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Project for Enhancing the Rural Economic Competitiveness of Yoro

The project will help small-scale farmers and indigenous Tolupan tribes of the Yoro department in central Honduras integrate into the market economy. It will also improve their territorial management practices and their organizational capacities, to give them a stronger voice and enable them to express their specific concerns to public and private entities.

To improve opportunities for generating income, the project will help rural poor people gain access to technologies and investments, and it will promote alliances among producers, service providers and processing and marketing enterprises.

The project will provide indigenous communities with legal services to help them clarify their land rights, and it will promote the use of participatory community mapping to set the boundaries of territories and indigenous lands. 

Source: IFAD

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Contact information
Ms Jaana Keitaanranta
Country Programme Manager
IFAD
Via Paolo Di Dono, 44
00142 Rome, Italy
jaana.keitaanranta@undp.org.pa
Facts and figures

Total cost:  US$13.9 million

IFAD loan:  US$7.1 million

Cofinancing: 

  • Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE): US$4 million

Duration:  2008-2015

Geographical area: department of Yoro in central Honduras 

Directly benefiting: 9,000 households  

Status: not signed  

Partners
  • Farmers' Organizations
  • Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (SAG)
  • Ministry of Finance (SEFIN)
  • Ministerio de la Presidencia
  • Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment
  • National Agrarian Institute (INA)
  • National Forestry and Protected Areas Institute
  • Private sector
  • Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
  • World Bank