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Project Goals & Objectives

The overall goal of ESRF is to contribute to protecting the livelihoods, incomes, and resilience of target groups from the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic and from climate change..

The Project’s Development Objective (PDO) is to mitigate the threats to production, food security and market access posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. The Project is implemented through two technical components.

Protect Livelihoods
Protect Livelihoods
To mitigate the threats to production.
Provide Food Security
Provide Food Security
And market access posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Project was designed as an emergency stopgap to mitigate the impacts to the disease on smallholder farmers and food systems

The Emergency Support to Rural Livelihoods & Food Systems Exposed to COVID-19 (ESRF) was developed by the Government of Ghana as a result of effect of the COVID-19 pandemic that ravaged the world in 2019. The Project was designed as an emergency stopgap to mitigate the impacts to the disease on smallholder farmers and food systems

To implement the project, the Government of Ghana received a loan from IFAD. The Project is expected to directly benefit 50,000 vulnerable people in 25,000 households, with 5% inclusion of People Living with Disabilities (PLWD). The value chains supported include maize, cassava, rice, soya beans, Groundnut, vegetables, shea and poultry.

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Protect against hunger
Protect against hunger
To support smallholder processing groups, particularly women and youth groups, with livelihood equipment
Build Resilient Livelihoods
Build Resilient Livelihoods
Beneficiaries will also be trained in the use of small-scale food processing equipment for food conservation
Secured Access
Secured Access
The commodities selected for the processing support include rice, cassava, pepper, soya, groundnut, maize, and shea butter
Increase Production
Increase Production
The farm tracks provide market access to 11 farmer-based organizations comprising a target of 550 smallholder farmers
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Provide Cash Transfer to Households
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Project Components

Under this component, the Project intended to support targeted households to maintain or increase production, food security, defence against the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change resilience through access to quality agricultural inputs to 35,000 households, provide cash transfers to 5,000 households, carry our market surveillance and strengthen ICT driven extension services and contribute to the reduction in the spread of COVID-19 through awareness creation and supply of protective equipment.

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For more information on the project, please use the contacts below.

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+233 30 291 6033
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P. O. Box M.37,
Accra, Ghana
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