Paraguay

The Pilot Community Development Project, additional financing will contribute to the development of the capacity of local communities to implement poverty alleviation... Show More + and community development activities by: a) supporting small productive, income generating and community development subprojects for poor communities; and b) building capacity of local institutions and beneficiary organizations to identify, design and implement these activities. No major changes from the original project are being proposed in terms of project design, approach, and implementation arrangements. The nature and size of the subprojects and the targeted beneficiary's profiles will remain the same for the additional financing project activities. The geographic area will be expanded to include the Departments of Caaguazú, Central, Cordillera, Guaira and Paraguarí. The environmental management framework, updated and improved based on the implementation learning of the original project, would be applied to the scaled-up project activities. The nature of the expected outcomes / impact from the scaled-up project will remain the same as those of the original project. Show Less -