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February 2015

Government of Nepal Ministry of Agricultural Development Project for Agriculture commercialization and trade. BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO PACT and its Implication "Improving Competitiveness of Small Holder Farmers and Agribusinesses ". February 2015. NAMASTE AND WARM WELCOME. TODAY'S AGENDA.

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February 2015

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  1. Government of Nepal Ministry of Agricultural Development Project for Agriculture commercialization and trade BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO PACT and its Implication "Improving Competitiveness of Small Holder Farmers and Agribusinesses " February 2015

  2. NAMASTE AND WARM WELCOME

  3. TODAY'S AGENDA Brief Introduction to PACT and its Implication Selection of Grant Recipients and their Status

  4. Project Overview Overall Objective: To improve the competitiveness of project supported smallholder farmers and the agribusinesses within selected commodity value chains Date of Agreement: Original: 21 August 2009 Additional Funding: Agreement: 13 Feb 2013, Effective: 18 March 2013 Project Duration : Extended to 30 June 2018 Executing Agency: Ministry of Agriculture Development Donor : World Bank

  5. Financing Plan Grant-US$ 27.3 M (46%) Credit-US4 32.7 M (54%)

  6. Components Agriculture and Rural Business Development (79% of the total project cost) Support for Sanitary and Phyto-sanitary Facilities and Food Quality Management (6.6%) 3. Project Management and Monitoring and Evaluation (14.4%)

  7. Key Achievements

  8. Component 1: Agriculture and Rural Business Development • Four rounds of proposals (Grant awarded for three) • First Call: 51 sub-projects (49 sub-projects completed (96%), 2 cancelled, Follow-up of completed projects initiated), Total Grant Commitment- NRs 124 Million, Grant Disbursed- Rs.110.8 Million (89.4%) • Second Call: 204 sub-projects in implementation, 125 sub-projects have been completed and remaining sub-projects will be completed by the end of March 2015. Of these 11 sub-projects under review (no second installment released), Total Grant Commitment- Rs. 538 Million, Grant Disbursed- Rs. 416.6 Million (77.4%)

  9. Component 1: Agriculture and Rural Business Development • Third call: Of 1447 PCNs received, 400 PCNs selected for field verification on 28 June 2013, 296 have submitted FPPs, 291 FPPs succeed and 267 sub-projects received and have done agreement. • Fourth call: 779 Joint Proposals with 2454 PCNs received (1-8 PCNs/JP, 88% (684 have submitted 3 PCNs), 659 JP eligible. Field Verification is going on. • Fifth Call: Micro-grant (Max US$ 10,000), Guidelines approved, planned to implement in 25 districts as pilot project. 3195 proposals received. Most of the districts listed out the succeed proposals for Field Verification.

  10. [1] Preparatory works for field verifications underway Sub-project performance to date

  11. Highlights of Call 1 Sub-projects Beej Bridhi Sahakari Sanstha, Kailali Shree Ram Beej Bridhi Krishak Samuha, Chitwan

  12. Highlights of Call 1 Sub-projects Contd.. Janakalyan Krishak Cooperative Ltd. Syangja Agriculture Information Study & Consultancy Center

  13. Highlights of Call 2 Sub-projects Namuna Gai Farm (Namuna Cow Farm) Milijuli Women Multipurpose Cooperative Ltd., Nawalparasi

  14. Highlights of Call 2 Sub-projects contd..

  15. Highlights of Call 2 Sub-projects contd.

  16. WB Missions: Picture Speak Eighth Mission Visiting Gravity Ropeway in Syangja constructed through PACT's matching grant WB Country Director tasting organic tomato produced in Kaski by a PACT's Grant Recipient grant Visit of World Bank's Mission to a Commercial Vegetable Production and Marketing Sub-project, Luvu, Lalitpur implemented by Amarawati Bagwani Nursery, Lalitpur WB's Ninth Mission in a Commercial Floriculture Project in Chitwan district supported by PACT through its matching grant

  17. PACT's Key Events Right Honorable Prime Minister, Dr Babu Ram Bhattarai during the inauguration of an International Workshop on Agribusiness Promotion, organised by PACT from 8 -10 April, 2012 Mr Nathu Prasad Chaudhary, Secretary, MOAD,(observing PACT's grant recipients' stalls (Commercial Rainbow Trout Production, Manikhel, Lalitpur) in National Agro-Expo , 9-11 March, 2012, Kathmandu, Nepal.

  18. PACT's Key Events MoAD Secretary, Mr Jaya Mukund Khanal and MoF Secretary, Mr Krishna Hari Baskota responding to press reporter in one of PACT's sub-project visit in Dhading district First Value Chain Round Table- Coffee being Inaugurated by Mr Jaya Mukund Khanal, Secretary, MOAD on 11 January 2015.

  19. SELECTION OF GRANT RECIPEINTS Three Stage Assessment Process Competitive, Transparent and Objective First- Project Concept Note Stage (20-30% selection) Second- Field Verification (90+ % Approval) Third- Full Proposal (75+ % Approval)

  20. PROJECT CONCEPT NOTE (PCN) STAGE Field Verification Initial Environmental and Social Screening and Categorization Eligible Technical Evaluation • Project Concept Note Rejection Non-eligible

  21. SECOND STAGE: FIELD VERIFICATION Invitation to submit FPP • Institutional Capacity • Technical Capacity • Experience • Financial Capacity About Grant Applicants • Field Verification Initial Environmental and Social Screening and Categorization Rejection About PCNs Technical Appropriateness

  22. Third Stage: FPP Evaluation Technical evaluation Rejection Full Project Proposal (By Applicant) Approved (Sub-project) Financial evaluation 23

  23. Grant Award Ceremony

  24. Implementation Start

  25. Sub-projects

  26. OUR GRANT RECIPIENTS Over 75% funding gone to small farmers and cooperatives

  27. Towards Completion

  28. Direct Beneficiaries Call 1 and Call 2 (SPs)

  29. Thank you and welcome your comments, questions and suggestions

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