Mali:GRASSROOTS HUN/POVT

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The Grassroots Initiatives to Fight Hunger and Poverty Project seeks to: i) improve the living conditions of disadvantaged targeted rural communities by responding to their priorities; ii) strengthen capacity of communities in identifying and ranking their priority needs; and in partnership with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and local authorities, to plan, implement, and supervise actions to respond to those needs; and iii) strengthen institutional and policy-making capacity at the local and national levels in the fight against hunger and poverty. The project has two components: a) Community development will include training for the community and for the NGOs recruited for community development activities; an information, Education, Communication (IEC) program tailored to community needs; and an information campaign to keep the public abreast of project development. b) Policy and institutional development will strengthen local and national decision-making on poverty issues. This component will finance the activities of the Observatory for Sustainable Human Development, created to provide policy-makers with information on poverty issues. This component will also support a permanent poverty monitoring system.