International Development Grant
Innovation and Mobilization for Food Security (IMSA)
Project Number: CA-3-D001691001
Status: Closed
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Maximum Contribution: $17,000,000.00
Start Date: March 31, 2015
End Date: June 01, 2020
Duration: 5.2 years
Project Description
This project aims to increase women’s men’s and youth’s food security in the arid and semi-arid poor rural areas of Bolivia Burkina Faso and Peru and benefits approximately 35 000 people including 6 000 men and women farmers. The project’s main objective is to strengthen the agricultural value chain from farming to marketing while taking into account women’s and men’s needs. Climate change resilience is a key element of the project in the three targeted countries. The chosen approach for the project therefore focuses on soil and water conservation and on reducing crop vulnerability to unpredictable climate events such as prolonged droughts intense rainfall or irregular precipitation. Project activities include: (1) transfering production technologies (i.e. technical assistance missions carried out by agricultural experts distribution of genetic material for artificial insemination); (2) implementing eco-environmental measures to ensure improved livestock feeding including installing hydroponic modules and biodigestors; (3) conducting market studies to improve marketing by types; (4) providing training in commercial negotiation techniques to organizations to improve agricultural prices; (5) providing technical assistance for individuals and groups to enhance the production; (6) developing customized teaching tools to ensure knowledge sustainability; and (7) providing training in leadership skills and public speaking among others to women and youth organizations. The Jules and Paul-Émile Léger Foundation (FJPEL) implements this project in partnership with the Union des groupements pour la commercialisation des produits agricoles de la Boucle du Mouhoun (UGCPA/BM) the Association Formation Développement Ruralité (AFDR) and Action pour la Promotion des Initiatives Locales (APIL) in Burkina Faso Asociación Boliviana para el Desarrollo Rural (PRORURAL) in Bolivia and Centro de Apoyo e Investigación para el Desarrollo Campesino (CINDES) in Peru.
Expected Results
The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) targeted farmers sustainably increase their yields and resilience to climate change which benefits 35 000 women men and youth in the three countries; (2) women and men farmers increase their income through improved knowledge of the agricultural value chain; and (3) partner organizations better respond to their members’ needs particularly those of women and youth.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of the project (March 2020) include: (1) 79 651 producers including 5 230 women (54.2%) increased their production of (cowpeas and sorghum in Burkina Faso and milk quinoa cañahua and vegetables in Bolivia and Peru) exceeding the original project target of 7 000 producers by 38%; (2) 9 390 producers including 5 022 women (53.5%) increased their income by more than 30% over five years exceeding the original project target of 7 000 producers; (3) at the end of the project they measured an average increase in revenues (CAD) per crop for 131% for cowpea 71.5% for sorghum and 36% for milk; and (4) 12 323 participants benefited equitably from technical and organizational capacity building increasing women’s access to decision-making positions from 5% to 43.75% and youth’s access from 5% to 38% in Burkina Faso and the number of women in decision-making positions from 16 to 64 in Peru.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
L'Oeuvre Léger
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
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Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Department-Initiated