Sustainable Development Project for Communities in Semiarid Areas
The project has four main thrusts:
- Promoting the formation and development of grass-roots economic organizations
- Developing social and entrepreneurial management capacities among a new cadre of local leaders, including rural and indigenous women and young people
- Supporting sustainable agricultural production through the rehabilitation and sound management of natural resources, particularly access to water
- Developing entrepreneurial linkages and rural microenterprises while facilitating wider access to markets.
The project area comprises 50 priority municipalities that are home to most of the Mixteca indigenous population and two municipalities where about 50,000 Mazahua indigenous people live. The target group consists mainly of subsistence agricultural producers who cultivate communal lands, unorganized small livestock producers, artisans with weak linkages to markets, and rural and indigenous women and youth.
Country
Approval Date
03 April 2012
Duration
2012 - 2020
Sector
Rural Development
Total Project Cost
US$ 42.02 million
IFAD Financing
US$ 20.7 million
Co-financiers (International)
Spanish Fund US$ 15 million
Co-financiers (Domestic)
National Government US$ 1.5 million
Beneficiaries US$ 4.82 million
Financing terms
Ordinary
Project ID
1100001597
Project Contact