Rural Poverty Alleviation Project

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The Rural Poverty Alleviation Pilot Project will help the government begin implementing its rural poverty alleviation program by establishing and making an operational and autonomous Rural Development Fund (RDF) and testing approaches in rural public works and small-scale credit. Within the general objectives of Albania's rural poverty alleviation program, the project will test approaches to the implementation of the program during its first year of operations. It will: (a) create the institutional capacity needed for program implementation by establishing the RDF and training a first group of local staff; (b) develop RDF's operational procedures and mechanisms of technical and financial control; (c) evaluate, design, finance, and implement approximately 142 rural infrastructure projects, and establish and fund some 50 village credit funds; and (d) establish and implement, using technical assistance as necessary, training programs to improve local capacity to identify, appraise, and implement small public works projects; the ability of village credit funds to evaluate and administer small loans, and programs to transfer appropriate technology to farmers and small rural entrepreneurs.

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

World Bank Group

Project

Water Supply and Storage, Power Generation (CCGT), Waste Processing and Treatment, Raw Materials, Government