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Community-based Rural Development
Project / Program Summary

I. Basic data

Sector(s): Rural Development
Title: Community-based rural development
Donor country / organization: World Food Programme (WFP)
Other donors / organizations involved: IFAD, Future in Our Hands (FIOH) and CARITAS and IDA
Beneficiary countries / regions: Poorest regions of The Gambia: McCarthy Island Division and Upper River Division
Implementing agencies in beneficiary countries / regions: Government and 2 above-mentioned NGOs (FIOH+CARITAS)
Duration: 3 years
Starting Date: Janyary 1997
Project / Program budget: USD 875,300 - 3,926 MTN Food commodities
Finance / Type of cooperation: Grant / Food Aid

II. Project / program description

  1. Objectives
    Consistent with The Gambia Government's strategy for poverty alleviation, the project aims to contribute to the attainment of goals specified in the strategy, namely to enhance the productive capacity of the people and to build capacity at the local level.
  2. Activities / contents
    Prevent salinization of rice filed and improve access to swam areas through the construction of bounds, dikes, causeways, footbridges and canals; reclaim previously cultivated swamp areas which have been abandoned due to intrusion of saltwater.
    Increase access to clean drinking-water through the construction of concrete-lined well' improve social infrastructure, especially in the filed of education, and thus improve conditions for rural population.
    Reduce women's time constraints during the peak agricultural labour season through the provision of child care in day-care centres.
    Facilitate the training of extension workers and vocational trainees through support to rural training institutes.
  3. Expected outcomes / impacts
    Within the IFAD-financed small-scale water control project, construction of 12,300 meters of dikes and bounds and excavation of 12,300 meters of secondary canals. Integrated into activities financed by FIOH, CARITAS and IDA, construction of 18 three-classroom school buildings, 18 four-classroom school building, 36 school kitchen, 136 four-hole pit latrines, 86 two-hole pit latrines, 105 concrete-lined wells with cover as well as rehabilitation of 50 four-classroom school building and 30 existing wells.
  4. Features in line with the Agenda for Action
    This WFP project is in line with the Agenda for Action as it covers its first topic, i.e. Poverty alleviation.

III. Contact point:

WFP Africa Region Bureau (OSA)
Mr. Mohamed Zejjari, Regional Director OSA
Mr. Tun Myat, Director RE 		Fax: 0039-06-6513-2839
Tel: 0039-06-6513-2201
Tel: 0039-06-6513-2009

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