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Project ID: 1351
Post-Tsunami Livelihoods Support and Partnership Programme The programme focuses on the rapid recovery of assets and essential infrastructure destroyed by the 26 December 2004 tsunami, including housing, housing amenities, settlement infrastructure, social infrastructure and fishery roads, community infrastructure and the removal of debris. Using a flexible community-based approach, it will - in coordination with other funding sources - support the recovery and rehabilitation of physical and financial assets of affected groups and communities. The target group includes rural poor women and men in tsunami-affected communities, with targeting being achieved through the type and size of support provided. Women and men in tsunami-affected areas will recover their assets and re-establish a good foundation for their usual economic activities, while diversifying these activities into new and profitable income-generating activities. Communities will be strengthened, will sustainably manage coastal resources, and will have been provided with essential social and economic infrastructure. The participation of women in social and economic activities will have improved. Loan Amount SDR 1.56 million (equivalent to approximately USD 2.35 million) Total programme cost:USD 4.70 million Cooperating Institution: World Bank
Project ID: 1346 Post-Tsunami Coastal Rehabilitation and Resource Management Programme The programme focuses on the restoration and development of economic activities in the artisanal fisheries and non-fisheries sectors in tsunami-affected areas. Adopting a flexible community-based approach, the programme includes components for: (a) community-based coastal resource management; (b) support to artisanal fisheries development; (c) microenterprise and financial service development; (d) social and economic infrastructure development; and (e) policy support and programme management, including gender mainstreaming and community mobilization. In coordination with other funding sources, it supports the recovery and rehabilitation of physical and financial assets of affected groups, promotes improved resource management, and provides support to fisheries development and marketing, and to microenterprise and microfinance development in nonfisheries sectors. The programme will help in the replacement and repair of housing and social infrastructure damaged by the tsunami. The target group includes poor rural women and men in tsunami-affected communities; targeting is determined by the type and size of support provided. Women and men in tsunami-affected areas will recover their assets, resume their economic activities and diversify into new, profitable income-generating activities. Communities will be strengthened, will manage coastal resources sustainably and will be provided with essential social and economic infrastructure. Women's participation in social and economic activities will increase. Loan Amount SDR 9.4 million (equivalent to approximately USD 14.2 million) Total programme cost:USD 33.5 million Cooperating Institution: United Nations Office for Project Services  Project ID: 1254
Dry Zone Livelihood Support and Partnership Programme The programme will enable the poor in the select districts to improve their incomes and living conditions sustainably through increased access to resources (land and water), services and appropriate technologies, coupled with appropriate market linkages. The capacity of grass-roots institutions will built up so as to increase their bargaining power. Improved technologies for raising productivity on the uplands will be introduced, and the area under irrigation will be expanded. The poor will be linked to regional and national markets through partnerships between private sector operators and community organizations, coupled with improved transport infrastructure and marketing facilities. Income-generating activities and enterprise development will supplement farm incomes and generate employment, especially for women and youth. Appropriate policy dialogue with stakeholders, notably government, will help eliminate bottlenecks to the improvement of the livelihoods of the poor in the dry zone and boost the incentives to invest there. The programme will target the rural poor in the dry zones (defined as the area with annual rainfall of up to 1 800 mm), who are those people living below the poverty line of USD 12-15 per person per month; they represent 25-32% of the national population. It will initially target poor households in four of the districts (Anuradhapura, Badulla, Kurunegala and Moneragala) with the highest concentration of poverty. An estimated 1 077 Grama Nilhadari (GN) divisions will be covered, with a total of 255 500 households. The programme will benefit 80 000 households, including: (a) those with less than 1 ac of paddy producing one crop a year and cultivating other upland and home garden crops to supplement consumption and income; (b) those with only upland fields and home gardens, in particular young or woman-headed households facing chronic labour shortages; and (c) landless households living outside villages and relying on chena (‘shifting cultivation') on encroached land for their livelihoods. Women and youth will be a special target group in recognition of their responsibilities and capabilities in procuring the dry zone livelihoods. And particular attention will be paid to persons of low caste origin to ensure their integration in the target group. The components and activities of the Dry Zone Livelihood Support and Partnership Programme have been identified through participatory analysis in selected rural communities. Its design is flexible so as to accommodate changing priorities during implementation. Beneficiaries will participate in the planning, implementation and monitoring of programme activities. In clusters of GN divisions, as a first step, a participatory assessment of constraints in rainfed and irrigated farming, from production to marketing, will be undertaken. Solutions will be reviewed in a participatory manner and piloted in beneficiary-managed farmer field schools before their dissemination to individual farmers. Community-based programme activities, like micro-tank rehabilitation and priority community infrastructure development, will be carried out only after the communities express an effective level of demand and consider maintenance priorities following a process of close participatory assessments undertaken with the help of the programme. Self-managed savings and credit schemes will support the poor, especially women, and gender equity will be achieved through the active involvement of women. Loan Amount SDR 15.10 million (equivalent to approximately USD 21.97 million) on highly concessional terms Total programme cost: USD 30.40 million Cooperating Institution: World Bank |
| Project ID: 1113
Matale Regional Economic Advancement Project The principal objective of this six-year IFAD-initiated project, is to increase the level of profitable economic activity in Matale District in Central Province and to sustainably raise the incomes of the poor to the point that they remain permanently above the poverty line. The project will aim to: (i) raise the level of productivity of farming; (ii) improve the marketability and marketing of farm produce; and (iii) increase opportunities for both employment and self-employment, specially of women and unemployed youth, in both agricultural and non-farm enterprises. Supporting IFAD's strategy in the country, the project will introduce measures designed to optimize the use of resources available to poor producers, and promote employment and self-employment opportunities through the creation of small enterprises. The project will target the poorest communities in the district and, for activities that will benefit individuals or households, the poorest within them. Indicators show that the level of poverty in Matale is high, with more than 50% of smallholders owning parcels of land of less than 0.2 ha and about 14.7% of the families having no land. The proportion of woman-headed households may be as high as 35% and these rural households are the poorest. It is expected that 24 000 households (approximately 103 000 people) will benefit from project activities.Innovative Features: The project intends to promote the commercialization of non-plantation crops as a means of spurring development in the rural areas of Sri Lanka. This means helping rural people to take advantage of the province's well-established private-sector, good infrastructure and dynamic business growth. In addition, the project seeks to promote employment through non-farm activities by providing credit for rural entrepreneurs. Further development initiatives involve health, environ mental conservation and homestead development. Loan amount: SDR 8.4 million (approximately USD 11.7 million) on highly concessional terms. Total project costs: Estimated at USD 14.5 million, of which USD 0.2 million will be provided by WFP, USD 0.6 million by Germany, USD 0.4 million by the private sector, USD 1.4 million by the Government and USD 0.2 million by the beneficiaries. |
