Rural Poverty & Natural Resources

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The principal objectives of the Rural Poverty and Natural Resources Project are to: (1) apply, on a pilot basis, methodologies that will channel financial resources to rural communities to help them promote sustainable productive systems, and thereby reduce rural poverty, the degradation of natural resources, and migration; and (2) promote the sustainable use and conservation of selected priority biodiversity areas. Special emphasis will be placed on gender and indigenous aspects. Specific operational goals include: creating capacity at the local level to organize, self-diagnose problems, plan activities, seek out and negotiate assistance, and act to resolve priority quality of life issues; (2) establishing a demand-driven financing mechanism operating in high poverty areas and providing matching grants to communities; and (3) promoting long-term conservation and sustainable use of Panama's biodiversity resources. To meet these objectives, the project will finance three components: (a) sustainable rural development, promoting community training, organization, planning, and investment; (b) biodiversity conservation, financing research and planning and environmental impact assessment and monitoring, capacity building for participants and institutional strengthening in environmental impact assessment processes; and (c) activities contributing to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use; and (c) coordination of the two components by a unit also financed to provide technical assistance and studies related to rural development and natural resources management.

FY17 - Agriculture, Fishing and Forestry,FY17 - Public Administration,FY17 - Social Protection

World Bank Group

Project

Raw Materials, Commercial, Government