| Project ID: 1257
Executive Board Document:EB-2003-80-R-36-Rev-1
Rural Development Project for the Mountain Zones in the North
of the Wilaya of Msila
The overall objective of the project is to contribute to the reduction
of rural poverty through the diversification and sustainable increase
in income for the most vulnerable rural populations through the
rehabilitation and sustainable management of natural resources.
Specifically, the project will: (i) build local capacity for planning
rural development at the grass-roots level and designing and implementing
local projects by targeting the most underprivileged populations;
(ii) ensure the sustainability of agricultural development and productivity
through the priority mobilization of surface water and efforts to
control land degradation; and (iii) support initiatives of rural
populations that contribute to increasing, diversifying and guaranteeing
stable incomes through the provision of sustainable access to financial
services for target group members currently with limited or no access,
especially women and young people.
Loan Amount:
SDR 12.15 million (approximately USD 17.5 million) on intermediate
terms
Total project cost: estimated at USD 29.8 million, of which
beneficiaries will provide about USD 2.4 million and national Government
USD 9.9 million.
Cooperating Institution:
UNOPS
Project ID: 1176
Executive Board Document: EB-2001-74-R-24-Rev-1
Pilot Project for the Development of Mountain Agriculture in
the Watershed Basin of Oued Saf Saf
The project will be implemented over seven years and will focus
on: (i) strengthening participatory programming and capacity-building
of grass-roots organizations and provincial local public administrations
through the promotion of local groups and associations and the training
of their technicians and board members in participatory development;
and (ii) creating socio-economic and productive assets to which
beneficiaries have access. This will involve rehabilitation of small-scale
irrigation; land reclamation; the concession of state land (exluding
collective land) for fruit trees promotion; soil and water conservation;
improvement of productivity and management of sylvo-pastoral ecosystems;
livestock production; rehabilitation of existing rural roads and
water points and creation of new ones; support to rural financial
services, microenterprise development and improved marketing; and
improved access by beneficiaries to ongoing national support programmes
for the development of agriculture.
The project will benefit, both directly and indirectly, the 23
600 rural inhabitants of the project area. The direct beneficiaries
will consist of 3 584 poor households living on small farms, from
which they generate all or part of their income. The project will
also target: (i) impoverished women heads of household to improve
their living and working conditions; (ii) young out-of-school girls
with some education who are willing to engage in off-farm income-generating
activities; and (iii) young unemployed men interested in starting
microprojects or acquiring training in agricultural and non-agricultural
activities. Project activities such as the rehabilitation of rural
and forestry roads, the dissemination of marketing information,
the creation of rural financial services and support to local development
committees will benefit, directly or indirectly, the majority of
people in the project area. About 10 000 persons will benefit from
agricultural development activities, including improvements in pastoral
and sylvo-pastoral resources, animal husbandry and soil and water
conservation programmes. All smallholders, rural women, landless
people and local farmers organizations will benefit from support
to the development of microenterprises.
The project approach will be focused primarily on the participatory
formulation of local development plans and on decision-making by
local groups and organizations in the villages concerned. The participation
of rural communities will be enhanced in all phases of project development,
from the analysis of the current situation to the choice of actions
and the priority assigned to their implementation, to the definition
of management options. Three fundamental principles underlie this
approach: consultation, participation and the enhancement of beneficiary
responsability. In fact, project design was based on a participatory
rural appraisal (PRA) during formulation to define the needs and
priorities of the targeted population.
Loan amount:
SDR 9.7 million (equivalent to approximately USD 12.5 million)
on intermediate terms
Total project costs are estimated atUSD 24.1 million
Cooperating Institution:
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
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