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Indonesia
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LOAN: INO 34112-01
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Poor Farmer Income Improvement Through Innovation Project
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Location
Districts of Temanggung and Blora in Central Java, East Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara, Ende and East Nusa Tenggara, and Donggala in Central Sulawesi.
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Sector
Agriculture & Natural Resources /Agriculture Production, Agroprocessing, & Agrobusiness
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Initial Listing
26 June 2000
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Most Recent Update
12 February 2007
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Executing Agency(ies)
Agency for Agricultural Research and Development
Ministry of Agriculture
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- Missions
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| TA Fact-Finding |
Loan Fact-Finding |
Pre-Appraisal |
Appraisal |
| 26 Jun-7 Jul 2000 |
23 Jul-24 Aug 2001 |
TBD |
1-11 Apr 2002 |
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Loan Approval Date
15 August 2002
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Estimated Completion Date
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- Cost and Financing Plan (in US$ million)
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| Source |
Foreign Cost |
Local Cost |
Total |
| Bank |
56.00 |
0.00 |
56.00 |
| Cofinancing |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| Borrower |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| Beneficiaries |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| Others |
0.00 |
0.00 |
0.00 |
| Project/Program Cost |
56.00 |
0.00 |
56.00 |
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OCR |
ADF |
Total |
| Loan Amount |
0.00 |
56.00 |
56.00 |
- Description
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The Project will be implemented in about 1,000 villages in the Blora and Temmanggung districts in Central Java; Donggala in Central Sulawesi; Ende in West Nusa Tenggara; and East Lombok in West Nusa Tenggara. The Project will will enhance poor farmers' capacity to adopt innovative agricultural production and marketing methods by better targeting village-level public investments to location-specific needs, providing farmers with access to information, and reorienting the focus of agricultural research to the needs of marginal rainfed areas. Nongovernment organizations working through elected village facilitators and supported by government and private agencies will help farmers to identify innovations, and undertake the necessary public investments to support adoption.
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- Thematic Classification
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- Poverty Classification
- Core Poverty Intervention
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- Rationale
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To improve their incomes, poor farmers have to be able to innovate in agricultural production and marketing in response to market opportunities. However, they are constrained from doing so because of a lack of appropriate technologies, village-level investmsents in public goods, and access to information. While the Government is taking steps to fill the gaps in providing public goods support for agriculture, and increasingly for nonrice crops, additional support is needed to target village-level public investments to the needs of poor farmers, to increase the access of poor farmers to information, and to increase the availability of technologies needed by poor farmers. The Project responds to the above by empowering farmers to undertake simple village-level investments, providing support for the development of proper technologies for rainfed areas, and providing them with the relevant information resources.
- Objectives and Scope
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The long-term development goal is increased innovation in agricultural production and marketing by poor farmers. The immediate objectives of the Project are (i) improved targeting of village-level public investments to locations-specific needs, (ii) increased access of poor farmers to information, and (iii) a reorientation of the focus of agricultural research to the needs of marginal rainfed areas. The Project will comprise four components to be implemented over 5 years: (i) poor farmer empowerment, (ii) development of national and local agricultural information resources, (iii) support for agricultural innovation development and dissemination, and (iv) project management.
- Policy Dialogue
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- Environment Category:
B
- Environment Impact and Mitigation
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- Social Aspects and Remedies
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- Benefits and Beneficiaries
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The Project will benefit farmers in five districts with about 2.75 million people and overall poverty rate of 66 percent - almost twice the national average. The components for farmer empowerment, development of national and local information resources, and support for agricultural innovation development and dissemination are exptected to benefit these poor people by facilitating agricultural and marketing innovations and increasing incomes. The Project will target villages in which 75 percent of the households are poor. Typical project beneficiaries will be poor farmers who have low productive landholdings of less than 0.1 hectare and who generally only cultivate staples. They have an average income of less than Rp 1,000,000 per capital per year, and often use communal resources such as the sea and the forest to supplement their income. The village-level investments will directly raise the incomes or food security of about 400,000 poor households to levels above the poverty line. Women will directly benefit from active involvement in the planning of village investments, capacity building, and targeting of village investments especially to women.
- Public Consultation
- Arranged by
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- Groups Consulted :
- Beneficiary Participation in Formulation
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Identified during project appraisal.
- Beneficiary Participation in Implementation
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- Consulting Services
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A team of 24 consultants for a total input of 796 person-months of the following international and domestic consulting services will be required to prepare a detailed implementation plan and procedures for the Project during the first year, and support the subsequent 4-year implementation phase. Person-months are given in parentheses. The international experts (54) will be specialists in
(i) project implementation (team leader) (27); (ii) management information systems (12); (iii) participatory planning (4);
(iv) agricultural marketing (4); (v) economics/financial analysis (4); and (vi) information management (3). The domestic experts (742) will be specialists in (i) project implementation (60); (ii) district liaison (five officers) (240); (iii) participatory planning (27); (iv) national monitoring and evaluation (60); (v) district monitoring and evaluation (five persons) (240); (vi) economics/financial analysis (6); (vii) gender (27); (viii) management information systems (16); and
(ix) information management (6); as well as an ombudsperson (60). An international consulting firm in association with domestic consultants will be selected using the full technical proposal procedure in accordance with ADB’s Guidelines on the Use of Consultants and other arrangements satisfactory to ADB for the engagement of domestic consultants. The quality and cost-based selection method will be used for engaging consultants.
A national NGO with extensive experience in agriculture and rural livelihoods will be recruited by the PCMU through competitive bidding based on eligibility and evaluation criteria established by the Project to supervise and coordinate local NGOs or community organizations, under subcontracts, in implementing the village level activities of the Farmer Empowerment component. A provincial consortium of NGOs/community organizations, through a series of consultations during the first year of the Project, will nominate a set of NGOs/community organizations that are capable of participating in the Project and meet criteria established by the Project. The national NGO will select local implementing NGOs from this nominated set and sign contracts with them to implement project activities at the village level.
- Procurement
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Procurement under the Project will follow ADB’s Guidelines for Procurement. Contracts for civil works will be relatively simple for renovation of district offices, valued at less than $100,000 equivalent, and will be carried out using local competitive bidding procedures acceptable to ADB by the PIUs. The PIU will also be responsible for procurement of office furniture through local competitive bidding. The PCMU will carry out procurement of vehicles and equipment estimated to cost more than $100,000 but less than $500,000 using international shopping procedures. Civil works for community-managed village infrastructure, including tubewell irrigation schemes and access roads, financed from the village investment funds may be carried out by communities. Communities shall provide labor and appropriate technologies. Materials and services for such civil works estimated to cost less than $30,000 equivalent shall be procured through direct purchase.
- Contacts
- Bank
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Mandar Jayawant
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Senior Country Economist (Mongolia)
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MNRM
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Tel. No.:
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(632) 632-5505
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E-mail:
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mjayawant@adb.org
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- Executing Agency
- Agency for Agricultural Research and Development
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Contact Person
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Dr. Djoko Budianto, Director General
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Tel. No.
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6221-7806202
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6221-7812191
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- Ministry of Agriculture
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Contact Person
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P. Memed Gunawan, Secretary General
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Tel. No.
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7806131-7804116
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6221-7804156
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