List of acronyms
ADB | Asian Development Bank |
AfDB | African Development Bank |
ARD | Agricultural Research for Development |
AusAID | Australian Agency for International Development |
CAADP | Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme |
CBO | Community-based organization |
CBA | Cost-benefit analysis |
CIF | Climate Investment Fund |
COSOP | Country Strategic Opportunities Programme |
COSTAB | name of the Software for projects costing |
CPI | Consumer price index |
CSA | Climate-smart agriculture |
DFID | Department for International Development |
EC | European Commission |
EA | Economic Analysis |
EBRD | European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
EIA | Environmental Impact Assessment |
EMP | Environmental Management Plan |
EPIC | Economics and Policy Innovations for Climate-Smart Agriculture |
ESA | Environmental and Social Assessment |
EU | European Union |
FA | Financial Analysis |
FAFS | Framework for African Food Security |
FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
FEA | Financial and Economic Analysis |
FLG | Functional literacy group |
FTD | Farmer training demonstration |
GDP | Gross domestic product |
GEF | Global Environmental Facility |
GHG | Greenhouse gas |
GIZ | Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit |
ha | hectare |
IADB | Inter-american Development Bank |
ICR | Implementation Completion Report |
IDA | International Development Association |
IDB | Islamic Development Bank |
IE | Impact Evaluation |
IEG | Independent Evaluation Group |
IFC | International Finance Corporation |
IFI | International financial institutions |
ILP | Investment Learning Platform |
IRR | Internal rate of return |
JP | Joint Programmes |
KIT | Royal Tropical Institute (The Netherlands) |
LFA | Logical framework approach |
MAFFS | Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security (Sierra Leone) |
M&E | Monitoring and Evaluation |
ME&L | Monitoring, evaluation and learning |
MDG | Millenium Development Goal |
MIS | Management information system |
MoA | Ministry of Agriculture |
MoF | Ministry of Finance |
MTEF | Medium-Term Expenditure Framework |
MTR | Mid-term Review |
NAFSIP | National Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plan |
NAIP | National Agriculture Investment Plan |
NBF | Non-bank financed |
NEPAD | New Partnership for Africa’s Development |
NGO | Non-governmental organization |
NPV | Net present value |
OECD | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
OEKC | Office of Knowledge and Capacity for Development |
OPCS | Operations Policy and Country Services Division |
ORAF | Operational Risk Assessment Framework |
PIM | Project Implementation Manual |
PIP | Public Investment Programme |
PIU | Project Implementation Unit |
PM&E | Participatory monitoring and evaluation |
PPA | Participatory Poverty Assessment |
PPT | Power Point |
PRA | Participatory rural appraisal |
PSIA | Poverty and Social Impact Analysis |
RBM | Results-based management |
RF | Result framework |
RIMS | Results and impact management system |
RRA | Rapid rural appraisal |
SEA | Strategic Environmental Assessment |
SMART | Specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and time-bound |
SME | Small and medium enterprise |
SOAS | School of Oriental and African Studies |
SOFA | State of Food and Agriculture |
SPS | Safeguard Policy Statement |
SUN | Scaling Up Nutrition |
SWAps | Sector-wide approaches |
TCI | The Investment Centre Division |
ToR | Terms of reference |
UN | United Nations |
UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
UNEG | United Nations Evaluation Group |
UNFCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
USAID | United States Agency for International Development |
US$ | United States dollars |
VC | Value chain |
VOC | Vehicle operating cost |
WB | World Bank |
WUA | Water users association |