| Overview : The Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) expressed the need for support to improve its efficiency in carrying out its primary roles of increasing productivity, analytics, market efficiency and monitoring and evaluation in the agriculture sector. In respond to that, UNDP designed a project named the Rapid Response Implementation support (RARIS) to the ministry of agriculture and agriculture led ministries to build on the former Catalyzing Agricultural Development in Tanzania (ADD) project. The project closely aligned with the objectives of the former ADD project and its endeavors to make them realizable through implementation of the agricultural sector development programme phase II. The RARIS Project and the Agricultural Sector Lead Ministries (ASLMs) project aims at supporting financially and technically the Ministry of Agriculture and other Agricultural Sector Lead Ministries (ASLMs) to deliver the Agricultural Sector Development Programme (ASDP II) and other immediate mandates related to the achievement of agricultural sector growth. The support intends to complement other initiatives by providing flexible and quick wins activities which enables the MoA to improve its systems and functions. The project provides, Business Development Support (BDS) services to MOA and LGAs capacity to be able to respond fast and meet the day to day demand for agricultural development business planning, investment and resource mobilization. Through such interventions, the expected outcomes of the project are: - Enhanced performance and analytics of the sector
- Efficient and effective decision making and problem-solving capacity by the ministries
- Focused and prioritized financing framework for the ASDP II
- Improved stocking and logistics management systems and
The RARIS project seeks to achieve the following: Output 1 Policy coherency, Problem Solving and Analytics supported Output 2 Value Chain Agro-processing, Stocking and Logistics Management supported Output 3 Stakeholder Engagement, Partnerships and Communication Supported Output 4 Investment and Business Opportunities Identified; and Performance Management, Knowledge Management and Innovation, and Mind Set Change to Managers in the Ministries and Related Institutions Enhanced | 
