Impact: Adverse impacts of COVID-19 pandemic and other food insecurity risks in Mongolia reduced

Outcome: Opportunities to strengthen the resilience of food supply chains to food insecurity risks identified

Output 1: Vulnerability of the food supply chain in Mongolia assessed. This output will support (i) monitoring of price along food supply chains from production inputs, production, processing, to retail; (ii) assessment of COVID-19 pandemic impacts on food supply chain disruptions; (iii) holistic assessment of vulnerability in food supply chains against a range of food insecurity risks; (iv) assessment of access to financial services for the participants along the food supply chains; and (v) identification of opportunities for public and private partnership to apply digital technologies to monitor prices along food supply chains and to strengthen the resilience of food supply chains.

Output 2: Strategy and action plan to strengthen the resilience of food supply chains to food insecurity risks in Mongolia prepared. This output will support (i) preparation of rapid response plan to address food insecurity risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, including strengthening social assistance system and credit provision to working capitals through food supply chains; (ii) preparation of policy strategy and action plan including the policy recommendations and investment opportunities to establish more resilient food supply chains against a range of food insecurity risks such as the improvement of logistics and storage systems, strengthening food safety and bio-security arrangement, sustainable use of natural resources and managing climate risk, and policy coordination mechanisms between different agencies of the government; (iii) preparation of feasibility study to establish price monitoring system along food supply chains and emergency stock systems; and (iv) a knowledge sharing event among public and private stakeholders to form coordinated actions to build more resilient food supply chains in Mongolia.

TA completion date extended until 30 September 2023 which will allow completion of all the additional activities of the TA. Increase in TA amount of $300,000 approved as of 9 September 2022. Onsite review mission conducted on July 2022, and interim review mission conducted on 13 December 2021.