CONSOLIDATED AGRICULTURAL PROJECTS MANAGEMENT UNIT financed by the WORLD BANK (CAPMU) REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS OF PROJECTS MANAGED BY CAPMU AS OF MARCH 31, 2008 Developed by CAPMU management ChiƔinĉu – 2008 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ACSA National Agency for Rural Development ALRC Agency for Land Relations and Cadastre BCO Branch Cadastral Office CAPMU Consolidated Agricultural Projects management Unit CIS Commonwealth of Independent States DA Development Agency EIA Environmental Impact Assessment FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FS Frankfurt School of Finance & Management GIS Geographical Information System GOM Government of Moldova LFA Logical Framework Approach LPSP Land Privatization Support Project (funded by USAID) MAFI Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry NCFM National Commission for Financial Market NGO Non Governmental Organization NGO Non Government Organisation PFI Participating Financial Institution PM Project Manager RDC Rural Development Centre RFC Rural Finance Corporation RISPII Rural Investment and Services Project II SCA Savings and credit association SDC Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SIDA Swedish Development Agency TCO Territorial Cadastral Office TL Team Leader USAID US Agency for International Development WB World Bank - 2 - TABLE OF CONTENTS RURAL INVESTMENT AND SERVICES PROJECT .................................................................................................... 5 PROJECT IMPLEMENTATIONPROGRESS AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2007 ...............................................................6 RURAL EXTENSION COMPONENT...................................................................................................................6 ACSA SP NETWORK .................................................................................................................................. 6 TRAINING PROGRAM ............................................................................................................................... 6 PROVIDED SERVICES AND BENEFICIARIES ............................................................................................... 10 MONITORING AND EVALUATION ............................................................................................................ 10 SPECIAL CONTRACTS .............................................................................................................................. 12 DEVELOPMENT AND PUBLISHING OF INFORMATION MATERIALS ................................................................ 13 PROMOTION ACTIVITIES......................................................................................................................... 15 AGRICULTURAL MARKETING .................................................................................................................. 16 RURAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COMPONENT........................................................................................... 18 PROMOTION CAMPAIGN ........................................................................................................................ 19 BUSIENSS CREATION .............................................................................................................................. 20 FINANCING OF RURAL BUSINESSES ......................................................................................................... 24 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM AND M&E ................................................................................. 25 POST-CRATION SUPPORT TO RBS............................................................................................................ 27 RURAL FINANCE COMPONENT ..................................................................................................................... 28 CREDIT LINE IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS............................................................................................. 28 STRENGTHNING THE SAVINGS AND CREDIT ASSOCIATIONS INDUSTRY..................................................... 37 PILOT LAND RE-PARCELING COMPONENT.................................................................................................... 40 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................... 40 CURRENT IMPLEMENTED PROJECT ACTIVITIES ........................................................................................ 41 AVIAN INFLUENZA CONTROL AND HUMAN PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE (AIHP)....................... 46 ANIMAL HEALTH COMPONENT .................................................................................................................... 46 BACKGROUND ....................................................................................................................................... 46 ANIMAL DISEASE SURVEILLANCE & DIAGNOSIS ....................................................................................... 46 ANIMAL HPAI CONTROL AND OUTBREAK CONTAINMENT ....................................................................... 50 HUMAN HEALTH COMPONENT .................................................................................................................... 50 GENERAL CONTEXT ................................................................................................................................ 50 A. HUMAN HEALTH CAPACITY BUILDING SUB-COMPONENT .................................................................... 50 B. HUMAN HPAI TESTING SUB-COMPONENT .......................................................................................... 51 C. HUMAN HEALTH SYSTEM RESPONSE SUB-COMPONENT ...................................................................... 53 RENEWABLE ENERGY FROM AGRICULTURAL WASTES ...................................................................................... 54 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................... 54 PROGRESS BY PROJECT COMPONENTS ........................................................................................................ 58 ACTIVITIES UNDER COMPONENT A ......................................................................................................... 58 ACTIVITIES UNDER COMPONENT B ......................................................................................................... 62 ACTIVITIES UNDER COMPONENT C ......................................................................................................... 68 AGRICULTURAL POLLUTION CONTROL PROJECT............................................................................................... 74 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................... 74 PROGRESS BY COMPONENTS....................................................................................................................... 75 RISP-RELATED ACTIVITIES ....................................................................................................................... 75 ACTIVITIES IN THE PILOT AREA ............................................................................................................... 76 STRENGTHENING NATIONAL POLICY, REGULATORY ENFORCEMENT AND NATIONAL CAPACITY ................ 78 PUBLIC AWARENESS AND REPLICATION STRATEGY ................................................................................. 78 YOUTH SOCIO-ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ...................................................................................... 80 COMPONENT A. SUPPORT TO CIVIL SOCIETY INITIATIVES AND VILLAGE OUTREACH ................................. 81 COMPONENT B: INCLUSIVE BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOR YOUTH ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT ............ 85 COMPONENT C: GENDER CAPACITY BUILDING AND MAINSTREAMING .................................................... 88 COMPONENT D: YOUTH DRIVEN PARTICIPATORY MONITORING AND EVALUATION ................................. 89 COMPONENT E: YOUTH REGIONAL FOCUS POINTS FOR GRANT MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT .................... 89 ANNEXES ......................................................................................................................................................... 91 - 4 - RURAL INVESTMENT AND SERVICES PROJECT PROJECT OBJECTIVES The Program objective is to provide long-term support to accelerate agricultural recovery and growth so that Moldova’s agricultural and rural sectors can play their full role in providing the underpinnings for future income growth and poverty reduction. Within this program objective, the project’s second phase objective is to continue to foster post-privatization growth in the agricultural sector by improving access of new private farmers and rural businesses to what they need to succeed – legal ownership status, knowledge, know-how and finance, while building capacity of public and private institutions to ensure sustainability of activities. The Phase II will build on success achieved under the Phase I, by: (i) strengthening and expanding the rural advisory services; (ii) improving business skills of the to-be entrepreneurs and assisting with the legal registration of the new businesses; (iii) upgrading the financial sector environment through a range of risk management measures, such as supervision capacity building, and introduction of new lending instruments such as leasing; (iv) increase the commercial banking