Component 2: Skills, technology and enterprise focuses on the increase in poor rural people’s productive capacities. It is expected to result in the rural youth (women and men) and other vulnerable social groups being productively employed, the development of small- and medium-sized enterprises, and rural value chain actors using digital technology. This component is implemented by the Project Implementation Unit, Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF-PIU).
|
Output Type |
Planned Quantity | |
| End Target |
Adjusted in MTR |
|
| Number of Rural Youth Trained in Technical Skills | 6,840 | 6,840 |
| Number of Young Entrepreneurs Trained | 500 | 0[1] |
| Number of persons trained in digital literacy and assisted to adopt existing digital technology (50% female) | 5,000 | 5,000 |
| Number of persons participating in technology adoption sub-projects (50% female) | 5,000 | 5,000 |
| KAS Core Platform developed | 1 | 1 |
| KAS Key Applications Developed | 5 | 2 |
| Users of KAS Key Applications | 12,500 | 12,500 |
| Applications supported by Challenge Fund | 10 | 10 |
| Users of Challenge Fund Applications | 12,500 | 12,500 |
| Feasibility Study on Wholesale Markets | 1 | 1 |
| Policy-related knowledge products | 5 | 5 |
[1] During Jun 2023 ISM, it was agreed to drop the business incubator and seed fund activities due to the outstanding funding gap.
Component 2 has 03 sub-components, namely: Sub-Component SC2.1: Skills for Rural Youth, Sub-component 2.2: Technology for agricultural value chains; and Sub-component 2.3: Strategic studies, policy research and programme development.