co Community on Belmiro Braga, MG, Brazil. • Capitalising on Cultural Knowledge and Values of Pacific Forest Fru1ts • CYBER Development E-Mail • Farmer Group Mentoring and Micro enterpris r Horticultural Markets 1n Nepal • The New Initiative A Model for Commun•ty-Business Empowerment. • Tackling Garbage Disaster: Employment for Youths • ACT Mining (AIDS Campaign Team M 80092 ancial Institutions for Nomadic Pastoralists • Rehabilitation/Skill Acquisition Programme for Commercial Sex Workers in Port Harcourt • Entrepreneurship and Employment Training Among Disadva Central European Youth • Assoc1at•ve Rural Organizations A new Management Model Applied to Commercialize Orgamc Med1cinal Herbs • Promoting the Growth of Children Globally • Help1ng R ed: Tutoring. Mentoring, and Culturally-Relevant Matenals • Energy Centers for Mali· Legal Rights Advocacy Project- Empowenng Local Community Leaders (Kyrgyz Republic) • Integrating Heal t for Rural Area rna! Health Outco F!l'm Poverty Reduction ·Linking Micro-Finance and HIVIAIDS • BRO: Self-Sufficiency In Food Production And Economic Independence Of Sub-Sahara African Countries· Women and Children in the u Environment and E=nom1c Development 1n their Commumt1es • Poverty R!"duct1on lm lementation of Fam1ly Drip System Irrigation and Agricultural Methods for Smallholders. • Community-Co ~ nt • po· ·~ D iry F I • ~ o Tru · D '' l=a•mf!r • mprJ "~rinn s"h Providers and Consume and Silk-based Produ evelopment Project • uaculture for Pove d ng in micro-enterprise: omen in pnson • Protein and Calcium Agaonst Poverty • Po y Reduction and Information etries A Community Based Internet Po 1 • Bridging the Digital Divide Through the Post Off1ce rstandings of and Basic Services for Populations Living in Coastal Waters and Waterwa F•·;h Farming to BUild Busoness Enterprises in Sudan • Dame Ia Mano (Give Me a Helpong ng Poverty through Innovative Education Methods. Mandann for the Yi People • Be Sustainable Development Action • Recycling Garbage: A Metamorphose in Education logy and Community Consciousness • E-Governance and Decentralization in T y Breakong in Togo South Eastern Region: Goats/Sheep/Porks Farming Strategy ads for a Self-Sustained Commumty-Directed Health and Development lmt1ative • Social Marketing of Viper Boots in the Ayerwadday Region, Myanmar • Decrease o f Contagious Tuberculosis Among Rural Inhabitants • Housing and Jobs for a Better Fu r Harness1ng Indigenous Poultry Systems to Combat Poverty Among Kenyan Women • E mall Farmers Through Building Self-Reliance and Local Credit Resources • Empowering Pn or Development Through Dissemination of Raw Material and Technology Information • Street E • Refrigeration for Small-Scale Da1ry Farmers· Empowering Tribal Artists Cooperat1v' w1th Inter et Commerce • Sp• aking Up Negotiation Skills for Indigenous Commumties • ENCORE (Energiz•n ough Organic Environments) project of BWF's Balik Maynilad Pr~ m .:. ~Tflo Marketing of Fmger M1llet ·Vocational Training and Microenterpnl;l@cYtel ' · Tr me., . ~E· T. he Su! '"U R·i).iet i~at 1 o"J B'l, St Thomas, Jamaica· Improvement of Rural Livelihoods Through !nc ltei", \QJJ ~ , fj q\,;,&ductivity on the Nayar Mesa with a Permanent Coam1l • Worktng T ication of the Cluster Model to the Agricultural Sector in Nicaragua • Decentraliz D mk1ng W ter Pr'lgr rn for the ~rban Poor Through Community Networking • Building Capacity of Urban Wom wo-Odofln LGA of Nigeria • AMDA Bank Complex Programme • lntra-c1ty Volunteensm for Urban Develu1 mo n • 0 ganic Standards Initiative - Enhancmg the Value of Developing Countnes Agricu ing IS Cool Clinics- Education for the Underprivileged • Economic & Educational Development for Rural Females • Building Women's Capacity for Produc1ng and Marketing Shea Butter • Support rs - Corporations of Coastal Area of Togo • You a ,,itiative· Developing Entrepreneurship and Participatory C1tizensh1 l t r ugh Volunt~Aring m Uruguay. • From Brain Dram to Brain Gain: lnternet- spora Professionals • Market Creatlor> fo Micro-Irrigation Technology Among Zamb1an Smallholders • Poo Volunteers Network: Health. Education and Income Su ions • Productive Rural Enterprises E Tl-trough Replication of C mmunity-scele BiopowE'r-t-as Pr'1ct1ces From the Ground Up • Poison Dart Frog R otect the Rainforest • Empowerment V ·IT' of Ah ErnployfT'ert on Cauca u~ and Central Asia • Te mmerc1al Partnerships to Develop Governance for golia • Self-Instructional Empowerm rc>l Surv1val Soc1al Development on Urban Ar of Delinqu caveli Center (Lome) • M1lk Bank • ng Com n Karakalpakstan Through Healtr E • Reduco lily in Yemen: the Association of 0 n s Community Centers • Small Bus c Responsibility and Skills in Centru1 preneurship Traimng Association 'MTl Aromatic Plants • K1ng's K1ds Children V ng Occupational Health and Safety Concerns onto tho Informal Sel tor DevE.Iopm mproving Information Access for a Poverty Allev1at•on Project in Nigena • Cottage lndu ogy for Poverty Redurt1on 1r Rwanda • Education through E 1h reness and Community r sJo!al C~~~u_niJies. : ~o.m.b~t~ng ~~:'~!~S~ A ~i~er.a~y. a.n~ E~or~mu~ Apprp~.C;., • ·.E.mp~V:e!~ ~9. '1'~"!e!' lll:''!l~e~. .Post !"i~ry~st ~g!1~u!t~r~: F~o!f1 Evacuation to Production • River. Poisoning. ·Stra and Act1ons or r3evelopment • Sustamable t!ish1ng of tile "'other ~eart: "Enwonmental RE sc 1e of the Mumc1pality oftudores · 'Promotion of a non-v1olent culture through commun1ty forums m Ca utr Ea~t Europ y, tto Tra1n1ng Corps for Empowenng Poor through Income Generating Ecology P•owr.t~ • Youth Entrepreneur Development Pilot Project • Project Aldeias - Implementation of Sch ers for N N cl os d <::AN • Supporting Poor Women for the1r Soc1o-eco T 10 Commercialization and Technology· ECO- Friendly Palm-Mat Production cu fo al ust:w•ablo Manaq 1ert of For€' ,t 1n Cr 11 of Cost Senweed as Organic Fertilizers • Building of Flat Roof to Collect S IT a 1n Northwest China • Self-Sustaining Community Man I Plnnts Among lnd1genous Commun1t1es of Alago Through Integration of Viable Indigenous Syste e Tourism and Marketing • Strengthening the Lo • Building Transnational Micro-Enterprise • Ele oc1al Responsibility (Program MISR) • BUilding f Farmers and Primary Producers • Dilijan Cra bile of Georgia • APENOC s Empowerment uatemalan Art1sans for the Development of New or Distribution of Insecticide Treated Netting (IT People with Knowledge and Opportunity • Affo bstitute in India • Northern Mindanao Commum rgthen H1V Pre.vent1or or U 'IVate Sector/NGO Partnership • Creation of a Se smess lncreventlve Heailh t:are Tor"Low~ncome 'tYomen • ~ajlado r.vestoc~ ~esto~mg T>rogramme, ~enya --rlilf etplace • Maestros al Trabajo! • ~ temcy and Susta1nable Development • L1velihood Intervention for the Rehabilitation of Onssa. lnd1a • Extended Family System- Transformmg it into Care for the onomic Security for Local Fo est St w d " onq-Up) • Himalayan Womc:1 Entrepreneurs 1n the Cybermarket • Capacity Building ft'r Community-Based Mapping of Indigenous Lands in Latin Am nee for Widows with HIV/AIDS (LJ\ nzc>n1a • Communal Bank T t Deliver Credits Using Their Own Money • Internet for ndiqenou" People<> Development on the Orinoco R1ver mpoweringWomen AHealthy dC: f olE hmas mF rrllyt.; ts •21stC r'tryAq Ernpow€'nngKenyanFarmersonth n • Education of Street Childr P P I n of W u tous through Proma Mob1le Clin1c to Promote Hea s •or Poor Ca f Central Andes of Colomb• • ent through ndan Kinship systems • Com rs • Ecop ng small business of soc1al a tenng B ntrepreneunal Development lin Job o f1nance Strengthemng 111 n the S munity in Belmiro Braga, MG )P.velo r Horticultural Markets on Ne ~m M anc1al Institutions for Nonad1c Central European Youth • Assoc1aiJ ed T!Jionng Mentoring, and Culturally-Re.levar t M •er, Is • E.n rgy Ce.nters for M ~ g f< ghts Adv Poverty Reduction • Link1ng M1cro-Fmance and HIViAIDS • BRO Sei'-Suffic,ency lr ~ood P•oduct1on And E onom1 lr dE-pendence Of Sub-S h Environment and Economic Development m the1r Commumlles • Poverty Reduction Implementation of Famuy Dnp System Irrigation and Agricultural Met 1 llho1ders. • Commumty-Con t for Rural Area Economic Empowerment· Empowerment of Dairy Farmer Through Direct P~>•"~•P~''•on of Grassroots. Truly Needy Farmer· Empowering Arr azon Health Providers and Consumer nal Health Outcomes • Figh AIDS Sew and Sow Income GeneratiOn and HIV/AIDS Ed 31 >rEt. 10p1an Women • Developing Reg1onal Marketing Facilities for Honey ar>d S1lk based Produ ral Communities • Construct1ve Youth • Tajlk Farmers Ownership Model • Fund for Priv~~ age Partnersh1ps in the People's Republic of China • Lomore Holdings Development Project • uaculture for Poverty Alleviation n Subsistence F1shery Corr'mumt1es • Promotion of Sot ~ L r.ge .Urban A.reas • Tenmiya s Project Mutual He _ alth Insurance • Training in micro-enterprise· women 1n pnson ·Protem and Calc1um Agamst Poverty· Poverty Reduction and lr>fc '1' 111es A Commumty Based Internet Portal· Bndg1ng the Digital Div1de Through the Post Office erstandings of and Bas1c Services for Populations Living in Coastal Waters and Waterwc. 1g •n F•sh Farming to Build Business Enterprises m Sudan· Dame Ia Mano (Give Me a Helping mg Poverty through Innovative Educat1on Mett>ods Mandarin !or tl Y' Pe tple • Br he _ 1lh· j -.ustalr><;tble Development Action • Recycling Garbage: A Metamorphose in Education. ology and Community Consc ousness • E Governance ard Decer lizat T~ !. lnd ~"' p, •e11v r •akmg 1n Togo South Eastern Region: Goats/Sheep/Parks Farming Strategy ads for a Self-Sustmned Community-Directed Health and Developmen()l oq;l'Orate1•S t ratea y r Group Marketing of V1per Boots in the Ayerwadday Region, Myanmar· Decrease o f Contagious Tuberculosis Among Rural Inhabitants • Housing and bs fr r q Bel r I •t, e • Str t go "? o H<~rne· d lnd1genous Poultry Systems to Combat Poverty Among Kenyan Women • E mall Farmers Through BUIIdong Self-Reliance and Local Cred1t Resources· m1 The' 'or the Urban Poor Through Commun•ty Networkong • BUIIdtng Capac1ty of Urban Wome wo-Odofin LGA of N1gena • AMDA Bank Complex Programme • Intra-city Volunteerism for Urban Development • Organic Standards Initiative - Enhancing the Value of Developing Countries Agncu mg s Cool Climes- Education fo~ the UnderpnviiE'gcd • Economic & Educat•onal Development for Rural Females· BUilding Women's Capac1ty for Produc1ng and Marketing Shea Butter· Support s - Corporations of Coastal Area of Togo· Young lmtiative· Developing Entrepreneurship and Participatory Citizenship through Volunteenng 1n Uruguay. • From Bram Drain to Brain Ga1n lnternet- Summary of Finalists Proposals De"eJoptt~ertf Marketplace Corporate Strategy Group The World Bank INTRODUCTION This summary book provides a snapshot of proposals in the finalist round of the World Bank's Development Marketplace(DM) competition taking place on January 9-10, 2002 in Washington, DC. Each year, OM encourages people to create solutions to development challenges around one or two themes. This year's competition centers on: (1) Empowering Poor People to Participate in Development and Investing in Them; and (2) Building the Climate for Investment, Jobs, and Sustainable Growth. Out of over 2400 proposals initially received, approximately 200 have been selected as finalists to vie for a share of $3 million in start-up funds. Finalists hail from all corners of the globe and reflect the work and partnerships between NGOs, academia, international development agencies, foundations, local government and the private sector. This year over 60% of the proposals are from the NGO community. The mission of the OM is to create a platform of ideas, talent and resources around the challenges in world development. The OM's first program featured Innovation Marketplace in 1998, which focused primarily on promoting innovation internally within the World Bank Group. Since then, the OM expanded its participation and is increasingly focused on high- lighting innovation in the broader international development community. By providing start-up funds to innovative pilot projects, the OM aims to: bring people togeth- er to search for new solutions in the fight against poverty; encourage new partnerships across civil society, governments, the private sector and development agencies; find cham- pions for new ideas that are likely to have the best development impact; build networks of innovators in development, both locally and globally; and leverage resources across organi- zations. A finalist described the OM as a competition that "sets no limits on ideas or creative coali- tion-building." For another finalist, the OM is an opportunity to be "reminded that there is no dearth of good ideas in the world and that to a very large extent, man hold the solutions to the world's problems." The World Bank and the Development Marketplace program moves beyond the traditional norms of development assistance by investing directly in people and their ideas, and creat- ing an environment in which to market innovative solutions to poverty reduction. By empowering those who are confronted with the daily challenges of development, knowledge is shared without constraints, allowing all of us to be champions for a better world. To learn more about the Development Marketplace, we encourage you to visit us online at www. DevelopmentMarketplace .org b Table of Contents Education Rural and Urban Development Africa ......................... 1 East Asia and the Pacific ......... .2 Africa ........................27 Europe and Central Asia ........... 2 East Asia and the Pacific ......... 33 Latin America and the Carribean ..... 3 Europe and Central Asia .......... 34 Middle East and North Africa ....... 5 Latin America and the Carribean .... 35 South Asia ..................... 6 South Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40 Global ........................ 7 Social Development Environment Africa ........................42 Africa ......................... 8 East Asia and the Pacific ........ .4 7 East Asia and the Pacific .......... 11 Europe and Central Asia ......... .48 Europe and Central Asia .......... 12 Latin America and the Carribean .... 49 Latin America and the Carribean .... 12 Middle East and North Africa ....... 51 South Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 South Asia .................... 52 Health Other Afri1ca ........................ 15 Africa ........................ 52 East Asia and the Pacific ......... 18 East Asia and the Pacific ......... 53 Europe and Central Asia .......... 19 Europe and Central Asia .......... 53 Latin America and the Carribean .... 20 Latin America and the Carribean .... 54 Middle East and North Africa ....... 22 Middle East and North Africa ....... 54 South Asia ....................22 South Asia .................... 55 Global ....................... 23 Private Sector Development Index of Acronyms ..............56 Africa ........................ 23 East Asia and the Pacific ........ .25 Europe and Central Asia ......... .25 Latin America and the Carribean ... .26 Middle East and North Africa ....... 27 c Development Marketplace Team LEGEND Mail Stop MC8-802 The World Bank PROJECT TITLE: The title of the project as given 1818 H Street NW by the team. Each team was also randomly Washington, D.C. 20433 U.S.A. assigned a number. Fax: (202) 522-2042 COUNTRY/REGION: This is the country and DM2001 @worldbank.org region where the project will be primarily imple- OM Team Leader mented, however in some cases not exclusive to Arshad Sayed this country or region. (202) 473-7291 ORGANIZATION: The organization of the project Asayed@worldbank.org applicant. For Specific questions: PARTNERING ORGANIZATION: Partnering with Event Coordinator & General Inquiries: one other organization or company was 21 require- Cindy J. Suh ment. All types of partnership were encouraged (202) 473-7706 except for two private business entities partnering. Csuh@worldbank.org FUNDING REQUEST: $7,500 (out of $13,000 total) The first number is what the team is asking from Finalist Relations: Ruth James the DM fund and the total is their estimatE!d budget (202) 458-0539 for their project. rjames2@world bank. org CONTACT: Basic contact information of the project leader namely email and telephone numb,ar. Should Jury Coordinator: you need further information or an actual mailing Kaliope Azzi-Huck address please email your request to kazzi-huck@worldbank.org DM2001 @worldbank.org. Media: SUMMARY: Cynthia Casas, (202) 458-1208 Objective: What the team's project set out to Ccasas@worldbank.org accomplish and identifies the target group. Rationale: Country/project context as relevant to Partnership Coordinator: the proposed project. Elizabeth J. Ashbourne (202) 458-5247 Value Added: This is the project impact on the Eashbourne@worldbank.org community it is serving; the larger purpose being served and improvement on traditional methods of Previous Winners of the DM Innovation Competition: dealing with a particular challenge. Arnold Hanuman (202) 458-0364 Ahanuman@worldbank.org Travel and Accommodations: Ruth Kariuki rkariuki1 @worldbank.org dren. All the people involved in the project, such as facilitators, EDUCATION actors, and storytellers, will earn an income. Project Number: 560 Project Number: 1219 Building Women's Capacity for Producing Helping Poor Children of Mauritius through and Marketing Shea Butter Primary Education Country{i~~s)/Region: Burkina Faso (Africa) Country(ies)/ Region: Mauritius (Africa) Organization: GWR/ONG Organization: Trait d'Union Canada-Maurice Partnerin!J Organization: HICOM & BC Inc. Partnering Organization: Diocese of Port Louis Consulting Firm Funding Request: $75,000 (out of $201,500 total) Funding Request: $205,632 (out of $1,019,789 total) Contact: Teresa Wong at email: teresawongtucm@videotron.ca Contact: at email ong_grw@yahoo.fr or telephone: (00226) 25- or telephone: 1 (450) 659-3665 (Home) 07-89 Summary Summary Objective: To support struggling primary school students by Objective: To build on the organizational and operational capac- developing and implementing inclusive pedagogical strategies, ities of a new women's NGO in Burkina Faso, and enhance thereby better engaging students in the educational process. women's ability to produce and market shea butter and thus gen- Rationale: In Mauritius, a high percentage of failures among erate income. poor children is registered every year in primary school. Attempts Rationale: Poor, rural women have traditionally seen the bene- to address the problem have not sufficiently taken into account fits of their shea butter go to wholesalers. The project addresses the language, customs, and local practices found in rural com- this issue by introducing a new NGO as an interface between munities. Rural children come from an oral tradition. Instead of the member groups and the exterior market. The NGO will not relying solely on textbooks from the outset, the inclusive peda- only negotiate profitable purchase prices, but will also distribute gogical approach incorporates more interactive cooperative profits to !~roup members based on the quantity of shea butter learning and minimizes the competition that formerly isolated the delivered during the year. The project also will organize and weakest students. The project would introduce Inclusive structure the NGO; ensure the literacy of its members; provide Pedagogy, conduct training sessions for teachers, and develop technical assistance; and help the women build on their produc- appropriate methods and material to improve the level of educa- tion and marketing capacity, including the initial investment funds tional administration through seminars and workshops. for equipment to transform the nuts into shea butter. Value Added: Inclusive pedagogy aims to keep students from Value Added: Shea butter is in high demand in Europe as a dropping out of school and to break the cycle of exclusion and substitute for cocoa butter. poverty. Project lllumber: 823 Project Number: 303 Reading is Cool Clinics~-Education for the King's Kids' Children Village Underprivileged Country(ies)/ Region: Nigeria (Africa) ----------------------------------- Organization: Galilee Foundation Country(ies)/ Region: Kenya (Africa) Partnering Organization: UNICEF B Zone of Nigeria Country Organization: Platform Ltd. Programme Partnering Organization: United Nations Centre for Human Funding Request: $250,000 (out of $600,000 total) Settlements Contact: Jane East (Social Worker - Voluntary Service Funding Request: $165,000 (out of $165,000 total) Overseas) at email: galilee@infoweb.abs.net or telephone: 234- Contact: Jane Muthoni Gatonye at email: jgatonye@gt.co.ke or 02-231097 telephone: 254 02 445573/4 Summary Summary Objective: To rehabilitate street or working children in Nigeria. Objective: To enhance the reading and comprehension skills in This residential program for 50 boys and girls, per set, who are the local language by focusing on issues of community impor- 15 years and above, provides 12 months of camp or vocational tance, such as water conservation and its efficient use, the girl training in technical and agricultural areas. child, investing in children, protecting the young from AIDS, and Rationale: Poor families in Nigeria are forced to take their chil- income-generating options. The project will encourage communi- dren out of school to use their labor as a contribution to family ty members to bring up the issues and use these to tailor-make income, and these children often end up on the streets. A survey the sessions, thereby sustaining the program. found that, while 80 percent of these children had attended Rationale: Literacy levels in some parts of Kenya are very low school, 65 percent had dropped out from primary school and 35 and in some cases are nonexistent. We have a high population percent had gone on to secondary school. In other words, only of children and young adults who have no access to education 45 percent have had between six and nine years of schooling. and have a very poor understanding of the issues that affect Thus, the educational needs of these children are largely unmet. them. Most of those who have not had the benefit of an educa- Value Added: The project is a residential program that was tion are nomads. designed after conducting a survey of street children to get their Value Added: This project will give underprivileged individuals a input. It provides these children with vocational training, empow- chance to understand and effectively deal with general issues ering them by encouraging them to help themselves and others. affectin~l them. The project will offer them opportunities that exist In its initial phases, the project established relationships with in the modern world and encourage them to invest in their chil- local and state agencies and sets up international networks. al methodology, that has been effective in more than 20 devel- Project Number: 1539 oping countries. The World Bank Project Management Unit Promote In-Village Women's Technical Skill (PMU) of Sichuan Province, the local partner of this project, will organize a network of six learning groups. Through this network, Training in Northwest China local facilitators will communicate and support each other in Country(ies)/ Region: China (East Asia and the Pacific) delivering and evaluating the instructional program Organization: College of Rural Development, China Agricultural Value Added: IRI provides solid, lively, cost-effective instruction University to students where teachers may be poorly trained and in short supply. Songs, games, and stories are interwoven in a format Partnering Organization: Jingyuan County Women Union that requires constant interaction between the classroom teacher (JWU) or facilitator, the radio teacher and characters, and students. The Funding Request: $35,000 (out of $55,000 total) active and engaging strategies used in IRI programming would Contact: Zuo Ting at email: Zuoting@mail.cau.edu.cn or tele- mark a dramatic change in the way that education is delivered in phone: 86-10-62891317 China. The programs would also be culturally relevant and would be related to the vocational education that many parents seek. Summary Project Number: 409 Objective: To bridge the gap in Northwest China between what women have and what they need by providing in-village techni- Business Links for Empowerment Program cal skill training to help them generate income, improve their Country(ies)/ Region: Vietnam (East Asia and the Pacific) livelihood, and develop their own potential. Organization: Pact Vietnam Rationale: Agriculture does not produce enough food for local subsistence needs. To support their families, many men leave Partnering Organization: Quang Tri Committee fm the their villages seasonally to earn cash elsewhere. Left at home, Protection and Care of Children women have both the need and drive to find ways of generating Funding Request: $133,334 (out of $133,334 total) an income in their villages, especially during summer and winter Contact: Matthew D. Fisher-Gormley, Program Officer, at email: months when they have more time. Although they are eligible to mfisher-gormley@pacthq.org or telephone: (202) 466-5666 apply for loans from the government's Micro-Credit Program, they lack the technical skills needed to produce marketable goods. The primary education system in Jingyuan, as well as in Summary other parts of China, currently offers no technical training. Objective: To move the children of Quang Tri Province out of Value Added: The project focuses on cost-effective, replicable, poverty through a series of vocational training, mentoring, and village-based, participatory training for women who will further health programs. influence other women outside the training area. It provides links Rationale: Quang Tri Province, one of the most economically to government micro credit institutions and establishes a follow- depressed regions in the country, still bears the social, econom- up relationship with participants. The project directly benefits ic, and environmental scars of war. The majority of children in poor women and their families by strengthening their technical the region are unable to participate in the mainstream economy skills, and it indirectly benefits the government's Micro-Credit and remain trapped in poverty. The project directly targets these Program and JWU. groups, offering vocational training, as well as apprenticeships, mentoring, and business development programs. Because street Project Number: 859 children are among the population's most vulnerable group to diseases, the project will also provide information about repro- Reducing Poverty through Innovative ductive health and other health matters and create a revolving Education health fund to pay for regular checkups and preventive care. Country(ies)/ Region: China (East Asia and the Pacific) Value Added: The strong emphasis on leveraging the local busi- ness community and providing disenfranchised youth with tangi- Organization: World Bank ble employment options will serve as a national model for inte- Partnering Organization: Education Development Center grating Vietnamese youth into the country's new economy. Funding Request: $174,866 (out of $174,866 total) Project Number: 1603 Contact: Malcolm Bale, Sector Manager, East Asia Rural Development Unit, at email: mbale@worldbank.org or telephone: Southeast Europe Youth Training Cc)rps for 202-4731951 Empowering Poor through Income- Generating Ecology Projects Summary Objective: To demonstrate the use of an innovative educational Country(ies)/ Region: Bosnia and Herzegovina (Europe and delivery system--interactive radio instruction (I Rl)--as a poverty Central Asia) reduction tool in the isolated communities of the Yi people in Organization: Interns for Peace (IFP) China. Partnering Organization: World Bank, Poverty Reduction Unit, Rationale: The Yi people live in scattered villages in the frigid, Europe/Asia high-altitude mountain areas of southern China. Their poverty is Funding Request: $250,000 (out of $375,000 total) absolute and the majority of them do not speak Mandarin. This puts them at a great disadvantage in accessing employment and Contact: Bruce Mark Cohen (Rabbi) at email: ifp@internsfor- other economic opportunities and in obtaining educational and peace.org, ifpus@mindspring.com or telephone: 212-870-2226 other social benefits where they live. Poverty and harsh geo- or 914-288-8090 graphical conditions prevent a majority of Yi children from obtain- ing an education beyond the third grade, reinforcing the cycle of Summary isolation in Yi communities and making it difficult to break the Objective: To investigate and establish an embryonic Southeast poverty cycle. The project proposes using IRI, a new instruction- Europe Youth Empowerment Corps to enhance regional prosper- 2 ity and soda! inclusion through the social action theme of Summary ecology, building on experiences already gained from work Objective: To develop and field-test models and materials for with over 250 Palestinian and Israeli community workers, to "drop-out-proofing" Roma primary schoolchildren, while they are empower over 125,000 people in development, civil society, still in school, by focusing on their literacy skills. and reconciliation. Rationale: The two million Roma people living in Romania par- Rationale: Poverty reduction and peace building occur when ticipate little in the national economy. There are many reasons the poor begin to believe in themselves as possessing equal why, but prominent among them is limited educational attain- power to Cl"eate and recreate their environment, to take ment .. Even though most Roma children start school at some charge of their lives, and to make a difference in the world. point, 50 percent drop out before fifth grade, and 90 percent do Previous work with the World Bank and IFP revealed that the not earn diplomas. The project aims to improve culturally rele- poor felt empowered when taking small steps to regain control vant literacy training to engage and inspire young Roma stu- of their lives. To date, there have been few attempts by inter- dents and keep them in school. It aims to publish instructional national NGOs and other groups to work directly to increase manuals and train master teachers, who will supervise semi- interethnic understanding in the Balkans, a region wrecked by skilled tutors to minimize costs. a decade of ethnic strife. Currently, most efforts in the region have been to reintegrate ethnic groups and protect minority Value Added: By focusing on culturally specific literature for rights. early childhood literacy, the project proposes an innovative approach for Romania to address the root causes of poverty and Value Added: This project builds on a highly successful exclusion. approach developed in Israel and Palestine to identify youth leaders and encourage them to network with others to empower Project Number: 68 the poor through income-generating ecology projects. Second Chance for Older Drop-outs Project Number: 1849 Country(ies)/ Region: Romania (Europe and Central Asia) EMPLOYNET--Information Network for Organization: Center Education 2000+ Employment in Caucasus and Central Asia Partnering Organization: Ministry of Education and Research Country(ies)/ Region: Georgia (Europe and Central Asia) Funding Request: $100,000 (out of $189,550 total) Organiza11ion: UNESCO Contact: Elvira Mihut at email: emihut@buc.osf.ro, Partnering Organization: Techinformi, Georgian Institute for emihut@cedu.ro or telephone:+ 40 1 212 54 32 Scientific and Technical Information Funding Request: $248,850 (out of $358,850 total) Summary Objective: To combat the marginalization and the soda! and Contact: Dana Ziyasheva at email: d.ziyasheva@unesco.org or professional exclusion of Romania's young people who have not telephone: (331) 4568 4241 completed their compulsory education and have not gained the necessary competencies to obtain a job. Summary Rationale: A large number of young people from disadvantaged ObjectiVE!: To provide marginalized youth with better training communities drop out from school before completing their com- and interview skills to lead to income-generating activities. pulsory education because of repeated school failures; econom- RationalE!: Until the early 1990s, there was relatively little urban ic problems within the family; lack of trust in educational institu- migration in Central Asia, but this is changing. Many rural com- tions; fear that integration in the educational system endangers munities have been devastated by the recent economic crisis. In traditional values; traditional occupations and customs. In most Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan, large numbers of unem- cases, young dropouts are older than students with the same ployed youth are migrating to urban centers, only to become educational abilities who have been continuously enrolled at unskilled laborers or unemployed. These conditions often propel schools. These dropouts are rejected by the formal education them to engage in criminal activities, which further aggravates system from rejoining. This segment of undereducated youth urban decay and instability. This project aims to create a better faces difficulties on the job market and has poor employment infrastructure for their job search and a better networking and potential. information flow between job seekers and short-term employers. Value Added: The project is the first effort to develop a remedial It also offers management training, micro credit empowerment, education methodology in Romania. It uses a combination of and housing. remedial basic education, apprenticeship, and mediation Value Adlded: The project will reduce poverty by offering inte- between schools, families, and the youth. It builds relationships grated services to unemployed and marginalized urban youth. between NGOs and the community. Project Number: 124 Project Number: 1804 Helping Roma Children Succeed: Tutoring, Capacity Building for Community-Based Mento·ring, and Culturally Relevant Mapping of Indigenous Lands in Latin Materiials America Country(ies)/ Region: Romania (Europe and Central Asia) Country(ies)/ Region: (Latin America and Caribbean) Organization: Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Center Organization: The Trust for the Americas I OAS Partnering Organization: Reading and Writing for Critical Partnering Organization: Amazon Alliance Thinking Project Funding Request: $165,500 (out of $297,600 total) Funding! Request: $78,245 (out of $108,667 total) Contact: Susan Benson at email: Sbenson@iacd.oas.org or Contact: Maria Kovacs at email: Mkovacs@cluj.osf.ro or tele- telephone: (202) 458-3144 phone: 40 64 420 480 3 Summary the prevention of family violence, and legal ways to protect chil- dren and adolescents. They also involve inserting interactive ele- Objective: To provide indigenous communities with the tools ments into training modules for Internet and distance-learning needed to obtain recognition of their lands by carrying out com- and developing Web pages and a network for students and munity mapping processes. schools. Rationale: Two serious problems have led to extreme poverty in indigenous communities in Latin America: the absence of land Project Number: 1716 ownership and the lack of effective resource management of their lands. This project aims to reduce poverty by working with Constructive Youth communities to increase their ability to map their lands and Country(ies)/ Region: Brazil (Latin America and the Caribbean) resources, use these maps as tools to obtain land titles, and develop plans for effective resource use and protection. The Organization: Ac,;ao Artfstica para Desenvolvimento Comunitario project will contribute to a broader awareness and understanding (ACADEC) of indigenous land ownership, as well as the development of a Partnering Organization: Ministry of Social Assistance basis for eventual legal recognition, management, and protection Funding Request: $97,001 (out of $150,000 total) of land and natural resources. Contact: Felix Antonio Del Cid Nufiez at email: Value Added: The project involves a high degree of community acadec@uol.com.br or telephone: 00 55 19 3287 77 93 ownership and participation, and it uses indigenous mapping experts to train community members. Summary Project Number: 508 Objective: To help marginalized young adults integrate socially and economically into their communities. Student Judges: Promoting Civic Rationale: In Brazil, as in many other places, government and Responsibility and Skills in Central America NGO programs often focus on numbers rather than on human Country(ies)/ Region: (Latin America and Carribbean) beings. This attitude tends to increase the exclusion and vulner- ability of young adults, actually creating the patterns of behavior Organization: IBRD that the programs are trying to avoid. This project addresses Partnering Organization: Asociaci6n Civil Consorcio Justicia I these issues by working to develop young adults in a humane Tribunal Supremo de Justicia (Venezuela) I CONAMAJ (Costa way, giving them professional training, and financin!J their proj- Rica) and World Bank ects to integrate them positively into their communities. The pro- Funding Request: $138,600 (out of $185,850 total) gram will focus on the development of a sense of individual self- worth, while stimulating an interest in taking a greater role in Contact: Waleed Malik, Nina Ohman, and Alexandra resolving community problems. Three pilot enterprises are a Habershon, with others from the Education PREM and LJR paper recycling cooperative, an electronic editorial, and a bak- Networks of the World Bank at email: Wmalik@worldbank.org, ery. Onina@worldbank.org or telephone: 202-473-9237 Value Added: The project trains young people in a trade, offer- ing them tools to manage their activities, transforming them into Summary a cooperative, and making them owners of their own tools. Objective: To educate school-age youth in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially in distressed areas, on the values of Project Number: 26 equitable justice and the services that state judiciaries can pro- vide. The project aims to improve popular perceptions of the jus- Violence and Drugs: Vocational Training for tice system and promote access to justice from the ground up. At-Risk Adolescents Rationale: General access to the justice system is conceived in Country(ies)/ Region: Brazil (Latin America and Caribbean) democratic societies today as a fundamental human right to be guaranteed by the state. But elsewhere around the globe, the Organization: Centro de Prevenc,;ao as Dependencias justice system is perceived by many as corrupt, ineffectual, and Partnering Organization: Childhood and Juvenile Court of accessible only to the wealthy. Thus, the challenge to achieve Pernambuco State and Ministry of Justice broad public access, particularly for the poor, appears arduous. Funding Request: $94,400 (out of $127,202 total) This issue has recently gained attention among Latin Americans, who have increasingly come to understand the urgent need for Contact: Ana Gloria Melcop at email: amelcop@uol.com.br, creating an environment of good governance supported by an evaldomoliveira@uol.com.br or telephone: 55.081.3:325.4624 I open, effective judicial system. A crucial part of this awareness is 55.081.3466.137 the need to provide access to such a system to the most disad- vantaged individuals. In its absence, these individuals and com- Summary munities often resort to violence to resolve disputes. Objective: To develop a professional course to train social Value Added: Providing judicial education to school-age children agents specialized in the prevention of drug consumption and would be an innovative approach to economic and judicial the risk behavior related to such consumption (violence, sex inequity in Central America. It would incorporate important new without protection, etc.). Its main characteristic is its focus on an subject matter into the learning environment by imparting concil- extremely vulnerable public--youth in conflict with the law that iation and mediation skills. While civil society organizations tend are under the care of the Childhood and Youth Judidal Office to focus on adults' access to the justice system, this project of Recife (Pernambuco, Brazil) would promote participation among school-age children. The Rationale: Young offenders in Brazil have often been project, therefore, addresses the "user side" of justice adminis- adversely impacted by social and economic changes. Many tration along with the many "supply side" initiatives already are also drug addicts. Reintegration into society is difficult underway. The proposal is a pilot, which would be extended at a because of their misery, educational backwardness, poverty, later stage to involve the participation and partnership of Central the stigma of having been in prison, and the lack of support- American countries in the use of information-technology broad- ing institutions. The program intends to support these disen- based strategies of dissemination and implementation. New ele- franchised youth by providing them with education and ments will include learning modules on environmental values, increase their self-knowledge. During their training, each of 4 the young offenders will receive a scholarship and other incen- Rationale: Of Venezuela's 24 million inhabitants, approximately tives to remain in the program. 89 percent live in poverty. Marginal areas are particularly afflict- ed by women living in poverty, where 20 percent of all house- Project Value-Added: In addition to providing support to the young offenders, the program indirectly benefits their families holds are headed by them. Of 31 correction facilities in the coun- and by enabling these offenders from returning to a life of crime, try, 21 have annexes for women and only one, the lnstituto de the program serves society as a whole. Orientacion Femenina (IN OF), is exclusively for women. Women constitute about 6 percent of the total prison population. They are usually first-time delinquents; young, single mothers with an Project Number: 1809 average of five to six children; uneducated; and unemployed at Solar Energy-Powered Wireless Internet for the time of imprisonment. Forty percent are in prison for drug- Rural !Education and Community related crimes, 30 percent for theft, and 21 percent% for violent crimes. While in prison they are particularly vulnerable to rein- Development forcing criminal behavior as the means for survival, which in turn Country(ies)/ Region: Haiti (Latin America and Caribbean) upon release they can transfer to their children and families.] Organization: Haiti Community Development, Inc. (HCDI) Value Added: The project is innovative in its use of positive psy- chology to recover the values and potential of detained women, Partnering Organization: New Jersey/Haiti Partners of the unleashing their creativity, generating self-confidence, and coun- Americas, Inc. tering the negative influence of their negative environments. It Funding Request: $81,900 (out of $97,900 total) represents an opportunity for first-time delinquent women under economic pressure, linking their self-created enterprises with Contact: Guirlaine Celius at email: gcelius@lucent.com or tele- support groups in their communities. phone: (B08) 559-6388 (Work) Project Number: 456 Summary Objective: To help Haitian teachers improve the quality, efficien- Internet for Indigenous Peoples cy, and coverage of education provided to students and to Development on the Orinoco River of expand the horizon of students and teachers alike by giving Venezuela them access to unlimited educational resources via solar-energy powered wireless Internet. Country(ies)/ Region: Venezuela (Latin America and Rationale: The status of education in Haiti, specifically the lack Caribbean) of funding and resources provided to rural areas, is one reason Organization: Unuma Sociedad Civil de Apoyo al lndigena why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Partnering Organization: Red de Bibliotecas Publicas del Hemisphere. Three major obstacles to establishing a modern Estado Amazonas communication infrastructure in the rural areas are: (a) the lack of electricity, (b) the lack of a telephone infrastructure, and (c) Funding Request: $88,600 (out of $123,600 total) because of low incomes, the need to provide subsidies to defray Contact: Haydee Seijas at email: hseijas@cantv.net, kolod- the cost of such a service. This project overcomes those barriers ner@cantv.net or telephone: (+58-212) 257-3580 1 Cell (+58-16) by introducing the use of solar energy systems to provide elec- 628-6477 tricity; incorporating the use of wireless technology to provide Internet access; and operating a revenue-generating Internet Summary Cafe in a central location in the city of Leogane to cover the costs of services. Objective: To improve development opportunities for the indige- nous people of Venezuela and to face the poverty challenge with Value Added: The use of the Internet, coupled with the use of more probabilities for success selected audiovisual materials as effective teaching tools, will result in improved language, reading comprehension, writing, Rationale: Given that the effective use of new technologies is grammar, and mathematical and scientific skills. This project available only to people who know how to read and write, and offers opportunities for educational and informational program- considering the characteristics of education in the rural areas of ming for the community, especially for older children and adults Venezuela, the program will focus on the sustainable uses of and provides them with relevant life-skills training. information technologies and communication tools to increase lit- eracy, self-awareness, skill building, and business development. Project Number: 1463 Value Added: This project provides context sensitivity; organiza- tion of cooperative networks; visibility [for the problems and Trainiing in Microenterprise: An Alternative needs of other indigenous peoples; interchange and communica- for Women in Prison tion among various indigenous communities and ethnic groups and among them and the national and global community exercis- ing reading and writing in nonconventional formats; knowledge Country(ies)/ Region: Venezuela (Latin America and and control of plans and actions of local and regional govern- Caribbean) ments and NGOs; participation in the development process of Organi:zation: Centro de Investigaciones para lnfancia y Familia their communities and ethnic groups; efficient use of new tech- Universidad Metropolitana nologies for educational and business purposes to disseminate knowledge and opinions and to set up partnerships through the Partnering Organization: Damas Salecianas network. Funding Request: $73,095 (out of $83,863 total) Project Number: 392 Contac:t: Maria Angelica Sepulveda at email: msepulveda@unimet.edu.ve or telephone: 241-6869 Expanding School Facilities for Child Refugees in Cairo Summary Objective: To train Venezuelan female detainees in the micro Country(ies)/ Region: Egypt (Middle East and North Africa) enterprise area to improve their quality of life and prevent their Organization: Joint Relief Ministry, All Saints Cathedral re-victimization. 5 Partnering Organization: Sudan Care Foundation Contact: Brij Kothari, Assistant Professor, Center for Educational Funding Request: $39,560 (out of $99,100 total) Innovation, at email: brij@iimahd.ernet.in or telephone: 91-79- 6324938 or 6325014 Contact: Liza Hazelton at email: lhazelton@cms.org.au or tele- phone: (20 2) 7369512 Summary Objective: To raise the literacy skills of all early literates on a Summary large scale, through a low-cost, already entrenched, popular Objective: To provide schooling to the population of displaced entertainment method--television programming with subtitles. persons in Egypt. Rationale: In the 2001 census, India's 7+ literacy was 65.4 per- Rationale: For the more than 3,000 displaced children currently cent, a gain of 12.9 percent from the 1991 census. However, the living in Egypt, many of whom come from Sudan, conditions are literacy skills of at least half of these so-called literates are extremely difficult. Without access to education and with expo- abysmally low. Over 160 million rural and urban poo1· with early lit- sure to radical political views, some turn to violence and crime eracy skills already have access to TV, and this access is grow- as a way to support themselves. The project is designed to send ing rapidly. employment and training teachers into the community to provide these children with an educational experience. It will also offer Value Added: The explicit use of television to imparl literacy skill training programs to older children so that they can acquire practice through songs is unprecedented in India, and it has rele- income-generating skills, such as jewelry making, sewing and vance wherever music videos are shown on TV and literacy skills tailoring, silk-screen printing, carpentry, computing, and domes- are low. The idea builds on people's existing knowledge of lyrics, tic work. enabling early literates to anticipate the subtitles and read along; the inherent repetition in songs makes them an ideal vehicle for Value Added: The project aims to reduce poverty and integrate practice. The use of subtitling is a simple approach t11at leverages displaced persons by offering practical educational and vocation- popular culture to encourage the sizeable population of India to al experiences. read. It also helps the deaf and hard-of-hearing by making televi- sion programming more accessible. The possibility of replicating Project Number: 1092 this inexpensive approach in India with different languages and in literacy and Sustainable Development other countries, including the developed world, is enormous. Country(ies)/ Region: Morocco (Middle East and North Africa) Project Number: 333 Organization: Helen Keller International--- Morocco Participatory Approach to Enhanced Well- Partnering Organization: Faculte des Lettres et des Sciences Being of Disabled and Women in An~as of Humaines Gres (Groupe de Recherches et d'Etudes Sociologiques) University of Literature and Human Sciences-- Poverty Group of Sociological Research and Study Country(ies)/ Region: India (South Asia) Funding Request: $51,100 (out of $228,500 total) Organization: Samadhan Contact: Fatima Zohra Akalay at email: hki@acdim.net.ma or Partnering Organization: Die Lebenshilfe Wien telephone: 00-212-37-68-16-04 Funding Request: Information not available Summary Contact: Pramila Balasundaram at email: samadhan@del3.vsnl.net.in or telephone: 607 5812 Objective: To set up functional post-literacy devices and estab- lish long-lasting, revenue-generating activities for women who have reached levels of functional literacy in Zag ora, Morocco. Summary Objective: To address gaps in services to disabled children and Rationale: By integrating socioeconomic factors into the national their mothers in India by: (a) providing, under one roof, all servic- strategy to combat trachoma cecitant and malnutrition, programs es for disabled persons of all age groups; (b) establishing a clinic designed to fight these problems have become considerably for babies and mothers "at risk" as well as for neonates; (c) con- more effective. However, illiteracy definitively excludes women ducting disability awareness programs with a focus on birth atten- from revenue-generating economic activities. It is imperative that dants; (d) establishing collaborative income-generating programs development projects designed to fight poverty and different between persons with disabilities and women; (e) providing oppor- forms of social and cultural exclusion faced by women include tunities to both groups for capacity building through appropriate an organic and functional literacy component. training; (f) initiating inclusive education in local government pri- Value Added: The project is innovative in its ability to join mary schools; and (g) setting up a disability information and dis- together the goals of a health program, which is fighting against semination network online. malnutrition, and the goals of a program for creating revenue- Rationale: The project area is still under construction. It will generating activities for women, who will be aided by literacy inevitably draw the poor seeking employment typically in the training. households or business of the economically better off. This will result in the growth of tenements and housing without amenities Project Number: 1229 that the better off enjoy. Many pockets of poverty alrec1dy exist Same-Language Subtitling on Television: and unsanitary environments are endemic. The lack of potable Small Change for Colossal Gains in water, adequate shelter, and access to health and educational facilities is the norm. Services for the disabled are few and for the Literacy mentally disabled almost nonexistent These conditions have a Country(ies)/ Region: India (South Asia) major impact on disabled children and their mothers. Women will need a basic level of economic and social security before they Organization: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad become interested in other development issues. (liMA) Value Added: The major innovation of this project is in the per- Partnering Organization: Mudra Communications Ltd. ceptual change from a service of "giving" to one of cooperation, Funding Request: $250,000 (out of $360,000 total) participation, and empowerment shared with the community and its leaders. 6 Value Added: This is the first project in Nepal to focus on Project Number: 764 awareness- and partnership-building between MFis and Economic Empowerment and Educational HIV/AIDS NGOs and, through them, the HIV-affected population. It challenges the MFI network to create an awareness of Development of Tribals in Western India HIV/AIDS among their clients. It involves innovative research Country(ies)/ Region: India (South Asia) into and the testing of financial services appropriate for HIV- affected clients. The project aims at establishing linkages Organization: Bhasha Research & Publication Centre between these two sectors to improve the living conditions of the Partnering Organization: International Labour Organisation poor through education and access to health and financial serv- Funding Request: $80,000 (out of $134,500 total} ices. Contact: G. N. Devy at email: bhasha@bnpl.com or telephone: Project Number: 781 0265-331130 Economic and Educational Development for Summary Rural Women Objective: To help tribal communities in India overcome endem- Country(ies)/ Region: Pakistan (South Asia) ic poverty by providing multifaceted training and encouraging trainees to return to their communities and empower other mem- Organization: Aasthan Latif Welfare Society bers of their tribes. Partnering Organization: Society for Rural Development, Sindh RationalE~: Tribal communities in India are among the most dis- Funding Request: $249,600 (out of $285,981 total) advantaged and marginalized. Widespread illiteracy and igno- rance have made them targets of exploitation and indebtedness, Contact: Riaz A.Memon at email: alast@mail.com or telephone: unemployment, and hunger. The project will establish a tribal 00923008240229 training academy to train youth and initiate the empowerment process from within. Training will include hands-on field experi- Summary ence, which will facilitate self-help groups in micro credit, micro Objectives: To empower rural Pakistani women economically enterprises, traditional crafts, food grain banks, water banks, and and socially through a grassroots income-generating program. nonformal education, in 150 neighboring villages. After complet- Rationale: Rural Pakistani women are considered inferior and ing the training, each trainee will initiate the process in ten other have no control over their destinies, including education. The villages. By the end of the project period, some 15,000 tribes will project proposes to provide an income-generating opportunity to have benefited from the community development program, help move the poor women of Sindh toward economic develop- ensuring self-reliance and sustainability. ment and empowerment. It will provide 10 buffaloes to 25 groups Value Aclded: The most important factor is the focus on local of women who live in very poor villages that have no access to leadership and initiative. schooling for girls. Earnings from milk sales will provide both an income for the women and funds for the establishment and oper- Project Number: 1509 ation of a girls' school. In its first year, the project is expected to reduce poverty among 250 families and provide basic education linking Micro-Finance and HIV/AIDS to about 800 girls. It will be replicated in other villages thereafter. Country{ies)/ Region: Nepal (South Asia) Value Added: Poverty reduction efforts at the village level typi- Organization: Centre for Micro-Finance Private Ltd. (CMF), cally do not trickle down to those who need help. This project is Nepal (not-for-profit company) run directly by the women, ensuring their ownership and benefit. Partnering Organization: UNDP, Asia-Pacific Regional Project Project Number: 785 on HIV and Development Funding1 Request: $120,470 (out of $142,070 total) Be the Change!--Youth-led Sustainable Contact: Namrata Sharma, Managing Director, at email: nam- Development Action ratas@cmf.org.np, namratacmf@hotmail.com or telephone: Country(ies)/ Region: (Global} (977)-1-432947, 434041 Organization: Peace Child International Summary Partnering Organization: The Netaid Foundation Objective: To reach the poor to improve their socioeconomic Funding Request: $90,000 (out of $170,000 total) environment through a joint effort of the Micro-Finance (MF) sec- Contact: David Woollcombe at email: david@peacechild.org or tor and I-I IV nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Nepal. telephone: (+44) 176 327 4459 The project targets women from whom the benefits are expect- ed to flow into households and communities. This will give them knowledge to access services to help improve their health and Summary economic conditions. Objective: To use the energy and compassion of youth as an instrument of change in developing communities across the Rationale: HIV/AIDS is a particular challenge to development. It globe. causes immediate and devastating effects on the health of the labor force, and it also affects the operation of financial institu- Rationale: The project, to be piloted in Peru, India, Kenya, tions. Micro Finance Institutions (MFis) cannot, by themselves, Sierra Leone, and Ghana, connects local affiliate youth teams change the face of AIDS or target HIV-affected population as with young people living in extreme poverty to help them analyze their clients. But they can help in the prevention of infection their situation, identify ways to address the problem, and come among the poor who they serve by developing partnerships with up with a project proposal. The proposal can be anything from NGOs that work with HIV-affected and infected populations. vaccination program to the restoration of local water supplies. HIV/AIDS NGOs can help MFis to train staff and educate clients Funds are then secured via the UN-run NetAid website and on HIV/AIDS and to provide care, counseling, and treatment to other sources. Completed projects will be photographed, cele- infected MFI clients. MFis can develop appropriate loan, sav- brated, and evaluated by the young people, mentors, community ings, and insurance products to help affected clients. leaders, and beneficiaries. 7 Value Added: The project is innovative in that it constitutes the used daily is 15 to 20 million. These non-biodegradable bags world's first global, youth-led sustainable development program, pollute the landscape, represent a health risk, and cause the harnessing the talents of the world's 3 billion young people, mak- deaths of domestic animals through intestinal obstruction. ing intelligent use of the Internet, mobilizing grassroots commu- Value Added: This initiative presents a completely new idea for nities, and providing the chance to learn-by-doing. the people's welfare: plastic bags, viewed as trash after being used once, can have a second use for weaving rope. The rope has been tested for resistance, and a patent application is pend- ENVIRONMENT ing. The project brings a solution to two acute problems: pollu- tion and poverty reduction. The project is innovative because it combines an environmental education program with a concrete Project Number: 675 activity that is easy to carry out and will increase community Ecodevelopment in Remote Areas of Africa pride, and will create jobs for vulnerable groups (widows, the handicapped, unemployed youth). Country(ies)/ Region: Botswana (Africa) Organization: Blue Nile Corporation Project Number: 599 Partnering Organization: Conservation International River Poisoning: Strategies to Figh1t Against Funding Request: $210,000 (out of $350,980 total) and Actions or Development Contact: Henry Gold at email: dlog@aquanet.co.il or telephone: Country(ies)/ Region: Cameroon (Africa) 972 2 624 1364 Organization: Anthropos International Summary Partnering Organization: Cameroon Ecology Objective: To create commercially viable, for-profit ecotourism- Funding Request: $165,470 (out of $220,670 total) based enterprises in partnership with local communities living in Contact: Jean-Bosco Zumatwo Some at email: zsome@hot- areas bordering nature reserves. mail.com or telephone: (237) 42 24 42 Rationale: Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the world's poorest regions; remote areas are beset with dire employment, health, Summary and educational problems and with few opportunities for devel- Objective: To reduce poverty by providing development alterna- opment. Ecotourism offers good economic potential, but local tives to fishermen, while discouraging environmentally danger- communities generally fail to reap the benefits. The project pro- ous fishing and protect biodiversity and the ecosystem. poses a new paradigm of ecodevelopment that creates commer- cially viable, for-profit ecotourism enterprises in partnership with Rationale: This region is characterized by dense tropical forests local communities. The undertaking includes the simultaneous furrowed by rivers whose resources are varied and abundant. initiation of for-profit activities and community social and health Until recently, aquatic species have been relatively untouched. development programs, funded by a revolving credit fund. A pilot But after a drop in the price of cash crops that they depend on, project is planned in a remote area of Botswana. farmers have turned to other types of subsistence activities, including fishing with chemical products, which endangers all Value Added: Ecodeveloprnent is a comparatively recent con- aquatic life and reduces the safety of food for human consump- cept that attempts to combine two approaches-- rural develop- tion. This project presents significant development alternatives ment and conservation--that previously were seen to function that discourage the population from using destructive practices independently of each other. while allowing them to satisfy basic needs. Project Number: 669 Value Added: The project engages the population in research and entrusts them with the project's management and realiza- Recycling Plastic and Creating Jobs for the tion. Further, it integrates a number of areas, including economic Poor activities, health, education on environmental conservation, com- mercialization, agriculture, and fishing. Finally, the project aims Country(ies)/ Region: Burkina Faso (Africa) to restore self-confidence in the local population. Organization: Association Etre Com me Les Autres (ECLA) Project Number: 1715 Partnering Organization: Programme d'Appui aux Communications Sociales (PACS), a CIDA bilateral project Waste Technologies Creating Jobs, a Funding Request: $49,997 (out of $58,738 total) Learning Environment and Clean Contact: Moussa Bologo at email: ecla@fasonet.bf or tele- Neighborhoods phone: (226) 55 07 40 Country(ies)/ Region: Egypt (Africa) Summary Organization: Community and Institutional Development (C.! .D.) Objective: To educate and sensitize Ouahigouya residents in Partnering Organization: Groundwork NGO Burkina Faso on the dangerous pollution caused by plastic bags Funding Request: $4,000 (out of $4,000 total) and on the advantages of a clean environment; to clean up the environment by collecting and recycling plastic bags; to create Contact: Laila Iskandar at email: cidegypt@cid.com.eg or tele- jobs and revenues for vulnerable groups (unemployed youth, the phone: 00 202 738-0832 physically disabled, widows, etc.) by teaching them how to make rope from the plastic bags; and to popularize a simple technique Summary and revenue-generating activity--rope weaving--that could be Objective: To empower the poor through locally based waste replicated in other cities and villages of Africa. management. Rationale: Ouahigouya is confronted by a scourge of plastic pol- Rationale: Poor waste management practices in South Africa as lution, especially plastic bags, that litter the landscape. Estimates in most developing countries have created unsanitary conditions show that in a market of 15 million consumers, assuming that for local populations. The worldwide trend towards urbanization, each makes one purchase a day, the number of plastic bags with growing populations and increased waste generation rates, 8 has not been matched by improved municipal or government Rationale: The project is located in artisanal capture fishery abilities to manage this mounting volume of man-made waste. communities where the primary economic activities are fishing, Concurrently, there is slower economic empowerment of the fish processing, processed fish storage, and distribution and poor, crime, social and political instability, higher drop-out rates trading. These support secondary economic activities, such as from school, and a growing marginalization of unskilled and health, education, civil construction, and recreation. In these semiskilled people. This has led the poorest to live off trash communities, fish provide more than 90 percent of animal protein accumulated in dumpsites all over the developing world. There is in local diets. A study conducted in 1999 found that declines in a need for job creation, waste management, and improved both the quantity and quality of fish resulted in increased poverty health. levels, food insecurity, and nutritional imbalance. This exploita- Value Added: This project integrates economic and social tive capture fishing pressure also threatens the sustainability and empowerment of waste recoverers, urban management, job cre- stability of biodiversity and the local ecology. At the local level, ation, and out-of-school learning centers in nonindustrialized the problem has resulted in despair, urban drift, and a break- nations. The project model translates waste into jobs, money, down in socioeconomic relations learning, and local decision-making. Value Added: The project will attract farmers because it pro- vides a cost-effective solution, builds on local knowledge, and Project t~umber: 2064 provides a livelihood. Fish farms are likely to be communally owned and operated using a pen farming approach, which per- Affordable Solar Technology for Increased mits local control and is less capital intensive than capture fish- Health and Wealth ing and pond culture. Collaboration with international organiza- tions for research is another unique feature. Country(ies)/ Region: Ghana (Africa) Project Number: 2110 Organization: Allies in Health and Development Developing Regional Marketing Facilities Partnering Organization: Community Partners in Health and for Honey- and Silk-Based Products for Development East African Rural Communities Funding Request: $100,450 (out of $128,450 total) Country(ies)/ Region: Kenya (Africa) Contact: Mercy Bannerman at email: mercyb@africaonline.com.gh or telephone: (233) 24 369725 Organization: International Centre of Insects Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) Summary Partnering Organization: Njiro Wild life Research Centre Objective: To provide low-cost, no-emission solar cookers to (NWRC) inhabitants of Northern Ghana to reduce the incidence of water- Funding Request: $249,912 (out of $249,912 total) borne diseases, protect the environment, and enable women to Contact: Suresh K. Raina at email: sraina@icipe.org, director- participate in the economy. general@icipe.org or telephone: Tel: 254-2-802501/3/9 or Rational:e: Respiratory problems, deforestation, and lost eco- 861680-4 nomic opportunities, mostly for women, result from the time-con- suming task of collecting and using wood for fuel. What wood Summary exists is scarce, and most people fail to boil their drinking water, a major cause of the debilitating Guinea worm disease that, Objective: To create markets for products derived from the pro- along with other waterborne diseases, affects a large number of duction and conservation of honey bees and silk moths by the income earners and leads to poverty. The project will address rural communities of East Africa. these issues by making solar cookers available to areas with a Rationale: Remoteness, scarce and poorly maintained roads, high incidence of waterborne disease, using local NGOs and inadequate transport and storage facilities, and difficulties in community representatives to elicit interest and train residents in accessing reliable information on products and prices prevent how to use the cooker. the rural poor from participating in a competitive market. Yet Value Added: Solar cookers in the past have been expensive. there is a proven demand for agro-based industries such as Those used in the project are inexpensive and cost nothing to honey and silk. The project captures this potential by introducing use. new research and extension techniques in sericulture and apicul- ture marketing to help local communities develop local and Project Number: 446 regional marketplaces for their produce. The project includes a training program to help the rural poor establish a central mar- Susta.inable Aquaculture for Poverty ketplace for their products to bring together potential trading Alleviation in Subsistence Fishery partners. Communities Value Added: The project differs from traditional market devel- opment in that rural populations benefit directly from their pro- Country(ies)/ Region: Ghana (Africa) duce while safeguarding their natural resources. Organi<:ation: Young Farmers Research and Development Society (YOUFARDES) Project Number: 464 Partnering Organization: Water Research Institute (WRI), Integrating Occupational Health and Safety Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Concerns into the Informal Sector Fundin!~ Request: $70,250 (out of $87,250 total) Development in Kenya Contact Mayor Agbleze at email: agblezemayor@hotmail.com -------------------------- Country(ies)/ Region: Kenya (Africa) or telephone: +233 21 40 4471 Organization: Improve Your Business-Kenya Summary Partnering Organization: National Council for Science and Objective: To train beneficiaries as fish farmers as an alternative Technology to capture fishing. Funding Request: $118,900 (out of $168,900 total) 9 Contact: Willis Omondi Odek at email: wodek@ratn.org or tele- Funding Request: $80,000 (out of $153,680 total) phone: 254-2-799379/780917 Contact: Anton Krone at email: anton@besg.co.za or telephone: 33 3944980 Summary Objective: To build capacity to create an informal sector work Summary environment that minimizes occupational health and safety haz- Objective: To promote municipal--community partnerships that ards, in a collaborate effort with workers, associations, NGOs, create habitable environments and job opportunities among the and government. poor. Rationale: Occupational health and safety programs in Kenya Rationale: Almost 1.2 million new houses are in the process currently target formal sector enterprises that have strong trade of being built across South Africa under the democratic gov- union activity. Informal sector workers, however, lack the servic- ernment's housing program for the poor. In most cases, infra- es of occupational health and safety professionals and continue structure maintenance and environmental management serv- to operate under hazardous working conditions. Among other ices have not followed the completion of housing projects, benefits, the project aims to create a health and safety hazard resulting in various problems such as the failure to collect database for the informal sector, foster awareness among infor- solid waste and the proliferation of waste dumps, which pose mal sector workers, develop preventive mechanisms to help a significant health risk to residents. The project aims to these workers remain safe, and develop and strengthen net- expand an existing municipal--community partnership that tar- works drawing together informal sector workers' associations. gets poor households by providing labor-intensive employ- Value Added: By adopting a broad framework and focusing on ment to improve such environments. the important role that associations can play in informal sector Value Added: By promoting integrated development and the enterprises, the project aims to enhance productivity, contribute management of the local environment through attention to local to social development, improve workplace management, and needs and concerns, the project spurs employment, generates reduce pollution and environmental degradation. income, reduces poverty, and improves living spaces. Project Number: 1661 Project Number: 473 Creating Wealth through Sustainable Support to Market Gardeners-Corpc,rations Management of Forests in Cross River of Coastal Area of Togo State, Nigeria Country(ies)/ Region: Togo (Africa) Country(ies)/ Region: Nigeria (Africa) Organization: Perspectives Actions Utiles (PEAU) Organization: Ed-Basee & Co Partnering Organization: Direction de Ia Recherche Partnering Organization: Cross River Poverty Alleviation Scientifique de I'Universite de Lome (DRS-UL) Programme Funding Request: $82,429 (out of $93,000 total) Funding Request: $106,750 (out of $250,000 total) Contact: Noudoda Emmanuel at email: Contact: Emmanuel Edet Bassey at email: enoudoda@syfed.tg.refer.org or telephone: 228- 21 -56- 63 I sugarlan@skannet.com or telephone: 234-087-237141 21 - 85- 54 Summary Summary Objective: To help low-income forest communities in Nigeria Objective: To develop a technical environment for stl-ucturing develop the capacity to create wealth through sustainable forest the cooperatives for the production, preservation, and distribution management. of products; improve access to credit for purchasing necessary Rationale: Sub-Saharan Africans live in overwhelming poverty. instruments; and implement a cold "greenhouse" store for stock- Surrounded by fragile ecosystems, they are faced with the daily ing, conditioning of products. struggle to survive and will not protect the environment without Rationale: This project focuses on the coastal area of Togo economic incentive. Rural communities in Cross River State where the soil quality is poor. The zone also has the highest depend on forest products for their livelihood, but are harvesting population density in the country (213 inhabitants per square these products in an unsustainable manner. The project address- kilometer). The local inhabitants have relatively low incomes, and es the imminent depletion caused by unsustainable practices the need for multiple income generators in families has led to and aims to create wealth by training the communities in sustain- increased dropout rates for schoolchildren. Although market-- able harvesting, processing, and marketing of forest products. farmers have previously tried to mobilize to address these prob- This will involve environmental education, a revolving credit lems, they have lacked the means to organize production and scheme, skills acquisition, community forestry, capacity building, make it work in the absence of proper techniques. Thus, the and agro-forestry training. diversification of income sources is crucial to improving cur- Value Added: Rural communities are concerned about current rent living standards. conditions and have approached the project sponsors for help. In Value Added: This project publicizes methods of pesticide addition, the project takes an integrated approach to poverty production for base roots, grains, and leaves of spedfic reduction and institutional strengthening. specifies with appropriate apprenticeship of treatment; gen- eral education and systemic practices of market--farmers in Project Number: 164 the areas of: market farming, applied vegetable biolo9y, applied pedology, irrigation system, market-farming equip- Habitable Environments through Municipal- ment, food security and management exploitation. It estab- -Community Partnerships lishes a sales store equipped with a greenhouse that com- plies with the packaging regulations of the International Country(ies)/ Region: South Africa (Africa) Organization for Standardization (ISO) and it organizes a Organization: Built-Environment Support Group distribution network and a marketing program managed by Partnering Organization: Urban Sector Network the farmers. 10 Partnering Organization: South Pacific Action Committee on Project Number: 2016 Human Ecology and Environment/ ECOWOMAN Empowering Poor People with Knowledge Funding Request: $97,000 (out of $103,000 total) and Opportunity Contact: Kesaia Tabunakawai at email: ktabunakawai@wwfpa- Country(ies)/ Region: Uganda (Africa) cific.org.fj or telephone: (679) 315-533/315- 353 Organization: GLM Iceland Ltd. Summary Partnering Organization: Icelandic Fisheries Laboratories Objective: To maximize environmental and sustainable develop- Fundin~1 Request: $117,000 (out of $290,824 total) ment options for the people of Fiji by helping them harvest and market ivi, a tropical forest nut. Contact: Runar Thrudmarsson, CEO, at email: mail@eppko.com or telephone: +354-561 9220 Rationale: lvi, low in fat and high in carbohydrates, is a season- al staple in the rural Fijian diet. The shortage of arable land due Summary to population growth over the past 30 years has made ivi cultiva- tion one of the chief income sources of some communities. The Objective: To provide fishermen at Lake Victoria with a new project seeks to enhance this income by helping community packaging technology that will maximize the quality and safety of members, mostly women, buy special equipment to vacuum their catch. pack the nuts. This will lengthen their shelf life by several Rationale: In Uganda, fishing represents an important part of months, allowing them to be sold off season and to identified the population's diet and income, and much of it is done by export markets. The project will involve communities in project small-scale fishermen. Because of the widespread lack of on- evaluation. board refrigeration, much of their catch spoils. The project aims Value Added: The project adds value to household members' to prove a specific group of fishermen with a new generation of traditional knowledge, experience, and skill in ivi nut manage- affordable double-walled insulated plastic fish boxes to use dur- ment and preparation techniques and represents the first-known ing a training period. It will teach these fishermen how to ensure post-harvest manipulation of under exploited traditional forest proper f11sh handling so that spoilage will not occur. foods in the country. Value Added: Decreased post-harvesting losses and increased fish quality will result in higher revenues for the fishermen and Project Number: 1983 their community, reducing poverty. Productive Rural Enterprises: Economic Project Number: 2036 Growth through Replication of Community- Gorilla Tourism Project Scale Biopower-Based Business Country(ies)/ Region: Uganda (Africa) Country(ies)/ Region: Philippines (East Asia and the Pacific) Organi;~ation: Friends of the Mountain Gorilla Society Organization: Community Power Corporation (CPC) Partnering Organization: Uganda Wildlife AuthorityFunding Partnering Organization: Sustainable Rural Enterprises Request: $100,000 (out of $151,000 total) Funding Request: $179,950 (out of $352,850 total) Contact: Gordon Sentiba at email: mtgorila@infocom.co.ug or Contact: Art Lilley at email: artsolar@aol.com or telephone: 724- telephone: +256-41-340822 348-6386 Summary Summary Objective: To involve poor rural communities in gorilla tourism Objective: To demonstrate that rural, community-scale process- expansion to spur local employment and increase conservation ing operations can add value to coconut crops on a sustainable resources for sustaining endangered gorilla populations. basis; provide the motivation for farmers to maintain their trees, Rationale: Gorilla tourism already attracts tourists to Western improve their yields, and increase their incomes; develop a pri- Uganda, but the benefits have yet to accrue to poor local com- vate-sector model for large-scale replication of the business and munities. In fact, areas surrounding gorilla habitats are some of provide management, financial skills, and resources to comple- the most densely populated in East Africa, and the resulting limit- ment the operational skills of individuals hired from within the ed access to land, poor infrastructure, and low agricultural yields community; support the development of new or improved appli- often drive local communities into conflict with conservation cations of renewable energy for rural enterprise development authorities. When poor populations make use of forest and support the dissemination of information for the application resources, they destroy gorilla habitats, hunt illegally, and of renewable energy to rural enterprise. engage in bush meat trade. The project aims to integrate com- Rationale: The coconut industry is in decline. Many small farm- munities in tourism activities, developing better quality products ers have left the industry. Trees have been harvested illegally for and helping these products reach wider markets through lumber. Coconut yields have decreased. Most coconut residue improved marketing structures and a multimedia web site. husks and shells are either burned or left to rot, creating air pol- Value Added: Promoting the long-term survival of the gorillas lution and greenhouse gases. With $2 million in funding support while mducing local poverty, the project engages local communi- from Shell Renewables, the National Renewable Energy ties in diversified income-generating activities. Laboratory, and the Sustainable Energy Programme, CPC has developed a biopower system that converts coconut shells to Project Number: 321 high-quality power and heat. The BioMax-15 has provided power successfully to a village and to a coconut-based productive Capitalizing on Cultural Knowledge and enterprise. Valw:!s of Pacific Forest Fruits Value Added: The project benefits include: distributed manufac- turing of standard products; productive use operation generates Country(ies)/ Region: Fiji (East Asia and the Pacific) its own energy resource as a renewable residue guidance from a Organiization: World Wildlife Fund South Pacific Program local steering committee; leveraging the current project to reduce future market and technology risk, decreasing startup costs; and 11 locating a laboratory, which is focused on productive use appli- self-involvement will lead to a stronger commitment to and cation of renewable energy, in a rural setting. understanding of the project. The project is designed to be a future component of an integrated coastal resources manage- Project Number: 819 ment plan, a totally new approach in Vietnam. The farm will cre- ate an alternative livelihood option for members of the local com- Economic Security for Local Forest munity, targeting both men and women and use skills that they Stewards (Scaling-Up) already have. Country(ies)/ Region: Philippines (East Asia and the Pacific) Project Number: 833 Organization: Enterprise Works Worldwide Exploitation of Deposited Coal Slime at Partnering Organization: USAID/Philippines Modrac Lake Funding Request: $100,000 (out of $1,825,002 total) Country(ies)/ Region: Bosnia and Herzegovina (Europe and Contact: Ann Koontz at email: koontza@enterpriseworks.org or Central Asia) telephone: 202.293.4600 ext 203 Organization: Rudarsko geolosko drustvo Tuzla (Mining Summary Geology Association Tuzla) Objective: To provide incentives to encourage forest conserva- Partnering Organization: Udruzenje gradjana Breza (Citizens tion while helping low-income Filipinos earn sustainable liveli- Association Breza) hoods in forests by adding value to their efforts. Funding Request: $158,260 (out of $204,180 total) Rationale: The rural poor need economic incentives and the Contact: Tihomir Knezicek at email: knezicek_t@yahoo.com or necessary tools to earn sustainable livelihoods to take interest in telephone: 387 66 103 434 conservation. The target groups for this proposal include indige- nous tribal groups, "lowland" Filipinos, and impoverished intra- Summary island immigrants. The project is expected to help 43,000 women and men by working with communities to identify ways to Objective: To build a climate for eliminating poverty in the vicini- increase incomes and by incorporating value-added technology, ty of Lake Modrac by employing local inhabitants for coal slime increased efficiencies, and strategic market linkages. Project exploitation, thereby restoring the ecosystem of the lake and activities will also improve forest conservation, resulting in indi- stimulating the local fishing industry. rect benefits to the inhabitants of the entire watershed and the Rationale: In Bosnia and Herzegovina, war exacerbated pover- fishing communities on the coasts. ty, especially in rural areas. Artificial Lake Modrac, one of the Value Added: This project sponsor has a proven record of bal- major water resources, once supported about 350 fishermen's ancing economic, social, and environmental needs, an extremely families. Coal production in neighboring municipalities, however, difficult task when it comes to conservation. caused an estimated 14.5 million cubic meters of coa' slime to build up on the lake floor. The project will employ local inhabi- Project Number: 526 tants for slime extraction, processing, packing, and selling as fer- tilizer. The slime has proven a quality fertilizer, and costs about Self-Sustaining Community-Managed Coral 20 percent less than artificial fertilizers. After the lake is cleaned, Farm it will be stocked with fish to restore the fishermen's' source of livelihood. Country(ies)/ Region: Vietnam (East Asia and the Pacific) Value Added: In addition to restoring a cleaner environment, Organization: International Marinelife Alliance-Vietnam (IMA- project activities will create income for participants, reducing Vietnam) poverty. Partnering Organization: Institute of Oceanography Nha Trang, Vietnam Project Number: 2035 Funding Request: $50,000 (out of $70,000 total) Recycling Garbage: A Metamorphosis in Contact: Thu Hue Nguyen at email: nthue@imamarinelife.org.vn Education, Work, Skill, Ecology, and or telephone: (84 4) 9 420481 Community Consciousness Summary Country(ies)/ Region: Argentina (Latin America and Caribbean) Objective: To develop an alternative livelihood option as a tool Organization: "amp;EI Ceibo" Cooperativa de provisi6n y servi- for poverty alleviation and reef rehabilitation, increasing aware- cios para recolectores ness of the role of conservation and mobilizing the local commu- Partnering Organization: Partnering Institution Fundaci6n nity to actively take part in it. C.I.A.P. Rationale: Vietnam is blessed with an extensive coastline and a Funding Request: $100,000 (out of $213,534 total) diverse coral reef system. These reefs, however, are being Contact: Cristina Lescano at email: elceiborsu@yahoo.com.ar destroyed, primarily because of human-induced stresses. or telephone: 4899-0641 Fishermen, often unwittingly, use a variety of destructive fishing practices to enhance their catches. Over-exploitation of the near- shore reef and their resources is occurring at an exceptionally Summary fast rate as a result of both the current "open access" situation Objective: To create awareness and solidarity within the com- and high commodity prices for products. The situation is exacer- munity to face the problem of increasing poverty and uncon- bated by poverty, the lack of access to alternative livelihoods, trolled disposition of urban solid wastes; to create employment and an absence of environmental awareness. legally organized and recognized and a dignified work and quali- Value Added: The project is unique in that members of the com- ty of life for the illegal garbage collectors and their families. munity will actively take part in the organization, implementation, Rationale: The growth of urban solid wastes (160,000 tons per and management of the coral farm, rebuilding local reef areas month in the city of Buenos Aires) creates a serious and urgent with coral fragments they have produced, with the rationale that problem. High unemployment rates (up to 16 percent) increase 12 the numbers of individuals engaged in the marginal and risky job Summary of the ciruja (illegal garbage collector). The tearing off waste bags Objective: To propel a process of complete development, self- giving way to pollution and the clogged drainage system are also management, and sustainability for recovering the culture and problems that the community needs to resolve immediately. environment in Guatemala that takes into account economic and Value Added: The institutions participating in this project are productive factors (micro credit, improving production and com- developing several community activities through a network oper- mercialization), and by preserving the local culture by managing ating in the area. A permanent training program is available to archeological sites, compiling oral histories, and opening the those participating in the project; this training is supported by Living Communitarian Museums. universities and by recognized environmental organizations. The Rationale: Huehuetenango is a predominantly Mayan populated community, which has limited awareness about the ecological region. The Mayan people make up 60 percent of the importance of its contribution in screening the wastes for recy- Guatemalan population and are the most socially, economically, cling ancl no recycling garbage, will have the opportunity to cre- politically, and culturally excluded segments of the population. ate new marginal jobs. The families will receive training in health This region was one of those most affected by recent internal care and sanitary control, proper food value and cooking, child- conflicts and is where most of the refugees, veterans, and others hood education, and reproductive health methods. displaced by the conflict cohabitate with local communities. Since 1991, IEPADES has sponsored projects for communitarian Project !Number: 736 organization and credit. In 1999, the New World Archeological New Resources for Poor "Campesinos" of Foundation carried out an investigation that resulted in the dis- covery of hundreds of archeological sites throughout the region. Central Andes of Colombia The needs of the Mayan people needed to be integrated into fur- Country(ies)/ Region: Colombia (Latin America and Caribbean) ther archaeological and related activities. Organization: Fundacion Jardin Botanico del Quindio Value-Added: The project is innovative in that it ties a cultural endeavor to economic productivity and supports the sustainabili- Partnering Organization: Secretarfa Ejecutiva del Convenio ty of the process by encouraging self-management, productive Andres Bello innovation, and sustainable development. Fundin~1 Request: $200,000 (out of $700,000 total) Contact: Alberto Gomez-Mejia at email: Project Number: 815 gomezmejia@unete.com or telephone: (57 3) 2127510 Dame Ia Mano (Give Me a Helping Hand) Summary Country(ies)/ Region: Honduras (Latin America and Caribbean) Objective: To train rural and indigenous families in simple agro- Organization: Project Global Village (PAG) industrial processes with appropriate technologies using promis- Partnering Organization: Consejo de lnstituciones Evangelicas sory veg1etable and animal species to increase food security and de Desarrollo (CONSEDE) reduce poverty and, at the same time, preserve in a sustainable Funding Request: $85,500 (out of $165,436 total) way the natural wealth of an area with a high biological and eco- logical diversity. Contact: Chester Thomas at email: pagcent@paghonduras.org Rationale: El Quindfo is located in the central Andean region of or telephone: (504) 232-8287 Colombia, an area of high biological diversity.. Its 500,000 inhab- itants and most of the region's noncoffeegrowing peasants (at Summary more than 1, 700 meters above sea level) live in extreme poverty Objective: To give the gang-prone youth of Tegucigalpa and with no alternatives for sustainable and economically feasible their families a helping hand by providing them with an aware- production. In many cases, their simple survival farming activities ness of the dangers of gangs, rehabilitation, and small business generate deforestation, increased erosion, alteration of the water education for successful reentry into society. cycle, eventual illicit crops, destruction of habitats, and other Rationale: In Tegucigalpa alone, there are an estimated 50,000 ecological and social and economic problems. to 60,000 gang members, driven to violence by their economic Value Added: Benefits include reduced chemical inputs and pro- situations. Their numbers represent a serious threat to national duction costs, with a one year goal to achieve food security and security. The project proposes to establish a training center to biological preservation; the use of mixtures of ecologically com- serve For del Campo and its surrounding slums as a way of patible plants for a better soil yield; and first-time use of in situ addressing the problem. The center will host weekly forums on technologies for animal breeding and agriculture using native community issues and workshops for parents, community lead- and exotic species to generate agro-industrial products used in ers, youth, and eventually gang members. The participatory farming and sold to increase family income. process will facilitate the building of community support and commitment for the center to enable it to become a place for Project Number: 814 vocational training, a means of breaking the poverty cycle. Propelling a Process of Self-Management Value Added: While most programs address the symptoms of and Sustainable Growth in Indigenous the problem, this project goes to the root by providing preventive training. Communities Country(ies)/ Region: Guatemala (Latin America and Caribbean) Project Number: 7771 Organi;~ation: lnstituto de Ensefianza para el Desarrollo Ecopapel Huaycan: Making Small Business Sostenible (IEPADES) of Social and Environmental Development Partnering Organization: New World Archeological Foundation Country(ies)/ Region: Peru (Latin America and Caribbean) Funding Request: $204,997 (out of $249,997 total) Organization: Centro de lnvestigaci6n de Ia Universidad del Contact: UcCarmen Rosa de Leon Escribano at email: Pacifico crdeleon@iepades.org.gt or telephone: (502) 368-0155 I 367- Partnering Organization: Parroquia San Andres de Huaycan 4807 Funding Request: $59,000 (out of $65,000 total) 13 Contact: Felipe Portocarrero Suarez at email: Funding Request: $90,500 (out of $216,500 total) Romero_ME@up.edu.pe or telephone: 0511-2190100 Contact: Carlos Eduardo Ponce Sil€m/ World Bank Contact: Waleed H. Malikat email: consorciojusticia@cantv.net, Summary ceps@hotmail.com or telephone: +58-2125740630/ (i737367/ Objective: To provide the necessary tools and stimuli to encour- age young people to form their own enterprises so that they can control their own businesses and generate jobs and more Summary income for their families. Objective: To minimize the impact on lakes by the fishing com- munity in Tubores, Venezuela; optimize fishing activities through Rationale: Ecopapel Huaycan is an NGO that tries to create the promotion of a sustainable semi-industrial process; educate socially responsible small businesses, with the active participa- fisherman about the importance of maintaining a healthy envi- tion of young people living in marginal zones, that will help fami- ronment within the framework of their commercial or industrial lies get out of poverty, contribute positively to the environment, activities; and improve the condition of life for the poor fisher- and reduce social differences. Ecopapel Huaycan will provide men. these micro industrialists with the information and tools they need to achieve their objectives. They will learn negotiation and Rationale: Currently, the harvesting of the Concha Vivalda decision-making skills. They will also gain knowledge of a new Americana (Mother Pearl), among other varieties of mollusks, recycling technique and acquire independent work that helps is carried out in totally anarchic conditions, caused by a lack support families, while giving them social values. of organization and technical advice. This leads to progressive environmental deterioration, resulting in the deforestation of Value Added: The project helps young people with limited mangrove swamps, the blocking up of river inlets, and water resources to generate their own income; develop ecologically pollution. There is a need to use natural resources in a sus- friendly products; gain citizenship and leadership skills; and build tainable way and to improve the conditions of impoverished networks between themselves, institutions, and other groups. fishermen. Project Number: 7777 Value Added: The project gives fishermen a collaborative way out of poverty by giving them the tools needed to effectively Community Indigenous Reforestation on exploit and process mollusks, without ending only in the sale of the Basin of Maranon and Chiriaco Rivers raw material to the processing companies, or in the elementary processing of the shell, or in placing the finished products in the (formerly Community Reforestation on the market. Basin of Maranon and Chiriaco Rivers) Project Number: 1379 Country(ies)/ Region: Peru (Latin America and Caribbean) Organization: Confederaci6n de Nacionalidades Amazonicas Pongamia Oil as a Diesel Substitute in India del Peru (CONAP) Country(ies)/ Region: India (South Asia) Partnering Organization: Centro Amazonico de Antropologia y Organization: Agricultural Technologies and Services Aplicaci6n Practica (CAAAP) Partnering Organization: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore Funding Request: $23,200 (out of $34,450 total) Funding Request: $237,300 (out of $237,300 total) Contact: Cesar Sarasara Andrea at email: Conap@terra.com.pe or telephone: 511-4238391 Contact: S. R. Sampath at email: agritechbang@yahoo.com or telephone: 91-80-334 2405 Summary Summary Objective: To improve living conditions by coordinating and par- ticipating in activities to protect river shores and by increasing Objective: This project will establish the use of nonedible veg- reforestation and soil productivity in Aguarunas, Peru. etable oils made from the seeds of locally available trees, such as Pongamia, as a source of energy to meet the needs of rural Rationale: The project focuses on the Aguarunas communities populations. located along the shores of the Mara non and Chiriaco Rivers, which have suffered erosion as a result of reforestation. The Rationale: Energy is an important element in poverty alleviation General Law of Water stipulates that a 50-meter-wide area along and in improving the quality of life for rural people. In India, 70 each shore is under state control and should not be developed, percent of the population lives in rural areas, mostly away from but the Agriculture Department does little to comply with this law highways. The transportation of diesel fuel by tankers or the sup- or enforce it. ply of electricity by long power lines to rural areas are both costly and difficult options. Long power lines result in heavy transmis- Value Added: This project pioneers collaborative work and dis- sion loss and low voltage as well .. cussion among the inhabitants of Aguarunas and the local authorities (e.g., military, etc.) to promote sustainable develop- Value Added: The project addresses the unmet power needs ment. and the issue of access in rural India by finding a suitable fuel or energy source to meet their basic requirements. The project will Project Number: 1319 also assist rural communities to protect their water supplies and improve agricultural irrigation and domestic lighting, thereby Sustainable Fishing of the Mother Pearl: improving the quality of life. Environmental Rescue of the Municipality Project Number: 1534 of Tudores Eco-Friendly Palm Mat Production-cum- Country(ies)/ Region: Venezuela (Latin America and Caribbean) Training Center for Poor Women Organization: Asociaci6n Civil Consorcio Justicia Country(ies)/ Region: India (South Asia) Partnering Organization: Alcaldfa del Municipio Tubores del Organization: Kudumbashree Project Estado Nueva Esparta (Mayor's Office of the Tubores Partnering Organization: Community Development Society of Municipality) 14 Kayamkulam Municipality Project Number: 1343 Fundin!J Request: $92,351 (out of $115,606 total) VCT to Strengthen HIV Prevention for Contact: T. K. Jose. I.A. Sat email: spem@md4.vsnl.net.in or tele- phone: 91-471-328320 (office); 91-471-314703 (residence) Urban Poor: A Private Sector/NGO Partnership Summary Country(ies)/ Region: Ethiopia (Africa) Objective: To improve the collection, preservation, manu- facturinn, and marketing of pandanus plants by Northeast Organization: Fifty Lemons, Inc. Indian women to help raise their incomes and protect the Partnering Organization: Community Based Integrated environment. Sustainable Development Organization (CBISDO) Rationale: The poor women of Kerala, who are traditional palm Funding Request: $118,208 (out of $154,583 total) mat weavers, are exploited by intermediaries who sell their prod- Contact: Rahel Adamu at email: fiftylemons@yahoo.com or tele- ucts for them. In addition, they do not practice ecofriendly, value- phone: (202) 452-7422 added weaving, which would garner higher value for their prod- ucts. The project proposes to introduce a production-cum-train- ing center to conduct research on better varieties of pandanus Summary and to begin cultivating the improved varieties. Training and Objective: To provide need-based and affordable voluntary trade aetivities will enable the wornen to do their own collection, counseling and testing of HIV to the urban poor in Addis Ababa. transpo11ation, marketing, and sales to avoid costly middlemen. Rationale: According to UN and health ministry statistics, some Higher incomes are expected to lead to better health, environ- 10.6 percent of Ethiopia's population has HIV, and rates rise to mental protection, infrastructure, education, and social and cul- between 19 and 23 percent in urban areas. Among the urban tural practices. poor, in particular, increased HIV infection exists due to restricted Value Added: Even though many agencies are active in rural choices of safe economic activities and limited access to health development in India, industrial training and empowerment of services and opportunities to improve HIV/AIDS education and women in the palm mat sector has never been done. awareness. In addition, a large majority of Ethiopians are not aware of their sera-status and cannot afford the $25 cost for counseling and testing HEALTH Value Added: The project will have multiple benefits for the poor and will help alleviate poverty. The project avoids duplication and Project Number: 888 builds capacity to provide a new service within an existing struc- ture; develops an innovative multisectoral health service delivery Milk 13ank mechanism; and is cost-effective and accessible to partners and beneficiaries. Country(ies)/ Region: Burkina Faso (Africa) Organi:zation: Association de Developpement PEERAL /SENO Project Number: 342 Partnering Organization: Projet Programme Sahel Burkinabe Fight AIDS: Sew and Sow--Income (PSB)--Danida Generation and HIV/AIDS Education for Funding Request: $165,235 (out of $178,400 total) Ethiopian Women Contact: Diallo Amadou at email: amadouyaya@yahoo.com or telephone: 00 226 36 18 23 Country(ies)/ Region: Ethiopia (Africa) Organization: Integral Assistance Summary Partnering Organization: Women against AIDS Objectiive: To reduce household poverty levels by guarantee- Funding Request: $145,162 (out of $145,162 total) ing stable incomes derived from the sale of goods; to improve living and health conditions; to increase education rates Contact: Abebetch G. Selassie at email: IHTCOM@aol.com or among school-aged children; to promote low-cost animal feed- telephone: (703) 541-2970 ing techniques through training and awareness campaigns. Rationale: Animal husbandry simultaneously plays a funda- Summary mental role in the Sahel, on the ecological, social, and cultural Objective: To prevent HIV/AIDS through an innovative program levels. Settlement seems to be increasingly an aspiration of that combines health education and training, particularly techni- some breeders, as it carries with it many advantages. The cal training in dressmaking and basic business management, livestoc:k also make up a natural bank for a good number of with income-generating activities. breeders for the produc:tion of meat and milk, The Burkina Rationale: The Ethiopian Ministry of Health estimates that 3 mil- Sahel benefits from relatively important pastoral possibilities lion people are infected with HIV. Among the most vulnerable are that, properly exploited, would considerably increase food pro- young women aged 15 to 19. The project aims to raise aware- duction and ensure conditions for sustainable development. ness about HIV/AIDS, empower women economically, and pre- Value-Added: The project will promote the organization of serve Ethiopian culture. Collaborating with a local NGO experi- breeders into groups; improve the training and literacy of pro- enced in health education, it will offer classes in sexual health. It ducers: better organize distribution systems of the marketing will provide training in income-generating activities, focusing on of milk products; promote investments in the animal produc- the technical skills of clothing design, cutting, and sewing. tion sector through the facility of credits; introduce new preser- Students will also receive instruction in basic accounting, mar- vation !techniques for milk and milk products during relatively keting, and management long periods, and it will contribute to the resolution of food Value Added: The project addresses social constraints that questions; create new jobs and increase economic activity in make young women vulnerable to sexual exploitation, providing other sectors. access to information and support while offering training that will make them self-sufficient economicallyensuring sustainable progress. 15 Project Number: 1059 Project Number: 1001 Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of Economic Incentive for Sustainable HIV Infection in Africa: A Community-Based Management of Medicinal and Aromatic Response Plants Country(ies)/ Region: Ethiopia (Africa) Country(ies)/ Region: Nigeria (Africa) Organization: World Bank Organization: National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Partnering Organization: Society for Women and AIDS in and Development (NIPRD) Africa Partnering Organization: Biodiversity Research & Development Funding Request: $150,000 (out of $294,000 total} FoundationFunding Request: $224,360 (out of $439,440 total) Contact: Sheila Dutta at email: sdutta@worldbank.org or tele- Contact: Dr. Nkechi Mercy Enwerem at email: phone: 1-202-4 73-8390 Nkyenwerem@aol.com or telephone: 234-9-5234385; 234-9- 5239089 Summary Summary Objective: To support the development of comprehensive, effective, and socially acceptable services for the prevention Objective: To promote the propagation and processing of aro- of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV at the commu- matic and medicinal plants in Nigeria, and ultimately add value nity level. to current practice, to reduce poverty. Rationale: To date, nearly 90 percent of all HIV-infected Rationale: Some 70 to 75 percent of rural Nigerians rely on infants have been born in the Africa Region, largely as a con- medicinal plants for their health care needs but typically do not sequence of high fertility rates combined with very high HIV benefit in other ways from these plants. The project aims to infection rates. In a number of the most heavily affected ensure that local residents do benefit by promoting a culture of African countries, infant and child mortality rates have more propagating and processing aromatic and medicinal plants that than doubled. There now exist effective MTCT interventions adds value to current practices and takes farmers one step clos- that can be implemented in resource-poor settings. However, er to self-sufficiency. The project will encourage widespread culti- despite the recent increasing focus on HIV/AIDS in Africa, vation of identified plants, developing simple but standard and effective MTCT programs remain isolated, small in scale, and affordable medicinal plant extracts, and demonstrating the limited in scope. A more intensified response is urgently need- extraction and use of essential oils. ed. Value Added: The project will address some of the major bottle- Value Added: The project supports high community participa- necks to industrial utilization of African medicinal plants, and it is tion and strengthens linkages between national agencies, believed to be the first rural farming activity involving tl1e govern- international agencies, and drug donation programs. The proj- ment, target beneficiaries, and the private sector. ect also addresses, for example, economic and legal margin- alization and cultural practices that affect the health of Sub- Project Number: 1206 Saharan African women and make them more vulnerable to Improving Information Access for a Poverty infection. Alleviation Project in Nigeria ----------------------------------------------- Project Number: 1535 Country(ies)/ Region: Nigeria (Africa) Tenmiya's Project Mutual Health Insurance Organization: Fantsuam Foundation Country(ies)/ Region: Mauritania (Africa) Partnering Organization: MS Swaminathan Research Foundation Organization: Tenmiya NGO Funding Request: $42,400 (out of $61,400 total) Partnering Organization: UNICEF/OMS Contact: Dr. John Dada, Director of Program Development, at Funding Request: $41,700 (out of $69,500 total) email: fantsuamfoundation@fantsuam.com or telephone: Mobile: Contact: Mohamed Ould Tourad at email: m_tourad@toptech- 07957 361 767/ UK office +44 0113 216 4185 nology.mr or telephone: 222 525 19 01 Summary Summary Objective: To train women health care providers and build Objective: To promote a combination of preventive, curative, capacity for the information infrastructural components of the and promotional health care activities in Mauritania, thereby Fantsuam Foundation's Asibitin Karkara program, which provides ensuring the quality and sustainability of primary health care in health services through partnerships in rural Nigeria. five rural villages and a healthier environment. Rationale: Health care in Nigeria has traditionally been charac- Rationale: The project will target five villages located in the terized by a top-down approach with little public/private sector Tiguent and Rosso regions of southern Mauritania. These vil- collaboration and limited community involvement in the design lages have one of the lowest health covers (45%) and are seri- and implementation of health policies. Fantsuam Foundation ously affected by malaria, diarrehal diseases, children's respira- works in several rural areas characterized by a Jack of access to tory infections, AIDS, and eclampsia and other maternal prob- reliable information and communication facilities. This project will lems. Health indicators in this area are alarming and health cen- provide an opportunity to reduce the isolation of these rural com- ters abandoned. Social spending was drastically reduced which munities by establishing and strengthening Village Information has caused degradation of the health centers, severe Jack of Shops that will provide access to relevant health information. drugs and a significant worsening of health services in general. Value Added: It will address the problems of access to relevant Value Added: The project is based on: autonomy and freedom, health information and isolation of these rural communities and solidarity, democratic involvement and transparency, responsibili- mobilize resources from within the communities, thereby empow- ty of members and a non-profit goal. ering them. 16 -------·--·--- Project Number: 1334 Project Number: 226 Empower Nomads for a Self~Sustained ACT Mining (AIDS Campaign Team Mining) Community-Directed Health and Country(ies)/ Region: South Africa (Africa) Devellopment Initiative Organization: South Deep Mine Country(ies)/ Region: Nigeria (Africa) Partnering Organization: Community AIDS Response (CARE) Organi;~ation: Common Heritage Foundation Funding Request: $100,000 (out of $200,000 total) Partnering Organization: State Primary Health and Disease Contact: Phillip von Wielligh at email: Control Directorate, Director of Disease Control pavwiell@southdeep.co.za or telephone: 27-11-411 1155 Fundin!g Request: $118,480 (out of $170,480 total) Contact: Oladele B. Akogun at email: chfnigeria@skannet.com Summary or telephone: 234 75) 62 64 67 Objective: To integrate HIV/AIDS prevention and mitigation pro- grams into an existing effort to help retrenched mine workers in Southern Africa, with a view to slowing the spread of the disease Summary and helping families develop alternative sources of income. Objective: To develop a community empowerment initiative for primary health care delivery. Rationale: The retrenchment of miners in Southern Africa, who return to their home towns after losing their jobs, is helping to Rationale: In Nigeria, the nomadic Bororo remain under- spread HIV/AIDS. Efforts exist to reintegrate retrenched miners served in terms of primary health care. The project aims to economically and socially, but little help exists for those with introduce community-managed health care and design a com- AIDS. This project will provide home-based care and counseling munity strategy for basic health care, malaria, and HIV/AIDS support, and offer counseling to help family members develop prevention. It will train community health managers (CHMs); the skills and training needed for a sustainable livelihood. The stock rE1source materials; and monitor, supervise, and inte- project is expected to benefit tens of thousands of families, and grate beneficial outcome. The CHM maintains the community women in particular. health kit, treats and refers cases, and provides community health education and information. Information, education, and Value Added: The proposed project brings together a number of communication will be offered in Bororo-Fulani or Hausa, partners, as well as stakeholders and beneficiaries, with unique whichever is preferred. and complimentary capacities that the project can build on to reach the target population with comprehensive, replicable pro- Value Added: Designing community-based health programs grams. and training health managers will improve the well-being of the community and self-esteem. Project Number: 1411 Project Number: 304 Microenterprise for Health: A Sustainable Bee Farming for Poverty Reduction Improve Tool for Empowering Women in Tanzania Health and Sustainable Agriculture Country(ies)/ Region: Tanzania (Africa) Country(ies)/ Region: Nigeria (Africa) Organization: George Washington Center for International Health Organization: Alternative Trade Network of Nigeria, Member of International Federation for Alternative Trade (I FAT) Partnering Organization: Small Enterprise Development Agency Partnering Organization: Capacity Building for Decentralized Development (CBDD) /DFID, Kaduna, Nigeria Funding Request: $198,506 (out of $198,506 total) Funding Request: $126,700 (out of $176,900 total) Contact: William F. Waters, Ph.D., at email: iphwxw@gwumc.edu or telephone: (202) 994-5616 Contact: Semshak Gompil at email: NATN@hisen.org or tele- phone: 234-73-450178 Summary Objective: To involve micro finance organizations in the fight Summary against HIV/AIDS, improve HIV/AIDS knowledge and practices Objective: To stimulate and create economically and environ- among micro finance clients, and enhance the sustainability of mentally sustainable bee farms in central Nigeria, generating micro finance organizations working in Africa. local jobs and offsetting the negative effects of current honey harveslting. Rationale: NGO micro finance services have helped clients to improve their businesses and increase their household income Rationale: Methods of honey collection employed today use and savings. Evaluations show that individual investments in fires, which often destroy hives, bees, and crop harvests. family health have limited impact on economic gains and micro Hunters are now faced with very low honey yields and poor prof- finance institutional sustainability. Unless specific linkages are its. This project seeks to introduce modern bee farming as a way incorporated into the program structure, this potential may be of generating sustainable income in selected pilot communities, undermined by a lack of knowledge, attitudes, and practices with th13 possibility of replication elsewhere. Participants in the needed to prevent HIV/AIDS. Micro finance entities would con- pilot areas will receive training in bee farming and will then start sider this approach to maintain their clientele base. It also pro- up their own farms. The project is expected to reduce income vides a unique marketing niche for organizations undertaking the fluctuations and uncertainties typical to rural areas. approach: such organizations may be able to attract more clients Value Added: Honey farming requires low start-up costs and interested in the additional services available. provides a good source of organic nutrition for rural dwellers. Value Added: The community led project provides a sustainable Vulnerable gender groups like women and children will also be approach to linking health promotion with poverty-alleviation trained to process and develop beeswax products, such as can- mechanisms at the household level. It addresses the institutional dles, to generate more revenue. sustainability of micro finance organizations working in areas of 17 high HIV/AIDS prevalence and supports the health system ness ventures suitable to local conditions and will provide train- through institutional collaboration and referral of micro enterprise ing to poor farmers. Then, using participation in those income- clients. It can be broadly replicated because micro finance generating activities to create an incentive structure for the local methodologies are becoming standardized and international net- people to make regular prepayment for health care, the project works more effective in disseminating best practices. will mobilize resources from local communities to finance the community-based and government-subsidized rural health insur- Project Number: 263 ance schemes. Low-Cost Malaria Control in Africa: Private Value Added: Integrating rural health insurance with rural income generation promises a more comprehensive approach by Sector Distribution of Insecticide-Treated protecting the rural poor from catastrophic health care spending. Netting (ITN) Project Number: 1925 Country(ies)/ Region: Zimbabwe (Africa) Organization: Mennonite Economic Development Associates Preventive Health Care for Low-Income (MEDA) Women Partnering Organization: A to Z Textile Mills Ltd. (and seven Country(ies)/ Region: China (East Asia and the Pacific) other companies) Organization: Self-Salvation Group for Women's Health Care Funding Request: $88,000 (out of $225,000 total) Partnering Organization: Gao Bei Dian Community Hospital Contact: Jerome Quigley at email: jquigley@meda.org or tele- phone: (519) 725-1715 Funding Request: $200,880 (out of $200,880 total) Contact: Hualin Li (Bejing) or Zongin Li (United States) at email: Summary libruce1060@aol.com or telephone: 011-86-10-68161:351 or (703) 938-9663 Objective: To mobilize the private sector to create awareness of Insecticide Treated Bednets (ITNs) as a low-cost tool against malaria and develop markets and ensure competitive distribu- Summary tion. Objective: To address the needs of two groups of women--those Rationale: ITNs save lives. The problem is that relatively few who are jobless and lack access to medical care and l!hose who African families are aware of this fact, and health ministries can- are trained as medical professionals and have no jobs--thereby not afford to provide ITNs throughout Africa for free. NGO net filling an important gap in health care provision in China. The programs and social marketing of ITNs are costly, and they dis- project will operate from a base at Gao Bei Dian Community courage the private sector from competing with a subsidized Hospital, with activities both at the hospital and in local neighbor- product. USAID estimates the economic cost of malaria at hoods, and will utilize a mobile clinic that will work with existing $US3.5 billion annually. At the household level, as much as 20 neighborhood associations. percent of the disposable family income is spent on largely inef- Rationale: In recent years, the Chinese government has drasti- fective malaria control and treatment. cally reduced the labor force in state-owned enterprises. Vast Value Added: This project will build on an innovative method for numbers of workers have been laid off from factories and free public or private sector partnerships that is currently being test- state medical care is being ended. Down-sized enterprises pro- ed in Uganda to achieve social objectives. The project will use vide their workers with limited medical insurance, but those laid subsidies in some markets and will encourage companies to off have no insurance. At the same time, many medical profes- absorb the costs of advertising and distribution. A newly formed sionals have been forced to take early retirement from institu- association of project beneficiaries will have established market- tions such as hospitals. Women are the first to be laid off or ing strategies and distribution networks for their nets and insecti- forced to take early retirement. cide products. Value Added: The project will empower women and provide a new model for providing preventive health care and public health Project Number: 1419 education, which are weaknesses of China's evolving system of medical care. The project will introduce the concept of partner- Integrating Health Protection with Poverty ship between NGOs and public hospitals and will seek sustain- Reduction ability through limited cost-recovery from patients, including a membership scheme that exempts the poor through work Country(ies)/ Region: China (East Asia and the Pacific) exchange and charges higher fees to those who can afford Organization: Harvard University them. Women undergoing treatment will receive training that will Partnering Organization: China State Development and allow them to act as health educators in their own fa1111ilies and Planning Commission, Department of Social Development communities. Funding Request: $232,163 (out of $232,225 total) Project Number: 971 Contact: Yuanli Liu at email: yuanliu@hsph.harvard.edu or tele- phone: 617 496 8841 Northern Mindanao Community-Based Cooperative for Medical Insurance and Summary Health Care Objective: To pilot an integrated approach to rural development Country(ies)/ Region: Philippines (East Asia and the l=>acific) by linking poverty reduction to the establishment of rural health insurance. Organization: Center for Alternative Rural Technology Rationale: China's rural poor suffer a vicious cycle of illness and Partnering Organization: Population Studies Centre, University poverty. They use much less health care than the non-poor, of Western Ontario which is largely attributable to a lack of insurance coverage. Funding Request: $175,000 (out of $215,000 total) Because high medical expenses lead to large medical debts, the farmers' investments in agricultural production decrease and Contact: Orlando R. Ravanera at email: cart@webgate.net.ph or their living standards decline. The project will identify new busi- telephone: (8822) 710635 18 Summary Organization: National Center for Population Studies and Information/National Committee for Population and Family Objective: To empower poor farmers and fishers in Northern Planning Mindanao (Philippines) to provide for their health and medical needs. The project aims to establish a cooperative health care and Partnering Organization: Department of Planning and Policies medical insurance system among members of community-based in Health/Ministry of Health organizations. Funding Request: $77,470 (out of $99,270 total) Rationalle: Small farmers and fishers cannot afford modern medi- Contact: Dr. Hoang Kim Dzung at email: Hoangkd@fpt.vn or cine and interventions. Even if they are accommodated in the limit- telephone: (84 4) 7330005 ed spaces available in government clinics or hospitals, the poor still need to buy prescription medicine. To pay for this, they either sell or mortgage their meager properties, or they ask for money from Summary politicians or borrow from landowners and lenders who charge high Objective: To provide reproductive and preventive health care interest rates. Thus, they become indebted, often for life, further services, as well as general counseling on income generation, to deepening their social dependence and political powerlessness. women in the poorest region of Vietnam through the use of mobile medical and training units. Value Added: Like an insurance company, members will pay pre- miums that will be matched by counterpart funds from the Rationale: Women in the mountainous northern areas of Development Marketplace. But unlike insurance companies, the Vietnam do not have access to reproductive or general health cooperative will take proactive measures to bring medical and care. Half of all mothers receive no prenatal care and three- health care services to communities where these are unavailable, quarters deliver their children with no medical assistance. and to conduct preventive health care education and take meas- Services currently offered in some commune centers are not ures such as vaccination. This approach is innovative in three easily accessible to many local women and provide limited treat- ways: (a) cooperatives exist in the Philippines but not for medical ment. By providing health services and job counseling, the proj- insurance, (b) insurance systems exist but do not cover farmers ect will improve the health of mothers and their children, as well and fishers who have no regular income, (c) insurance coverage as help reduce poverty. will be based not on employment but on membership in communi- ty-based organizations. Project Number: 942 Decrease of the Transmission of Project Number: 1714 Contagious Tuberculosis among Rural lmpr01ving Understandings of and Basic Inhabitants Services for Populations Living in Coastal Country(ies)/ Region: Kazakhstan (Europe and Central Asia) Waters and Waterways Organization: Country(ies)/ Region: Vietnam (East Asia and the Pacific) Partnering Organization: Counterpart Consortium (USAID) Organization: Research Center for Gender, Family and Funding Request: $49,900 (out of $49,900 total) Environment in Development Contact: Dr. Kurmangazie Beg-Ali, Chairman, at email: family- Partnering Organization: World Bank Mission in Vietnam park@nursat.kz or telephone: Almaty city: (3272) 44 78 27, Fundin!~ Request: $205,700 (out of $0 total) (3272) 42 55 05; Contact Le Thi Nham Tuyet at email: CGFED@hn.vnn.vn or tele- phone: 84-4) 756 5929 Summary Objective: To raise public awareness of tuberculosis in Kazakhstan, reduce transmission, and help poor patients and Summary their families complete treatment. Objective: To improve the current understanding of Vietnam's poor and vulnerable populations that live on coastal and inland water- Rationale: The past decade was one of economic decline in ways and to identify appropriate mechanisms to involve them in Kazakhstan, resulting in the growth of unemployment, poverty, designing and implementing services for their own poverty allevia- and diseases such as tuberculosis. TB patients, 90 percent of tion. whom are poor, face serious difficulties caused by inadequate treatment, unemployment, and social problems, which are further Rationale: A typical poor "water community" family, living in a boat- amplified in rural areas. This project tackles these problems by house that shelters about 10 people, has relatively little access to providing accessible medical care with early diagnosis and moni- basic social services. Consequently, their education and health lev- toring, social and material support, advocacy and social rehabili- els lag behind the national level, and they remain poor. The project tation, and vocational training and job placement. will conduct repeated Participatory Rural Appraisal exercises for learning~ and empowering, which will foster better working Value Added: This comprehensive approach gives patients a partnerships between local service providers and the target com- better chance of finding a job and escaping the cycle of poverty. munities. A floating structure with boat-docking facilities will serve as the children's elementary education classroom, a health clinic Project Number: 633 for women's basic reproductive health care services, and a market- Empowering Communities in place for the exchange of information and products. Karakalpakstan through Health Education Value Jl•dded: Lessons and experiences from the project will be essential for designing further interventions against poverty in Country(ies)/ Region: Uzbekistan (Europe and Central Asia) these two communities. Organization: UNFPA Uzbekistan Project Number: 913 Partnering Organization: Center Perzent Funding Request: $178,620 (out of $178,620 total) A Mobile Clinic to Promote Health Care for Contact: Ali Saatov at email: npo@unfpa.uz or telephone: Minority Women in Remote Areas ++998 71 120 6899 Country(ies)/ Region: Vietnam (East Asia and the Pacific) 19 Summary Summary Objective: To train women from rural Karakalpakstan to be pro- Objective: To empower health providers and consumers for fessional community health educators (CHEs) to improve com- improved maternal health outcomes. munity health knowledge and well-being. Rationale: Located in the heart of the vast Amazonian rainfor- Rationale: Karakalpakstan in Uzbekistan is considered to be an est, the municipality of Manicore is beset with the lack of qual- ecological disaster area. With most local residents still depend- ity health seNices, including comprehensive prenatal care. ent on agriculture, drought has exacerbated poverty, and ill- Travel to the town center can take up to several days by boat- health worsens the cycle. Nearly 100 percent of the women are -a potentially life-threatening obstacle for women in need of anemic, and the infant mortality rate is high. The project aims to emergency obstetrical seNices. The project aims to strength- train CHEs who will work with residents to encourage communi- en the capacity of the public health sector to provide compre- ties to act to improve social conditions, the environment, hensive, quality obstetrical care to women in remote hygiene, and health by providing them with information on such Amazonian villages. The participatory approach, called topics as child health, hygiene, nutrition, and reproductive health. Proqualia, will develop emergency protocols, including a cellu- They will also provide iron supplements to all women of repro- lar telephone system, a voadeira (small speedboat) for rapid ductive age in the project area (a total of 9,686 women). transport of at-risk women, and floating clinics that periodically Value Added: By providing both jobs and health education, this visit river communities. project will break the cycle of poverty. Value Added: The project will help the women of Manicore lead healthier, longer, more productive lives, with benefits Project Number: 1532 accruing to their families, homes, work, and communities. Empowering Families: Promoting Integrated Project Number: 29 Health Care Project Aldeias--lmplementation of Country(ies)/ Region: Bolivia (Latin America and Caribbean) Interactive of School Centers for Nutritional Organization: North Carolina-Cochabamba Partners of the Security--Nucleos de SAN Americas ------~-------------------------------------- Partnering Organization: Centro de Salud Cerro Verde Country(ies)/ Region: Brazil (Latin America and Caribbean) Funding Request: $59,855 (out of $73,855 total) Organization: Centro Comunitario de Reabilita<;ao e Educa<;ao Nutricionai--Centro de Nutri<;ao Contact: Katherine Stalberg, President, at email: Partnering Organization: UNICEF stalberg@email.unc.edu, kit@mindspring.com or telephone: (919) 942-7882 Funding Request: $54,000 (out of $62,000 total) Contact: Maria Auxiliadora Rozendo Tavares at email: Summary cncp.conviver@secrel.com.br or telephone: 55 (85) 2216472 I Objective: To expand a proven pilot to deliver medical seNices 2692187 to marginalized indigenous populations that have migrated to the city. Summary Rationale: A large indigenous population has migrated to Objective: To promote interaction between schools, families, Cochabamba, Bolivia, from remote rural areas and suffer from and the community in the diffusion and application of nourish- language and cultural divides preventing access to community ment and nutritional security's concept as a basic human right, seNices such as schools and clinics. The project aims to expand thereby improving the health and nutrition of children and ado- on a proven integrated medical model that was initiated in Cerro lescents. Verde in 1999. Home visits, individual inteNiews, and ethnically Rationale: The learning potential of young students in north- appropriate health education videos, delivered by public health eastern part of Brazil has been adversely affected by malnutri- nurses and medical social workers who speak Aymara and tion and lack of nourishment. existing national policies Quechua, have dramatically increased the use of clinics by these address only visual and audio-impairment and do not consider underserved populations. The project will continue current inter- other types of damage resulting from malnutrition. The nation- ventions, train indigenous leaders as health promoters within al nourishment programs represents the main meal of the day their own neighborhoods, and further integrate this innovative for many of the students and is an incentive for them to model into the medical school curricula throughout Bolivia. attend. Value Added: By addressing issues of cultural identity, the proj- Value Added: The project enlarges the participation and ect will improve basic health knowledge and medical seNice favors equality of opportunities in the educational sphere, delivery to vulnerable populations, improving their quality of life. forming a cooperative net with schools and family health pro- grams, community health agents and basic health services. Project Number: 1143 Empowering Amazon Health Providers and Project Number: 312 Consumers for Improved Maternal Health Building "Live Pharmacy" with Medicinal Outcomes Plants among Indigenous Communities of Country(ies)/ Region: Brazil (Latin America and Caribbean) Alagoas and Sergipe, Brazil Organization: Management Sciences for Health Partnering Organization: Manicore Municipal Secretary of Country(ies)/ Region: Brazil (Latin America and Caribbean) Health Organization: Universidade Federal de Sergipe Funding Request: $94,940 (out of $599,197 total) Partnering Organization: Universidade Federal do Rio de Contact: Karen Johnson Lassner at email: klassner@msh.org.br Janeiro or telephone: (55 21) 512-3218 Funding Request: $77,000 (out of $154,100 total) 20 Contact: Dr. Angelo Roberto Antoniolli and Dr. Clarice Novaes Project Number: 1339 da Mota at email: Aroberto@ufs.br, claricemota@uol.com.br or telephone: 55-79-212-6644 Iron Supplementation and Improved Nutrition for Young Children in a Community Summary Setting Objective: To empower indigenous communities in Brazil and help them revitalize traditional medicinal knowledge and prac- Country(ies)/ Region: Honduras (Latin America and Caribbean) tices. Organization: The Manoff Group Rationale: Ancestral indigenous knowledge is being lost Partnering Organization: World Bank because of sociocultural adaptation, the construction of dams and the consequent loss of species, government policies, and Funding Request: $174,001 (out of $250,701 total) modern medical clinics. Indigenous communities are becoming Contact: Kimberly Bumgarner at email: Kbumgarner@manoff- economically and culturally impoverished. They urgently need group.com or telephone: 202-265-7469 projects that reflect their vision of development, while generat- ing work and income and helping them regain medical self-suf- Summary ficiency. The project promotes the cultivation of medicinal Objective: To demonstrate improved access to and intake of iron plants in communal gardens; the creation of a local pharma- supplements for children under two years of age by using commu- ceutical laboratory; the placement of scientific equipment with- nity volunteers in a national community child health program. in communities, under the locals' control; the evaluation of plants to help the communities cultivate medicines that will Rationale: In poor communities in Honduras, children under two generate income; and the training of locals in the safe and effi- years of age are at great risk from iron deficiency anemia. This cient preparation of botanical remedies that can be used and results in poor cognitive and behavioral development, decreased sold locally. attention spans and motor skill development, and weakened Value Added: The project will reinstate the intellectual proper- resistance to illness and disease, which lead further to learning ty of medicinal plants to indigenous communities, while pre- problems, poor school achievement, and eventually reduced serving the environment and working toward self-sustainable wages and quality of life. Traditional anemia prevention and treat- growth. ment programs have experienced operational failures because they require labor intensive measures to ensure adequate con- -----·--·--· Project Number: 1741 sumption of iron supplements. The supplements for children (drops or syrups) have numerous shortcomings, including high Proteiin and Calcium against Poverty cost and storage and distribution difficulties, which result in inade- quate access for poor communities. Country(ies)/ Region: Guatemala (Latin America and the Caribbean) Value Added: The project will include the use of community- based distribution systems of a new form of iron supplements-- Organization: Asociaci6n Tercer Milenio ? sprinkles. Based on tests, these supplements do not change the Partneriing Organization: Agroforestal lxhuatan, SA color or taste of the food they are added to and do not stain the teeth. This approach will help solve the logistical problems of Fundin~l Request: $99,000 (out of $115,000 total) access, and additional counseling from community volunteers will Contact: Julieta Calderon Pontaza at email: a3k@c.net.gt or be given to mothers. telephone: (502) 365-8469 Project Number: 520 Summary Empowering Women: A Healthy Way of Life Objective: The project aims to build a mutually beneficial partnership between the owners of large agricultural farms Country(ies)/ Region: Paraguay (Latin America and the and the poor rural families who work on them by promoting Caribbean) the cultivation of fish ponds. Groups of women living in or Organization: Promoci6n y Mejoramiento de Ia Salud Promesa around private agricultural farms will engage in aquaculture for household consumption and local market exchange. This will Partnering Organization: Population Services International PSI provide families with better nutrition, including an increased Funding Request: $64,000 (out of $187,500 total) consumption of proteins and calcium, and at the same time Contact: David Olson at email: promesa@promesa.org.py or tele- may improve school performance and increase farm produc- phone: (595-21)221714/15 tivity. Rationale: In Guatemala, poverty is mainly rural, and more Summary than 50 percent of adults and children in rural areas have inadequate nutrition. This is directly related to the low labor Objective: To foster sustainable improvements in the health of productivity and the children's poor school performance, women and children by enhancing women's knowledge of nutri- among other problems. The lack of economic resources tion and micronutrients that are essential for decreasing mortality rates among children and pregnant women. among families that depend on agricultural farm labor, makes it necessary to involve boys and girls at an early age in Rationale: In Paraguay, indicators reveal that nutritional income generation activities resulting in large drop in school deficiencies cause various health problems. Medical and attendance. The project "Proteins and calcium to fight poverty" social services remain limited, and women are the most vul- aims to provide rural families with alternative means of income nerable, resulting in high maternal mortality rates. In general, generation and improve their nutrition level, which will also the daily diets of poor women do not contain adequate nutri- increase their productivity. ents, and the necessary supplements remain too expensive. Value Added: The project is innovative both for its methodolo- The project aims to train health care providers and facilitate the creation of community groups to offer the necessary gy and for its approach, which, among other things, does not require large financial investments or short- or long-term sub- assistance to create media campaigns, thereby stimulating behavioral changes and increased knowledge among target sidies to keep the project going. populations. 21 Value Added: This participatory community health project con- program will address inaccessibility to medical care by establish- tains a unique communications and marketing campaign to stim- ing an emergency fund to help those who cannot afford the ulate sustainable improvements in public health and quality of transportation to see a doctor. life. Value Added: The project is innovative in that it combines two established approaches to poverty eradication: income genera- Project Number: 198 tion to increase year-round cash availability and preventive Reducing Maternal Mortality in Yemen/ the health care training. Association of Obstetricians/Midwives of Project Number: 936 Yemen Snakebite Prevention through Social Country(ies)/ Region: Yemen (Middle East and North Africa) Marketing of Viper Boots in the Ayerwadday Organization: International Community Services Region, Myanmar Partnering Organization: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Sana'a Country(ies)/ Region: Myanmar (South Asia) Funding Request: $166,000 (out of $184,000 total) Organization: Population Services International Contact: Dr. Jean Chamberlain at email: Partnering Organization: UNDP/UNOPS Primary Health Care jchamber@mcmaster.ca or telephone: 001 519 642 7625 Project Funding Request: $174,409 (out of $312,667 total) Summary Contact: Karen Woodrow at email: kwoodrow@psi.org or tele- Objective: To form an Association of Obstetricians and midwives phone: 202-785-0072 in Yemen to reduce maternal mortality and improve the health and related education of Yemeni women. Summary Rationale: One in nine Yemeni women will die from a maternity- Objective: To reduce snakebite mortality through soc:ial market- related complication. Even when they do survive, many suffer ing efforts to change behavior and increase sales of inexpensive from pregnancy-related complications, which may result in social viper boots, ensuring that prevention messages are appropriate stigmatization. Significant contributors to the high maternal death and effective, at the local and national levels. rate are poverty, knowledge to access appropriate care andavail- Rationale: Snakebites are currently the fourth leadin!J cause of ability of care. The need for an infrastructure of dedicated health death in Myanmar, with severe economic consequences in the care workers to support pregnant women in Yemen is para- rural, agriculture-dependent economy. For most of the rural poor mount. who work outdoors in the rice paddies, this type of death could Value Added: This project supports the formation of a national be easily avoided by wearing rubber boots. Unfortunately, these association for maternal health care that has preliminary boots are not readily available or affordable to the people who approval from the Ministry of Health, and has NGO support. The need them. As a result, hundreds of Myanmar's rural farmers in first of its kind in Yemen, the association will set health care the prime of their lives are killed needlessly each year and can standards, which do not exist at the present time. Women will be no longer provide for their families. involved at the association's grass-root level and will serve as Value Added: This pilot program brings a cost-effective means participants in a needs assessment of women's desires and cus- of prevention to rural areas while strengthening the rural private toms about their health and well-being in Yemen. The associa- sector. Profits will be returned to the same program, providing an tion will lobby the government to provide basic health care for all incentive for continued sales. Local partnerships with NGOs and women as well as to encourage the prohibition of unsafe prac- others is encouraged to ensure distribution of the message and tices. products. Project Number: 1177 Project Number: 475 AMDA Bank Complex Program Combating HIV/AIDS: A Literacy and Country(ies)/ Region: Myanmar (South Asia) Economic Approach Organization: Association of Medical Doctors of Asia (AMDA) Country(ies)/ Region: Nepal (South Asia) International Organization: Pact/Nepal Partnering Organization: Meiktila District Hospital Partnering Organization: Education, Curriculum & T1·aining Funding Request: $140,930 (out of $202,750 total} Associates Contact: Khan M. Zama, Ph.D., at email: zaman@amda.or.jp or Funding Request: $77,990 (out of $92,342 total} telephone: 81-86-284-6758 Contact: Dr. Marcia L. Odell at email: modell@pactnepal.org.np or telephone: +977-1-437996, 429483 Summary Objective: To reduce poverty, caused by illness and disease, among rural residents of central Myanmar by providing micro Summary credit loans, health education activities, and funds for traveling to Objective: To enable Nepali women to focus on HIV/AIDS doctors' offices issues that are important to them, so that they willleam, solve problems, and reach out to educate and help others. Rationale: The most important asset of the region is the labor of the poor, who are constantly exposed to diseases prevalent in Rationale: An estimated 35,000 Nepali adults and children, the region. This project will use a micro credit program to enable largely the very poor, have AIDS. Another 100,000 may be small-scale commodity trading to create a cash income through- infected with HIV. AIDS thrives in an environment of poverty, out the year, which ideally will be spent on health care. stigma, and gender inequity. The project seeks to build on a Beneficiaries will take part in weekly meetings that will center on women's successful literacy and microcredit project by helping credit repayment and renewal, as well as health education. The 1,000 women learn about and discuss the role of HIV/AIDS in overall reproductive health and how it is transmitted through 22 commercial sex, marriage, and other means. These women will dynamic measure-adequate monthly weight gain---empowers tap the proven power of their groups to talk about negotiating communities to see growth, promote it, and take action to correct safe sex with their partners. faltering rather than simply suffer with children who are already malnourished when the situation is difficult to correct. Value Added: The pilot will integrate learning into a transforma- tional empowerment framework that recognizes the effectiveness of educating the individual and discussing and acting on prob- lems within a group. Women will be able to help themselves. PRIVATE Project !Number: 1833 SECTOR Affordable Hearing Aiel Project (AHAP) Country(ies)/ Region: (Global) DEVELOPMENT Organization: EnVision Foundation Project Number: 297 Partnering Organization: IMPACT Foundation, United Kingdom Internet-Based Credit Bureau for Funding1 Request: $100,000 (out of $1,567,946 total) Microfinance Institutions in Benin Contact: David Green at email: dgreen888@earthlink.net or Country(ies)/ Region: Benin (Africa) telephone: +1 (41 0) 785-5373 Organization: PlaNet Finance Summary Partnering Organization: CARE-Benin Objective: To design, manufacture, and distribute an affordable, Funding Request: $90,000 (out of $157,410 total) high-quality hearing aid for developing country markets, and to Contact: Arnaud Ventura at email: aventura@planetfinance.org empower the disabled. or telephone: + 33 1 53 24 31 31 Rationale: Hearing impaired people (and their families) in devel- oping countries are more likely than the rest of the population to live in poverty. The cost of hearing aids is prohibitively high in Summary the developing world, where only 12 percent of all hearing aids Objective: To establish Internet-based credit bureaus in Benin to are sold each year and where there is a need for an estimated support an association of micro finance institutions, addressing 32 million units. The project will not only manufacture and distrib- the growing problem of debt default and overextension. ute hearing aids well below market cost but also create signifi- Rationale: Approximately 400 micro finance institutions currently cant job opportunities for people with disabilities by establishing operate in Benin, offering financial services to the majority of the hearing aid manufacturing facilities. poverty-stricken. In 1999, they provided micro credit programs Value Added: The project differs from existing approaches to that helped 450,000 people, which represented 17 percent of the providin9 hearing aids in that it is modeled on the concept of working population, as opposed to the less than 5 percent of "compassionate capitalism," which centers on the use of profit people that were serviced by traditional banks. The main goals and production capacity for service and product delivery to the of the Internet-based credit bureau project are to detect as early poor. as possible the risk of borrower default and to improve coordina- tion among micro finance institutions through information shar- Project Number: 935 ing. Value Added: The project will reduce poverty among small busi- Promoting the Growth of Children Globally ness owners by protecting them from the risks of overextension. Country(ies)/ Region: (Global) It will also contribute to the sustainability of micro finance institu- tions by reducing the quantity of unpaid loans. Organi2:ation: Manoff Group Partnering Organization: World Bank Group Project Number: 1874 Fundin!l Request: $242,732 (out of $242,732 total) YouthiT: Youth Information Technology Contact: Marcia Griffiths at email: mgriffiths@manoffgroup.com Microenterprise Project or telephone: 202-265-7469 Country(ies)/ Region: Ghana (Africa) Summary Organization: World Bank Objective: To develop tools to replicate an innovative model in Partnering Organization: Altadena Rotary Club #05300 growth promotion to reduce chronic child malnutrition in the world's poorest communities and offer innovation in the means of Funding Request: $120,000 (out of $240,000 total) replication as well. Contact: Anthony Bloome at email: abloome@worldbank.org or Rationale: International nutrition experts have promoted the use telephone: 202-473-2282 of youn!~ child growth as an overall indicator of good health. However, the use of this indicator in public health programs Summary addressing the poor has proved difficult. The Atencion Integral a Objective: To promote information and communications technol- Ia Ninez (AIN) program of the government of Honduras has suc- ogy (ICT) literacy, business development, entrepreneurship, and cessfully developed a community-based model that monitors leadership skills by using the training and resources available at monthly growth to reduce malnutrition and mobilize around chil- 20 World Links Internet Learning Centres (ILC), run by NGOs, in dren's health. The success of AIN in Honduras has stimulated Botswana, Ghana, Uganda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. interest in other countries to revamp their growth monitoring pro- grams or to begin child health efforts focusing on growth promo- Rationale: In competitive marketplaces, African youth--in and tion. out-of-school--need sets of skills that will increase their opportu- nities for employment and small business creation. Proficiency in Value-Added: The growth promotion model turns traditional cur- ICT is one such area of skills' development. As local, national, ative approaches around to make programs truly preventive. A and international businesses become more dependent on com- 23 pulers and the Internet for administrative and commercial appli- Many turn to criminal activities and prostitution to ensure their cations and services, the development of these skills in African survival. The project aims to train these urban youth, providing youth will serve as a useful foundation for small business cre- them with resources and tools. It will offer entrepreneurship train- ation and employment in a variety of public and private sectors. ing, a mentoring program, consulting service, business library, Value Added: World Links teachers, Junior Achievement and computer center, links to venture capitalists, and an internship Rotary Chapters at the international and national levels have program. expressed interest in the project. The latter organizations repre- Value Added: The project spurs wealth creation and poverty sent many business leaders who are personally committed to reduction by providing an at-risk group with practical tools. youth development and recognize the importance of business development and IT skills. In addition, several Rotary clubs have Project Number: 1972 agreed to support the project through in-kind (for example, busi- ness mentorship) and financial contributions. Cottage-Industry Technology for Poverty Reduction in Rwanda Project Number: 1465 Country(ies)/ Region: Rwanda (Africa) Building Capacity of Urban Women Traders Organization: Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and in Amuwo-Odofin LGA of Nigeria Management (KIST) Country(ies)/ Region: Nigeria (Africa) Partnering Organization: Rwanda Federation of Private Sector Organization: Child Association of Nigeria Funding Request: $250,000 (out of $630,000 total) Partnering Organization: UNICEF Contact: The Rector at email: rector@kist.ac.rw or telephone: (250) 74696/74625/71929 Funding Request: $12,550 (out of $14,750 total) Contact: Dr. Adeoye Durojaiye Kolawale at email: Summary caonfes@yahoo.com or telephone: 234-1-880462 Objective: To introduce a simple cottage-industry technology to help the rural people of Rwanda generate income by producing Summary items that are usually imported. Objective: To reduce poverty and promote economic growth by Rationale: The rural population of Rwanda faces a multitude of developing the skills and knowledge of poor urban market development challenges, including a weak private sector, exac- women in Nigeria through a micro credit scheme. erbated by high levels of poverty. The project takes aiim at the Rationale: Urban women are among the poorest in Nigeria, pre- problem by introducing simple cottage industry technologies to vented for the most part from owning property that could be used promote production--by local communities, businesses, women to secure loans and credits from financial institutions. For market groups, youths, and demobilized soldiers--of simple items, such women, this is a serious impediment to business. The project as toilet paper and plastic pipes. It will also encourage the trans- addresses the situation by making funds and credits available formation of raw materials into value-added products, such as through "thrifts" or cooperatives, which will also provide function- cooking oil, for local markets and export. The project will provide al and health education, as well as parenting skills. The result of technical and business training, and it is expected to l:ncrease these activities will empower the women economically to the value of local products, raise incomes, and stimulate improve their income from trading activities, make them more increased production. efficient in home management of their children illnesses, and Value Added: This project breaks with the tradition of importing allow them to make informed reproductive decisions. finished goods by offering simple hands-on solutions to break Value Added: This project is innovative because of its integrated the poverty cycle. approach, which links economic support with education, health, demography, and nutrition within the traditional structure and Project Number: 634 institutions. Housing and Jobs for a Better Future ---- Project Number: 658 Country(ies)/ Region: South Africa (Africa) Fostering Business and Entrepreneurial Organization: International Institute for Energy Conservation Development among Youth in Port Harcourt Partnering Organization: PEER-Africa Country(ies)/ Region: Nigeria (Africa) Funding Request: $104,874 (out of $190,874 total) Organization: The FATE Foundation Contact: Dr. Nitin Pandit at email: lcutlip@cerf.org or telephone: 1.202.785.6433 Partnering Organization: First Atlantic Bank Funding Request: $100,334 (out of $186,917 total) Summary Contact: Ndidi Okonkwo at email: info@fatefoundation.com, Objective: To use a new energy-efficient, Dutch brick-making ndidi_okonkwo@hotmail.com or telephone: 234-1-4 70-6836/40 machine to enable small and medium local businesses to use local materials and labor to build low-cost housing, promoting Summary both entrepreneurship and poverty alleviation. Objective: To equip Nigerian youth with skills, tools, networks, Rationale: The demand for decent, affordable shelter is a daunt- and financing to promote employment, entrepreneurship, and ing challenge for development in South Africa. One major con- poverty reduction. straint is the cost of traditional building materials, which can con- Rationale: The FATE Foundation was established in March stitute up to 80 percent of housing costs. The project aims to 2000 to foster wealth creation by promoting business and entre- mainstream an innovative brick-making machine that makes preneurial development among Nigerian youth. FATE experi- cheaper bricks at the same quality. Because the machine is enced rapid success in Lagos and is now establishing a pres- mobile and uses earth to produce bricks, transport costs are ence in Port Harcourt, where an estimated 70 percent of second- eliminated and house construction no longer depends on central- ary school and university graduates are currently unemployed. ly located manufacturers and retail outlets. 24 --·---··------··---·------ Value Added: The innovative technology will enable local entre- Project Number: 370 preneurial firms to use local resources, spur local employment, provide low-cost housing, and thus reduce poverty. Local Economic Governance for Growth in Mongolia Project Number: 680 Country(ies)/ Region: Mongolia (East Asia and the Pacific) BuySouthAfricaOnline Organization: Asia Foundation Country(ies)/ Region: South Africa (Africa) Partnering Organization: Liberal Women's Brain Pool Organization: Triple Trust Investments Funding Request: $183,911 (out of $223,711 total) Partnering Organization: Children's Campaign Trust Contact: Kim Hunter, Representative, at email: tafmg@magic- Fundin~1 Request: $155,913 (out of $1,313,492 total) net.mn, eweiser@asiafound.org or telephone: 976-11-311497 or Contact: James Thomas at email: james@tto.org.za or tele- 976-11-311507 phone: 27-21-6896000 Summary Summary Objective: To increase local government support for private- Objective: To provide small South African businesses with sector-led growth in Mongolia; strengthen business associa- access to global markets through a low-cost export system. tions to represent better the interests of their members; facili- tate regular mechanisms for public-private dialogues; and Rationale: Market exposure of small producers in South improve national economic policy, ensuring that it more accu- Africa is limited to local customers because of the costs and rately reflects economic interests outside the capital city. infrastructure needed to handle overseas orders. BuySouthAfricaOnline is a service set up by a group of NGOs Rationale: Developing an institutional and policy framework and businesses as a total export access system that uses the more conducive to small business development will be a vital latest technologies to enable even the smallest emerging busi- step in ensuring sustainable economic growth that benefits the ness to sell directly to customers worldwide. Economies of broader population. Small business growth is constrained by a scale and custom packaging allow businesses to achieve low difficult and still unreformed policy environment; inadequate shipping charges. All subscribers share in a common, secure knowledge or support from local government officials; inexpe- credit card processing facility. Each subscriber has its own rience in market-based economic growth; weak enforcement; website and sets its own prices. Orders can be received via arbitrary action and demands for informal payments by offi- fax or even mobile phones. cials; lack of transparent procedures; and access to informa- tion. Value Added: The project takes e-commerce to a new level, opening up new ways for international trade to take place and Value Added: Supported by an international foundation, this providin!;J a full, decentralized, fulfillment logistics service. project facilitates a broad alliance of local partners from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to identify impediments Project Number: 491 to business growth and pursue their reform and sustain local ownership. It operates at the provincial level with independent, Fund for Private Sector--Village nonsectoral business associations and local officials. Partnerships in the People's Republic of Project Number: 598 China Dilijan Crafts Initiative Country{ies)/ Region: China (East Asia and the Pacific) Country(ies)/ Region: Armenia (Europe and Central Asia) Organi2:ation: Asian Development Bank Resident Mission in the People's Republic of China Organization: madeinarmenia.org Partnering Organization: Foreign Capital Project Management Partnering Organization: Aid to Artisans Center, Leading Group on Poverty Alleviation and Development Funding Request: $124,500 (out of $173,700 total) Fundin!~ Request: $250,000 (out of $765,000 total) Contact: Aram Hajian at email: aramhajian@yahoo.com or tele- Contact David S. Sobel, Senior Country Officer for PRC, and phone: 3741-58-02-13 Chief, Poverty Reduction, at email: dsobel@adb.org or tele- phone: 136 10 6642 6600-05 Summary Objective: To organize, guide, and empower craftspeople from Summary an Armenian village to sell their traditional, high-quality handwork Objective: To create a fund to pilot innovative partnerships on the global market. between poor villages and private sector companies to promote Rationale: Armenia is characterized by strong local traditions long-term commitments of seed funding for human resource and heritage and by imaginative and industrious craftspeople development and sustainable village investments. who lack the resources to turn their handwork into businesses. Rationale: The private sector can be a powerful engine of The project focuses on the people of Dilijan, an economically growth, creating jobs to lift people out of poverty. The project depressed town. It offers support by training craftspeople for aims to contribute to sustainable poverty reduction by supporting internationally competitive presentations and merchandising and village-based poverty pilot projects, especially in the areas of by creating online access to global markets. The people will rural infrastructure, agriculture, and micro finance that have secure a tangible opportunity to establish sustainable business- potentiad for sustainability. The private sector sponsors will estab- es, experience less poverty and serve as role models for the lish simultaneous long-term relationships with the village, local country and region. government, and NGOs and international donors active in village Value Added: The project goes beyond job creation. It aims to areas. help artisans transform themselves and their traditions into trade Value Added: The project proposes a unique partnership to pro- groups and workshops. mote private sector investment in poor villages. 25 Project Number: 912 Project Number: 737 From Brain Drain to Brain Gain: Internet- Building Transnational Based Network of Diaspora Professionals Country(ies)/ Region: Haiti (Latin America and Caribbean) Country(ies)/ Region: Armenia (Europe and Central Asia) Organization: Caribbean Project, Georgetown University Organization: World Bank Partnering Organization: Windward Islands Farmers' Partnering Organization: Center for Innovation and Association Entrepreneurship, University of Cape Town Graduate School of Funding Request: $250,000 (out of $771,884 total) Business Contact: Gillian Clissold at email: clissolg@georgetown.edu or Funding Request: $100,000 (out of $200,000 total) telephone: 202 687 2013 Contact: Lev M. Freinkman at email: lfreinkman@worldbank.org or telephone: 202-458-7 410 Summary Objective: To help Haitian entrepreneurs harness the potential Summary of globalization by developing transnational partnerships with Objective: To expand the diaspora's role in development to the other businesses through information technology. provision of networking opportunities to support market entry, Rationale: Poor communities in both the Windward Islands and skills development, and access to venture capital for home coun- Haiti are in desperate need of new, innovative mechanisms for try entrepreneurs. generating employment, income, and community development. Rationale: In South Africa and Armenia, the emigration of skilled To meet these needs, the project will provide intense, custom-tai- people, or brain drain, is a major threat to development. Both lored information technology (IT) and business training to both countries have active, organized, and educated diasporas, with a Caribbean and U.S. partners, together with a matchmaking serv- strong presence in the high-tech, knowledge, and financial sec- ice facilitated by a Virtual Trade Mission provided by a local Washington firm. Thus, the project will provide poor micro entre- tors in key international centers. The project aims to pilot an innovative partnership to harness the networking and marketing preneurs with the same business tools their more prosperous skills of these diasporas. Relying on the Internet as a medium to counterparts rely on to navigate the globalized marketplace. reduce transaction costs, the project will accelerate formation of Value Added: The strategy marks the first effort to use IT to entrepreneurial networks to link diaspora professionals from assist small companies and the poor. Armenia and South Africa to entrepreneurs in the home coun- tries looking for opportunities to develop new business Project Number: 7772 partnerships. Strengthening the Organization of Coffee Value Added: The pilot emphasizes facilitating transactions and project development by using strategic partners located close to Farmers {CEPICAFE) for Improved Market target communities. Orientation in Central Piurana, Peru Country(ies)/ Region: Peru (Latin America and Caribbean) Project Number: 2020 Organization: Partnering Organization: Equal Exchange Empowering Private Sector Development Funding Request: $59,548 (out of $76,348 total) through Dissemination of Raw Material and Contact: Santiago Paz Lopez at email: Technology Information cepicafe@cpi.udep.edu.pe or telephone: (51) 74-344SI83 Country(ies)/ Region: Romania (Europe and Central Asia) Organization: Arta Traditie Artizanat Romania Summary Objective: To promote new leadership by incorporating women Partnering Organization: Craft Foundation Romania and youth into the organization and enables them to assume Funding Request: $55,000 (out of $8,099,000 total) more prominent and active roles in the management and opera- Contact: Emilia lonescu at email: ata@dnt.ro or telephone: +40- tion of the coffee certification program. It professionalizes the 1-327-4719 management capacity, increasing competitiveness and improving services to affiliates. Summary Rationale: Founded in 1995, CEPICAFE is a union of indige- Objective: To spur private sector development through the dis- nous farmers with a growing membership and expanding mar- semination of necessary information. kets. The organization needs to be democratized with greater member participation in program management. Many young, Rationale: In Romania, as in all transition economies, business educated people and indigenous women are interested in con- development requires access to sector-specific information, sup- tributing to the organization, and many are better educated than ply chains for the best-quality, most-affordable raw materials and the older members of the association. In the past, technologies input technology. The project aims to disseminate directly all and improved varieties of coffee were introduced; the~;e were information needed to start or strengthen small and medium investment intensive, did not consider the capacity of organiza- businesses. A possible focus is the local handcraft sector. tions of producers, and did not utilize the strengths of the pro- Creating a raw material and technology database will improve ducers' particular situation in a sustainable manner. the investment climate, create jobs, and spur sustainable growth in the private sector. Pragmatic information sharing will not only Value Added: The innovative character of the projed lies in the benefit producers and suppliers, but also strengthen links at the decision to focus on democratization as a tool to strengthen the local level. organization of farmers and thereby the process, rather than solely focusing on exports and credit. It also capitalizes on the Value Added: The project targets small-scale craft producers comparative advantages of the producers to access new mar- who live in less economically advanced areas, thereby reducing kets, such as gourmet coffee markets, thereby increasing the poverty. income-generating potential of the families of coffee farmers. 26 preneurial culture with a network approach, allowing micro enter- Project Number: 1317 prises to understand the advantages of associating with one Program to Mobilize Investment for Social another. It promotes aid to small enterprises and artisans as one Responsibility (Program MISR) of the most efficient ways to modify the quality of life for broad sectors of the population, eliminating social exclusion and inte- Country(ies)/ Region: Egypt (Middle East and North Africa) grating vulnerable social groups into local development. Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Partnering Organization: KHA/Egypt Funding Request: $209,531 (out of $435,278 total) RURAL Contact: Robert P. Lowman at email: Lowman@unc.edu or tele- Project Number: 1710 phone: 919-966-5625 BRO: Self-Sufficiency in Food Production Summary and Economic Independence of Sub- Objective: To promote corporate social responsibility in Egypt Saharan African Countries Rationale: The Kenan Institute, in conjunction with its local part- Country(ies)/ Region: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'lvoire ner KHA, CARE-Egypt, and local NGOs, proposes to promote (Africa) corporate social responsibility (CSR) programming in Egypt Organization: Solidarite through Program MISR. This program will strengthen Egypt's investment climate by building community support for private Partnering Organization: Association Culturelle et Technique investment. It will mobilize social investment in rural develop- d'Echange Nord-Sud (ACTENS) ment by multinational and Egyptian investors and raise the pro- Funding Request: $74,325 (out of $148,650 total) file of CSR in Egypt as a strategy for development and corporate Contact: Peggy Amalbert at email: p.amalbert@solidarite.asso.fr community relations. Through Program MISR, resources will or telephone: 00 33 (0)5 63 41 01 14 support pilot projects that demonstrate the use of information technology (IT) for rural development, while helping create awareness of IT's role in development, the importance of mar- Summary ket-liberalizing policies in making such technologies available, Objective: To promote the making of lower-cost bread from local and the link between corporate IT investors and grassroots food products to nourish the people of Sub·Saharan Africa and development in Egypt. produce jobs while creating food self-sufficiency. Value Added: In addition to introducing IT to Egypt's rural Rationale: Sub-Saharan Africa relies on grain imports to pro- NGOs, the project develops corporate social responsibility as a duce breads, at high financial and nutritional costs. The project development tool, expands corporate involvement in rural devel- promotes the production of breads from local food products, opment, and helps local grassroots NGOs to establish linkages such as corn, millet, cassava, sweet potato, and plantain, and with multinational and local corporations. will develop local production facilities and promote employment for farmers and women while reducing dependence on imports. Project Number: 264 The new, more nutritious bread products would initially be target- ed at children to help overcome protein deficiencies. The project Small Business Development of Poor also calls for savings and micro credit for production and facili- Communities in Giza Governorship, Egypt ties installation. Country(ies)/ Region: Egypt (Middle East and North Africa) Value Added: The product branding, calling the end result Bro instead of bread, uses the Dioula word for bread to elicit local Organization: Movimondo interest and support. Partnering Organization: Small Enterprise and Community Development Association Project Number: 2071 Funding Request: $150,000 (out of $188,000 total) Building of Flat Roof to Collect Rain Water Contact: Marcello Goletti, Head of Mediterranean Area, at email: in Ouagadougou Suburbs molisv.movimondo@flashnet.it or telephone: +39 06 57 300 330 Country(ies)/ Region: Burkina Faso (Africa) Summary Organization: Association Amnistie pour !'Elephant (AAPE) Objective: To improve the living conditions of the poor and dis- Partnering Organization: Centre Regional pour I'Eau Potable et advantaged through the development of micro enterprise and I'Assainissement a Faible CoOt (CREPA) handicraft sectors. Funding Request: $234,287 (out of $331,430 total) Rationale: In Egypt, micro and small enterprises constitute 98 Contact: Sawadogo Bobodo Blaise(QY: is Sawadogo last percent of existing production units and are the main source of name?] at email: bobodo.sawadogo@liptinfor.bf or telephone: employment. Lack of public support for the development of 226) 35 64 15 services and processes hinders enterprise organization. Micro enterprises also suffer from fragmentation, which impedes access to scale economies; problems of transportation and dis- Summary tribution; weak maintenance of equipment; absence of informa- Objective: To improve the water supply in the poor suburbs of tion; strong competition among the poor; and a weak under- Ouagadougou during the driest months of the year by collecting standing of market processes. rainwater from rooftops for income-generating activities. Value Added: The proposal is a pilot intervention in the area, Rationale: Frequent water shortages occur in the poorer sub- introducing a new strategy related to the promotion of entrepre- urbs of Ouagadougou. The project aims to address the problem neurial communication, networking, and association to optimize by creating 120 structures in six suburbs to collect and distribute production processes and collaboration among local entrepre- rainwater when domestic water supplies are marked by interrup- neurs. The project will concentrate on strengthening the entre- tion and rationing. The project should improve local revenue, 27 build organizational and institutional capacity, and develop poor and remain vulnerable to environmental, economic, and human resources. The water will allow for intensified revenue- social difficulties. One constraint to their well-being is the lack of generating activities such as truck farming, horticulture, and appropriate financial institutions. Working with pastoral societies seedling production, particularly during the period of food short- in Mongolia and Kenya, the project aims to explore herders' age that precedes the new harvest. views about appropriate financial institutions and develop new Value Added: The project is innovative in that it is the first time mechanisms, particularly for livestock insurance, microleasing or rainwater is being collected from the rooftops of Ouagadougou hire purchase, micro credit, savings deposits, and community city on such a large scale. credit unions or community investment funds. Savings mecha- nisms would provide additional security in disaster years; credit Project Number: 1436 would enable poor herders to acquire essential production capi- tal, such as livestock, machinery, and buildings; and insurance Kajiado Livestock Restocking Program, would protect poor households from catastrophic loss and desti- Kenya tution. -------- ---------··---- Value Added: Generating new ideas and piloting innovative Country(ies)/ Region: Kenya (Africa) financial mechanisms promises to address the cyclical nature of Organization: Women Economic Empowerment Consort income generation for nomadic pastoral societies, contributing to (WEEC) poverty alleviation. Partnering Organization: Enterprise Research Services -----.----------------- Project Number: 1824 Funding Request: $150,920 (out of $200,920 total) Contact: Jedidah Waigwa at email: weec@swiftkenya.com or Twenty-First Century Agricultural telephone: 254-0303-25279 Cooperatives: Empowering Kenyan Farmers in the Era of liberalization Summary Country(ies)/ Region: Kenya (Africa) Objective: To alleviate poverty in the Kajiado District of Kenya through economic empowerment of women by developing a Organization: LEI Corp. revolving credit fund and providing training to Masaai women to Partnering Organization: Kenya National Federation of establish and manage high-quality cattle with immediate eco- Cooperatives (KNFC) nomic returns. Funding Request: $250,000 (out of $1,450,000 total) Rationale: The Maasai are the dominant ethnic group in Contact: lbrahima Dione at email: idione@aol.com or tele- Kajiado and their main economic activity is pastoralism. With the phone: (301) 441-3500 onset of the drought, their livestock economy has been put under severe stress. Migration towards pasture land introduced animal diseases into an already precarious situation resulting in Summary a reported mortality rate for beef and milk livestock of between Objective: To help agricultural cooperatives and rural small- 20 and 98 percent. The impact on women, who rely on milk from holder farmers in Kenya compete in newly liberalized com- the livestock to support basic family needs, was severe. The modity markets through increased access to market informa- drought affected family incomes, health, and children's school tion. attendance in the district. Rationale: After decades of reliance on market protection, Value Added: The project targets the Masaai and especially subsidies, and donor grants, Kenyan agricultural cooperatives women, deepening the outreach of micro finance; it focuses on are poorly equipped to compete in economically liberalized agricultural and livestock credits, providing credit with skills and markets. Market share of key agricultural commodities is knowledge to empower the poor; it targets the causes of poverty declining with serious poverty implications for smallholder rural among Masaai people, including their lack of knowledge and farmers. The project contributes to income generation and technology, limited skills, low incomes, food shortages, migratory poverty reduction by helping cooperatives and poor farmers lifestyle, and inability to identify and exploit opportunities; it pro- gain access to market information through such means as vides limited livestock extension services to the target popula- Intranet portals and training; increase efficiency; and expand tion, in the wake of the government's withdrawal from providing networks through community kiosks. such services; and it creates capacity within the community to Value Added: The project's approach to training and informa- undertake some aspects of this project. tion dissemination, based on global best practice, capitalizes on the bottom-up structure of Kenyan cooperatives and goes Project Number: 175 one step further: emphasizing a demand-driven, private sector Innovative Financial Institutions for transfer of information and skills on a cost-recovery basis. Nomadic Pastoralists Project Number: 2137 Country(ies)/ Region: Kenya (Africa) Strategies for Harnessing Indigenous Organization: Institute of Development Studies Poultry Systems to Combat Poverty among Partnering Organization: OXFAM Kenya Kenyan Women Funding Request: $116,508 (out of $116,508 total) Country(ies)/ Region: Kenya (Africa) Contact: Jeremy Swift at email: j.swift@ids.ac.uk or telephone: + 44 (0)1273 606 261 Organization: Rural Friends Kenya Partnering Organization: Agricultural and Rural Development Summary Programme (ARDP), Catholic Diocese of Nakuru Objective: To identify and experiment with modern financial Funding Request: $171,105 (out of $171,105 total) institutions adapted to nomadic, livestock-based social groups, Contact: Joseph Mutitu Ndegwa at email: j.n.ndegwa@read- making new pastoral poverty-reduction strategies more effective. ing.ac.uk or telephone: +44-118-931 8022 Rationale: Nomadic pastoralists are among the poorest of the 28 Summary Value Added: The project incorporates an innovative financing scheme for bee equipment, similar to micro leasing, at commer- Objective: To empower women by harnessing the income gen- cially sustainable rates. It will allow farmers to pay for hives by eration potential in the indigenous poultry system for sustainable installments after each harvest. These deductions will be paid livelihoods and poverty eradication. back to the financier of the hive. It seeks to develop a synergistic Rationale: More than half of Kenya's population exists in a partnership between the private sector, the development sector, state of absolute poverty and deprivation. Most of the poor and rural communities. The technology used also represents an people are found in rural areas eking out a living by subsis- innovative and environmentally friendly approach. tence farming, often under extremely unfavourable conditions. Women bear the brunt of poverty and deprivation; they are the Project Number: 469 most vulnerable, with little or no access to, and control of, resources and benefits that come from their hard work. Thirdwave Africa--Emarketplace Indigenous poultry systems have been identified as an area of Country(ies)/ Region: Kenya (Africa) opportunity to involve women in development activities for sustainable livelihoods and to combat poverty in its many and Organization: Thirdwave Africa Ltd. varied manifestations. Over 80 percent of the total poultry Partnering Organization: Horticultural Crops Development population in Sub-Saharan Africa consists of indigenous poul- Authority try. This poultry system, however, is characterized by low pro- Funding Request: $250,000 (out of $370,000 total) ductivity due to a variety of constraints and is often viewed as a low status enterprise, mainly within a woman's domain and Contact: Mary Waturi Matu at email: info@thirdwaveafrica.com, not "worthy of serious attention." matumary@yahoo.com or telephone: 254-72-757008 Value Added: The innovativeness of the project lies in its focus on women's groups and on the use of local resources accessi- Summary ble to, and largely controllable, by women. Interventions on Objective: To streamline the fresh produce supply chain in improved management practices are based on new findings from Kenya by building an information infrastructure that links the indi- recent farmer participatory research and have not yet been vidual farmer to the end-buyer via various stations along the applied as a development tool for projects with a poverty and chain through an Internet-based portal. livelihood focus. Farmers involved in previous research activities Rationale: The estimated 20,000 small-scale farmers account with indigenous chicken have agreed to act as resource people. for 60 percent of the country's total horticultural production. Few Their experiences will provide case studies for training, sensiti- of these peasant farmers have direct contact with their markets zation, and inspiration. Female field extension personnel in proj- or control over their produce beyond the farm gate. Typically ect areas will be recruited to oversee activities and will be they sell produce to middlemen who assist exporters in consoli- encouraged to become members themselves of their respective dating produce at various rural centers. There is little reliable groups. A revolving fund will be set up to offer material credit, to information on produce availability and market demand, which be repaid within six to twelve months, to group members through means that exporters cannot determine supply levels accurately respective groups. This will allow the project to be expanded to and farmers cannot anticipate market demand. This results in a other groups. 40 percent loss of produce at the farm gate, while the exporter incurs high costs trying to locate produce. The system also Project Number: 378 allows middlemen to set arbitrary prices, which further marginal- Testing Sustainable Commercial izes the farmer. Partnerships to Develop the Beekeeping Value Added: Thirdwave's principal innovation is to build a com- munity-based capacity to participate and trade in a transparent Sector in Kenya and efficient Internet-based marketplace. The project will create Country(ies)/ Region: Kenya (Africa) an information system that will be powered by a database, will aggregate supply and demand information, and will reduce the Organization: Africa Now cost of communication, thereby lowering transaction costs. Partnering Organization: Honey Care Africa Funding Request: $85,000 (out of $160,000 total) Project Number: 422 Contact: Robert Hale at email: nairobi@africanow.org or tele- Energy Centers for Mali phone:+ 254 2 583120 Country(ies)/ Region: Mali (Africa) Summary Organization: PEER Global Environment Foundation (awaiting IRS approval as non-profit) Objective: The project aims to introduce both existing and new beekeepers to Honey Care Africa, an ethical private sector com- Partnering Organization: Sinergie S.A. pany that guarantees beekeepers a market for their produce. Funding Request: $132,164 (out of $347,716 total) The project aims to fully test commercial partnerships between Contact: Dr. Lilia Abron at email: peer1 @ix.netcom.com or tele- rural communities and Honey Care for the development of the phone: 301-816-0700 beekeeping sector. Rationale: Beekeeping in Kenya complements existing farming Summary systems; is simple and relatively cheap to start; enhances the environment through the pollinating activity of bees; and gener- Objective: To develop and implement replicable, multipurpose ates income while requiring very few inputs. It is ideal for retail stores called energy centers, which will be used to intro- resource-poor rural communities. Traditionally, wild bee nests duce, demonstrate, lease, and sell appropriate and energy-effi- and log hives are harvested by heavy smoking, resulting in a cient building and communication products for residential and poor-quality honey and the destruction of the bee colony. The commercial applications. beekeepers are prone to exploitation by more knowledgeable Rationale: Since a majority of Mali's poor live in rural areas, middlemen and cannot access markets. Within the context of efforts to alleviate poverty must first address their particular chal- affluent urban centers, they lack marketing skills, economies of lenges. This project aims to facilitate the ready availability of scale, and packaging requirements. technologies, products, and services capable of stimulating and 29 developing a sustainable rural economy. Services include 12-volt exacerbating household food security, which leads to hunger, battery charging, powered by renewable energy, for which the malnutrition, and escalating poverty. Improper harvesting, han- centers will provide battery handling and disposal services. dling, and storage, as well as humidity and pest and rodent Other services include communications technologies, refrigerator infestation, further deteriorate stored crops. The project aims to services, small business development, and micro lending and create effective storage facilities to hold the food for better mar- savings programs. ket prices, reducing the incidence of loss. It will stimulate further Value Added: Direct access to a variety of innovative products food production, stabilize food prices, and promote household and services that can improve the quality of life and stimulate a and national food security. vibrant local economy will transform the areas where these cen- Value Added: Storage will lead to better prices and ters are located. increased income, thereby resulting in reduced poverty for these poor farmers. Project Number: 1842 Project Number: 2003 Poverty Reduction: Implementation of "Family Drip System" Irrigation and Grains Inventory for Sustainable Good Agricultural Methods for Smallholders. Governance Country(ies)/ Region: Niger (Africa) Country(ies)/ Region: Nigeria (Africa) Organization: Netafim (A.C.S) Ltd. Organization: Otia Development Foundation Partnering Organization: ICRISAT Partnering Organization: DFID\CBDD, Nigerias Funding Request: $250,000 (out of $250,000 total) Funding Request: $139,069 (out of $150,005 total) Contact: Aharoni Arik at email: arika@netafim.com or telephone: Contact: Sunday A. Onyilokwu at email: +972 4 6955542/06 sonyilokwu@hotmail.com, Ubc_Otukpo@onebox.com or tele- phone: Nil Summary Summary Objective: To assist the countries of semi-arid Africa to change the current production balance from rain-fed to irrigation agricul- Objective: To enhance marketing to increase smallholder pro- ture. ductivity and effective participation in governance. Rationale: The present reliance on nonsustainable rain-fed agri- Rationale: Despite recent infusions of micro credit, many poor cultural systems to provide basic foods and generate income is grain farmers in Nigeria have not improved their lot because of the main reason for much of the poverty in the Sahel. Frequent continued low prices, especially at harvest, and because of the droughts result in hunger and in loss of meager resources. Using absence of strong farmers' associations and dismal political rep- a more efficient irrigation system with nonenergy operating costs, resentation. The project aims to apply an effective mechanism such as the FDS will enable production balance and reduce for achieving enhanced marketing to increase smallholder pro- reliance on the unreliable rain-fed system. Complementary know- ductivity income and community participation in decision making. how and support will bring increased productivity and improve the It will increase the incomes of grain farmers, which wi!l empower product quality of farms and small commercial gardens. them to take care of other social needs, such as education and good health. Value Added: The project brings a low-cost, appropriate, and environmentally friendly technology to poor farmers who will own Value Added: The project will focus on institutional reform and it; focuses on women farmers in particular; emphasizes capacity capacity building efforts, a strategic niche in fostering good gov- building, through training and extension, of local experts and ernance and impacting the provision of services to the rural poor. farmers; and increases local participation and improves overall production. Project Number: 1746 Investing in Fish Farming to Build Business Project Number: 1827 Enterprises in Sudan Empowering Women Involved in Post- Country(ies)/ Region: Sudan (Africa) Harvest Agriculture: From Evacuation to Organization: Sudanese Development Initiative Production Partnering Organization: Fisheries Employees and Production Country(ies)/ Region: Nigeria (Africa) Association (FEPA) Organization: Vulnerable Empowerment Initiative Network Funding Request: $65,010 (out of $84,997 total) (Veinnet) Contact: Abdei-Rahman Yahia EI-Mahdi at email: Partnering Organization: UNDP arm@sudia.org or telephone: +249-11-224747 Funding Request: $249,879 (out of $277,121 total) Contact: Nnenna Nwoke Kalu at email: veinnet@yahoo.com or Summary telephone: 234-01-4922710 Objective: To develop a commercial fish farm to reduce reliance on income generation through agriculture, provide nutrition and improve health status, build an entrepreneurial spirit; and lessen Summary damage to endangered species. Objective: To empower women farmers by supporting the con- struction of crop storage facilities and the off-season sale of agri- Rationale: The majority of Sudanese face extreme difficulties in cultural products to smooth revenue fluctuations. making ends meet as a result of poverty, unemployment, and shortage of local capital. In Sudan, fish farming would relieve the Rationale: In Nigeria, agricultural production in the State of present strain on natural resources and ease the pressure that Ebonyi is characterized by an abundance during harvesting and farmers are now placing on Nile fishing. Endangered species a scarcity during the off-season, resulting in excessive price fluc- would thus be protected, and a source of protein would be avail- tuations. Lack of storage facilities discourages further production, able. 30 Value Added: The proposed fish farm will provide supplemen- region, improving and modernizing their beekeeping techniques tary income for the 136 members of the partnering agency FEPA and introducing techniques to new areas. Clay hives that break and will allow small traders to sell fish in the neighboring three will be replaced by wooden hives that are more resistant, and villages. This project will enhance nutritional status among rudimentary harvesting methods that often cause brush fires will almost 25,000 low-income Sudanese families while supplement- be improved. ing family incomes. The project demonstrates that cross-sectoral Value Added: Beekeeping will not only provide honey, which is collaboration can address local health and nutritional needs and an excellent dietary supplement, but will also generate additional enable larger and sustainable agribusiness enterprises. revenue for rural populations. Project Number: 562 Project Number: 525 Empowering Small Farmers through Poverty Breaking in Togo South Eastern Building Self-Reliance and Local Credit Region: Goat/Sheep/Pig Farming Strategy Resources Country(ies)/ Region: Togo (Africa) Country(ies)/ Region: Sudan (Africa) Organization: Laboratoire de Recherche sur Ia Securite Organization: Near East Foundation Alimentaire Durable (LARSAD)-Universite de Lome Partnering Organization: ROOTS Partnering Organization: Centre de Recherche et d'Essai des Funding Request: $55,000 (out of $75,000 total) Modeles d'Autopromotion (CREMA) Contact: Jonathan Belke at email: nef-rg.prog@neareast.org or Funding Request: $150,719 (out of $184,127 total) telephone: (249-11) 224747/224748 Contact: Egnonto M. Koffi-Tessio at email: emtessio@syfed. tg.refer.org or telephone: ?228-269469/258184 Summary Objective: To empower small farmers by fostering self-reliance Summary and increasing access to local credit resources. Objective: To contribute to poverty alleviation in Togo by pro- Rationale: The struggle for food and financial security define the moting a system of small livestock farming as a complementary poverty-stricken conditions of the vulnerable small farmers who income-generating enterprise. comprise 90 percent of the 25,000 residents of EI-Sheraik in Rationale: Small livestock farming is traditionally characterized northern Sudan. The vicious circle of rural poverty--lower yields, by uncontrolled grazing, lack of adequate technical and advisory dropping prices, exploitative credit, shortages in essential inputs, support, scarce and costly veterinary products. In the past focus- and decreasing incomes--has made survival difficult. Urban ing on small livestock was not adequately planned, integrated migration further reduces local food production and straining city and given proper attention. Furthermore existing production social services. The project will improve local food security by packages focused only on technical aspects without human combining participatory agricultural extension with a flexible non- health/nutrition and education concerns. exploitative agricultural credit system. Local community-man- Value Added: The project will increase overall family livelihoods aged fund and flexible credit on fair terms will enable farmers to by diversifying incomes and by strengthening farmers' organiza- increase incomes, ultimately breaking their cycle of debt and tion and management capacities and the micro finance structure. poverty. It will also add animal protein to the family diet, promote local Value Added: By addressing the lack of adequate and fair employment, and empower women through contract signing. It sources of credit, the project aims to reduce rural poverty. will also provide training sessions in primary health care and nutrition, information on HIV/AIDS and other sexually contagious Project Number: 1397 diseases, and environmental awareness. It aims to reduce the rural migration of young girls and women to urban areas. Improved Beekeeping for the Protection of the Environment Project Number: 1365 Sustainable Regeneration of Secondary Country(ies)/ Region: Togo (Africa) School Agricultural Education in Teso, Organization: Assistance Technique pour un Developpement Uganda ---------------------- Integral (ATDI) Country(ies)/ Region: Uganda (Africa) Partnering Organization: Ecole Superieure d'Agronomie, Department of Agriculture, University of Lome, Togo Organization: Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich Funding Request: $111,483 (out of $121,791 total) Partnering Organization: Serere Agricultural and Animal Contact: Bislao Tei Aristideat email: bislao@hotmail.com or Production Research Institute telephone: (228) 06 44 91 Funding Request: $101,800 (out of $101,800 total) Summary Contact: N. J. Hayden at email: n.j.hayden@gre.ac.uk or tele- phone: 44 1634 883281 Objective: To introduce and popularize modern beekeeping techniques among rural communities in the Kara region in Togo, thereby increasing income generation and reducing poverty. Summary Rationale: Honey has traditionally been underexploited in Togo. Objective: To improve the livelihoods of Ugandan farmers by Beekeeping, however, is a viable activity in regions where arable developing small-scale agricultural enterprises within the school land is rare, such as in Kara. It is not costly, and it does not com- sector. pete with other rural activities in terms of harvest timing, terrain Rationale: Agricultural production provides the basis of house- requirements, or technological overhead. The project will target hold food security and income generation in Teso, Uganda. As a 500 farmers from 50 villages in the 7 prefectures of the Kara result of socio political changes, agricultural education in schools 31 has been neglected at the same time that the sources of tradi- Summary tional farming knowledge and practices have become frag- Objective: To reduce poverty among Sudanese refugees in mented or lost Already poor, the present school generation Uganda. risks worsening poverty as a result of their lack of traditional skills and coping mechanisms. Rationale: Previous attempts to reduce poverty by local groups have failed because of insufficient beneficiary training, often con- Value Added: The main innovation of the project is the self- ducted in English and translated to these largely illiterate people; determination and empowerment given to a multitiered com- lack of beneficiary motivation and enthusiasm for group enter- plement of stakeholders to develop, own and sustain their prises; high production costs that render products uncompetitive; own priority areas for agricultural training and development and poor marketing, often done by unmotivated and unskilled The whole community will be involved (through pupils and NGO employees. parents) in identifying topics for school agricultural projects. Thus, parents will influence the teaching and learning priorities Value Added: The project offers a two-pronged approach for that reflect the community's present and future requirements. tackling the twin problems of insufficient food and lack of cash Another innovation is the development of more effective link- incomes; unusual joint implementation by an NGO and a com- ages between teachers, extension services, and researcher- mercial enterprise; support for individual rather than group enter- sto refresh skills of trainers, and feedback to help meet the prises; recognition of the middleman as a useful force in the fight the priorities of all stakeholder sectors. The inclusion of a to reduce mass poverty; promotion of better production prac- micro business element will ensure sustainability of the provi- tices of the right crops, better prices for produce, and better sion and increase business awareness. rates of loan repayment. Project Number: 1541 Project Number: 193 Improvement of Rural livelihoods through Refrigeration for Small-Scale Dairy Farmers Increased Production and Marketing of Country(ies)/ Region: Uganda (Africa) Finger Millet Organization: Solar Ice Company ----~- Country(ies)/ Region: Uganda (Africa) Partnering Organization: Heifer Project International Organization: Natural Resources Institute, University of Funding Request: $210,250 (out of $243,258 total) Greenwich Contact: Carl Erickson at email: SolarlceCo@aol.com or tele- Partnering Organization: Serere Agricultural and Animal phone: 410-266-8495 Production Research Institute Funding Request: $100,000 (out of $100,000 total) Summary Contact: N. J. Hayden and K. S. L. Wilson at email: n.j.hay- Objective: To test the use of solar-powered refrigera- den@gre.ac.uk, k.s.l.wilson@gre.ac.uk or telephone: 44 1634 tion systems for small-scale Ugandan dairy farmers 883281 , 44 1634 883601 who have historically had little or no access to afford- able electricity. Summary Rationale: The project addresses the need to establish affordable preservation methods for rural communities to Objective: To improve the nutrition of vulnerable people and maintain the quality necessary for their products to compete in empower communities to improve their livelihoods through the marketplace. Recent investments by dairy development increased production of finger millet and the creation of mar- organizations have been very successful in increasing milk keting pathways. production in small-scale East African dairies. In order to justi- Rationale: In the Teso region in Uganda, finger millet is tradi- fy production and achieve a fair market price surplus, milk tionally an important source of nutrition. The current demand must be shipped to areas deficient in local production. High for finger millet is not being met by local farmers. The project costs for electricity (or no electricity) restrict refrigeration aims to develop local capacity for the production of high-quali- efforts. ty finger millet seed stocks; assess and disseminate available Value Added: The innovation of this project is the introduction of finger millet lines to increase production; and identify and a new and appropriate, low investment solar-powered ice mak- build a supply and marketing pathway between local produc- ing system and its use in preserving food and generating ers and buyers, including relief food agencies. income. The project will involve participants, encouraging them Value Added: By addressing not only production constraints to think and respond in new, innovative ways. The project is and market demands but also food relief, the project offers innovative in that it uses solar refrigeration as a sustainable solutions to food security challenges that benefit all stakehold- means of food preservation that is appropriate for the needs of ers. small farmers. Project Number: 679 Project Number: 10 Lomore Holdings Development Project Market Creation for Low-Cost Country(ies)/ Region: Uganda (Africa) Microirrigation Technology among Zambian Organization: Sudan Christian Action for Rural Development Smallholders (SCARD) Country(ies)/ Region: Zambia (Africa) Partnering Organization: Savannah Organic Produce (U) Organization: International Development Enterprises (IDE) Limited Partnering Organization: Durham Ltd. Funding Request: $214,999 (out of $234,999 total) Funding Request: $120,000 (out of $120,000 total) Contact: Zamba Michael Duku at email: zduku@yahoo.com or telephone: 256-77-517566 Contact: Sandy Ngoma, Marketing Director, at email: idezam- bia@zamnet.zm or telephone: 260-1-237685 32 Summary Partnering Organization: Urban Forum, Yogyakarta (Yogyakarta NGOs Network) Objective: To extend the reach of treadle pump technology by reducing production costs and making it more affordable to larg- Funding Request: $75,000 (out of $135,000 total} er numbers of poor farmers. Contact: I. Bakti Setiawan, Ph.D., at email: Rationale: While ample land and water resources exist in Flamboyn@idola.net.id, pplh@ugm.ac.id or telephone: 62 274 Zambian wetlands, which cover large areas of the country, an 565 722 appropriate water-lifting technology to allow small-scale farmers to irrigate efficiently and expand their dry-season crops is lack- Summary ing. IDE, an NGO, has been active in Zambia since 1997 pro- Objective: To address the issues of poverty and the environ- moting dry-season horticulture among poor rural farmers using ment that plague urban areas in Indonesia as a result of the eco- appropriate small-scale irrigation technology. The technologies, nomic crisis. This project aims to increase the value of urban which include treadle pumps and drip irrigation systems, enable solid waste and create job opportunities for the urban poor by farmers to produce vegetable crops for consumption and sale. developing coalitions among urban groups, such as scavengers, IDE uses a market-based approach to disseminate the irrigation compost producers, home-based enterprises and vendors, and technology, establishing a private-sector network of small-scale handicraft producers. manufacturers and retailers who produce and sell the products at an affordable price with a fair profit margin. Rationale: As documented by many studies, the impacts of economic crisis in Indonesia are severe, not only that the Value Added: The project promotes a market-based approach number of poor people are increasing (around 24% of the to the dissemination of a low-cost, environmentally friendly tech- total population are consider to live under the poverty line), nology and develops local capacity to manufacture the technolo- also the occurrence of many complex social and environmen- gy and benefit the economy as a whole. tal problems in urban areas in Indonesia. Food security is in danger, millions of children and baby are suffering from mal- Project Number: 869 nutrition, more and more kids are living on the streets, while Uhuru Community Development Vehicle basic urban services (water, sanitation) are deteriorating. These situations need innovative development strategies, Country(ies)/ Region: Zimbabwe (Africa) which should be effective for both short and long term prob- Organization: Riders for Health lem solving. Partnering Organization: World Bank, Gender Rural Transport Value Added: This project will reduce poverty because it views Initiative Programme urban waste as an opportunity rather than a problem; it incorpo- rates two crucial problems facing urban centers in developing Funding Request: $125,000 (out of $254,100 total) countries--the environment and poverty; it combines several Contact: Andrea Coleman at email: acoleman@riders.org or activities that are commonly undertaken sectorally and separate- telephone: 0044 1327 300047 ly; and it facilitates networking among urban poor groups and increases their collective capacities. Summary Project Number: 1540 Objective: To provide, through the use of the Uhuru vehicle, viable independent access to health services for the whole com- Empowerment of Dairy Farmers Through munity and, in particular, for women; generate sufficient income to make appropriate repayments, on a micro credit basis; and Direct Participation of Grassroots, Truly produce surplus income for the community's further benefit. Needy Farmers Rationale: Patients in rural communities are currently transport- Country(ies)/ Region: Indonesia (East Asia and the Pacific) ed to hospitals and clinics by a variety of means: unpredictable Organization: Institute of Technology Surabaya bus service, by foot, on the back of another person, and by tradi- tional cattle-driven scotch-carts that are slow and limited to a dis- Partnering Organization: Universitas Airlangga tance of about 10 kilometers. In rural areas, ambulances are Funding Request: $154,000 (out of $175,000 total} available at some hospitals, but they are not always functioning; and there are no phones. Rural communities are totally reliant Contact: Sudiyono Kromodihardjo at email: urge01 @rad.net.id on agriculture which is not mechanized. Soils are overused and or telephone: 62 31 5981731 manually irrigated. Malnutrition, low or no incomes often result. Even when communities have produce to sell, markets are usu- Summary ally impossible to access. The Uhuru is a field tested, low-cost Objective: To empower landless, marginalized farmers by pro- technology that can solve these problems of health care access moting and supporting small-scale dairy farming. and increase income, thereby reducing poverty. Rationale: Rural, mountainous East Java, Indonesia is densely Value Added: The Uhuru will be exclusively manufactured in populated, and the population is extremely poor. Constraints Africa (initially Zimbabwe). The advantages include: complete include a lack of access to financial and physical capital. About 5 community ownership, employment opportunities; use of locally percent of households currently own one or two dairy cows. The available materials for manufacture; lower facility costs; no project aims to empower more women to participate in dairy import duties or freight costs; and use of Zimbabwean production farming. It will organize farmers into cooperative dairy farms, and management staff. establish a demonstration model, train farmers, and provide ini- tial seed money to purchase one dairy calf. It will provide guid- Project Number: 1014 ance, veterinarian support, and required medicine. Within a year, the raised calf will bear a new calf and start producing milk, Strengthening the Loop: Combating increasing farmer assets and generating income. The project will Poverty by Capitalizing Urban Waste also provide better nutrition to children by making milk easily accessible to farmer families. Country(ies)/ Region: Indonesia (East Asia and the Pacific) Value Added: Small-scale dairy farming will provide better nutri- Organization: Center for Environmental Studies, Gadjah Mada tion and a source of income. University 33 Project Number: 2059 Project Number: 853 Energizing Community through Organic Establishing a Mariculture Livelihood Park: Environments (ENCORE) Project of BWF's Capacitating Marginalized Fisherfolk to be Balik Maynilad Program Entrepreneurs Country(ies)/ Region: Philippines (East Asia and the Pacific) Country(ies)/ Region: Philippines (East Asia and the Pacific) Organization: Babilonia Wilner Foundation (BWF) Organization: Genesys Foundation, Inc. Partnering Organization: Visual Merchandising Display Partnering Organization: Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Corporation Resources, Department of Agriculture, Philippines Funding Request: $244,000 (out of $330,000 total) Funding Request: $200,000 (out of $500,000 total) Contact: Ipat G. Luna at email: ipat@bwf.org or telephone: Contact: Xavier P. Zabaleta at email: xabi@mozcom.com or 510.883.1808 telephone: +63 34 3126968 Summary Summary Objective: To benefit the poor urban population of Manila by Objective: To enable marginalized and subsistence-based fish- developing organic urban gardening for the preparation and sale erfolk to venture cost-effectively, securely, and sustainably into of healthy food. marine fish culture, with the objective of increasing their income Rationale: About 80 percent of Manila's residents live with sub- levels and, thereby, their standard of living. standard air quality levels, and all of the city's rivers are polluted. Rationale: Widespread problems with overfishing, indiscriminate These poor environmental conditions and a lack of local agricul- fishing methods, destruction of marine habitats, and pollution tural production threaten food security. An estimated 100,000 have caused municipal fisheries production in the Philippines to street children live in squalid slums. The project aims to trans- drop at a rate of 3.5 percent per year. This has resulted in form the parking lot of the Metropolitan Theater and the Mehan increased poverty among fisherman families. The project aims to Garden into a Pedestrian Ecopark. Seminars and training for empower poor fishermen by providing sea cage farming as an vendors in growing and cooking local foods and for street chil- affordable alternative to capture fisheries. The strategy involves dren in urban gardening will transform the area into a center for the development of key infrastructure and the establishment of healthy, organic, and self-sufficient urban development. improved management, marketing, and financing systems. Value Added: Urban gardening in Manila is an innovative idea. Culture facilities and services will be rented out to deserving It would not only provide nutrition, food security, and income- beneficiaries or cooperatives at a reasonable cost, removing the generation for the target population but would also contribute to burden of capital investment from the farmer. the improvement of the local environment. Value Added: The project aims to replicate proven technologies and practices from the private sector and replicate them with Project Number: 806 fishermen. Electronic Bulletin Board and Marketplace Project Number: 1406 for Farmers The New Initiative: A Model for Community- Country(ies)/ Region: Philippines (East Asia and the Pacific) Business Empowerment. Organization: Co-founder, B2bpricenow.com Country(ies)/ Region: Bosnia and Herzegovina (Europe and Partnering Organization: Philippine Rural Reconstruction Central Asia) Movement (PRRM) Organization: Friends of Bosnia Funding Request: $118,039 (out of $850,039 total) Partnering Organization: Cornell University Contact: Fiona J. M. Paua at email: fionajane_paua@ksg01.harvard.edu or telephone: 632-896- Funding Request: $92,900 (out of $193,900 total) 5722 Contact: Christopher F. Bragdon at email: fob@crocker.com or telephone: 617-424-6906 Summary Objective: To enable farmers to harness the benefits of informa- Summary tion and communications technologies to promote economic Objective: To increase self-reliance in Bosnia and use commu- development and social well-being. nity human capital and local organizations to create jobs, rehabil- Rationale: Farmers in the Philippines have long suffered from itate infrastructure, and empower local enterprises. the lack of market price information and have often been unable Rationale: The Tuzla park experience in Bosnia served as a to get the best return for their products. The project creates pilot for the New Initiative, demonstrating that government, busi- B2Bpricenow.com, a free electronic bulletin board and market- ness, nonprofits, and the general citizenry can work together place designed to bring relevant market information directly to effectively to create jobs, strengthen community organizations, farmers, primarily through their cooperatives. The website and complete public infrastructure projects that benefit the entire enables the farmers to negotiate better from awareness of pre- community. This pilot project had very measurable results: new vailing market prices for their products. The website aims to min- self-sustaining jobs in auto repair and Information Technology; imize intermediation (middlemen's fees), thereby enabling farm- added revenue for community services; public space restored; ers to reap the gains of lower costs and broader market reach. and new community and business partnerships. It involved no Value Added: By providing transparent and timely market infor- charity, dependency, or entitlement but just the opportunity to mation for both buyers and sellers, the project will enhance effi- work together towards a common goal. As a result, the New ciencies in the agricultural market and reduce farmer poverty. Initiative created something very critical to a healthy climate for sustainable growth, self-respect, and confidence. 34 Value Added: The New Initiative utilizes self-interest for the collective and state-farm workers rights to private land, access to common good, elevates all individual contributions to the com- land remains a problem for many Kyrgyz farmers. Impoverished munity level, and integrates all sectors of Tuzla's society into a farmers who want to withdraw their land from collective farms self-regenerative set of mutually beneficial relationships. frequently are unable to because of opposition from farm bosses and local government officials. While most land disputes are with Project Number: 1088 government officials, it is these same officials who adjudicate these disputes. Revitalization of Traditional Farming Value Added: The project will combine advocacy with training to through Sustainable Tourism and Marketing create village-level community leaders, including women, who Country(ies)/ Region: Croatia (Europe and Central Asia) can sustain the focus on land rights even after the project is over. It will work within the customary practices and norms of Organization: EGO-CENTER CAPUT INSULAE- BELl Kyrgyz villages with the country in general ensuring its accept- Partnering Organization: PLAT-IN, LLC ability. Funding Request: $133,600 (out of $204,000 total) Project Number: 1282, Contact: Goran Susie, Ph.D., at email: Orlov-let@ri.tel.hr or telephone: +385 51 840 525, cell phone: +385 98 368 515 Tajik Farmers Ownership Model Country(ies)/ Region: Tajikistan (Europe and Central Asia) Summary Organization: IFC, World Bank Group (on behalf of the future Objective: To preserve traditional agriculture and reduce farmer FOM joint stock company) poverty, thereby preventing the depopulation of Cres island in Croatia and the extinction of the griffon vulture. Partnering Organization: Login Dekhan Farmers' Association and Andarasoy Association of Nov Rationale: Cres is the largest and most depopulated island in Croatia. The current trend is towards further depopulation and Funding Request: $250,000 (out of $750,000 total) the abandonment of many traditional agricultural efforts, primarily Contact: Paolo Spagnoletto or Vessel ina Jeleva at email: related to sheep raising, which directly threatens the existence pspagnoletto@ifc.org or telephone: 202-458.83.86 of the Griffon Vulture, an endangered species which lives only on Cres. The Griffon exists in a symbiotic relationship with island Summary sheep, whose numbers have drastically declined during the last three decades, resulting in a lack of feed for the vulture. This sit- Objective: To set up a joint stock company with two farm associ- uation will render the species extinct if action is not taken imme- ations to help them pay for their inputs at discounted cash prices diately to increase the number of sheep. To do this, it is neces- rather than with more expensive future contracts. This would be sary to introduce new ideas that will make sheep production eco- done by IFC. nomically rewarding for local farmers, who currently engage in Rationale: The Tajik cotton sector is currently in crisis due to a poverty-level subsistence agriculture. lack of crop production financing. This lack of financing con- Value t.dded: The project is innovative because it establishes a tributes to low yields (1 to 2 tons per hectare) of poor quality cot- network of technical expertise and assistance, including grants ton that ultimately results in low gin output (32 percent) or value. of equipment, to exploit a market demand for higher-quality mut- In addition, there is a high level of debt in the cotton sector origi- ton, as well as cheese and wool productsand develops agro- nating from the 1998 season when excessive credit was extend- tourism. A woman's craft association will also benefit from wool ed, and its use was poorly supervised. Low cotton prices in the production, resulting in product sales. Finally, the project 1998 and 1999 seasons further aggravated the situation so that addresses a potential biological disaster, the extinction of the farmers are neither able to repay the old debts nor to purchase Griffon Vulture, and mobilizes local inhabitants and private sector appropriate production inputs for the new crop. There is a need forces to improve, directly and indirectly, the species' chance of to alleviate the resulting poverty and move away from subsis- survival. tence agriculture. Value Added: This project will allow the farmer to accelerate Project Number: 844 debt repayment and be able to buy agricultural inputs on a cash basis with no financing. This means that the farmer will save up Legal Rights Advocacy Project-Empowering to 30 percent on the financing costs, motivating the farmer to Local Community Leaders in the Kyrgyz produce in a commercial way with proper individual retribution. It Republic upgrades the credit risk profile of each farmer through collective representation, and it reduces the cost of sourcing agricultural Country(ies)/ Region: Kyrgyz Republic (Europe and Central inputs through proper operational and financial management and Asia) procurement. Organization: Rural Development Institute, Senior Staff Attorney Project Number: 1920 Partnering Organization: World Bank Institute, Agricultural Support Services Project, Kyrgyz Republic Organic Standards Initiative-Enhancing the Funding Request: $112,785 (out of $132,299 total) Value of Developing Countries' Agricultural Contact: Renee Giovarelli at email: reneeg@rdiland.org or tele- Exports phone: 206-528-5880 Country(ies)/ Region: (Latin America and Caribbean) Summary Organization: World Bank Objective: To reduce poverty and encourage economic growth Partnering Organization: International Food Policy Research by educating, training, and empowering rural farmers and com- Institute munities about their legal rights to land tenure. Funding Request: $235,500 (out of $235,500 total) Rationale: Land is the primary asset for agricultural workers to Contact: Anders Hjorth Agerskov and John S. Wilson at email: lift themselves out of poverty. Yet, despite laws giving former aagerskov@worldbank.org or telephone: +1 202 473 4979 35 Summary with the support of local organizations and engages entrepre- neurs to participate in creating social equity and capital. Objective: To expand over time developing countries' agricultur- al exports by commanding a price premium for inorganic prod- Project Number: 837 ucts. Rationale: The lack of an internationally recognized global stan- APENOC's Empowerment through dard for organic foods creates conditions in which developing Commercial, Communications, country exporters are at a disadvantage relative to farmers in developed countries. This is particularly true, given the fact that Transportation, and Management Upgrading standards are developed by institutions like the CODEX Country(ies)/ Region: Argentina (Latin America and Caribbean) Commission and other international standards bodies, for devel- Organization: Asociacion de Productores del Noroeste de oping countries that lack access and resources to shape specific Cordoba (APENOC) market access requirements. Moreover, standards and technical barriers to trade are now recognized as a critical obstacle to Partnering Organization: lnstituto Nacional de Tecnologfa enhanced market access for developing countries. Agropecuaria (INTA) Value Added: The project provides a developing country's per- Funding Request: $51,400 (out of $79,637 total) spective on organic standards and their development; builds on Contact: Eduardo Cesar Belelli at email: existing standardization efforts; explores equivalence with official apenoc@datacop5.com.ar or telephone: + 54 3549 495076 EU and U.S. standards; seeks to influence private organic-like standards development and partner with the organizations by informing them of the needs and special circumstances of the Summary developing countries and their farmers, in particular in Central Objective: To improve the living conditions and income of the America and Sub-Saharan Africa; and reaches out to consumers poor farming communities in Northwest Argentina by eliminating and companies in developed countries by building on their incen- the "middleman" when it comes to selling their goods. tives and buying power to generate additional income for farmers Rationale: Families in the region live in extreme poverty, mainly in developing countries. because of the high production costs and the low cost of goods. The situation is made more difficult by the farmers' isolation, Project Number: 2131 never-ending debt to and dependence on middlemen, and the low aggregate value of their products. The project aims to Promotion of Social Equity in Large Urban increase income by 40 percent by training young people in mar- Areas keting and production promotion, in cooperation with local edu- cational facilities; by providing a communications system to the Country(ies)/ Region: Argentina (Latin America and Caribbean) local farmer's association; and by transporting goods and prod- Organization: Foro del Sector Social de Ia Republica Argentina ucts directly to supermarkets. Partnering Organization: Organizacion Poleas Value Added: The project is innovative in that it creates a new Funding Request: $150,000 (out of $495,000 total) marketing network in which small farmers and their fam,',lies play the lead role. Contact: Marfa Rosa Martini, Edmundo Schugurensky, and Veronica Staniscia at email: foro@arnet.com.ar or telephone: Project Number: 867 4311-5001 Social Capital and Alliances among Summary Organizations: Foundation of Local Objective: The project will break the intergenerational poverty Development cycle by taking care of the basic needs of about 3,500 children, adolescents, and youth in San Telmo. It will improve the nutri- Country(ies)/ Region: Argentina (Latin America and Caribbean) tional levels of children; increase the possibilities of adolescents Organization: Fundacion Pro Vivienda Social and youth to accede to a better educational level and more employment possibilities; develop creative capacity of the subur- Partnering Organization: Asociacion Mutual El Colmenar ban organizations to make proposals, and carry out activities to Funding Request: $316,010 (out of $1,841,335 total) achieve a culture of social responsibility and equity, implement a Contact: Raul Zavalla at email: fundaviv1 @infovia.com.ar or model of participatory social intervention at inter sectoral and telephone: 54-11-4667-2794/4451-7843 inter institutional level, to learn lessons from its implementation and to disseminate those lessons through the promotion of other experiences of the same type. Summary Objective: To install within Cuarto V of Moreno, Argentina, a Rationale: San Telmo, a central suburb of the city of Buenos model of social management that would permit access to public Aires, Argentina, has a large population of poor people who are services that do not currently exist by initiating a natural gas dis- excluded from the social and employment sectors. Of some tribution web in five local neighborhoods. 30,000 people, 20 percent have unsatisfied basic needs and live in a context of significant social inequity; another 60 percent Rationale: Argentina produces and exports natural gas, which is live in "casas tomadas," "hoteles," and "inquilinatos" (rented one of the most efficient forms of combustible fuel. Poor families houses, hotels, and tenements). Most of the population is under have difficulty in accessing this form of fuel because distribution 25, and almost 3,500 adolescent girls and boys are poor. In the networks are concentrated in population areas where income is framework of the Program for Strategic Partnerships of the high. The poor population satisfies its energy needs by purchas- World Bank, the Foro del Sector Social, which consists of more ing liquid gas, firewood, kerosene, or electricity. Networks supply than 300 NGOs in Argentina, along with neighbors' associations fuel to only 50 percent of the population of greater Buenos in San Telmo, public agencies, and private enterprises have Aires. worked together since early 2001 to organize a social program Value Added: The project will develop a community manage- for this suburb. ment model based on the participation of beneficiary families Value Added: The project differs from others in Argentina in its and their neighborhood organizations. Community management multisectoral approach, in which it integrates social problems will permit the expansion of the network, mobilized by individual 36 neighborhoods; encourage cost savings for families by substitut- shops. Until 1992, exports of handicrafts had increased to ing current forms of fuel with more efficient natural gas; extend US$19 million a year. Since then, because of a lack of new prod- distribution networks to reach impoverished areas; arrange a ucts, the sector has declined, falling to less than $13 million in financial mechanism that would make the payment of work pos- 1999, with disastrous poverty implications for handicraft workers. sible; and provide better services more economically. The project aims to improve the income level of handicraft artists by designing and implementing courses to develop new products Project Number: 1926 and improve capacity, holding workshops for the development and marketing of new products, and establishing an annual Sustainable Community Development event called the Contest of Innovations in Art Craft Design to through the Expansion of the Agro- enhance competition and quality. lndustrial Unit in the Sao Francisco Value Added: Fostering and channeling local artisan creativity Community in Belmiro Braga, MG, Brazil. and talent in the design, production, and sale of handicrafts promises to nurture cultural values as well as generate income Country(ies)/ Region: Brazil (Latin America and Caribbean) and reduce poverty. Organization: Associa<;:ao Beneficente de AmurtAmurt/Amurtel Project Number: 189 Partnering Organization: Federal University of Vi<;:osa Funding Request: $100,000 (out of $100,000 total) Empowerment of an Indigenous Community Contact: Regina Celia Riserio Botelhoat email: through Agricultural Self-Sufficiency and riserio@e78.microlink.com.br or telephone: 55-21-6221789 Ecotourism Development Country(ies)/ Region: Guyana (Latin America and Caribbean) Summary Organization: Partners of the Americas, Mississippi/Guyana Objective: To create job opportunities, raise self-esteem, and Chapter give hope for a brighter future to the socially and economically marginalized people of Belmiro Braga, Brazil. Partnering Organization: Tougaloo College Rationale: In the Belmiro Braga area, most of the people still Funding Request: $7,500 (out of $13,000 total) depend on farm jobs offered by landowners at very low wages--a Contact: Daniel J. Drennen at email: daniel_drennen@fws.gov, continuation of an older slavery tradition. The children follow in drennen4@bellsouth.net or telephone: 601-321-1127 their parents' footsteps. Both have high levels of illiteracy. Government infrastructure is nonexistent, with no sewage sys- tem or basic primary health care and almost no transportation. Summary Many people remain idle and turn to alcohol and drugs, and Objective: To construct a boardwalk across 300 feet of marsh those with jobs earn less than the legal minimum wage of $72 and stream in Guyana. per mor.th to support their families. Neither the government nor Rationale: The boardwalk will allow farmers to transport their the existing private sector has addressed this tragic poverty, and crops easily by wheelbarrow and cart across the wetland to the the ancient habits and outlook of slavery continue. paved road and markets within the cooperative area. The coop- Value Added: This project addresses the question of develop- erative's major crops are passion fruit, oranges, banana, cassa- ment and poverty reduction with a holistic approach, which va, and several varieties of peas and peppers. The boardwalk includes both the personal and socioeconomic dimensions of will also provide access for ecotourists interested in visiting the life, by providing basic physical needs--food, clothing, shelter, farm and surrounding areas to birdwatch, learn about a different and medical care--as well as the psychosocial demands of a culture, or observe self-sufficient agricultural practices. No dam- proper education. A new multipurpose community center near age to the wetlands will occur. project's beneficiaries will house a school, adult literacy classes, Value Added: The boardwalk will not only increase the commu- a health clinic, a small-scale cottage industry, and a hall for nity's economic self-suffiency and reduce poverty but also attract meetings to focus on job training, group dynamics, sensitization, ecotourism dollars to the area and elevate the environmental and cultural activities. In addition, the blending of private enter- importance of the wetlands and surrounding tropical forest. prise with the use of the collective property (the buildings and land owned by AMURT) will stimulate further growth. Project Number: 610 Project Number: 153 Community-Controlled Irrigation Project for Rural Area Economic Empowerment Empowerment of Guatemalan Artisans for the Development of New Products Country(ies)/ Region: Haiti (Latin America and Caribbean) Organization: Haiti Community Development, Inc. Country(ies)/ Region: Guatemala (Latin America and Caribbean) Partnering Organization: New Jersey I Haiti Partners of the Americas, Inc. Organization: Institute Alianza Nacional Contra Ia Pobreza Funding Request: $130,000 (out of $145,000 total) Partnering Organization: Asociaci6n Gremial de Exportadores de Productos No Tradicionales (AGEXPRONT) Contact: Pierre Brice at email: pbrice@att.com or telephone: 732-420-3033 Funding Request: $100,000 (out of $100,000 total) Contact: Gustavo Adolfo Bucaro at email: Summary instpobr@hotmail.com or telephone: (502) 7677675 Objective: To rehabilitate and modernize irrigation canals to support the watering of rural agricultural lands of poor Haitian Summary farmers. Objective: To empower indigenous artists to develop new handi- Rationale: The community of Bongnotte is home to 2,000 small- crafts to increase their income. scale farmers who are the backbone of the local economy. Rationale: About 200,000 people in Guatemala's indigenous Although the community relies on farming for its livelihood, it has rural communities derive their livelihoods from 40,000 craft work- no reliable water source. As a result, agricultural revenue has 37 been low, and any impact on the farmers' productive capacity absence of institutional support have increased poverty in identi- would lift the whole community economically. The project will fied communities in Mexico. These communities need to get rehabilitate and modernize irrigation canals to support the water- involved in designing projects that will benefit them and mitigate ing of agricultural lands for 900 families. This should lead to the the problems they face. revitalization and improvement of agricultural production, Value Added: The project seeks to integrate community input enabling the community to attract small commercial bank loans from its inception and through its completion. It also generates a and small investors in partnership ventures for export crop culti- low-cost multiplying factor as word about its achievements vation and other agro-industrial enterprises. spread. Value Added: Project administration and maintenance will be under the control of a partnership formed by an NGO and the Project Number: 1866 local beneficiaries. Working Together Project Number: 810, Country(ies)/ Region: Mexico (Latin America and Caribbean) Bathtime: The Sustainable Revitalization of Organization: Juntos Creamos para el Desarrollo Rural, A. C. Bath, St. Thomas, Jamaica Partnering Organization: Fundaci6n Mexicana para el Desarrollo Rural, A. C. Country(ies)/ Region: Jamaica (Latin America and Caribbean) Funding Request: $242,000 (out of $585,000 total) Organization: World Women in Defense of the Environment (WorldWIDE) Contact: Judith Carina Mejfa Loyola at email: carina.loyola@jc.org.mx or telephone: (015) 5122888 Partnering Organization: Natural Products Institute Funding Request: $185,500 (out of $235,000 total) Summary Contact: Annabel Hertz ,Executive Director, and Alison Massa, Objective: To reach the extremely poor and excluded communi- Project Director, at email: annabelh@worldwidenet.org, ties that work with art crafts and invite them to develop products ww_info@worldwwidenet.org, massa@infochan.com or tele- that may be sold in different markets, within a line and trade- phone: 876-927-5457, 202.778.6145 mark. Rationale: In Mexico, art crafts are commonly produced by Summary indigenous people, and this tradition is transmitted from one gen- Objective: To advance Jamaica's poorest parish through eco- eration to another. The manual work done by these artisans is nomically sustainable activities in a town of some 2,000 inhabi- undervalued, and they have been exploited for centuries by tants whose high levels of unemployment and poverty reflect the intermediaries who buy the crafts from them at a very low price region's dependence on increasingly unprofitable sugar and and then sell them at a high price. Many producers do not even banana plantations. recover the cost of their raw materials. The Mexican govarnment Rationale: By helping Bath's citizens recapture the town's eigh- has tried to support these artisans by creating sales centers for teenth-century significance as a mineral hot springs spa and them, but for various reasons the situation has not been center of medicinal plant research, the project will create an eco- improved. nomic foundation for realizing more widespread benefits. The Value Added: The project establishes direct contact with the project will help the town capture existing alternative tourism producers by working in their communities; it considers the markets and stimulate opportunities in agricultural diversification needs of the community as a whole, including communications, and niche industries. Microenterprises, such as nurseries and schools, local infrastructure (water, electricity, sewerage services health food restaurants, created by the project will provide direct to evaluate local development, independent of resource availabil- and indirect economic benefits to the town's poor youth, women, ity; finally, it creates a partnership among institutions in the State and farmers, which in turn will increase access to education and of Mexico to get the financing needed to promote production health services. development. Value Added: The project represents an innovative, holistic, and sustainable development planning effort that addresses the need Project Number: 319 to jump-start mutually supportive community-driven initiatives. Intensive Productivity on the Nayar Mesa Project Number: 110 with a Permanent Coamil Project for a Dignified and Sustainable Country(ies)/ Region: Mexico (Latin America and Caribbean) Life:"Ecotechnias" in Family Units Organization: Fundaci6n Agua y Media Ambiente, A. C. Partnering Organization: lnstituto de Desarrollo y Asistencia Country(ies)/ Region: Mexico (Latin America and Caribbean) Social (IDEAS) Organization: Fundaci6n Agua y Media Ambiente, A. C. (FAMA) Funding Request: $129,026 (out of$837,184 total) Partnering Organization: Consejo para el Desarrollo Regional Contact: Beatriz Azarcoya Gonzalez at email: devilla@servi- del Noreste del Estado de Guanajuato dor.unam.mx or telephone: (52) 56-17-69-05; 56-17-65-30 Funding Request: $250,269 (out of $331,556 total) Contact: Beatriz Azarcoya Gonzalez at email: devilla@servi- Summary dor.unam.mx or telephone: (52) 56-17-69-05; 56-17-65-30 Objective: To set up 1,200 amaranth, chi a, and maize producing coamiles (traditional parcels of land with corn crops) to support Summary 90,000 indigenous people in the region. Objective: To set the stage for an improvement in the quality of Rationale: The Western Sierra Madre, Mexico, is a rugged, life in Mexican communities through low-cost, ecologically friend- inaccessible mountainous area with limited natural resources. ly methods, thus spurring economic growth. For centuries, the Huichol, Cora, Mexicanero, and Tepehuano Rationale: High unemployment, migration, inadequate basic natives have suffered from malnutrition and poor health. Farming services, disease, pollution and contaminated soils, and the is currently done using the slash-and-burn technique. Water ero- 38 sian has left the land barren. Faced with low productivity, these youth project that produced 60 varieties of medicinal organic indigenous people migrate to local urban centers, where they herbs. The project will fund the establishment of a rural enter- often remain unemployed. The project aims to trigger productive prise to use and further develop the technical and organizational and efficient use of land, provide basic food supplies for the capacity of the youth cooperative. The idea is to create jobs inhabitants, and encourage the rational management of natural directly and indirectly, lowering poverty rates from 36 percent to resources and land an estimated 25 percent while also reducing youth migration to Value Added: By adapting traditional systems and focusing on cities. participation, the project departs from top-down institutional Value Added: The project will incorporate industrial processes approaches, alleviating rural poverty at the root. and initiate procedures for organic certification, thus improving the sales prices of resulting products, which are in high market Project Number: 1832 demand. Application of the Cluster Model to the Project Number: 1761 Agricultural Sector in Nicaragua Poison Dart Frog Ranching to Protect the Country(ies)/ Region: Nicaragua (Latin America and Rainforest Caribbean) Organization: Peace Corps Nicaragua Country(ies)/ Region: Peru (Latin America and Caribbean) Partnering Organization: Association of the Development of Organization: World Bank the Department of Rivas (ASODERI) Partnering Organization: Asociacion de Productores de Ranas Funding Request: $58,906 (out of $61,506 total) Venenosas "Progreso" (ASPRAVEP) Contact: Teresa L. Woods at email: teri@depagter-woods.net or Funding Request: $95,000 (out of $95,000 total) telephone: 505-459-4217 Contact: Dr. Jan C. Post at email: jpost@worldbank.org or tele- phone: 202-4733400 Summary Objective: To create a cooperative of plantain producers on the Summary Nicaraguan island of Ometepe to market their crops directly and Objective: To provide a source of income to poor people in Latin increase income levels. American rainforest areas through frog harvesting while at the Rationale~ Eighty percent of Ometepe's residents produce plan- same time protecting the tropical forest. tains. Tr1e island itself produces 60 percent of the country's plan- Rationale: By sustainable raising and harvesting of tadpoles tain crup. Until now, those who have benefited the most are the that are sold as juvenile frogs for export, local people can earn a interro1ediaries who market and sell the crops. This is due to a better living by conserving the forest than by cutting it down. lac'; of organization, financing, and technology among the farm- Conservative estimates indicate that a campesino could easily P:s who, along with their families, would reap many benefits by produce 50 frogs every 4 months and sell them for $8 to $20 selling their own products directly. The project addresses this apiece. This would increase a campesino's annual income from problem by reaching out to some 1,500 farmers, organizing co- a current $200 per year to between $1,000 and $3,800. Thus, ops that will enable farmers to cultivate, gather, and market their the potential of PFranching for income generation in poor rural crop at better prices, and providing training and financing to areas is considerable. improve production. Value Added: The project could be replicated throughout tropi- Value Added: There is a great deal of excitement among the cal Latin America where more than 100 different species of frogs farmers about the possibility of launching a cooperative. live and can be replicated with butterflies, beetles, aquarium fish, and other species. Similar projects could ideally be located in Project Number: 1052, buffer zones around conservation areas. Associative Rural Organizations: A New Project Number: 1767 Management Model Applied to Communal Banks that Deliver Credits Using Commercialize Organic Medicinal Herbs Their Own Money Country(ies)/ Region: Paraguay (Latin America and Caribbean) Country(ies)/ Region: Venezuela (Latin America and Caribbean) Organization: Centro de Anal isis y Difusion de Economia Paraguaya (CADEP) Organization: FUNDEFIR (President of the Director Board) Partnering Organization: Cooperativa San Juan Bautista Partnering Organization: Limitada Funding Request: $118,380 (out of $122,380 total) Funding Request: $100,000 (out of $130,000 total) Contact: Roberto Salomon Raydan Rivas at email: Contact: Carlos Rios at email: CADEP@CADEP.ORG.PY or funnes@cantv.net or telephone: 0295 638742 telephone: 595-21-496813 Summary Summary Objective: To facilitate access for residents of 20 rural poor Objective: To boost the economic development of Ysyp6, communities in Venezuela to their own low-cost, low-risk finan- Paraguay, by creating a job-generating enterprise with sustain- cial services, while increasing the communities' organizational able economic results. capacity. Rationale: During the past two decades, Paraguay's rural com- Rationale: Many residents of rural Venezuela have no access to munities have faced serious and increasing problems, such as formal financial services, and existing nonformal mechanisms poorly competitive small rural enterprises and misuse and abuse involve high risk and costs (with interest rates of up to 240 per- of natural resources by large corporations. This project address- cent). The project calls for the development of a local financial es these problems by tapping into a recently completed local enterprise, owned and managed by the people living in the com- 39 munity, to address the problem. Poverty will be reduced by pro- mation and digital divide between rich and poor by leveraging viding credit at lower risk and cost, enabling the establishment of the network infrastructure of the Indian Post Office. The project business, trade, home repair, and other enterprises. Savings will aims to offer the poor access to a wide range of services, such be generated and funds will be available for emergencies. Local as the online sale of hybrid seeds and fertilizers, automatic teller communities will benefit from hands-on learning of management, machines, and Internet cafe services, among other things. administrative, and accounting issues. Value Added: This project offers an unconventional marriage Value Added: The project plans to use community funds, rather between existing infrastructure and information technology, and than the resources of an intermediary, to start up. the Indian government has a strong commitment to the project. Project Number: 871 Project Number: 1286 The Use of Cast Seaweed as Organic Promoting Community-Based Indigenous Fertilizers Seed Bank and Related Non-Chemical Country(ies)l Region: Venezuela (Latin America and the Agricultural Practices ----- Carribean) Country(ies)l Region: India (South Asia) Organization: Centro de Formaci6n Popular "Renaciendo Organization: Centre for Development of Disadvantaged People Juntos" (CEPOREJUN) (CDDP). Partnering Organization: Comitato lnternazionale per lo Partnering Organization: Village Improvement Service Svilupo dei Populi (CISP) Association (VISA) Funding Request: $158,990 (out of $224,000 total) Funding Request: $56,190 (out of $61,190 total) Contact: Gerardita Fraga Suescum at email: Contact: S. Sethunarayanan at email: cddp_ngo@hotmail.com fragag@yahoo.com or telephone: : 00- 58- 295- 242.31.07 or telephone: +91442234696,+91442233094 Summary Summary Objective: To examine the possibility of using marine algae as a Objective: To promote a Community Indigenous Seed Bank pro- fertilizer for use in horticulture, nurseries, and landscaping in gram in India to motivate farmer communities to form Seed Bank Venezuela. Groups that will collect seeds, store and distribute them among Rationale: The idea is to create new sources of income by utiliz- needy members, and after harvesting, receive back double the ing and commercializing the marine algeas that presently are amount of seeds distributed. causing an environmental problem along the coast of "Nueva Rationale: Only by reducing production costs can farmers Esparta" and the peninsula of Araya. The affected zones are reestablish their hold over agriculture activities. They are unable main tourist destinations of Venezuela and the Caribbean. to reduce costs because they use a crossbreed or high-breed Extensive proliferation has caused environmental problems seed variety. Over hundreds of years of field testing, farmers causing beaches to shut down in tourist areas.Collecting and have developed a number of indigenous seeds that require only using marine algea is a completely new activity in the region free local manure and simple nonchemical pest control methods. since traditionally these plants are considered to be waste mate- Most of these have disappeared, and only few varieties are still rial without a productive use. available. Once farmers understand the value of indigenous Value Added: This project takes into account the cleaning up of seeds, they prefer to switch over to these varieties. But the the coast by cleaning and collecting algeas, but also it involves problem is their availability in the marketplace. the community in the productive activity of making environmen- Value Added: The Seed Bank will expand to meet the growing tally friendly fertilizers; it helps the agricultural sector by improv- needs of farmers whose production costs will drop by 70 per- ing quality of gardens and nurseries as well as landscaping busi- cent. Problems with the agricultural environment will be alleviat- nesses that boost the tourist industry in the region. ed. Consumers will get chemical-free grains. The project will also improve farmers' health, provide education to children, and Project Number: 1270 develop skills in democratic decision making and community Bridging the Digital Divide through the Post action in other spheres of development. Office Project Number: 1389 Country(ies)l Region: India (South Asia) Decentralized Drinking Water Program for Organization: World Bank the Urban Poor through Community Partnering Organization: India Post Networking Funding Request: $149,000 (out of $285,000 total) Country(ies)l Region: India (South Asia) Contact: Simon Bell at email: Sbell2@worldbank.org or tele- Organization: Foundation of Occupational Development phone: : 202 473 49 31 Partnering Organization: Easylink I Development of Enterprise Summary through Women Action Network (DEWA) Objective: To bridge the information and digital divide and Funding Request: $229,700 (out of $254,700 total) reduce poverty in India by leveraging the physical and informa- Contact: Loyola Joseph at email: food@xlweb.com or tele- tion technology infrastructure of the Indian Post Office. phone: 91-44-4848201 Rationale: Rural populations in India live in extreme poverty. Subsistence farmers have little access to information that might Summary help them anticipate changing weather patterns, purchase Objective: To implement an innovative, sustainable, decentral- improved seeds, or access financial services. Those engaged in ized safe drinking water program--for India's urban poor--that is nonfarm activities face similar problems. Information technology built, operated, and maintained by the community. can provide the solution. This project will help bridge the infor- 40 Rationale: Water-related disease accounts for 80 percent of all society is communal, economic cooperatives reproduce the sickness in India. Safe and adequate drinking water at the turn structure of existing social relations to facilitate interaction with of the tap is still a dream for the urban poor in Tamilnadu, who outside groups and individuals for the purpose of commerce. have to walk long distances each day to collect safe drinking The project aims to empower tribal artists in the existing Tribal water, using time that could be spent on income-generating Artist Cooperative of Tejgadh, Gujarat, through Internet technolo- activities. The project tackles the problem on head-on by provid- gy by making artists' handicrafts available for purchase over the ing a mini-water purification plant in each community. The com- Internet. Artists will operate the web site themselves, closing the munity will take part in designing, operating, and maintaining the circuit between production, consumption, and distribution. facilities, with women's community networks forming elected Value Added: Establishing electronic commerce will make these committees that will collect fees from households. handicrafts available to a much larger audience, lower the costs Value Added: This project, the first of its kind in urban India, will of transport, and make the artists themselves the immediate empower people by giving them the tools, knowledge, and beneficiaries of the sales. resources they need to improve the quality of their lives. Project Number: 1295 Project Number: 391 Innovative Financing for Rural and Small- Livelihood 'ntervention for the Scale Infrastructure Service Provision for Rehabilitation of Orissa, India Poor Communities Country(ies\/ Region: India (South Asia) Country(ies)/ Region: Nepal (South Asia) Organizatbn: Heifer Project International Organization: delucia and Associates, Inc. (dLA) Partnering Organization: Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Partnering Organization: Centre for Rural Technology (CRT), Everywhere (CARE), India Nepal Funding Request: $141,127 (out of $869,965 total) Funding Request: $11,900 (out of $11,900 total) Contact: Beth Filla at email: beth.filla@heifer.org or telephone: Contact: Russell J. delucia, Ph.D., at email: dla@world.std.com 501-907-4948 or telephone: 617-576-0646 Summary Summary Objective: To provide families with small livestock and training in Objective: To foster innovative financing mechanisms to facili- sustainable agriculture, empowering them with skills and inputs tate increased market penetration of small-scale infrastructure ~1eeded to develop economically viable and ecologically sound projects for unserved or underserved poor communities in Nepal. enterprises. Rationale: In the hill districts of Nepal, rural infrastructure serv- Rationale: Orissa, in northeast India, is one of the country's ice provision by large public-sector enterprises has been very poorest states. Primarily an agricultural-based economy, Orissa limited. One solution is to enable infrastructure investment and is often devastated by disasters and has little opportunity for operation by small-scale local players: for-profit entities, such as employment or hope. Community organizations in Orissa have individual entrepreneurs and small and medium enterprises; and come together to stem the tide of hunger and poverty in the nonprofit entities, such as nongovernmental organizations and region. With the help of Heifer Project India and CARE India, the community-based organizations. The project aims to identify project will help move beyond traditional relief efforts into long- replicable pipeline investments and assist in reaching both finan- term development commitments. cial closure and, to some extent, installation. Other possible Value Added: The project focuses on rehabilitation instead of investments include electrification and rural transport infrastruc- relief efforts and encourages sustainable restocking and better ture. agricultural practices. Community group and leadership skills will Value Added: Investment in rural infrastructure services, such be developed, and women and girls will be encouraged at all as energy, water, transport, and telecommunications, not only stages through gender workshops and open discussions within provide opportunities for participation and employment, but also communities to accord more respect for women's work and con- serve as prerequisites for rural poverty alleviation and sustain- tribution. able development because tt 'Y facilitate increased local produc- tivity, market access, and social service delivery. Project Number: 524 Empowering a Tribal Artists Cooperative Project Number: 1481 with Internet Commerce Farmer Group Mentoring and Country(ies)/ Region: India (South Asia) Microenterprise Development for Organization: Georgetown University Horticultural Markets in Nepal Partnering Organization: Bhasha Research and Publication Country(ies)/ Region: Nepal (South Asia) Centre Organization: International Development Enterprises Funding Request: $74,000 (out of $74,000 total) Partnering Organization: USAID, Nepal Mission Contact: Henry Schwarz at email: schwarzh@georgetown.edu Funding Request: $100,000 (out of $100,000 total} or telephone: (202) 687-7647 Contact: Robert Nanes, Country Director, at email: ide@ide.wlink.com.np or telephone: 977-1-526221 or 977-1- Summary 520943 Objective: To establish a secure Internet client server in a vil- lage to facilitate the sale and marketing of tribal handicrafts. Summary Rationale: Artist cooperatives have been shown to be an effec- Objective: To develop entrepreneurship among resource-poor tive means for income generation and poverty reduction among smallholder farmers for commercialization of horticultural produc- the indigenous people of India. Since the structure of indigenous tion to increase their income and reduce poverty. 41 Rationale: In Nepal, 85 percent of the population earns its living farmers and primary producers by establishing forward markets from agriculture, with 70 percent being smallholder farmers. A for their agricultural products. lack of irrigation facilities, poor marketing networks, and ineffec- Rationale: In Sri Lanka, agricultural crop oversupply often tive support and extension systems exacerbate the cycle of leads to sharp declines in prices. With such drastic fluctua- poverty. This project mobilizes existing farmers' production tions, small farmers and producers are unable to extricate groups to solve their own market and production problems. It will themselves from a vicious cycle of poverty. The project aims also train a cadre of leader farmers in each group who will in to emancipate the producers from the vagaries of market sea- turn act as trainers for other group members. Moreover, it will sonality through a system of forward contracts, in which the forge sustainable linkages between and among farmers' produc- producer enters into a contract with the buyer to supply prod- tion groups and commercial marketing chains for smoother and ucts at a remunerative sum between the low seasonal price better-informed access to agriculture inputs and marketing of and the high off-season price. Steady incomes will encourage produce. producers to adopt improved cultural practices, enhance quali- Value Added: The project links farmers with upstream and ty, and improve productivity. This will set off a chain reaction downstream markets to sustain production systems and maxi- that will benefit traders, industries, banks, insurance, trans- mize income. port, consumers, and the environment. Value Added: The principle of dynamic forward markets are the Project Number: 1694, best method of assuring remunerative and reasGnable prices to Tackling Garbage Disaster: Employment for producers. Youths Country(ies)/ Region: Nepal (South Asia) SOCIAL Organization: Shtrii Shakti Project Number: 754 Partnering Organization: Kathmandu 2020 Funding Request: $186,450 (out of $186,450 total) Partnering with Credit Unions to Reach Contact: Indira Shrestha at email: shtriishakti@s2.wlink.corn.np Vast Numbers of the Poorest in Benin or telephone: 977-1-247072 Country(ies)/ Region: Benin (Africa) Organization: Freedom from Hunger Summary Objective: To organize groups of disaffected young people and Partnering Organization: Federation des Caisses d'Epargne educate them about environmental and health problems related et de Credit Agricole Mutuel du Benin (FECECAM) to pollution and train them to collect and recycle the mountains Funding Request: $60,000 (out of $160,000 total) of garbage destroying their city. Contact: Christian Loupeda at email: cloupeda@avu.org or Rationale: The city of Kathmandu generates large quantities of telephone: (530) 758-6200 nonrnunicipal waste: agricultural, commercial, hospital, industrial, and organic. The present technology used to collect and manage Summary solid waste is inappropriate: no sanitary landfill sites exist and Objective: To fight poverty by offering small cash loans and thus casual dumping is the common practice. A team of poor, health and businessneducation in an integrated package to unemployed youths could turn garbage into work. The young poor women in rural Benin.n people involved in the project will be taught how and where to collect garbage and how to separate it into reusable, recyclable, Rationale: The situation in the rural areas of Benin where and compostable items. The compost and other scraps will be Credit with Education programs are implemented is dramati- sold, eventually creating a self-sustaining business that could cally worse than the national average. Of the children under pay its employees as well as educate more young people about three in the poorest rural areas of Benin, 38 percent are mod- garbage and the environment. erately underweight, while 12 percent are severely under- weight. Credit with Education is designed to have a substan- Value Added: The project will generate employment and reduce tial impact on hunger and malnutrition by providing food-inse- environmental pollution by educating and employing unskilled cure households access to financial services and education .. local youth and households to manage garbage and waste. Intermediate benefits of the program -- increased income and Other benefits are increased awareness and community owner- savings, improved self-confidence, and improved knowledge ship of the project. and practice of appropriate health behaviors --lead to the long-term outcomes of improved household food security and Project Number: 1562 better health and nutrition. Credit with Education's services Forward and Futures Markets: To Improve attract the very poor who do not have assets to pledge as guarantees, instead of relying on the social guarantee of other and Stabilize Incomes of Farmers and group members. The small initial loan size is manageable for Primary Producers the poor. Regular savings enable women participants to set aside small amounts for planned or unforeseen expenses. Country(ies)/ Region: Sri Lanka (South Asia) Education sessions focus on key practices that affect the lives Organization: Central Bank of Sri Lanka of their children and their businesses. Credit with Education Partnering Organization: Regional Development Banks (six has been proven to work in nearby countries with similar con- banks in all) ditions, such as Ghana, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea. Funding Request: $240,900 (out of $300,000 total) Value Added: Credit with Education is an integrated product Contact: A. S. Jayawardena, Governor, at email: that addresses multiple constraints of the very poor -- lack of asjayaward@cbsl.lk or telephone: (94-1) 477477 information and access to credit. The program's decentralized model provides services to communities as yet unreached by Summary the credit union. Objective: To improve and stabilize the incomes of poor rural 42 Project Number: 1045 ists" in development projects; our project is based on beneficiary identified goals. Street Entrepreneurs Project Number: 1275 Country(ies)/ Region: Burkina Faso (Africa) Organization: Save the Children Canada West Africa Program Integrating Pygmies into the Partnering Organization: Association Dispensaire Trottoir Socioeconomic Development Process in Funding Request: $195,715 (out of $230,000 total) Central African Republic Contact: Michel Larouche at email: larouch@cenatrin.bf or tele- Country(ies)/ Region: Central African Republic (Africa) phone: 226) 36 42 16 /32 Organization: The World Bank Group Partnering Organization: RADI-RCA Summary Funding Request: $170,000 (out of $300,000 total) Objective: To compound and consolidate the work of Save the Children Canada in Burkina Faso by establishing a formalized Contact: Tshiya Subayi-Cuppen at email: vocational training and placement program and a loan fund for tsubayi@worldbank.org or telephone: 202 473-5018 the promotion of business development. The project will there- fore initiate and establish 30 small businesses that will meet the Summary needs of 250 street children, set up a placement and training Objective: To provide seed money for literacy schools and basic database, and a street youth business association in the urban health care to Pygmies in order to give them more access to the areas of Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso and the rural zone country's economy. of Lidara. Rationale: Because the Baka people live on very fertile land, Ratic>nale: There are an estimated 20,000 children living on the cocoa growers use them as cheap labor, typically not paying street in Burkina Faso. These children have no access to educa- an adequate wage. As a result, the Baka remain very poor tion, health care, or support of a caring family. Often forced to and are unable to send their children to school, since the steal or lead lives of violence, they frequently band together on Central African Republic does not have a universal free- tha street, creating a social support structure that provides them schooling system. The establishment of a community school with a notion of safety and comfort. Despite this resilience, the inside the landowner's compound will create a future genera- majority of these children feel abandoned and have no hope for tion of educated Pygmies. The visits of a medical doctor will the future. provide basic health care as well. Providing education and Value Added: The project is innovative in that for the first time in health care to the Baka will help their confidence and help Burkina Faso, it involves working with street children by meeting them to integrate. their entire needs, including a focused socioeconomic interven- Value Added: This program will enable the Pygmies to remain in tion. The project will use the experience and expertise of street their environment, where they will have better access to the youth in business training to assist others in similar situations in services, rather than being uprooted. starting their own businesses. Project Number: 1552 Project Number: 1906 Education through Enhanced Awareness Women Gathering to Understand and Fight and Community Dialogue in Pastoral Poverty Communities Country(ies)/ Region: Burkina Faso (Africa) Country(ies)/ Region: Ethiopia (Africa) Organization: Association de Femmes Pag Ia Yiri - Women's Association Pag Ia Yiri Organization: Pact Ethiopia Partnering Organization: REREFODA (Evaluation, Study, Partnering Organization: Ethiopian Muslim Relief and Research and Training Network for Development in Africa) Development Association Funding Request: $173,401 (out of $282,024 total) Funding Request: $50,245 (out of $55,110 total) Contact: LOUGUE Maria at email: cdalbera@fasonet.bf or tele- Contact: Leslie F. Mitchell at email: Pact.eth@telecom.net.et, phone: (226) 36 34 00 leslie@pacteth.org or telephone: 251-1-614800 Summary Summary Objective: To promote a program of integrated activities, backed Objective: To build capacity among pastoralist communities by training, credit, and solidarity; to improve the lives of and through education. reduce poverty among poor women and their dependents in Rationale: Nomadic pastoralists in the Afar region of Ethiopia Burkina Faso. represent the most marginalized and vulnerable group in the Rationale: "Pag Ia Yiri" Association, an NGO, is made up of country. Widespread poverty, exacerbated by recurrent drought, 11 ,000 poor, country women organized into 703 base groups in famine, animal disease, harmful traditional practices, and a lack 200 villages and 3 provinces of Burkina Faso. It is a member a of social services challenge daily survival. The lack of access to collective conference groups that meet to discuss social issues education is one of the most severe problems facing the Afar, relative to Pag Ia Yiri's objectives. While elaborating a program with only 7 percent attending school. The project aims to build of action following participative guidelines, an association for on the strength of existing traditional associations to facilitate women, Pag Ia Yiri, was able to identify six key fields relative to adult education among 5,000 pastoralists. Schooling for youth effectively fighting against poverty, including promotion of social will be based on flexible, community-determined class sched- capital, human capital, better health, better nutrition, environ- ules, characterized by a combination of formal school curriculum mental capital, and financial capital. and practical life skills such as reproductive health and family planning, environmental management, health, and nutrition. Value Added: Our project is innovative because it breaks with traditional, piecemeal approaches used up until now by "special- 43 Value Added: Through this participatory process, members of ing. Building is done in "cells," or small groups whose members the community will gradually be empowered to address their own are responsible for one another. The repayments are linked to social development needs. the credit schemes, so if one member is delinquent, then the group is responsible or will not be able to take out loans for Project Number: 1829 income-generation activities. In addition, further construction cannot continue until all members are current in their payments. Youth Entrepreneur Development Third, the community group will have an account at a local micro {YED)Pilot Project finance institution, rather than a bank. This allows housing repayments to be tied to credit availability, thus increasing the Country(ies)l Region: Ethiopia (Africa) percentage of repayments. Organization: Save the Children Federation, Inc. (SCF/US) This project has been combined with project no. 756 on pg. 52. Partnering Organization: Specialized Financial and Promotional Institution (SFPI) Project Number: 759 Funding Request: $245,191 (out of $250,883 total) Poverty Reduction and Information Contact: Worknesh Mekonnen at email: ussave.children@tele- Asymmetries: A Community Based Internet com.net.et or telephone: 251-1-655409 Portal Summary Country(ies)/ Region: Kenya (Africa) Objective: To develop and scale up a cost-effective youth entre- Organization: International Institute for Sustainable preneurial model to achieve positive effects on the life of youth Development in Addis Ababa. Partnering Organization: Mazingira Institute Rationale: Increasing numbers of unskilled youth in Addis Funding Request: $141,149 (out of $141,149 total) Ababa are in competitive and tight labor markets. Lack of appro- priate knowledge, skills, and capital prevents them from creating Contact: Dr. Anantha K. Duraiappah at email: opportunities. These factors deepen economic dependency, vul- akduraiappah@iisd.ca or telephone: 1-204-9587720 nerability, and despondency among the youth, which in turn aggravates urban poverty and crime in Addis Ababa. City gov- Summary ernment agencies and various NGOs have focused interventions Objective: To provide a medium (in this case an Internet por- on providing skills training and small start-up Capital; these inter- tal) whereby the local community in the Narok District will be ventions failed because of inadequate market knowledge and no able to access the right information in a timely and efficient entrepreneurial training for the youth. manner. Value Added: The YEO project enables beneficiary-driven train- Rationale: The Narok district in Kenya is considered one of ing in entrepreneurship; staff support during training and follow- the wealthiest districts in Kenya. Asymmetrical access to eco- up activities; case tracking and monitoring; inclusion of benefici- nomic and environmental information by some groups has led to aries as instructors as the project matures; exposure to success- increased incidences of conflicts, worsened by deteriorating ful Ethiopian entrepreneurs; no-cost internships at Ethiopian poverty levels among certain stakeholders in the district. The business enterprises; and development of youth entrepreneur groups in conflict included subsistence farmers and pastoralists, associations to create alliances with micro and medium-sized wildlife tour operators, and commercial farmers. The provision of enterprises. critical information on prices, cost of land degradation, and eco- nomic and legal options for securing private ownership of land, Project Number: 73 will enable them to make informed decisions with respect to land Save and Build use and ownership. Value Added: The community itself has identified the informa- Country(ies)/ Region: Ethiopia (Africa) tion it needs to capture in a portal. The portal protects the identi- Organization: Habitat for Humanity Ethiopia ties of those who seek information and the people who provide Partnering Organization: ACORD it. The portal in essence provides the freedom for the impover- ished and the excluded to make informed decisions without the Funding Request: $113,394 (out of $116,251 total) fear of intimidation or manipulation by the better informed. The Contact: Brenda Ruth at email: third innovative feature of the product lies in the link between the habitat.ethiopia@MailandNews.com or telephone: (251 1) community and expert groups. 114039 Project Number: 1728 Summary Vocational Training and Microenterprise Objective: To eliminate poor housing conditions and poverty in Ethiopia. Project for Graduates of Alternative to FGM Rationale: Nearly 9 out of 10 Ethiopians live in poor housing Country(ies)/ Region: Kenya (Africa) conditions. This has an adverse affect on health, job perform- Organization: Save the Children Canada Kenya ance, and overall quality of life. 45.5 percent of all Ethiopians live Partnering Organization: Improve Your Business (IYB) -Kenya below the absolute poverty line of $165.00 per year or $13.00 per month (1995/96 MEDaC). That amount does not leave much Funding Request: $29,650 (out of $110,210 total) money for emergencies or big expenditures, which cause a fami- Contact: Mathenge J. Munene at email: scc-kfo@nbnet.co.ke or ly to fall behind in repayments. In order to reach the lowest telephone: 254) 2 606086 income groups and female-headed households, HFHE, a micro finance institution, must find a way to decrease house costs and to consistently make repayments. Summary Objective: To provide vocational and business training and Value Added: The project combines the strengths of two sav- micro enterprise loans to 75 girls and women who have been ings institutions that. know each other and are interested in hous- helped by Save the Children Canada to avoid female genital 44 mutilation (FGM) and who have graduated from the Alternative Project Number: 62 Rite of Passage (ARP). Rationale: In Eastern Kenya, the proposed area of interven- Building Women's Entrepreneurship tion for the project, the population is predominantly semi pas- through Women's Community Centers toral living in a semi-arid zone. The level of poverty is high, with little income-earning potential, especially for girls and Country(ies)/ Region: Mauritania (Africa) women. Girls go through FGM between 14 and16 years of Organization: Mutuelle des Associations Feminines d'Epargne age. After that, they are considered to be women and are fre- et Credit quently pulled from school and married off, with 50 percent of Partnering Organization: Cabinet de Comptabilite de Ba them becoming "child mothers" before the age of 18. Many Samba Diom end up as si11gle mothers and live in poverty. Since 1995, Save the Children Canada has endeavored to eradicate FGM Funding Request: $58,500 (out of $170,381 total) through an Alternative Rite of Passage (ARP). Despite suc- Contact: Mme. Sokhna Ly Ba at email: Sokhnaly@yahoo.com cess, the majority of ARP graduates who have completed or telephone: (222)525-6447 basic education have been unable to gain employment. The girls indicated that without access to employment or higher Summary education, they would regress. Objective: To increase the availability of credit to women entre- Value Added: The project seeks to break patriarchal barriers preneurs, promote basic business techniques, strengthen exist- and enable girls and women to participate in the local economy. ing community solidarity, and improve the health and nutrition of Another innovative aspect is the targeted focus of micro enter- members and their families. prise activities. The scheduling of project activities is precise and focused, allowing a staged approach to ensure appropriate Rationale: The target population for the program is roughly 80 matching of beneficiaries with skills and business opportunities. percent illiterate, with 75 percent living in precarious housing and Capitalization will be provided for necessary business inputs, 70 percent of children chronically malnourished. Nearly all the which will be repaid at a subsidized rate of 1 percent per month women have small businesses that provide for most of their fam- over one year. Repayments will be made on a regular basis, with ilies' basic needs, but the businesses suffer from a lack of credit, micro enterprise units guaranteeing all loans. Once repayment is business management skills, and innovation. The project propos- complete, access to micro finance organizations in the area that es to launch two women's business community centers that provide loans at market rates will be supported. The girls will would provide space for meetings and training workshops, busi- also be helped to access land and other primary means of pro- ness resources, financial services, community insurance savings duction, which have in the past been a preserve of adults, partic- funds, and a mentoring program and hope to reach a total of ularly men. 3,000 women by 2003. Value Added: The centers take a holistic approach to small Project Number: 2006 business development and empower members to define and manage their projects themselves, focusing the projects on local To Give People Voice: Grassroots Media needs and priorities. Development in Southern Africa ·------~- Project Number: 168 Country(ies)/ Region: Malawi (Africa) Organization: World Bank (SDV) Urban Provision of Health and Jobs Partnering Organization: Radio Netherlands, Africa Bureau; Through Integration of Viable Indigenous and Radio Netherlands Training Centre Systems Funding Request: $250,000 (out of $365,000 total) Country(ies)/ Region: Nigeria (Africa) Contact: Kreszentia M. Duer at email: kduer@worldbank.org, Organization: CEDPA, Nigeria wreuben@worldbank.org or telephone: (202) (47)3-9307 [ (202) (45)8-5012] Partnering Organization: Ajegunle Community Partners for Health Summary Funding Request: $49,987 (out of $84,568 total) Objective: To help communities establish viable radio stations; Contact: Dr. Folarin Oluwu at email: folowu@usips.org or tele- improve community radio programming, and improve enabling phone: 234-1-2600022, 3205273 environment for public service media. Rationale: A recent World Bank symposium on civic engage- Summary ment in Poverty Reduction Strategies and mechanisms to hold Objective: To reduce poverty in Nigeria by providing employ- governments accountable noted that where grassroots radio sta- ment to the poor, unskilled youth and graduate youth by teaching tions exist, they can provide access to public information, and business management and vocational skills and providing start- provide diverse and heretofore disenfranchised groups with a up loans in an easily accessible manner built on viable indige- voice in public discourse. They can be a vehicle to share infor- nous systems. mation and record in a language they understand, their realities Rationale: Unemployment among the poor, the uneducated, and and progress away from poverty, foster debate on issues, and unskilled youth and educated youth grew worse in the mid- help community members organize themselves to grasp more 1980s. The chief micro credit institution of the time, the Peoples opportunities. They are a particularly important resource for poor, Bank, is today being revamped; it has been merged with some illiterate people. other development institutions to produce a more effective pover- Value Added: It would address policy and regulatory improve- ty alleviation institution, while the National Directorate of ments where needed, capacity building and training, and financ- Employment's (NDE) efforts are a drop in the ocean. Both suf- ing key equipment so poor communities could establish their fered from poor credit mobilization and ineffective monitoring of own local radio stations. It would be structured to provide a the beneficiaries. Communities were not involved in the concep- "learning lab," to provide the basis for policy dialog and reform, tualization and management of NDE and Peoples Bank, and and would enable key partnerships. they were not linked to or built on viable indigenous systems and traditional credit mobilization systems. 45 Value Added: The project would demonstrate a viable model and their children improves, there will be no need for them to go and strategy for poverty alleviation, while disseminating learning back to the dangerous highways, societal perception of them will and sharing knowledge with a broad array of stakeholders. The be enhanced, and there will be increased integration. The social project is innovative because it builds on viable indigenous sys- barriers to their human rights will be removed; their communities tems of skills acquisition and credit mobilization with community will be willing to accept them back because they will no longer ownership and management and is linked to formal modern be a burden to them. Their children, through gainful jobs or self- financial systems for its sustainability. Community-owned struc- employment will be capable of taking care of themselves and tures at the grassroots level would have the funds for the credit their parents. Those who could have become vulnerable as administration coming to them directly and would be disbursing social deviants will have been saved, and the imaqe of the coun- and managing the credit themselves. try will improve. Value Added: The project method of rehabilitation through voca- Project Number: 2009 tional training will teach them the benefits of participation, part- Rehabilitation/Skill Acquisition Programme nership, and division of labor for profit-sharing. In this process, they will gain knowledge of their own rights and a voice to deter- for Commercial Sex Workers in Port mine the design of their future. Harcourt Project Number: 884 Country(ies)/ Region: Nigeria (Africa) Organization: Entrepreneurial Development Initiative (ENDIP) Extended Family System- Transforming it Partnering Organization: Society for Women & AIDS in Africa, into "Care for the Poor and Aged" Nigerian Chapter, Rivers State Branch Country(ies)/ Region: Nigeria (Africa) Funding Request: $131,500 (out of $170,766 total) Organization: Ecumenical Commission for Women Contact: Benjamin Ovio-Onoweya at email: Empowermental and Community Development (ECOFWE) endip_ 2001 @yahoo.com or telephone: 234-84-61114 7 Partnering Organization: World Bank Funding Request: $199,725 (out of $240,545 total) Summary Objective: To reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS in Port Harcourt Contact: JOYCE C. UKWA & HAZEL KALU at email: nikeav- among commercial sex workers (CSWs) through the provision of enue@hotmail.com or telephone: 011-234-42-457742, 011-234- alternative vocational trades. 42-254946 Rationale: The UNAIDS report of June 2000 has revealed that Summary 34.2 percent of the HIV/AIDS prevalence is accounted for by CSWs in Nigeria. Various reasons have been advanced for Objective: To help care for the poor and the helpless aged in increase in the number of CSWs in Nigeria. One overriding rea- Ohafia, Nigeria, by providing a link between the care providers son is the complete absence of women's economic empower- abroad and the poor/aged parents and relatives; establishing a ment programs. Women have resorted to residing in brothels to system of training health/social services instructors and care- be patronized by any man who can afford as little as $1.42 for givers within the villages; establishing a daycare center in indi- their services. They often pay the rent for the apartment to the vidual villages; and providing qualified medical personnel on a brothel owners on a daily or weekly basis. Some CSWs are consultancy basis with specialization in nutrition, internal medi- interested in quitting this dehumanizing job for a decent means cine, geriatric, and medical support services such as nurses; of livelihood. physiotherapists and chiropodists will also be involved on a con- sultancy basis. Value Added: This project reflects a departure from previous efforts of working with CSWs. The program will also involve Rationale: In the past in Nigeria, those who provided financial securing alternative and decent accommodations for these support for the poor and aged were members of the extended CSWs; paying them a monthly stipend commensurate with their family system. With development and the desire to attain higher illicit trade throughout the training; and setting them up from the living standards which seem to be available only in urban areas revolving loan fund to establish their various trades. They will and overseas, responsible adults who provided for the poor and also form themselves into cooperative groups to be able to aged have been forced to leave rural/village communities, there- access the loan fund and will thus have alternative livelihood by abandoning the one-on-one care for their poor, aged, and the options. very young, with the hope that they (extended family providers) would send funds and resources for the care and sustenance of Project Number: 399 those left in the villages. Value Added: The project will provide the first organized "wel- Rehabilitation of Discharged Leprosy fare" system for the poor and the aged in Ohafia, Abia State, Parent and their Children on the in particular and in Nigeria. It will reinstate the principle of the Highways/Camps (Nationwide) extended family system, harness its value and expand it to incorporate improved ways of caring for the poor and helpless Country(ies)/ Region: Nigeria (Africa) aged. It will institutionalize the care for the poor and aged and Organization: AFRICAN HOPE ORGANISATION (AHO) train some members of the target groups to become self-sus- tainable. Partnering Organization: Ministry of Health Funding Request: $101,500 (out of $66,000 total) Project Number: 1968 Contact: Innocent Paul Uworibhor at email: aho_leprosy@hot- Manitoba-Tanzania Entrepreneurship mail.com or telephone: 234-1-5835219, 832433 Training Association (MTETA) - Youth Summary Heritage Entrepreneurship Project Objective: To rehabilitate former leprosy patients and their chil- Country(ies)/ Region: Tanzania (Africa) dren and reduce poverty among them. Organization: The Marquis Project Rationale: If the socioeconomic status of these former patients 46 Partnering Organization: Tanzanian Society of Agricultural Project Number: 1480 Education and Extension (TSAEE) Funding Request: $52,125 (out of $116,950 total) Enhancement of Community Driven Contact: Zack Gross, Dinah Ceplis, Lynn Slobogian, Donna Development through Traditional Ugandan Debassige at email: mproject@escape.ca or telephone: (204) Kinship systems 727-5675 Country(ies)/ Region: Uganda (Africa) Summary Organization: The World Bank Objective : To addresses poverty in rural Tanzania by link- Partnering Organization: The Carter Center/Global 2000 ing traditional craft production with marketplace entrepre- Funding Request: $150,000 (out of $200,000 total) neurship. Contact: Joyce Msuya at email: jmsuya@worldbank.org or tele- Rationale: Young people are categorized as the poorest group phone: (202) 458 7712 in Tanzania, with limited hope of formal employment. High youth unemployment rates combined with limited opportunities to prac- tice business skills cause youth to leave rural areas. This impov- Summary erishes the social and economic structure of rural communities in Objective: To empower communities to use traditional kinship Tanzania, decreasing the transfer of local traditional knowledge structures and publicly financed health delivery services to con- from elders to youth. Lacking a formal system to transfer their trol onchocerciasis, or river blindness. experience to youth, aging craft producers are leaving behind a Rationale: Onchocerciasis remains a big problem in rural society ignorant about crafts valuable for market purposes and Uganda. The project aims to provides technical and advisory traditional reasons, such as gift giving, rituals, and decorations. assistance to Nebbi District Health Services and empower com- Youth are searching for self-employment opportunities within munities through health education and training and participation their communities. in decision making processes. There already exists a high Value Added: This project involves youth in economic, social, degree of project ownership. Moreover, since kinships are based and global development with youth, preserves heritage skills, on communal values, compliance is high because of the honor and develops fair trade between Canada and Tanzania. This associated with community service at the kinship level. project provides Tanzanians with a bridge to the gap between Therefore, provision of health services will be faster, more effi- the old and new generation and experienced elders who are cient, and more transparent. knowledgeable about crafts and other indigenous technologies Value Added: While the kinship aspect is an innovative arrange- will lead youth training seminars. Community education will be ment in Uganda, the public-traditional partnership and participa- based on local resources and heritage will be seen as a window tory approach aims at ensuring sustainability of expected health to social and economic growth. outcomes. Project Number: 745 Project Number: 1401 Forge and Agricultural Formation of The Race Against Time - Empowering Rural Delinquent Children of Cacaveli Center Tibetan Communities for Social, Economic (Lome) and Cultural Survival Country(ies)/ Region: Togo (Africa) Country(ies)/ Region: China (East Asia and the Pacific) Organization: Centre d'Observation et de Reinsertion Sociale Organization: The World Bank de Cacavelli Partnering Organization: Tibet Heritage Fund Partnering Organization: Direction Generale des Affaires Sociales Funding Request: $98,900 (out of $110,400 total) Funding Request: $68,395 (out of $96,128 total) Contact: Kim Cuenca, Senior Urban Specialist, INFUD at email: ecuenco@worldbank.org or telephone: 202-458-9107 Contact: Kassime Osseni (Director) at email: okassime@hot- mail.com or telephone: (228) 25 68 27 Summary Objective: To assist Tibetan rural communities in making the Summary transition to the global economy while conserving their cultural Objective: To reduce delinquency among street children by heritage. This will be accomplished through a two-pronged strat- training them in agriculture and modern forging mills, and to egy aimed at increasing the productivity and global competitive- facilitate their reintegration into society. ness of local artisan enterprises while at the same time promot- Rationale: Deprived of material and emotional support, the ing the conservation of Tibetan cultural heritage through the revi- street children of Togo face tremendous obstacles. The project talization of its traditional crafts and architecture. aims to recruit such children following social research, then Rationale: The development of the Western Sichuan and train them in agriculture methods, breeding, and working in a Central Tibet Autonomous Region has introduced globalization at modern forging mill. It will equip the existing Cacavelli Center an unprecedented pace into what was once China's hinterland. with adequate hardware and human resources, install the Competition for employment opportunities outside of traditional young people in suitable mediums for their activities, and agriculture and animal husbandry is becoming highly competitive carry out periodic monitoring and evaluation of these young in this new economy. Although rural Tibetan communities have people until their complete reintegration and rehabilitation into benefited from the government's economic reforms over the past society. 20 years, their general level of education is among the lowest in Value Added: Through practical knowledge learned in this proj- the region. Lack of training, combined with rural and ethnic con- ect, the street children will have skills to help themselves escape servatism, has made rural Tibetan communities less competitive poverty. vis-a-vis the Han Chinese in meeting the challenges of rapid economic development and globalization. 47 Value Added: By focusing on the conservation and revitalization family rehabilitation upon release. The project will show the of Tibetan culture, the project will promote ownership among Ministry of Education and City officials new methods of teaching local communities in the selected areas. The project focuses on and nurturing personal development and has invited NGO partic- women and youth, in their roles as both artisans and program ipation. managers. About 50 percent of THF project participants and project staff to date are women. The overall development goal of Project Number: 1927 the project is to foster a sense of faith in communities in the con- text of a rapidly changing environment. Entrepreneurship and Employment Training Among Disadvantaged Central European Project Number: 2034 Youth E-Governance and Decentralization in Country(ies)/ Region: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland Three Indonesian Regions (Europe and Central Asia) Country(ies)/ Region: Indonesia (East Asia and the Pacific) Organization: Integra Foundation Organization: IRIS Center, University of Maryland Partnering Organization: The Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum Partnering Organization: Center for Regional Governance, University Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia Funding Request: $80,000 (out of $120,000 total) Funding Request: $118,155 (out of $163,538 total) Contact: Allan Bussard at email: allan.bussard@integra.sk or telephone: 421 2 5441 8829 Contact: Patrick Meagher, Associate Director at email: meagher@iris.econ.umd.edu or telephone: 301-405-5468/301- 405-3110 Summary Objective: To promote entrepreneurship and enhance the employability of young people in the small urban and rural areas Summary in the Czech and Slovak Republics through short residential Objective: To use information technology to improve information training programs. exchange among Indonesian district governments, citizens, civic groups, and the private sector, particularly on the topic of corrup- Rationale: The problem of unemployment among youth in tion. depressed small urban regions, particularly Roma youth, has defied simple solutions in Central Europe. The declining eco- Rationale: Whether the recent decentralization of government nomic situation creates the conditions for social problems that responsibility and finances in Indonesian will lead to lower cor- find expression in racial violence. Often, young people migrate to ruption and better governance depends on people's ability to other urban centers, exacerbating unemployment problems else- monitor and discipline their local governments. The project pro- where. The project aims to offer job skills training and micro poses to create electronic reporting systems in 30 Kabupaten in enterprise development, as well as a range of support, training, East Java, West Java, and North Sulawesi to collect and dis- and counseling. Those young people who become entrepreneurs seminate information on corruption, and to use the Internet to will have regular contact with a loan officer who monitors create political pressure to combat corruption. The project will progress, makes monthly site visits, and offers relevant advice enable the private sector and members of civil society to influ- and troubleshooting support. ence the quality of local government, thus improving the climate for investment, jobs, and growth to reduce poverty in Indonesia. Value Added: The project offers a resource for marginalized youth to enhance employability and reduce poverty. Value Added: This project focuses on empowering civil society via the Internet to discipline local governments. Project Number: 596 Project Number: 185 Creation of a Self-Maintaining Business Education of Street Children in Prison and Incubator for Graduates of Children's Rehabilitation upon Release Homes Country(ies)/ Region: Mongolia (East Asia and the Pacific) Country(ies)/ Region: Kazakhstan (Europe and Central Asia) Organization: Organization: IBRD Partnering Organization: Canadian Embassy I CIDA Partnering Organization: Christina Noble Children Foundation (CNCF) Funding Request: $73,359 (out of $103,605 total) Funding Request: $74,400 (out of $83,000 total) Contact: Kamilya Sadykova at email: kamilya@itte.kz or tele- phone: 3272)-33-23-70 Contact: Carlos R. Escudero at email: cescudero@worldbank.org or telephone: 1-202-458-1729 Summary Objective: To provide Kazakhstani orphans with the professional Summary skills they need to produce agricultural products and give them a Objective: To provide the street children sent to prison with an chance to live and work independently. opportunity to break the cycle of desperate poverty and abuse. Rationale: Former residents of children's homes in Kazakhstan Rationale: Most of the children in prison are victims of the high are one of the country's most vulnerable groups. The current rate of unemployment, abject poverty, rampant alcoholism, and system leaves them ill-prepared, socially and educationally, for the breakdown of family values. There are no halfway houses or life after the orphanage. The project addresses the problem counseling services in Mongolia. Apart from regularly sweeping through the creation of a "business-incubator," which will provide them off the streets, and placing them in state institutions, often facilities for the agricultural training of the children, farming against their will, there are no government services to assist equipment, a wild apple tree nursery, and a greenhouse. The street children who are desperately in need of therapy. school will involve local skilled farmers. The project is expected Value Added: This will be the first qualitative program to to help make the children economically self-sufficient. improve the life of children in prison and ensure their social and 48 Value Added: Children in the orphanage system receive gifts had more access to educational and training programs designed from birth, creating a sense of entitlement. This project works to to fulfill their special needs, and existing laws assure equal overcome the problem by involving the children in creative and opportunities for people with disabilities to compete for a job. productive activities to help them learn how to make choices and Large companies are required by the government to reserve 2-5 see the outcomes, which helps prepare them for life. percent of jobs for disabled persons. However, implementation of government laws is slow, and a frequent complaint by employers Pr·oject Number: 1569 is that they cannot find disabled persons to fill this quota. Speaking Up: Negotiation Skills for Value Added: The main content of the intended web site is a searchable, free database of jobs and vacancies for people with Indigenous Communities disabilities presented in a simple classified ads format. The proj- Country(is)/ Region: (Latin America and Caribbean) ect has had great acceptance within the disabled persons' com- munities. A test website has been launched, and it received an Organization: HORIZONT3000 average of 100 hits per day between November 2000 and March Partnering Organization: ATINCHIK S.A.C. 2001. Online research forms built profiles of the user audience Funding Request: $100,000 (out of $100,000 total) which will guide future plans. The portal will be linked with gov- ernmental agencies promoting integration, services, and legal Contact: Ursula Hauszer at email: oedecu@ecuanex.net.ec or support for disabled persons. telephone: 593-2-523375 Project Number: 32 Summary Poor People and Students Volunteers Objective: To build the negotiation skills and assertiveness capacity of indigenous communities in the Latin America and the Network: Health, Education and Income Caribbean region to protect their rights and interests when nego- Sustainable Actions tiating land use issues and to reduce the isolation of these com- munities and form the basis of a network of ongoing network of Country(ies)/ Region: Brazil (Latin America and Caribbean) support for them. Organization: MVP Consultoria Rationale: All too often, indigenous communities find they are at Partnering Organization: PASTORAL DA CRIANCA a terrible disadvantage when faced with governments or indus- Funding Request: $111,266 (out of $173,522 total) tries bent on using their land and extracting their natural resources. Typically, land use decisions are made without the Contact: Marcia Vasconcelos Pinto at email: participation of the people living on this land. Lacking the skills to mvpcons@uol.com.br or telephone: 55-85-9108-5073 negotiate their interests effectively, these communities bear the high cost of the depletion of their natural resources without the Summary benefits of economic development. As a result, indigenous lives Objective: To create a network of volunteer students of business and livelihoods are being threatened. administration to assist and support health, nutrition, capacity Value Added: The Speaking Up program will shift from reaction building, and income generation activities and projects of to pro-action, from externally driven to community-driven, from Pastoral da Crianca. crisis management to strategic and contingency planning and Rationale: Poverty in Ceara state is attributed to aridity; inad- collective action. The focus will shift from service provision to equate public policies; lack of interest and corrupt acts on the capacity building. Community members will become participants part of the government in dealing with several droughts. Year in decisions they cannot anticipate, understand, or affect. The after year, a large number of peasants leave the countryside community empowerment training part of this program can sig- for the capital, thereby increasing poverty, unemployment, nificantly improve their self-esteem, reduce their sense of power- malnourishment, environmental problems, crime, and other lessness, heighten their self-reliance, strengthen their negotiat- challenges. It is imperative to reduce the gap between the ing position, and increase their ability to influence decisions that haves and have nots, and one of the most important actions is directly affect them. capacity building toward income-generating opportunities, basic health care, education, and interventions (especially for Project Number: 140, pregnant mothers and malnourished children) with family Job Placement for Disabled Persons members in the poorest communities. through the Internet Value Added: The most innovative aspect of the project is free planning and administrative and management support daily for a Country(ies)/ Region: Brazil (Latin America and Caribbean) year to a grassroots organization, with focus in income-generat- Organization: AJAAssociacao do Jovem Aprendiz ing activities. A second innovative aspect is to provide all 646 community leaders and 75 unemployed family members capaci- Partnering Organization: Ministry of Justice CORDE ty-building courses on Entrepreneurship and Small Business Coordenadoria Nacional Para lntegracao da Pessoa Portadora Planning and Fundraising of Resources. A third innovative de Deficiencia aspect is provide capacity-building courses to volunteer business Funding Request: $66,000 (out of $66,000 total) students preparing them for jobs. A fourth innovative aspect is to Contact: Adonai Rocha at email: Ong@uol.com.br or telephone: mix university students, who are normally part of high-income 5561 427 0140 families, with low-income people, in a close working situation. Project Number: 1623 Summary Objective: To develop an Internet portal for job searching which Promotion of a Non-Violent Culture through would be accessible to both potential employers and disabled Community Forums in Cali, Colombia. working persons. Country(ies)/ Region: Colombia (Latin America and Caribbean) Rationale: During the last decade, Brazilian NGOs and govern- ment have been promoting campaigns and advocacy and imple- Organization: CISALVA Institute - Universidad del Valle - Cali - menting laws for people with disabilities. Disabled persons have Colombia 49 Partnering Organization: lnstituto Colombiano de Bienestar Project Number: 436 familiar Funding Request: $29,998 (out of $39,998 total) Empowerment of Indigenous Women Contact: Ana Lucfa Paz Rueda at email: cisalva@mafalda.uni- Victims of Abuse: "Women to Women Project" valle.edu.co or telephone: (572)5554466 (572) 5560255 - (572) Country(ies)/ Region: Guatemala (Latin America and 5577206 Caribbean) Organization: CARE Guatemala Summary Objective: To train a group of community leaders in the use of Partnering Organization: Association for Integrated methodology for community forums as the means for peaceful Development of Women of Huehuetenango (ADIMH) conflict resolution. Funding Request: $120,001 (out of $120,001 total) Rationale: Colombia has the highest homicide rate in Latin Contact: Jeannie Zielinksi & Carlos Piedrasanta at email: jzielin- America, and violence is the main public health problem. ski@care.org.gt or telephone: + 502- 339-1139 Violence prevents the well-being of the population;specially, its presence is more intense in the outcast communities, limiting Summary basic activities and survival. The interventions try to solve the Objective: To open a treatment center to provide psychologi- problem by increasing security and the police. In the last few cal, medical, and legal support to abused and mistreated years, the approach has been geared toward the pacific reso- women. lution of conflicts to decrease the high interpersonal violence in the city. Rationale: In Guatemala, the abuse and mistreatment of women are often the roots of poverty. Diverse causes include Value Added: The project employs social modeling, learning, postwar instability, domestic violence, human rights violations, and educational techniques, building on the exchange of real and workplace mistreatment. Many women have limited life experiences and drawing practical knowledge from them. It access to education and are unaware of their rights and pro- promotes the creation of a self-sustainable process and seeks tection under the law. The project aims to support, empower, to break deep-rooted patterns and behaviors by creating and equip these women with a network of solidarity. It will also peaceful means for nonconfrontational and open discussion find economic alternatives for women so they can be inde- and analysis of the experience of others. pendent from family members who mistreat them, thereby encouraging poverty reduction and helping entire families and Project Number: 792 communities. It will be run by a local association made up Productive and Social Development on solely of women, some of whom were victims of mistreatment themselves. Urban Areas from the City of Armenia Value Added: By combining poverty reduction efforts with psy- Country(ies)/ Region: Colombia (Latin America and Caribbean) chological, medical, and legal support, the project takes a Organization: Camara de Comercio de Armenia holistic approach. Partnering Organization: SODEFIAM S.A. Project Number: 843 Funding Request: $100,000 (out of $124,746 total) Intra-city Volunteerism for Urban Contact: RODRIGO ESTRADA REVEIZ at email: camara1 @armenia.multi.net.co or telephone: 57 (096) 7 41 23 Development 00 Country(ies)/ Region: Jamaica (Latin America and the Caribbean) Summary Organization: United Nations Volunteers Objective: To generate and strengthen a micro enterprise process in the urban area of Armenia (Quindio, Colombia). Partnering Organization: Governorate of lsmailia , Egypt Rationale: The project addresse access to: (1) financial aid Funding Request: $100,000 (out of $366,850 total) for enterprises in poor communities and (2) logistical aid for Contact: Dr. Edmundo Werna at email: enterprises owned by the poor. Plans for the promotion and edmundo.werna@unv.org or telephone: +49 228 815 2123 growth of micro enterprises were projected in the past without an integrated concept regarding the economic conditions of Summary productive vocation and the real needs of the poor for poverty Objective: To improve the living conditions in cities by strength- reduction. Often, the plans were based on initiatives without ening volunteerism. knowledge about social needs, and they were implemented without having defined economic goals for social improve- Rationale: Volunteerism makes an important economic contribu- ment. tion to urban settlements in particular and to society as a whole. It is specifically important in increasing social cohesion and capi- Value Added: The project is innovative because it is an inte- tal; in ownership of production to satisfy basic needs; and in grated solution to support poor people's enterprises so that building alliances and networks and, through these, increasing they may be successful, able to contribute to development, opportunities for employment. improve their quality of life, and generate employment. The project will create conditions that will enable the poor to invest Value Added: This is an international initiative which will be in their own development and to improve their living condi- simultaneously implemented in different parts of the world, build- tions. A combination of tools will be used to motivate econom- ing on synergies among implementing teams and stakeholders. ic activity among population segments that are economically It will increase the membership and capacity of local voluntary vulnerable and do not have access to technological, technical, organizations; establish an online advice center to provide tech- or financial opportunities to generate sustainable productive nical advice not only to pilot initiatives but also to any other city processes. up to a mature and sustainable stage; and develop a database of local volunteers, which is difficult to obtain in developing coun- tries. 50 from the judicial system (85 percent), and the widespread vio- Proje:ct Number: 1953 lence in the country has brought about even more violent forms Yotung Initiative: Developing of dispute resolutions (lynching and popular executions). In E.'ntrepreneurship and Participatory 1999, Consorcio Justicia submitted to the development market- place a project (it received the award for the most popular proj- r.:itizenship through Volunteering in ect, but no funding) whose objective was to establish conciliation Uruguay. centers in poor communities. Financed on its own, the organiza- tion opened the first center and was able to attend 2,500 cases Country(ies)/ Region: Uruguay (Latin America and Caribbean) in the year 2000. These centers are devised to foster alternative Organization: lnstituto lnvestigaci6n y Desarrollo- IDES dispute resolution mechanisms, operated by the communities themselves. Partnering Organization: Licea Publico de Ensefianza Secundaria de Toledo Value Added: The project provides access to the legal advice and psychological help of a Communal Conciliation Center which Funding Request: $60,000 (out of $60,000 total) is devoted to the issues of both domestic violence and child Contact: Juan Jose Mere Rouco at email: ides@adinet.com.uy abuse. It offers an opportunity for low-income people in the com- or telephone: 598.2.9023186 munity to improve their quality of life. Summary Project Number: 1530 Objective: To continue a pilot initiative that was a structured par- Women and Children in the Redemption of ticipatory process where poor young people mobilize to build innovative partnerships to address social needs and to imple- Environment and Economic Development in ment local solutions for improving the quality of life of the whole their Communities community. Country(ies)/ Region: Venezuela (Latin America and Rationale: n Uruguay, social programs or actions for poor young Caribbean) people are traditionally being defined and implemented without taking into account their involvement or opinion, arguing that Organization: AMURT Partnering Organization: Alcaldfa de they have no capacity or interest or that their participation level San Jose is low. In general, this situation generates little ownership from Funding Request: $83,602 (out of $113,637 total) this groups, and low impact even when actions are adequate. Contact: Hendrika Renkers at email: amurtve@cantv.net or tele- Such a modus operandi reinforces -- as a side effect -- the phone: 0212.782.21031 0212.633.3476 vicious circle of social exclusion. Value Added: The learning process is interactive and based on Summary various skill-building activities, games, and exercises carried out Objective: To develop a training program and economic model by the group to develop their entrepreneurial capacity and their such as Enterprises that may bring educational opportunities for ability to work cooperatively toward common goals. This mothers, women, and children as well as training and economic approach generates individual leadership and initiative as well as development to the communities of La Guarita, El Tesoro, a team mentality that facilitates the development of organized, Caraquita, Madre Vieja, and Los Galpones. effective, and collective action. It emphasizes discussion, critical reflection, open communication, and the expression of individual Rationale: In December 1999, Venezuela suffered the greatest ideas and skills, in a climate of confidence and fraternal cooper- disaster in its history and the worst in Latin America. Estimated ation. figures report that approximately 20,000 to 50,000 died and approximately 350.000 were victims of the disaster. In some Project Number: 1225 states, 80 percent of the roads were badly damaged, the water, electricity and telephone system collapsed, and whole towns Justice Access in Poor Communities is Not were destroyed. Women generate the main income source for Utopic rural households. Women and their children are most vulnerable because their education level does not permit them to have for- Country(ies)/ Region: Venezuela ((Latin America and mal employment, thus generating poverty in their homes and Caribbean) surroundings. Organization: Asociaci6n Civil CONSORCIO JUSTICIA I World Value Added: The implementing organization works not only Bank around the external world that surrounds people but also in their Partnering Organization: Tribunal Supremo de Justicia II internal world. This means that external poverty can be eradicat- Alcaldfa Metropolitana ed only with better income, better opportunities in the work mar- ket, and better education, but the organization must work to Funding Request: $67,465 (out of $82,915 total) reform individual and communal values, the habits, attitudes, Contact: Carlos Ponce Silen I World Bank behavior, and codes. Contact: Waleed Malik wmalik@worldbank.org at email: consor- ciojusticia@cantv.net, ceps@hotmail.com or telephone: Project Number: 443 0212574063015737367 Career Development Center (formerly Image and Career Enhancement Project} Summary Objective: To strengthen existing Conciliation centers and com- Country(ies)/ Region: Palestine (Middle East and North Africa) munities in Calia, Venezuela, by providing training tools (videos Organization: CIPMO Italian Center for Peace in the Middle and magazines with photoplays), including family violence pre- East vention campaigns and strategies. Partnering Organization: Latin Patriarchate Jerusalem Rationale: Ninety-five percent of Venezuelans feel that their judicial system benefits rich people only, and that the poor have Funding Request: $161,788 (out of $171,036 total) no access to it, since , as they state, it is slow, hardly fair, and Contact: Monica Luxa at email: monicaluxa@tin.it or telephone: corrupt. Likewise, a large number of citizens exclude themselves (39)-02-866147 51 Summary Contact: Anthony Seneviratne, Director at email: habitat@sri.lanka.net or telephone: 077 717060 or 0722 51144 Objective: To help unemployed and underemployed women HfH office is being shifted. Reason mobile Nos. in Bethlehem enter the job market and raise income levels by providing educational, training, and support services. Summary Rationale: Area women experience alarmingly high unem- ployment rates, despite being generally well educated. Objective: To help poor women in Sri Lanka to save money, Women are discouraged by social constraints, do not have develop their own village banks, revolve credit to build microen- access to training to enhance their skills, and lack familiarity terprises, and then work together to build their own houses with the job application process. When they do find work, through collective action. women are often engaged far below their potential. The proj- Rationale: Sri Lankan government statistics reveal that more ect involves access to a career development center that will than 41 percent of its population lives in substandard housing. enable women to enter the job market, raise their incomes, Habitat for Humanity Sri Lanka (HFH/SL) is partnering with 35 and make positive changes to perceptions of the role of women's groups comprising 12 members each, in Batticaloa women. The center will provide training, resume assistance, (largely consisting of widows from Sri Lanka's civil war), plus and interview preparation. Small micro credit loans will be subsistence farmers in Moneragala, Hambantota, and available for start-up capital. The center will also provide a job Anuradhapura. All families live in substandard housing, and are placement service. at the heart of HFH/SL's goal to eradicate poor housing in Sri Value Added: There is currently no facility providing such servic- Lanka. es in the West Bank or Gaza. Value Added: The project model breaks with tradition because women teach women in a decentralized, sustainable, self- Project Number: 406 study, self-pay approach. The simple and unique self-instruc- tional model doesn't require outside facilitator/trainers. Any Empowering Women in Commodity Trade: woman member of the project can become an leader of her Alternative Approach to Sustainable group or village bank. Once-illiterate women are now bank Development presidents, secretaries, and treasurers; poor members own their banks and collect all interest, instead of NGOs or MFis. Country(ies)/ Region: Bangladesh (South Asia) The project is self-replicating; existing groups have started Organization: CENTRE FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN STUD- almost 2,000 new groups with 26,500 members. The cost per IES (CWCS) woman has dropped to $1.00 per woman per month and can be replicated easily. Partnering Organization: SOCIAL UPLIFTMENT SOCEITY (SUS) This project has been combined with project no. 73 on pg. 44. Funding Request: $88,000 (out of $0 total) Contact: PROF. ISHRAT SHAMIM at email: ish@bdmail.net or telephone: Office: +880-2-9351126, Home: +880-2-9344685 OTHER Project Number: 673 Summary Objective: To extend micro credit loans to the poorest women of Building Creative Communities in Mali the urban poor to improve their small-scale trading and to reduce Country(ies)/ Region: Mali (Africa) poverty. Organization: African Cultural Conservation Fund Rationale: In Bangladesh, more than 6 million women currently receive small collateral-free loans through different NGOs, but Partnering Organization: African Cultural Conservation Fund micro credit targets the rural poor and seldom reaches the poor- Funding Request: $210,000 (out of $313,000 total) est of the urban poor. Many rural women that have been wid- Contact: Todd Vincent Crosby, Executive Director, at email: cul- owed, divorced, or abandoned, have migrated to urban areas turebank@hotmail.com or telephone: 202-572-4589 and become commodity traders. Extremely poor, they lack access to capital or facilities for shelter, health, education, or legal protection. The project aims to establish an Integrated Summary Credit Model to empower 200 destitute self-employed women in Objective: To build new enterprises and conserve local Malian Savar and Dhaka. It will organize the women; provide financial history and culture through an innovative scheme that spiritually support, knowledge, and counseling; and network with service melds micro credit and museum. organizations that provide education, health facilities, and legal Rationale: Mali is one of Africa's richest countries culturally and protection. one of its poorest economically. Efforts to harness the country's Value Added: The project is innovative because it integrates cultural wealth are undermined by black market exports and the lessons learned frorn existing urban micro credit schemes; it pro- loss of oral history and traditional knowledge. Disappearing with vides not only micro credit, but holistic support for the reduction these resources are economic development opportunities. The of poverty. project proposes an integrated approach to preserve these resources and reduce poverty. The approach is built around Project Number: 756 Culture Banks, local institutions that provide access to business capital, strengthen communities, and promote cultural conserva- Self-Instructional Empowerment, "Save and tion. Through the banks, funded by community membership fees, Build" Village Banking - Sri Lanka community members use their cultural objects as collateral for loans. Country(ies)/ Region: Sri Lanka (South Asia) Value Added: The Culture Bank is not rnerely a micro finance Organization: Habitat for Humanity Sri Lanka operation nor only a museum. Instead, it is an entirely new phe- Partnering Organization: Pact/Women's Empowerment Project nomenon created by merging both of these components. Funding Request: $98,762 (out of $150,700 total) 52 holds, regardless of ethnic origin. Decades of civil war have Project Number: 2170 taken their toll on the lives and properties of not only Muslim but legal Assistance for Widows with HIV/AIDS also Christian and indigenous people living in the battle zones. (LAW-HIIV/AIDS) in Tanzania Value Added: The approach of the project is to view the com- munity as a whole, to provide a more integrated sustainable Country(ie!S)/ Region: Tanzania (Africa) development impact in economic terms and promoting peace Organizatic>n: Center for Environment and Sustainable and unity among its residents. Project funds will be used for Development (CESD) enterprise development and will be managed by the cooperative based on a credit model that is easy to replicate and is sustain- Partnering Organization: North Florida International Visitors able. The credit program make use of best practices based on Council, Inc:. (NFIVC) local conditions and on cultural considerations of the the mem- Funding R•equest: $196,765 (out of $204,240 total) bers' multiethnic origins. Contact: Dr. David Mfinanga, Executive Director, at email: edi- rector_ CES D@hotmail.com or telephone: (255) 741-329-690 Project Number: 824 Heritage Cultural Tourism and Poverty Summary Alleviation in the Republic of Georgia Objective: To provide legal clinics to women in rural areas in Kagera, Tanzania, thereby facilitating the settlement of cases to Country(ies)/ Region: Georgia (Europe and Central Asia) recover property and filing cases on behalf of widows whose Organization: Georgian Arts and Culture Center cases cannot be settled out of court. The project will train women on their legal rights and options and undertake advocacy Partnering Organization: Aid to Artisans activities to change inheritance and customary laws. Assisting Funding Request: $40,050 (out of $40,050 total) these widows to retain property is a direct way of helping chil- Contact: Maka Dvalishvili at email: Gaccenter@hotmail.com, dren who soon will be orphaned. GACC@ip.osgf.ge, Maka@iacgaa.ge or telephone: (99532) Rationale: After their husbands' deaths, widows often lose 935685 everything, including land and house, to their in-laws. Sixty per- cent of rural women in Kagera do not know their legal rights and Summary thus are unable to defend themselves. Ninety percent lack the Objective: To provide technical assistance to artisans to develop financial resources needed to fight their cases in the courts and travel to cities is too expensive. a community-based cultural enterprise initiative that will generate employment and income, alleviating poverty and preserving the Value Add«~d: The proposed project will empower rural women cultural heritage. and develop the grassroots capacity so that women can defend their legal rights when and if they are infringed upon. The project Rationale: The political and economic instability in the Caucasus region has exacerbated poverty Georgia. While craft employs the training-the-trainer (TOT) approach to train women production was a traditional occupation in Georgia for centuries, on their rights and legal options. Women who have experienced it was one of the hardest hit when the Soviet system collapsed. the problems addressed by this project will be identified and A large pool of highly skilled artisans remain unemployed. selected to participate in the TOT training. Legal advocacy activi- Easily accessible raw materials, low technology and investment ties will be undertaken to ensure that the laws protect the rights inputs, and a high market potential for products make craft of every member of society, particularly widowed women. Direct enterprises a viable option. The project aims to provide techni- participation of local village women in the program as trainers cal assistance to artisans, strengthening their capacity to will ensure sustainability. design and develop high-quality, innovative, market-driven prod- ucts. It will provide training and market access in four national Project Number: 1747 tourism regions. KALINAW (Malita Tri-People Program for Value Added: The potential of craft production to generate Peace and Development) income and reduce poverty parallels its cultural value in revitaliz- ing traditions and skills that have shaped the rich heritage of Country(ies)/ Region: Philippines (East Asia and the Pacific) Georgia. Organization: : Institute for Small Farms and Industries (ISFI) Partnering Organization: Malita Muslim Women's Multi- Project Number: 76 Purpose Cooperative Microfinance Strengthening in Central Asia Funding Request: $44,400 (out of $51,150 total) through the Creation of a Resources Center Contact: Jocelyn E. Cabo/Edmundo Martinez, S.J., at email: Country(ies)/ Region: Kyrgyz Republic (Europe and Central isfi@addu.edu.ph or telephone: (63) 082-221-2411 Asia) (63) 082-221-0159 Organization: PlaNet Finance Summary Partnering Organization: Central Asian Corporate Technologies Objective: To assist current peace and development efforts by Center improving the quality of life of Muslim, Christian, and indigenous Funding Request: $83,550 (out of $98,550 total) women and their households in Mal ita, Davao del Sur in the Contact: Arnaud Ventura at email: aventura@planetfinance.org Philippines. Specific objectives include providing interventions for or telephone: + 33 1 53 24 31 31 increased capacities of women in organizational development and enterprise management and capital assistance to sustain livelihood projects. Summary Objective: to increase the number of beneficiaries of microfi- Rationale: The problem of poverty in these areas is not really an nancing in Central Asia and to strengthen local micro finance ethnic issue that is, Muslim versus Christian, as development institutions (MFis) in their role of fighting poverty and promoting agencies have previously viewed it. The lack of economic oppor- private initiatives at an acceptable cost. More specifically, the tunities and access to basic social services affects all house- 53 project aims to organize the MFis in a network, ease access to Project Number: 746 information, and improve professionalism through training. Rationale: Governments in Central Asia have decided to include Improving Police Practices from the Ground rnicro finance programs in their poverty alleviation programs. Up Microfinancing has been recognized as a powerful tool to allevi- ate poverty by giving poor populations a chance to create jobs, Country(ies)/ Region: Venezuela (Latin America and develop income-generating opportunities, and encourage entre- Caribbean) preneurship. Under various governmental and nongovernmental Organization: Consorcio Justicia, lnstituto de Estudios de initiatives, a number of MFis have been set up. However, Seguridad y Defensa para los Derechos Humanos (ISDH) because of a lack of coordination and access to information and Partnering Organization: Centro de Investigaciones de professionalism, the potential of MFis in fighting poverty has Derecho y Sociedad (CIDES) been largely underused. Funding Request: $129,780 (out of $182,825 total) Value Added: The project will rely on established approaches and on the creation of the first low-cost Resource Center in Contact: Carlos Ponce, Waleed H. Malik, Nelson Daniels T Central Asia to specifically address the issues of micro (ISDH), Roberto Panzardi at email: consorciojusticia@cantv.net, finance, micro entrepreneurs, and micro finance institutions. wmailk@worldbank.org or telephone: 58212-5737:167 I 5774380 The Center will have immediate and long-term objectives. It (Consorcio Justicia) /1202-4739237 (W. Malik) will use modern technologies, including low-cost Internet serv- ices, to connect it immediately to the region's MFis and to a Summary worldwide network of similar centers and MFis, promoting Objective: To develop a strategy to train police and security access and training at an affordable cost. This will ensure the forces in Venezuela and Ecuador to reduce violence and prevent long-term sustainability of the Center, the development of crime, as well as to regain the trust and support of citizens, strong MFI networks in the region, and a powerful mechanism thereby creating a more favorable environment for development. to fight poverty. The Center will start in Kyrgyzstan but will soon include four other countries: Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Rationale: Violence, social unrest, and a weak rule of law exac- Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. erbate poverty and limit development effectiveness.. Public mis- trust of the police and security orces often constitutes an intractable obstacle to crime reduction. By equipping the Project Number: 1350 National Guard and the Police Forces (national, state, and Maestros al Trabajo! municipal) with training in human rights and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods, this project aims to enhance collabo- Country(ies)/ Region: Venezuela (Latin America and ration and trust between communities and security forces. Caribbean) Value Added: By developing and implementing training that Organization: Consorcio Justicia addresses the correlation between public perceptions of social Partnering Organization: Consorcio San Miguel, Oficina de insecurity and the responsibility of the state to control crime and Autogesti6n de Calia, ObraWeb protect fundamental freedoms, the project promises to enhance effective communication between civil society and law enforce- Funding Request: $68,520 (out of $80,520 total) ment agencies. Contact: Hubert Klumpner, Director, at email: hklumpner@hot- mail.com or telephone: 58212-573 7367 574 0630 Project Number: 1993 Summary CYBER Development E-Mail Objective: To create a pilot project for an Internet-based job announcements page and a database of blacksmiths, bricklay- Country(ies)/ Region: Palestine (Middle East and North Africa) ers, carpenters, construction supervisors, electricians, garden- ers, glazers, painters, plumbers, and workers who reside in the Organization: Chambre des Beaux Arts de Mediterranee poor areas (barrios) in and around Caracas, Venezuela. Partnering Organization: Jordon River Foundation Rationale: The construction sector in Venezuela, which employs Funding Request: $122,100 (out of $237,880 total) between 400,000 and 800,000people, has experienced average Contact: Lila Skarveli at email: ch.beaux.arts@wanadoo.fr or unemployment rates of 25 percent. Work opportunities in the telephone:+ 33 1 45 67 12 52-+ 33 1 47 34 11 2!> construction field are advertised mainly by word of mouth. Therefore, workers have limited access to information about demand for their skills. Likewise, individuals and construction Summary owners in need of workers do not have access to a database or Objective: To use information technology to help craftswomen updated registry of available labor. No service exists to bridge living in Palestinian refugee camps enhance their know-how and the supply and demand of labor in the home renovation, service, increase income. and building sectors. Rationale: People living in Palestinian refugee camps live in Value Added: The project is innovative because there are cur- extreme poverty and have very few opportunities for sustainable rently no job centers in Venezuelan cities and no efforts directed income. Women are the most vulnerable group, yet an increas- towards the barrios or, specifically, towards construction industry ing number are at the heart of a small-scale local economy that workers. The second innovative component is the partnership draws on traditional handicrafts, such as embroide1y, weaving, between a nonprofit organization (Consorcio Justicia), estab- and ceramics, to provide family income. But the women lack a lished community organizations (Consocio San Miguel and knowledge of design and marketing to expand sales. The project Oficina de Autogesti6n de Calia), and a private business enter- will help them by introducing computers and Internet connec- prise (ObraWeb). The third innovative component is the use of tions--a cyber development e-mail-- intensive training, and group simple, extremely low-cost Internet database technology to dis- networking in the camps, and will work to connect them to tribute job information throughout Venezuela. Maestros al European markets. The project will serve as a tool for social, Trabajo! will finance itself by charging a yearly fee to user com- economic, and cultural integration. panies and individuals. 54 Value Added: The project, the first of its kind, takes a cross-fer- women artisans and NGOs in marketing; an emphasis on organi- tilization approach that empowers beneficiaries, focuses on zation skills and on the quality of follow-up to enhance long-term adapted training, and uses a development-oriented approach to self-reliance and sustainability; and the use of a gender business. approach to facilitate mainstreaming these types of projects in other Arab and Moslem settings. Project Number: 2138 Project Number: 1578 Supporting Poor Women for their Socioeconomic Insertion by Training, Himalayan Women Entrepreneurs in the Commercialization, and Technology Cybermarket Country(ies)/ Region: Tunisia (Middle East and North Africa) Country(ies)/ Region: Nepal (South Asia) Organization: Consulting en Developpement Communautaire et Organization: Sancharika Samuha en Gestion d'Entreprises (CDCGE)--Private Sector Partnering Organization: Asia Pacific Mountain Network, Partnering Organization: Center of Arab Women for Training International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development and Research NGO Funding Request: $66,960 (out of $79,340 total) Funding Request: $200,000 (out of $285,000 total) Contact: Bandana Rana at email: info@mahilaweb.org, Contact: Bedoui Mongi at email: mb.cdc@planet.tn or tele- info@sancharika.org or telephone: +977-1- 538549; 546715 phone: 00-216-1-862 171 Summary Summary Objective: To empower women entrepreneurs involved in cot- Objective: To fight poverty by developing the integration and tage- or home-based handicraft production by providing access insertion abilities of poor craftswomen in the economic activity of to domestic and international markets for their products. the countn;, by identifying and using new marketing tools includ- Raticmale: Especially in the hill regions of Nepal, poverty is ing the Internet; to improve the training abilities of the NGOs severe and a communications nfrastructure is rare. Many Nepali working in this field to increase the viability and sustainability of women are under debt bondage or are the sole earners in their the projects run by women artisans; and to identify new commer- family. However, producing handicrafts in their free time offers a cial opportunities. way for them to become economically independent. This project Rationale: As part of its poverty reduction policy, Tunisia has aims to develop and implement a strategy for handicrafts e-com- developed many programs designed to support craftswomen's merce. It will host online bazaars, fund the participation of prom- activities, through such approaches as small-scale project fund- ising women entrepreneurs in trade fairs and related programs ing and technical support. There remains a need for marketing around the country, and mobilize related organizations and support and improvements in the entrepreneurial abilities of poor NGOs to provide the training, networking, and information needs women artisans. of women entrepreneurs. Value Added: Innovations include the introduction of new mar- ValuH Added: By focusing on genuine Nepali handicrafts, for whic~l there already exists an international demand, the project keting methods to support women artisans with very low income levels; the use of participatory approaches, such as Grassroots aims to generate income and reduce poverty among poor rural Management Training, to educate and build the capacity of women. 55 ACRONYMS ADB Asian Development Bank LAC Latin America and the Caribbean Re!~ion AfDB African Development Bank MAP Multi-Country HIV/AIDS Prowam AFR Africa Region MOB multilateral development bank ARDE Annual Review of Development Effectiveness MIGA Multilateral Investment Guarantee A~1ency Bank World Bank (IBRD and IDA) MNA Middle East and North Africa Region BCEAO Central Bank of West African States NGO nongovernmental organization CAS Country Assistance Strategy NPV net present value COD Community-Driven Development OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and CDF Comprehensive Development Framework Development CGAP Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest OED Operations Evaluation Department CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agricultural OPEC Fund Organization of the Petroleum Research Exporting Countries Fund CIS Commonwealth of Independent States PACT Partnership for Capacity Building in Africa DAC Development Assistance Committee (of the PAHO Pan American Health Organization OECD) PCF Prototype Carbon Fund DEC Development Economics and Data Group PHRD Policy and Human Resources Development EAP East Asia and Pacific Region PRGF Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and PRSC Poverty Reduction Support Credit Development PRSP Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper EC European Commission PTI Program of Targeted Interventions EGA Europe and Central Asia Region QAG Quality Assurance Group EFA Education for All ROSC Report on the Observance of Standards and ESW economic and sector work Codes EU European Union RTFP Regional Trade Facilitation Project FAO Food and Agriculture Organization SADC Southern Africa Development Community FRESH Focusing Resources on Effective School SAR South Asia Region Health SOP Strategic Directions Paper FSAP Financial Sector Assessment Program SDRs special drawing rights GAVI Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization SME small and medium enterprisl3 GDLN Global Development Learning Network SPA Strategic Partnership with Africa (formerly GDN Global Development Network Special Program of Assistance or Africa) GOP gross domestic product TB tuberculosis GEF Global Environment Facility U.N. United Nations GNI gross national income UNAIDS Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS HIPC Heavily Indebted Poor Countries UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and HIV/AIDS human immunodeficiency virus/acquired Development immune deficiency syndrome UNDP United Nations Development Programme IADB Inter-American Development Bank UNEP United Nations Environment Programme IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Development Cultural Organization ICSID International Centre for Settlement of Investment UNGASS United Nations General Assembly Special Disputes Session IDA International Development Association UNHCR United Nations High Commission for Refugees IDA-13 Thirteenth Replenishment of IDA UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund IDG International Development Goals UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development IFC International Finance Corporation Organization ILO International Labour Organisation USAID U.S. Agency for International Development IMF International Monetary Fund WBI World Bank Institute lnfoDev Information for Development Program WDR World Development Report lnfoShop Information Shop at the World Bank WHO World Health Organisation IPAA International Partnership against AIDS in Africa WTO World Trade Organization 1-PRSP Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper 56 o Franetsco Community in Belmiro Braga, MG. Brazil. • Capitalising on Cultural Knowledge and Values of Pacific Forest Fruits • CYBER Development E-Mail • Farmer Group Mentoring and Micro enS pment for Horticultural Markets in Nepal • The New lnlttative A Model for Commumty-Busmess Empowerment. • Tackling Garbage Disaster: Employment for Youths • ACT Mining (AIDS Campaign T vattve Financtal Institutions for Nomadic Pastoralists • Rehabihtatton/Skill Acquistlion Programme for Commerctal Sex Workers in Port Harcourt • Entrepreneurship and Employment Traming Among D antaged Central European Youth • Associative Rural Organizations A new Management Model Applied to Commercialize Organic Medicinal Herbs • Promoting the Growth of Chtldren Globally • Hel1 en Succeed Tutoring, Mentoring. and Culturally-Relevant Materials • Energy Centers for Mall • Legal Rights Advocacy Project - Empowering Local Community Leaders (Kyrgyz Republic) • lntegratinp ton with Poverty Reduction • Linktng Micro-Finance and HIVIAIDS • BRO: Self-Suffictency In Food Production And Economic Independence Of Sub-Sahara African Countries • Women and Children e piton of Enwonment and Economtc Development tn their Commumlies • Poverty Reduction: Implementation of Family Drip System Irrigation and Agricultural Methods for Smallholders • Commune on Project for Rural Area Economtc Empowerment· Empowerment of Datry Farmer Through Direct Participation of Grassroots. Truly Needy Farmer· Empowering Amazon Health Providers and Corn ed Maternal Health Outcomes • Ftght AIDS: Sew and Sow- Income Generatton and HIVIAIDS Education for Ethioptan Women • Developing Regional Marketing Facilities for Honey- and Silk-based · frican Rural Communities • Constructive Youth· Tajtk Farmers Ownership Model • Fund for Private Sector-Village Partnerships in the PeotJie's Republic of China • Lomore Holdings Development Pre nable Aquaculture for Poverty Allevtalion tn Subsistence Fishery Communtttes • Promotion of Social Equity m Large Urban Areas • Tenmiya's Project Mutual Health Insurance • Tratning in micro-enter tive for women in prison. • Protein and Calctum Against Poverty • Poverty Reductton and Information Asymmetries: A Commumty Based Internet Portal • Bridging the Digital Divide Through the Post ing Understandings of and Basic Servtces for Populattons Livtng tn Coastal Waters and Waterways • lnvesttng in Fish Farming to Build Bustness Enterprises tn Sudan • Dame Ia Mano (Give Me a f' • Reducing Poverty through lnnovat•ve Education Methods. Mandarin for the y, People • Be the Change' - Youth-led Sustainable Development Action • Recycling Garbage: A Metamorphose m Edud Skill, Ecology and Community Consciousness • E-Governance and Decentralization in Three Indonesian Regtons • Poverty Breaking in Togo South Eastern Region: Goats/Sheep/Porks Farming Strl er Nomads for a Self-Sustained Community-Directed Health and Development Initiative • Snakebite Prevention through Social Marketing of Viper Boots in the Ayerwadday Region, Myanmar • Decro tssion of Contagious Tuberculosts Among Rural lnhabttants • Housing and Jobs for a Better Future • Strategtes for Harnessing lndtgenous Poultry Systems to Combat Poverty Among Kenyan Womt enng Small Farmers Through Build1ng Self-Reliance and Local Credit Resources • Empowering Private Sector Development Through Dissemination of Raw Material and Technology Information • S. reneurs • Refngeration for Small-Scale Da1ry Farmers • Empowenng Tnbal Arttsts Cooperative wtlh Internet Commerce ·Speaking Up· Negotiation Skills for lndtgenous Communities • ENCORE (Ene unity Through Organic Environments) project of BWF's Balik Maynilad Program • BATHTIME: The Sustainable Revitalization of Bath. St. Thomas. Jamaica • Improvement of Rural Livelihoods Throu~ ction and Marketing of Ftnger Mtllet • Vocational Tratning and Mtcroenterprise Project for Graduates of Alternative to FGM • Intensive Productivity on the Nayar Mesa with a Permanent Coamil • WorH er • Applicatton of the Cluster Model to the Agncultural Sector tn Ntcaragua • Decentralized Drinking Water Program for the Urban Poor Through Community Networking • Buildtng Capacity of Urbam s in Amuwo-Odofin LGA of Nigena • AMDA Bank Complex Programme • Intra-city Volunteensm for Urban Development • Organic Standards Initiative - Enhanctng the Value of Developing Countries l s • Reading is Cool Clinics- Education for the Underprivtleged • Economtc & Educational Development for Rural Females • Building Women's Capactty for Producing and Marketmg Shea E!utter • Sw t Gardners - Corporattons of Coastal Area of Togo • Young lntttative: Developing Entrepreneurship and Parttcipatory Citizenship through Volunteering in Uruguay. • From Brain Drain to Brain Gain lnM rk of Otaspora Professionals • Market Creation for Low-Cost Micro-Irrigation Technology Among Zambian Smallholders • Poor People and Students Volunteers Network: Health, Education and lnconv nable Actions • Producttve Rural Enterpnses: Economic Growth Through Replicatton of Communtty-scale Biopower-based Business • Improving Police Practtces From the Ground Up • Poison Dart F. ing to Protect the Rainforest • Empowerment of Indigenous Women Victims of Abuse: Women to Women Project • EMPLOYNET - Information Network for Employment in Caucasus and Central Asc nable Commercial Partnershtps to Develop the Beekeeping Sector in Kenya • Solar Energy-Powered Wireless Internet for Rural Education and Community Development • Local Economic Governar. h in Mongolia • Self-lnstructtonal Empowerment, Save and Butld Vtllage Banking- Sri Lanka • The Race Against Time- Empowering Rural Tibetan Communities for Social, Economic and Cultural Sw clive and Social Development on Urban Areas from the City of Armenia • Social Capttal and Alliances Among Organizations Foundation of Local Development • Forge and Agricultural Formation of D n of Cacavelt Center (Lome) • Mtlk Bank· Waste Technologies Creating Jobs. a Learning Envtronment and Clean Neighborhoods ·Job Placement for Disabled Persons tn the Internet· Empowennp unittes in Karakalpakstan Through Health Educatton • EGO-Development tn Remote Areas of Afnca • Propelltng a process of self management and sustainable growth in tndigenous communities • h al Mortality tn Yemen: the Assocta!ton of Obstetnctans/Midwives of Yemen • Empowering Women in Commodity Trade: Alternative Approach to Sustainable Development • Butlding Women's Entrep h Women s Community Centers • Small Business Development of Poor Communities in Giza Governorship, Egypt • Habitable Environments Through Municipal-Community Partnershtps • Student Jw ling Ctvic Responsibility and Skills tn Central Amenca • Same Language Subtitling on Television: Small Change for Colossal Gains in Literacy • Justice Access in Poor Communities is Not Utopic • Mn nia Entrepreneurship Traintng Assocta!ton (MTETA)- Youth Hentage Entrepreneurship Project· Exploitation of Depostted Coal Slime at Modrac Lake • Economic lncenttve for Sustainable Managem• mal and Aromatic Plants • Ktng's Ktds Chtldren Village· Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV lnfectton In Africa A Community-Based Response· Empowenng Families: Promoting lntegmC Integrating Occupational Health and Safety Concerns into the Informal Sector Development in Kenya • Grains Inventory for Sustainable Good Governance • Violence and Drugs: Vocattonal Tratnmg cents • lmprovtng Information Access for a Poverty Alleviation Project in Nigeria • Cottage Industry Technology for Poverty Reduction tn Rwanda • Educatton through Enhanced Awareness and Coml ue in Pastoral Communities • Combating HIV/AIDS. A Literacy and Economtc Approach • Empowering Women ilwolved in Post Harvest Agriculture: From Evacuation to Production • River Poisontnp t Agamst and Acttons or Development • Sustainable Ftshmg of the Mother Pearl: Environmental Rescue of the Municipality of Tudores • Promotton of a non-vtolent culture through community forums bta. • South East Europe Youth Tratmng Corps for Empowering Poor through Income Generating Ecology Projects· Youth Entrepreneur Development Pilot Project· Project Aldeias- Implementation > ool Centers for Nutritional Security - Noecleos de SAN • Supporttng Poor Women for their Socto-economtc Insertion by Tratning. Commercialization and Technology • ECO- Fnendly Palm-Mat Producl g Centre for Poor Women • Creatmg Wealth Through Sustainable Management of Forest in Cross River State, Nigeria • The Use of Cast Seaweed as Organic Fertilizers • Building of Flat Roof to C1 in Ouagadougou Suburbs· Internet based credit bureau for Micro finance Institutions in Benin • Promote On-Village Women s Technical Skill Training in Northwest China • Self-Sustaining Communit~ Farm • Gonlla Tourism project· Economtc Empowerment & Educattonal Development of Tribes in Western India • BUtldtng a Live Pharmacy wtth Medicinal Plants Among Indigenous Communities oh , Brazd • BuySouthAfncaOnltne • M1cro enterprise for Health· A Sustatnable Tool for Empowering Women in Tanzania • Urban Provtsion of Health and Jobs Through Integration of Viable lndtgenousj nd BUild • Sustatnable Regeneratton of Secondary School Agncultural Educatton tn Teso, Uganda • Revitalization of Traditional Farmtng Through Sustainable Tourism and Marketing • Strengthening~ ltng Poverty by Capttahzing Urban Waste • To Give People Voice: Grassroots Media Development in Southern Africa • Second Chance for Older Drop-outs • Building Transnational Micro-Enterpriso n Board and Marketplace for Farmers • Partnering wtth Credit Untons to Reach Vast Numbers of the Poorest in Benin • Program to Mobilize Investment for Social Responsibiltty (Program MISR) • B~.e e Communittes 1n Malt ·Youth IT Youth Information Technology Mtcro enterpnse Project· Forward And Futures Markets. To Improve and Stabtlize Incomes of Farmers and Primary Producers· Dilij t Gardners - Corporattons of Coastal Area of Togo • Young Initiative: Developing Entrepreneurship and Participatory Cittzenship through Volunteering tn Uruguay. • From Brain Drain to Brain Gain lnt< k of Dtaspora Profe stonals • Market Creatton for Low-Cost Mtcro-lrngation Technology Among Zambian Smallholders • Poor People and Students Volunteers Network Health EduC