Agriculture

This TA assignment is to assist the Planning and Statistics Unit of the Rural Development Sector and other actors involved in strengthening the agricultural statistics system by:
- Strengthening the organisation and coordination of Mali's agricultural statistics system;
- Strengthening of planning, programming and budgeting in the rural development sector;
- Strengthening of the monitoring and evaluation of public policies and of projects and programmes in the rural development sector;
- Strengthening of the production and timely dissemination of quality data to inform decision-making processing.

The goal of the ‘National Information Platform for Nutrition’ initiative is to produce nutrition-related information, then to generate requests for information in order to stimulate public debate, and to reformulate analysis plans for decision-makers, stakeholders, or partners concerned by the field of nutrition. The technical assistance provides its support in order to:
- ensure methodological rigour in the data production and analysis process;
- develop a training plan for the main stakeholders (nutrition-sensitive, decision analysis, method for analysing the results of nutritional surveys, design and management of on-line databases, etc.);
- set up tools for storing and sharing statistical data and information on the nutritional situation (platform);
- make information on the nutritional situation accessible to all sections of the public, and particularly useable by the public authorities for decision-making and strategic purposes.

The programme's general objective is to promote the concerted and sustainable use of Chad's pastoral resources, taking into account local populations' needs, by strengthening their resilience to climate change in pastoral and agro-pastoral zones, and by creating jobs for young people in order to reduce their poverty in an inclusive comprehensive approach.
The programme's specific objective is to ensure the security of herdsmen and farmers in the management and sustainable use of agro-pastoral resources in the Centre (Lake Fitri and Guéra), eastern border (Ennedi, Wadi Fira, Ouaddaï, Sila and Salamat) and southern areas (Mandoul and Moyen Chari) of Chad.
The regional technical assistance builds the capacities of regional delegations (Ministry of Livestock and Animal Production). It also covers monitoring & evaluation and the technical control of pastoral hydraulic facilities, and enhances the synergy of regional components implemented by NGO consortia.

Technical assistance for the procurement of services and supplies within the Technical Cooperation Project in support of the Renewable Natural Resources Sector (TCP-RNR, EUR 4.6 million), which focuses on building the human resource capacity of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests (MoAF), basically to implement large parts of its Human Resource Master Plan.
The TCP-RNR is implemented by partially decentralised management through the programme estimates procedure, which requires that the Beneficiary uses the tendering and contractual procedures set out in the EU's Practical Guide (PRAG). This is the 2nd Programme Estimate project implemented in the country, leading to the provision of technical assistance to meet tight deadlines and make sure that all contracting is done according to EU rules and Bhutanese rules.