[{"bbox": [84, 107, 407, 130], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Farmers/Processors Associations"}, {"bbox": [84, 144, 1145, 199], "category": "Text", "text": "These associations organized around different commodities and activities value chains will be targeted for cooperation, collaboration and support."}, {"bbox": [84, 212, 535, 237], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### European Business Organisation (EuroCham)"}, {"bbox": [84, 249, 1146, 435], "category": "Text", "text": "Recently renamed as EuroCham, the European Business Organisation was created with the support of the EU. It is a business group uniting the main European investors and corporate organisations in Nigeria. Its main objective is to actively promote trade, investments and exchanges between the European and Nigerian business, advocating European quality standards, best practices and corporate social responsibility. EuroCham is a member of the EBO worldwide Network representing European business interests in markets outside the European Union. It represents a network active in over 45 key markets that serves European multinationals, as well as micro, small, medium and large enterprises."}, {"bbox": [84, 449, 472, 474], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Public and private financial institutions"}, {"bbox": [84, 486, 1145, 540], "category": "Text", "text": "These institutions will be engaged as partners in terms of technical assistance, collaboration and access to finance and product development."}, {"bbox": [84, 553, 402, 580], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Youth and women organisations"}, {"bbox": [84, 591, 1145, 644], "category": "Text", "text": "These stakeholders will be engaged as businesses, employment beneficiaries and most importantly to ensure that the voice of women and the young population who are the largest demography is heard and taken on board."}, {"bbox": [73, 700, 578, 731], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3. DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [84, 763, 494, 793], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### 3.1. Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [84, 805, 1146, 859], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Overall Objective (Impact)** of this action is to contribute to the sustainable socio-economic development of Nigeria."}, {"bbox": [84, 871, 1145, 951], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Specific Objective (Outcome)** of this action is to support the development of climate-smart agri- (aqua) culture and sustainable transformation of Agri-SMEs in selected value chains, with a view to creating decent job alternatives for young people including addressing causes of irregular migration."}, {"bbox": [84, 964, 414, 990], "category": "Text", "text": "The expected Results (Outputs) are:"}, {"bbox": [122, 1003, 1145, 1082], "category": "List-item", "text": "1) Emergence of new, and growth of existing (women and youth-led) agri-businesses (aggregators, processors, manufacturers, wholesalers, transporters and retailers) in sustainable agricultural value chains to achieve growth in production, including exports of agricultural commodities and products;"}, {"bbox": [122, 1083, 1145, 1135], "category": "List-item", "text": "2) New jobs created in rural and blue economy sectors, as well as agro-ecology, especially for youth and women in Nigeria's agricultural \"production\" and \"consumption belts\";"}, {"bbox": [122, 1136, 963, 1162], "category": "List-item", "text": "3) Improvement of smallholder livelihoods through capacity building and investments;"}, {"bbox": [122, 1163, 1102, 1188], "category": "List-item", "text": "4) Improved food security and reduction of livestock/crop losses through application of EU standards;"}, {"bbox": [122, 1189, 1145, 1241], "category": "List-item", "text": "5) Introduction of nature-based agricultural measures reducing climate change vulnerability, enhancing biodiversity and combating deforestation and desertification."}, {"bbox": [84, 1254, 1145, 1519], "category": "Text", "text": "This intervention will be part of the Team Europe Initiative (TEI) \"Green Economy\", as part of the EU programme on Climate-smart Agriculture for Development (Agri-CADE) estimated at EUR 99 million over the entire MIP period. Agri-CADE will provide for policy dialogue through a twinning with the Ministry of Agriculture (post-elections 2023), access to finance interventions through blending, provision of TVET support in selected states (especially in those states with higher incidence of irregular migration) in cooperation with an EU Member States agency(ies), and an innovative intervention through Copernicus. It will also contribute to the EU's commitment to mobilise resources and work with African partners to ensure that the objectives of the Great Green Wall become a reality. Other TEI partners include: Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the EIB. Together, the actors contributing to the TEI are pulling together some EUR 1 billion of resources dedicated to projects in climate-smart agriculture, and some related energy and technological solutions."}, {"bbox": [1051, 1663, 1158, 1687], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 23"}]