Botswana - Zambezi Integrated Agro-Commercial Development Project (ZIACDP)

The Zambezi Integrated Agro-Commercial Development Project (ZIACDP) is a technical assistance project designed to support the Government of Botswana in its efforts to diversify the economy through expansion of activities in the agriculture and agro industrial sector. The project will help to improve food security, diversify agriculture and create jobs. It will also integrate rural producers and small businesses with commercial value chains and markets; encourage the inclusion of informal economic actors into the formal system; enhance the business climate to mobilize private capital; and integrate youth into agriculture as a business enterprise and source of employment. The project is expected to attract increased private sector investments into agribusiness enterprises following the completion of a bankable full Feasibility Report and the implementation of the project under a PPP model. It comprises three main components namely: (i) Provide Technical, Financial and Legal Assistance to the Zambezi Integrated Agro Commercial Development Project; (ii) Institutionalize a governance and an implementation management structure that will enable infrastructure development of the Zambezi Integrated Agro Commercial Project under a PPP.