Human and Social Development, Education, Health