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 New Grants
Asociación de Consultores para el Desarrollo de la Pequeña, Mediana y Microempresa (ACODEP)
$395,300, over three years, to develop an integrated housing program for 3,200 low-income families. Poor households will receive technical assistance and training in design and construction as well as financial services for home improvements or new housing. (NC-243)
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Asociación para el Desarrollo Económico con Equidad (Alternativa)
$271,400, over three years, for a program directed at developing and strengthening, through technical assistance and access to credit, approximately 1,200 micro- and small enterprises involved in production, service and commercial activities in urban and rural areas in the municipality of Masaya. (NC-248)
Asociación Unidad por el Desarrollo Comunitario (UDECO)
$296,236, over three years, to train 1,200 people from 200 families in new forms of community organization and production technologies and to improve food security and family income through a loan fund for agricultural, forestry and livestock development. (NC-240)
Cooperativa Agropecuaria de Servicios de Extracción de Aceites Esenciales, R.L., El Bálsamo
(COOPESIUNA), $162,500 to configure, install, maintain and operate a business owned by allspice producers residing in the buffer zone of the BOSAWAS Biosphere Reserve. COOPESIUNA members will use renewable energy technologies (solar and biofuel) to produce and market ground allspice and allspice essential oil. (NC-249)
Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples San Isidro R. L. (COOPECAFÉ),
$122,000 to configure, set up, operate and maintain an enterprise that will use a solar/biomass drying system to process coffee for sale locally and internationally, benefiting approximately 1,200 people associated with 200 small- and medium-scale coffee producers. (NC-250)
Fondo de Desarrollo para la Mujer-Cenzontle (FODEM)
$472,727 for a three-year credit and training project contributing to the economic development and empowerment of 9,600 low-income women micro-entrepreneurs. (NC-244)
Movimiento por la Paz, Acción Forestal y el Medio Ambiente (MOPAF-MA)
$356,883, over three years, to organize, train and strengthen territorial networks of farmers working to recover an area of approximately 360 square kilometers. The award to MOPAF-MA will benefit approximately 1,500 families in eight communities, especially those residing on the lower hillside and slopes of the watershed basin of Lake Managua. (NC-247)
Supplemental Grants
Fundación por la Unidad y Reconstrucción de la Costa Atlántica (FURCA)
$50,780 for purchasing replacement vegetable and fruit seeds, plants, tree seedlings, and small animals. The amendment will also support training and technical assistance for project beneficiaries and FURCA's additional administrative and operational expenses. (NC-232-A1)
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