Major ongoing projects
Objectives:
1. To enhance national and provincial levels monitoring, analysis, communication and use of agro-meteorological data and in formation for decision-making in relation to agriculture and food security.
2. To improve monitoring and analysis of agricultural production systems by strengthening Land Resources Information Management Systems (LRIMS) and Agro-Ecological Zoning (AEZ) to support agricultural policies and climate-change adaptation.
Donor: GEF
Active in: Lao PDR
Sustainable cropland and forest management in priority agro-ecosystems of Myanmar
Project GCP/MYA/017/GFF
Objectives: The project aims to facilitate and strengthen sustainable land management (SLM), sustainable forest management (SFM), and climate-smart agriculture (CSA).
Starting Date: 2018
Active in: Myanmar
Sector: Natural Resources Management
Piloting Provincial-level Wetland PA System in Jiangxi Province
Objectives: to improve the effectiveness of management of Jiangxi's wetland protected area system for conservation of globally important biological diversity. The goal of the project is to contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of globally significant wetland biodiversity in Jiangxi Province, China
Starting Date: April 2017 - Ending Date: April 2022
Donor: GEF
Active in: China
Sector: Natural Resources Management
Irrigation Restoration and Development Project
Objectives: The proposed Project Development Objective is to increase agriculture productivity and production in the project areas. The strategy for achieving the PDO would include: (i) assisting local communities/farmers to rehabilitate irrigation schemes; (ii) re-establishing hydro-meteorological services in the country to provide improved access to hydro-met data to enable preparation of improved and more cost effective designs of rehabilitation and development works; and (iii) continuing capacity building in MEW for preparing and implementing irrigation/ water resource development projects.
Starting Date: 15/12/2011 - Ending Date: 31/12/2017
Donor: Government of Afghanistan
Sector: Natural Resources Management
Promoting an Integrated Home Garden and School Garden Approach for food and nutrition security in selected Southeast Asian Countries
Objectives: The project adopts an integrated, multi-stakeholder and holistic "plot to pot" food production system that combines the production of a variety of nutritious vegetables and fruits and small scale livestock such as chickens, ducks and aquaculture toward a more self-reliant provision of school meals. School gardens and nutrition education is to be integrated into the school curricula so it becomes an integral part of the teaching and learning process. School-community links to promote shared responsibility between government and communities will be strengthened. Home gardens will help improving the diets of households and nutrition education will contribute to family nutrition.
Starting Date: 01/09/2015- Ending Date: 31/08/2017
Active in: Bangladesh, Peoples' Democratic Republic of Lao, Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Federal Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
Donor: FAO
Sector: Zero Hunger Challenge
Support to employment creation in Mongolia (SECiM) Component 2: Piloting quality private sector work in selected livestock and vegetable value chains
Starting date: 01 Feb 2016 — Ending date:31 Jan 2020
Objectives: to contribute to inclusive and sustainable development in Mongolia through promotion of quality employment focusing on the non-mining sector; and
to contribute to enable private sector job creation where Mongolia has potential comparative advantages.
Active in: Mongolia
Donor: European Union
Sector: Agribusinesses and agri-food chains
Empowering Women in Balochistan through Agri Entrepreneurship
Starting date: 03 Apr 2017 — Ending date: 03 Apr 2019
Objectives: Profitable “enterprises”, owned by women, developed and strengthened in 7 Districts in Balochistan, thus enabling women to earn more money, reduce their daily workload and to invest their earnings by themselves to improve their living or to invest in their business.
Active in: Pakistan
Donor: Australia
Sector: Agri-business, Value Chains, support to innovations in rural services provision and infrastructure development
Australia Balochistan Agri-business Programme-Phase Two (AusABBA II)
Starting date: 07 Jul 2017 — Ending date: 30 Jun 2023
Objectives: People in South West Balochistan (Chagai, Kech, Kharan, Nushki, Pangjur and Washuk) will live more prosperous in a food secure environment. Women will be empowered to beneficially engage with their livelihood systems. Households will engage in agriculture livelihoods that enhance their productivity, food security and nutritional status. Commercial farmers will operate as agribusinesses and cooperate profitably and sustainable within selected agriculture value chains with public and private (market) actors.
Active in: Pakistan
Donor: Australia
Sector: Agri-business, agricultural livelihoods
Support for Enhancing Climate Resilient Agrifisheries in the Philippines
Start date: 01 January 2017— End Date: 30 Nov 2018
Objectives: The Project's overall objective is "Increase farmers' productivity and incomes and sustainable livelihoods through the use of Climate Resilient Agri-Fisheries strategies." Climate related disasters in the Philippines have a high impact on its agriculture sector. Recognizing the challenges and increasing climate risks facing the agriculture sector, the Department of Agriculture (DA) is pro-actively supporting climate resilient agriculture (CRA) as a strategic approach to promote adaptation and mitigation measures.
Active in: Philippines
Donor: Philippines
Sector: Climate, biodiversity and natural resources
Drought Forecast Based Financing for Food security, livelihoods and WASH in Vietnam
Objectives: This project aims to ensure that drought climatic forecasts and early warning are available to communities in a systematic way and trigger pre-defined early actions (for WASH and FSL) which can mitigate the impact of drought. It will also identify existing funding mechanisms that can be used to support the preparedness actions.
Starting Date: 12 Jul 2017 — Ending Date: 30 Sep 2018
Donor: European Union (90.0%)
Active in: Viet Nam
Sector: Enhancing resilience of communities to disasters, climate change and other threats
European Union Support to District Development Programme
Objectives: To contribute to poverty reduction in North and East Sri Lanka and to bridging the socio-economic gap with the rest of the country through supporting sustainable regional and local development and good governance in conflict-affected areas.
Starting Date: 01/07/2012 - Ending Date: 30/06/2017
Donor: European Commission
Sector: Good Governance