Rural Agro-enterprise Partnership for Inclusive
Development and Growth
Background
The Rural Agro-Enterprise Partnership for Inclusive Development
and Growth Project (RAPID Growth) is a 6-year investment
project implemented in partnership between IFAD and the
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).
RAPID Approval and Entered Into Force
• Signed Financing Agreement, 06 May 2019
• Entered into Force: 08 July 2019
• Completion Date: 30 September 2025
• Closing Date: 31 March 2026
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Development Goal:
Increased income of small farmers and unemployed rural
women and men across selected agri-based value chain
Outcome 1: Outcome 2:
Producers and value chain SMEs secure the necessary
actors execute access to producers,
collaborative action plans markets, technology and
and build commercial finance.
partnerships.
Priority
Sectors &
Coverage
Development
Objective and
Targets
Provide enabling conditions for the sustained
growth of small and micro enterprises in selected
agricultural commodity chains.
• Increase in income among Farmers by at least
60% 25,000 by interim & 78,000 by end of
project (20,769 farmers, RCU 11 target by
the end of the project)
• incremental jobs generated : 10,000 by
interim & 36,000 by end of project
• MSMEs increase in profit: 710 by interim &
1050 by end of project (206 MSMEs, RCU 11
target by the end of the project)
What RAPID Promote rural enterprises thru value chain
development;
Growth
Strengthen MSMEs’ competitiveness thru strong
intends to
backward linkages with farmers;
do:
Improve productive capacities of farmers thru
investments in skills/capacity building and post
harvest/production facilities ;
Improve market connectivity and access;
Promote access to value chain financing;
Technology innovation & enhance creative capacity.
VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT
MARKET
RAPID Growth Complementation
DENR DA DAR
INREMP PRDP CONVERGE
FARMER/PRODUCERS MSMEs
• Farmers’ Assns & Coops MARKETS
• Processors
• Smallholder Farmers • Domestic
• Consolidators • Export
• Exporters
Negosyo Centers + Value Chain Facilitators
• Business development services
• Rural finance & de-risking products
• Matching grants for production, value adding equipment and
planting materials
PROJECT COMPONENTS & Interventions
Institutional Strengthening (3%)
Innovation Fund/ Financing Support
• Value Chain Governance
(SBCorp) (6%)
• Institutional Development
• Equity financing
• Building Commercial
• Joint venture financing
Partnerships
Direct Assistance to Beneficiaries (80%)
• Business Development Services Technical Assistance to Financial Project Management (9%)
- Cap Building / Consultancy Services Service Providers (FSPs) (2%) • Monitoring and Evaluation
- Innovation & Techno Dev • Support & strengthening of FSPs • Communication & KM/MIS
Support/Product Development • Financing facilitation • Finance and Admin
-Market Promotion • Capacity building for credit • Procurement
- Enterprise Strengthening coops
• HRM
• Provision of Matching grants for • Access to Crop Insurance and
• GESI
seedlings, Guarantee
productive Investments (DIP/BP Approved)
Monitoring and Validation Activities Conducted
Approved Detailed
Investment Plans
under PCU DN
• Kennemer Foods International,
Inc. Supply Chain
• Nutrarich Nutraceuticals
Innovations Supply Chain
List of Farmer Organizations with Approved DIPs
• Kapalong Cooperative
• Dugayan Okapan Kimataan Igang Farmers
Association (DOKIFA)
• Langan-Gupitan Farmers Association
• Ginsawaan Farmers Association
• Dacudao Upland Farmers Association, Inc.
• Datu Balong Farmers Organization
• Cacao Farmers of Linao
• Sawata Farmers Association
• Mamangan Farmers Association
• Kipalili Farmers Association
• Sta. Fe Coconut Farmers Association
• Del Monte Coconut Planters Association
• New Santiago Farmers Association
• Tagum City Cacao Farmers Association
• Samal Island Agri-Growers and Producers
Association (SIAGPA)
TARGETS
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