1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
The Government of Ghana (GoG) in collaboration with ECOWAS and the World Bank is implementing the Food System Resilience Project (FSRP) Phase 2 under the World Bank Multi-Phase Programmatic Approach (MPA) for Investment Project Financing Instrument. Phase 2 consists of three countries namely: Sierra Leone, Chad, and Ghana and three regional partners, (ECOWAS, CILSS and CORAF. The FSRP2 is expected to be implemented over a 5-year period.
The development objective of the FSRP2 programme is to increase preparedness against food insecurity and improve the resilience of food system actors, priority landscapes and value chains in programme areas. The Food Systems Resilience Project which has an environmental and social risk rating of substantial is organized around five core distinct but interrelated components to help achieve the objectives of the project.
The project components include:
Component 1: Improving digital advisory services to support timely agriculture and food crisis prevention and management
Component 2: Sustainability and adaptive capacity of Ghana’s food systems productive base
Component 3: Enhancing regional food market integration and agricultural inputs and output trade
Component 4: Contingency emergency response
Component 5: Project management