• Start Date: 09/09/2024
• End Date: Continue...

Project at A Glance

Title: ‘‘Promoting Sustainable growth in poultry sub-sector through RECP practices’’.

Duration: (Sep 2024 to June 2028)

Financer: The World Bank and PKSF

Budget: 42,18,24,000/-   

Project Area & Beneficiaries:

About SMART Project

GJUS has implementing a sub-project of the Sustainable Microenterprise and Resilient Transformation (SMART) project to promote climate-resilient Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) practices and technologies among poultry rearing MEs. This, in turn, will equip the poultry farmer to do in advance, prepare for, and respond effectively to climate-related challenges. 

The SMART-poultry project of GJUS focuses on providing support to microenterprises operating in agribusiness like poultry farmer and related micro-enterprise with a specific emphasis on environmentally stressed areas susceptible to climate change and natural disasters. Additionally, the project aims to foster changes within the microcredit ecosystem, encouraging the development of environmentally friendly poultry businesses and the adoption of operational safety standards within microenterprises.

SMART-poultry project places significant emphasis on capacity building, technology adoption, knowledge dissemination, and behavioral change among microenterprises. This multifaceted approach ensures the promotion of green growth solutions that are both sustainable and beneficial for the environment.

To maximize environmental and climate co-benefits, SMART project laid out interventions based on priority principles, including business clusters, pollution reduction, ecosystem preservation, economic and climatic vulnerability, and potential for replication and scaling.