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- Transitional Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project
Transitional Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project
Burundi
| Borrower | Burundi |
| Financing Type | Public Sector |
| Instrument | Project Loan |
| Focus Area | Agriculture |
| Approved | 13.03.2007 |
| Signed | 11.04.2008 |
| Status | Completed |
| Loan Administrator | IFAD |
| Executing Agency | Ministry of Development Planning and National Reconstruction |
| Co-financiers | IFAD, Gvt. of Burundi, Beneficiaries |
| OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) | 10.00 |
| Total Project Cost (US$m) | 31.43 |
Burundi is recovering from more that a decade of civil conflict that destroyed much of the country’s infrastructure and left some 300,000 people internally displaced. The project will target around 1.2 million vulnerable individuals in the provinces of Rural Bujumbura, Bururi and Ruyigi, with the aims to boost food security and empower the rural poor, especially women. Activities will include, among others, the following:
- improving of local governance;
- carrying out of awareness-raising campaigns among citizens regarding their legal rights;
- improvement of technical support systems to farmers;
- provision of support to environmental conservation schemes;
- rehabilitation and development of new farmland;
- repair of rural roads; and
- construction and renovation of water distribution systems.