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B. Financial Sua-y
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One Mi.lion Four Hundred and Seventy Thousand Dollars ($1,470,000)
are requested from FY 1978 funds for life of project costs. These funds
will be spent as follows:
($000's)
FY78 LOP Funding*
Comodtes $ 214 $ 214
Technical Assistance 975
975
Participants
28 28
Other 253 253
TOTAL $1,470 $1,470
Peace Corps 135 405
Host Country Financing 123 370
GRAN TOTAL $ 258 $2,245
*Includes 15% inflationary and contingency factor pro
rated between the line items on a proportional basis.
Host country and other donor contributions: Other contributors to
the project besides A.I.D. will be the Peace Corps and the GIRM. The
Peace Corps contribution will consist of nine volunteers in the form of
one agricultural specialist, one home economist, and one cooperative
specialist for each of the three regions where the project will be active.
The total value of their input is calculated to be approximately $405,000.
The Mauritanian Government, on the other hand, will participate by providing
the organizational framework and the eleven extension personnel
through which the farmers will be reached. Other inputs include office
space, training facilities, housing for the PCVs, well construction, a
truck for input delivery, and the land and water resources for the
demonstration areas. The total value of the GIRM inputs will be approximately
$370,000.
C. Socio-economic, Technial and Environmental Description:
1. The major socio-economic acc3ptability of the project; technical
analysis: Vegetable gardening is a well-entrenched activity in several
regions and an activity that has provoked a great deal of enthusiasm in
those areas where it has recently been introduced. The challenge of this
project will be to respond to the enthusiasm by (1)testing techniques to
improve production, nutrition levels and incomes; and (2) establishing
demonstration areas in each of the three regions. The specific technical
approaches will be determined by the implementation team and their backstopping
agency.