Liberia Agribusiness Development Activity (LADA)
The Liberia Agribusiness Development Activity (LADA) will use Agriculture funds to strengthen Liberia's food security and increase income of smallholder farmers, especially women and youth. The activity will strengthen agro-dealers and aggregators to channel improved inputs and technical assistance to increase smallholder farmer incomes. The activity will award 20 matching co-investment fund (CIF) grants worth $0.75 Million and leverage private investment with a target of $1.5 million, including $260,000 in agriculture loans accessed through LADA facilitation. The activity will provide technical assistance to 50 agro-enterprises impacting over 1,000 individuals. The activity's components include: increased private sector investment in agriculture input systems; increased private sector investment in post-harvest handling, packaging and auxiliary services.
Sustain the productivity of the agricultural sector through investments that foster increasing returns to land, labor, and capital. Targeted interventions to male and female producers provide improvements in technology and management practices, expanded access to markets and credit, increased organizational and market efficiency, and restoration and protection of resiliency in production and livelihood systems. Improve nutrient quality, dietary diversity, and safety of food supply across agriculture value chains during production, post-harvest processing and storage; build awareness of agriculture sector actors at national and local levels on nutrition; promote the production and utilization of nutritious biofortified crops at the household farm level; and promote markets for foods that are particularly important for nutrition and that smallholder farmers produce. Create and sustain career-enhancing education and training programs that are responsive to the current and future labor needs of local, regional, and international employers, both formal and nonformal, including through financial sustainability. Generally, these programs certify competence of male and female learners in accordance with industry standards and provide labor market and social support services. In contexts where the private sector is weak, technical/vocational training may be oriented towards self-employment.
- Project ID
US-GOV-1-LR-AID-669-A-16-00005- Activity status
- 3 - Completion
- Aid type
- C01 - Project-type interventions
- % to Liberia
- 100.00
Organisations
- Accountable
- U.S. Agency for International Development
- Extending
- U.S. Agency for International Development
- Funding
- U.S. Agency for International Development
- Implementing
- Citizens Network for Foreign Affairs
Disbursements by fiscal year, quarter
| Fiscal year |
Fiscal quarter |
Value (USD) |
Liberia Value (USD) |
| 2017 |
Q1 |
1,367,152.71 |
1,367,152.71 |
| 2016 |
Q4 |
1,280,818.36 |
1,280,818.36 |
| 2016 |
Q3 |
1,349,514.22 |
1,349,514.22 |
| 2016 |
Q2 |
1,150,000.00 |
1,150,000.00 |
| 2016 |
Q1 |
1,025,000.00 |
1,025,000.00 |
| 2015 |
Q4 |
815,000.00 |
815,000.00 |
| 2015 |
Q3 |
215,000.00 |
215,000.00 |
Commitments by fiscal year, quarter
| Fiscal year |
Fiscal quarter |
Value (USD) |
Liberia Value (USD) |
| 2016 |
Q4 |
3,244,015.60 |
3,244,015.60 |
| 2015 |
Q2 |
6,984,105.00 |
6,984,105.00 |
MTEF projections by fiscal year
| Fiscal year |
Value (USD) |
Liberia Value (USD) |
| CRS code |
% |
|
Agricultural policy and administrative management
(31110)
|
11.84
|
|
Basic life skills for youth and adults
(11230)
|
9.78
|
|
Business support services and institutions
(25010)
|
4.89
|
|
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) development
(32130)
|
28.2
|
|
Agricultural development
(31120)
|
45.3
|