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C 2025/Introduction to Item 11.2 - Report of the 76th Session of the Committee on Commodity Problems (Rome, 11-13 September 2024)
No full textEnvironmental and Social Environmental Framework
No full textThe following document presents the Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) for the REDD+ Results Based Payment (RBP) Program proposed by the government of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea - hereon Papua New Guinea or PNG - to the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The RBP Program will be implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in close collaboration and coordination with PNG’s Climate Change Development Authority (CCDA)
Increasing Public and Private Investments in Agriculture and Agribusiness Sectors of Uganda - GCP/UGA/058/EC
No full textIn Uganda, access to finance is a critical bottleneck for the private sector, namely agribusinesses and cooperatives, where just 49 percent of the population utilize formal financial services in the rural areas of the country. Value chain actors face constraints to access equity, working capital, terms loans, lease, or receivables. In this context, Uganda Development Bank (UDB), the country’s national Development Finance Institution, with a mandate to accelerate socioeconomic development in Uganda through sustainable financial interventions, provides funding for the agriculture and agroprocessing sector. However, UDB faces challenges in agriculture banking, including high transaction costs, inherent and perceived sectoral high risks, as well as having limited options of geographic enlargement for expanding its agriculture portfolio, among other things. This European Union-funded project aimed to increase public and private investments in the agriculture and agribusiness sectors of Uganda, through enhanced capacity of the UDB and public-private policy dialogue
