To reduce rural poverty and malnutrition in Rwanda and Senegal and provide the rural poor with better and more equitable access to information, productive resources, services, and markets.

Status of the project
CLOSED

• Common virtual working space organized and shared for project activities’ monitoring and facilitate coordination with country offices, among TSS teams and project staff.
• Webpage has been constructed and published on the FAO website.
• Collaboration with local relevant stakeholders has been established: These included Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Telecommunications, Commissariat à la securite’ alimentaire, Ministry of Livestock, Secretariat Executif du Conseil Nationale de Securite Alimentarie, Agence National de l’Aviation Civile et de la Metereologie, Local Government of Tambacounda in Senegal; and Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources, Ministry of Youth and ICT and National Meteorological Agency in Rwanda.
• The second version of the Progressive Web App was released.
• One of the most notable catalytic effects has bene that, through the contacts to develop the Meteo and Crop Calendar service, CIO has started a relationship with World Meteorological Organization. The two agencies have signed a UN to UN agency agreement to improve the Climate and agrometeorological services in Senegal and Rwanda.

• FAO’s Multipartner Programme Support Mechanism Medium-term final report 2014–17
• FAO’s Smarter investments Up-scaled development
• Agricultural services and digital inclusion in Africa