NICHOLA DYER, PROGRAM MANAGER Global Agriculture and Food Security Program
NICHOLA DYER, PROGRAM MANAGER
Global Agriculture and Food Security Program
What GAFSP does
• G8, G20 Initiative• Country-led• Comprehensive approach to
agriculture• Medium- and long-term
interventions• Targeted to the strongest
proposals from countries and projects with the highest need and readiness
• Inclusive and transparent• Innovative governance• Aligned with SDGs• Pooled grant funds
Increasing incomes and improving food and nutrition security through increased investment in agriculture
Funding along the value chainPublic Sector Window Private Sector Window
Objective Provides grant funding directly to sovereign governments in accordance with countries' overall investment strategies
Provides investment (and advisory services) to eligible private sector companies in agribusiness, in conjunction with IFC’s investments
Managed by: World Bank IFC
Funding: US$ 1.2 billion US$ 356 million
Donors: 11 total
9- Australia, Canada, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Germany, Ireland, Korea, Spain, the UK, and the US
5 - Australia, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, the UK, and the US
Supervising Entities:
ADB; AfDB; FAO; IADB; IFAD; WB; WFP
IFC
New Missing Middle Initiative: targeted support to small-scale farmers as they advance from subsistence farming, to farmer organizations, and eventually full commercial viability
61%11%
9%9%
Regional Distribution of Funds
Africa
Asia
LAC
Other
What GAFSP does, where it works: both windows
All projects focus on:
1. Increased agricultural productivity
2. Linking farmers to markets
3. Reducing risk and vulnerability
4. Improving non-farm rural livelihoods
5. Technical assistance and capacity development
…in low-income countries with the greatest rates of poverty, hunger, and malnutrition.
The Public Sector Window Pools donor funding as grant funds to governments
for long-term development objectives
Requires country ownership, and engagement with civil society and the private sector
Multiple open calls for proposals with evolving requirements and rating systems
Projects rated by an independent panel of technical experts based on transparent guidelines and a ratio of need (40), country readiness to implement (30), and proposal strength (30)
Highly competitive - historically only one third of projects have received funding
Completion of CAADP (or similar process in non-CAADP countries) is required
Snapshot:
• $1.02b in grants already allocated to 30 countries
• Average grant size about $35m -range $8m-$50m
• 5m beneficiaries already reached -on track to reach 11.8m
• Every dollar invested by GAFSP generates $2.5 farm income gain
The Private Sector WindowAllocated for deals that could not go
forward otherwiseAlways open for business “Sweetens” the deal Provides a variety of financing options
to existing and greenfield firmsincluding:
short and longer term loans, guarantees, first loss cover, equity capital, and advisory services
….Often at concessional terms.
Fiscal Year
GAFSP$ to Total Project Size
GAFSP$ to IFC$
FY13 1 : 10.1 1 : 1.8
FY14 1 : 4.5 1 : 1.9
FY15 1 : 5.1 1 : 1.7
FY16 1 : 4.8 1 : 1.2
FY13-16 1 : 5.8 1 : 1.7
Snapshot• $217m approved
for 36 investment projects
• $6.8m for 35 advisory projects
• Projects leverage in 3.1 x funding on average
GAFSP has allocated over one third of funds to 10 fragile or conflicted-affected states.
Beyond Traditional Agriculture
$140m or 14% of public sector funding is targeted toward nutrition activities. 1/3 of that is direct nutrition intervention.
Uganda project is multisectoral, housed in health ministry.
87% of publicprojects address all 3 elements of gender main-streaming (analysis, gender-informed action, and gender-disaggregated M&E).
Nepal project focuses on women.
Over 65% of public sector projects (48% of funds) support climate adaption and/or mitigation benefits.
Bangladesh is allocating 100% of funds to these efforts.
CLIMATE-SMART AGRICULTURE GENDER NUTRITION FRAGILE STATES
Bhutan Mountain Hazelnuts: private sector greenfield investment focused on hazelnut trees planted on fallow land that otherwise has no commercial use for the farmers.
Rwanda: Increasing productivity; empowering coops; strengthening entire value chain; both windows active - coops connected to AIFL, DSM through Private Sector Window.
Cameroon: private sector investment that builds on IFAD and IDA projects; Pulling together public and private partners and resources to integrate farmers/co-ops into the value chain.
Project Examples
Togo: Government created matching grants scheme to leveraging domestic financing that supports everything from cocoa plantations to entrepreneurs to agri businesses.
Thank you
Public Sector Window - Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Proposals from low-income countries (IDA-only countries) that have been endorsed by
multiple ministries and the country donor group, and have undergone technical reviews
Type of Activities
raising agricultural productivity linking farmers to markets reducing risk and vulnerability improving non-farm rural livelihoods technical assistance
Weighting Country Need (weight of 30) Country Readiness (30) Proposal Readiness (40)
Submission Documents
African Countries: CAADP Post Compact Investment Plan Country Proposal for GAFSP Financing Signed CAADP Compact CAADP Post-Compact Agricultural Sector
Investment Plan CAADP Post-Compact Technical Review Report Documentation of CAADP Business Meeting
Non-African Countries: Country Investment Plan Country Proposal for GAFSP Financing Agriculture and Food Security Strategy Agriculture and Food Security
Investment Plan An independent and thorough peer
review report of the investment plan
Fourth Call for Proposals is currently open
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Eligible Countries11Africa
(32 countries)
East Asia and the Pacific(11 countries)
ECA
(3 countries)
Latin America
(4 countries)
Middle East(1 country)
South Asia
(5 countries)
BeninBurkina FasoBurundiCARChadComorosCôte d’IvoireDjiboutiDRCEthiopiaGambiaGhana
GuineaGuinea-BissauKenyaLesothoLiberia MadagascarMalawiMaliMauritaniaMozambiqueNiger
RwandaSao Tome &
PrincipeSenegalSierra Leone South SudanTanzaniaTogoUgandaZambia
CambodiaKiribatiLao PDRMarshall IslandsMicronesia, FSMyanmarSamoaSolomon IslandsTongaTuvaluVanuatu
KosovoKyrgyz Rep.Tajikistan
GuyanaHaitiHondurasNicaragua
Yemen AfghanistanBangladeshBhutanMaldivesNepal
Key process steps and Call timeline
Submission documents: Table 1 (pg. 6-7) lists the documents required to be included in the submission package to the GAFSP Coordination Unit. The Document Checklist should clearly indicate which of the submitted documents corresponds to the items required in the list in Table 1, using the template in Annex 4.
Form and deadline of submission: Submission should be via e-mail to [email protected]. Submission documents must be in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PDF. An acknowledgement email will be sent upon confirmation of receipt. Submissions must be received by: 11.59pm, Monday January 9th, 2017 (Washington, D.C. time). No exceptions will be made on the deadline or document formats. We encourage countries to submit a few days earlier in case of any technical problems in the submission process.
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For African countries For Non-African countries(1) Document Checklist (1) Document Checklist(1) Cover letter with endorsement signature from Minister of Finance,
and at least one technical ministry.(1) Cover letter with endorsement signature from Minister of
Finance, and at least one technical ministry.
(1) Evidence of support from the in-country Sector Working Group, such as a letter
(3) Evidence of support from the in-country Sector Working Group (or equivalent), such as a letter, where such groups exist (or from a major donor if such Groups don’t exist).
(1) Statement of readiness from preferred Supervising Entity(ies) (4) Statement of readiness from preferred Supervising Entity(ies)
(5) GAFSP proposal (Parts 1 & 2) (5) GAFSP proposal (Parts 1 & 2)
(6) Agriculture and Food Security Strategy (6) Agriculture and Food Security Strategy
(7) Current CAADP Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plan (NAIP). For African countries that have completed implementation of a CAADP NAIP: an updated comprehensive Agricultural and Food Security Investment Plan, or, if this is not yet finalized, a Malabo Declaration country implementation roadmap based on the June 30, 2016 AUC/NPCA CAADP guidelines.
(7) Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plan
(8) CAADP Technical Review Report of the Investment Plan (or an updated version). For those African countries that have completed implementation of a CAADP NAIP: an independent and thorough technical review report of their current investment plan.
(8) An independent and thorough technical review report of the investment plan
(9) Country response to the independent review observations (9) Country response to the independent review observations