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 New Grants
Centro de Estudios en Población y Desarrollo de la Libertad (CEPDEL)
$204,920, over two years, to improve and expand food production in family plots, establish storage and marketing operations, and form a consortium to improve sustainable development and food security in the district. CEPDEL's activities will be undertaken in conjunction with 18 agriculture and conservation committees, the Community Agricultural and Livestock Enterprise, the Chepen Agricultural and Livestock Committee, Carabamba women's organizations, and the Carabamba municipal government. (PU-512)
Centro de Estudios Sociales "Solidaridad" (CESS)
$294,753, over three years, to assist producer associations, representing 300 members in the municipalities of Morrope, Salas and San José, in the establishment and operation of crop storage centers in each locality and a marketing information center in Chiclayo; and to partner with municipal governments and the agro-marketing enterprise Procesadora Tucume in a regional consortium for producing and selling agricultural and dairy products. (PU-511)
Comunidad Indígena Asháninka "Marankiari Bajo" (CIAMB)
$180,670, over three years, to expand agro-ecological production and marketing through agricultural and forest-based crop diversification, irrigation, and improved harvest and post-harvest practices; and to increase the community's capacity for locally-controlled economic development through title to land, the creation of household and community enterprises, and training in strategic planning and management. (PU-510)
www.rcp.net.pe/ashaninka/
Programa Integral para el Desarrollo del Café (PIDECAFÉ)
$264,064, over three years, for a program to assist 20 local associations of coffee producers affiliated with CEPICAFE, a regional coffee growers association, in creating a regional network of community enterprises to produce and sell brown sugar as a source of income diversification in six municipalities in the Piura highlands. (PU-509)
www.pidecafe.com.pe/
Servicios Educativos, Promoción y Apoyo Rural (SEPAR)
$119,700, over two years, to coordinate a consortium of seven local development organizations, including the municipality of Huancayo, that will support the growth of 150 micro- and small tourism and agricultural processing businesses. Credit, training, technical assistance and marketing services will benefit 1,200 residents. (PU-513)
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Supplemental Grants
Asesoría, Consultoría y Negocios (ACONSUR)
$50,000 to advance the expansion and long-term sustainability of highly successful programs providing training and technical assistance to textile micro-enterprises in Villa El Salvador. These funds will be used to purchase land, initiate construction to house ACONSUR's programs, carry out studies to improve marketing plans and to incorporate gender considerations in all of ACONSUR's programs and operations. (PU-480-A5)
Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Regional (CEDER)
$19,500 toward administrative, travel and promotional costs associated with preparation of the international local development conference scheduled for June 9-13 as a special IAF initiative in partnership with the municipality of Arequipa and local and national NGOs. (PU-481-A2)
www.ceder.org.pe/
Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Regional (CEDER)2
$132,375 for the participation of 250 academicians, practitioners, business leaders and government officials from Latin America, North America and Europe in the Arequipa conference. (PU-481-3 )
www.ceder.org.pe/
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