Regional Research Beans & Maize East Africa

Ten million households (60% headed by women) have access to seeds of multiple-stress-tolerant bean varieties, planting these varieties on estimated 1.3 million hectares. Several national beans Programms released more than 100 improved bean varieties belonging to major market classes, some of them with résistance to abiotic and biotic stresses. The goal of this program is to improve food security, nutrition, health, income and livelihood of more than 16.5 mio resource-poor smallholder families with around 100 mio members in Sub-Saharan Arica by addressing productivity, environmental stresses and market challenges.

The project in brief

Directorate/federal office responsible	SDC
Credit area	Development cooperation
Project partners	Contract partner Foreign academic and research organisation Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
Budget	Current phase Swiss budget CHF    3’420’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF    3’537’489
Project phases	Phase 13 01.01.2015 - 31.03.2023   (Completed) Phase 12 01.01.2012 - 31.12.2014   (Completed)

Further technical details

• Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	AGRICULTURE OTHER MULTISECTOR
  Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	Agricultural research Rural development
  Cross-cutting topics	The project promotes biodiversity. Specific project on gender equality.
  Type of support	Official development assistance (ODA)
  Type of collaboration	Bilateral cooperation
  Finance type	Aid grant
  Aid Type	Project and programme contribution
  Tied/untied aid	Untied aid
  Project number	7F01324