DZ-RURAL EMPLOYMENT

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The Rural Employment Project seeks to generate and stimulate sustainable rural employment in poor areas of northwest Algeria. The instruments to be used emphasize asset creation, mainly through natural resource management and environmental protection, with the purpose of increasing labor productivity in a sustainable manner. The project is part of a wider effort to support growth in agriculture, a key sector for the economy, and it complements agricultural reform, in that it seeks to enhance popular support for reform and to alleviate the adverse social effects of adjustment. It will provide a model and laboratory for developing experience in community involvement in rural development in Algeria. The project components are: erosion control, including reforestation and flood control structures; agricultural development comprising land improvement through destoning, windbreaks, and fruit trees and grapevines on sloped land to replace cereal monoculture, and maintaining and opening rural roads (to reduce isolation and to integrate populations into a larger economic area); water resource mobilization through hill ponds, wells and springs; promotion of rural women, especially economically disenfranchised women, using training workshops, family gardens, etc.; increasing the capacity of the decentralized rural organizations acting in place of the implementing agency, and focusing on community participation, technical training and training in project management; and monitoring and evaluation for independent consultants to monitor project performance.

FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry,FY17 - Public Administration,FY17 - Social Protection,FY17 - Water, Sanitation and Waste Management,Transportation

World Bank Group

Project

Road, Water Supply and Storage, Waste Processing and Treatment, Raw Materials, Government