Agriculture
and Forestry
Donor
Activities in 2007
The
donors in the Agriculture sector are Italy/IC, Japan/JICA, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain/AECID, Sweden/SIDA,
Switzerland/SDC/SECO, USA/USAID, the EC and the World Bank. Altogether, these
donors contributed € 10.9 million.
Sector Strategies
There
is currently no state-level agriculture strategy covering the entire sector.
However, the EC has been assisting in the development of a draft strategy,
which was well-received during the consultations organized by the Ministry of Foreign
Trade and Economic Relations (MoFTER). Each Entity has its own agriculture
strategy. The legal frameworks of the Entities are not harmonized.
The Forestry
sector and wood-processing industry have neither state- nor entity-level
guiding documents. The World Bank is planning to provide support for the
development of the entity strategies.
Donor Coordination
There
are regular coordination meetings in the Agriculture sector previously
organized by the EC and currently chaired by MoFTER. Additional information
sharing takes place within the context of projects.
There is no formal
mechanism for coordination of forestry issues, except an annual conference and
the working group on the prevention of illegal logging and corruption. Land
registration issues are coordinated through regular meetings organized by the
World Bank.
For
a complete overview of donor support to the Agriculture and Forestry sector,
click
here.
