The Project Development Objective (PDO) is to strengthen rural market linkages and entrepreneurship ecosystem ; and to create job opportunities as the recovery actions from COVID-19.

The following PDO-level indicators will be used to monitor the key outcomes of the Project:

• Number of beneficiaries of interventions (POs including share of women);
• Number of SMEs and Agritech startups reached (with share of women);
• Percentage increase in the average gross value of sales of producer organizations under productive partnerships; and
• Jobs created by COVID-19 intervention (short term employment for construction and returnee migrants with share of women)