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ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
TABLE 3.20
USAID ACTIVE AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS
Project Title Start Date End Date
Total Estimated
Cost ($)
Cumulative Disbursements,
as of 12/31/2016 ($)
Strengthening Watershed and Irrigation Management (SWIM) 11/15/2016 11/14/2021 $87,905,437 $0
Capacity Building and Change Management Program II (CBCMP II) 7/10/2014 7/9/2017 20,874,464 18,079,729
Afghanistan Agriculture Extension Project II (AAEP-II) 10/1/2014 9/30/2017 20,229,771 15,115,537
Agriculture Credit Enhancement II (ACE II) 6/24/2015 6/23/2018 18,234,849 5,761,252
Strengthening Afghan Agricultural Faculties (SAAF) 3/25/2011 8/31/2017 7,824,209 6,812,590
SERVIR 9/14/2015 9/30/2020 3,100,000 100,000
Texas A&M University's Agrilife Conflict Development 11/8/2012 11/7/2017 133,976 133,976
Note: Some of the USAID programs listed receive both Alternative Development and Agriculture Development funds. For more information on Alternative Development programs, see pages 193–
199 of this report.
Source: USAID, response to SIGAR data call, 1/18/2017.
Development Fund (ADF) administered by the Ministry of Agriculture,
Irrigation, and Livestock. ADF extends agriculture-related credit access to
small- and medium-sized farms and agribusinesses in all regional economic
zones, particularly to those that add value to agricultural products, such
as distributors, producers, processors, and exporters. 681 USAID reported
that with ACE II help, ADF has cumulatively provided more than $82.7 million
in credit to over 36,401 beneficiaries. 682 However, ACE II implementers
reported that the continuing deterioration of both security and the economy
is reducing demand for agricultural credit and negatively impacting
loan repayments. 683
This quarter, ACE II began preparations for a national survey of
agricultural financial services and began baseline data collection for a
loans-impact assessment. ACE II also submitted a plan to reshape the ADF
to broaden credit access to more borrowers, which will require a number
of strategic and operational changes, including additional credit-delivery
channels, and accompanying technical support to stakeholders within each
channel. Additionally, ACE II helped identify areas of training to strengthen
the capacity of ADF’s management team, including executive skills courses,
advanced agricultural-credit skills, and loan arrears and collections. 684
ACE II also continued to engage financial institutions to provide credit
financing to the agricultural sector, in part through an Innovation Grant
Fund, which supports developing and testing new ways to facilitate
agriculture-related financial services. Last quarter, ACE II awarded its first
grant under the Innovation Grant Fund to OXUS Afghanistan, a microfinance
organization, to support lending to borrowers in remote districts.
The AFN 10.5 million grant (approximately $160,000 in current dollars) will
be used to develop 10 OXUS cashless branches inside Roshan provincial
offices using the telecommunications provider’s mobile-money platform
for loan disbursements and repayments. 685 As of October 2016, 1,450 loan
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