Preparing the Climate-Resilient Livestock Sector Development Project

Client: Asian Development Bank

Duration: 2019-2020

Location: Ulaanbaatar City, Mongolia

Contract Value: USD 528,000

Loan Project Value: USD 30.3 million

Catalogue: Agriculture

Project Description

The project aims to improve the efficiency and sustainability of climate-resilient livestock production systems by encouraging policy-level changes, improving livestock, pasture, and water management, and strengthening local meat and dairy value chains.

The project will have three outputs: (i) Livestock sector policy, regulatory framework, and capacity enhanced. This output will support the Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Light Industry (MOFALI) and the Livestock Policy Implementation and Coordination Department strengthen its capacity and policies for developing a more climate-resilient and competitive livestock sector; (ii) Climate resilience of livestock, pasture, and water management improved.This output aims to ensure the climate resilience of the livestock sector development; and (iii) Meat and dairy value chains strengthened.This output will support the development of competitive meat and dairy value chains in Mongolia, with the aim of improving productivity, market access, and quality in livestock-based production systems at the soum level.

Services Provided by NAREE

NAREE provides the transaction technical assistance (TRTA) to prepare the loan project, undertaking due diligence in technical, safeguards, economic and financial, and poverty and socials. NAREE ensured the project in compliance with the domestic and ADB’s requirements and incorporation of international best practices in the project design. Detailed tasks conducted by NAREE during the TRTA includes the followings:

• Ensure the project design is suitable for ADB financing through identifying the most appropriate project components and providing innovative ideas, concepts, management approaches and technology to enhance project impacts

• Review proposed project components based on detailed due diligence assessment of technical, economic and financial, governance, social and environmental safeguards, and project risk and mitigation measures

• provide training to the executing agency, implementing agencies, their project implementing units, and other relevant stakeholders

• Coordinate the project activity at all levels;

• Maintain high quality of project design and reporting;

• Maintain firmly the schedule and project processing milestones and

• Prepare project documents, including feasibility study reports, safeguard documents, and ADB’s draft report and recommendations of the president (RRP).