Sustainable Rural Development Programme for the Northern Region

The project will focus on improving market access and generating rural businesses in agricultural and non-agricultural activities for smallholders and microentrepreneurs, to increase production, employment, and incomes. To achieve this, it will support private-sector entrepreneurial linkages as the engine of the chain of sustainable quality production, commercialization and export, and technological development. The principal goals are to: Transform agricultural and non-agricultural subsistence activities into profitable, market-oriented businesses operating on local and external markets; Strengthen the capacities of rural and indigenous communities, producers' associations and development councils; Expand social and economic infrastructure, including rural roads -Conserve and sustainably manage natural resources