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Dominican Republic
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 New Grants
Asociación para el Desarrollo de la Microempresa (ADEMI)
$150,000 over two years, to establish a multipurpose credit program in the country's southern region for 500 small-scale farmers, microentrepreneurs, and low-income homeowners, for organic agricultural production, processing, and marketing; urban and rural manufacturing, services, and commerce; and small-scale housing improvements. ADEMI will provide $150,000 in matching funds. (DR-288)
Fondo para el Financiamiento de la Microempresa (FondoMicro)
$102,000 over one year, to establish a fund to provide equity capital to two microenterprise lending programs in Santo Domingo, accompanied by training and technical assistance to enable them to reach financial self-sufficiency. (DR-283)
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Supplemental Grants
Asociación Dominicana de Agricultura Orgánica (ADAO)
$37,100, to promote the commercial viability of organic agriculture by sponsoring applied research, training and technical assistance, establishing a mechanism to certify organic agricultural production, helping credit programs lend $300,000 to 300 small-scale farmers and microentrepreneurs to produce and market organic crops, conducting a market study and consumer education program, representing the organic agriculture sector in public policy fora, and executing a plan to reach financial self-sufficiency by the end of 1997. (DR-282-A1)
Centro de Agricultura Sostenible con Tecnología Apropiada (CASTA)
$15,000, to provide training and extension services in sustainable agriculture practices to 200 small-scale farmers in 14 communities adjoining the CASTA campus by providing 30 workshops, seeds, other inputs, and regular visits by CASTA personnel to raise from 30 percent to 50 percent the amount of arable land tilled using sustainable agriculture practices. (DR-229-A6)
Centro de Investigación y Mejoramiento de la Producción Animal (CIMPA)
$21,000, to contract a marketing study, strategic planning exercise, and a customized management information system to more effectively market the products and services of this livestock research, training, and production center; diversify sources of income; increase efficiency in the management of institutional resources; and provide management and donors with systematic information on production, financial operations, and program impact. (DR-281-A1)
Centro Pedro Francisco Bonó
$50,000, to provide training, technical assistance, and information to 100 urban neighborhood associations to strengthen their ability to implement self-help projects, coordinate activities with each other, the city government, and other public agencies, and develop proposals for municipal reforms leading to greater participation by low-income residents in public decisions and activities affecting their neighborhoods. (DR-270-A1)
Centro Regional de Estudios de Alternativas Rurales (CREAR)
$24,979, to train 11 rural high school-level youths in sustainable agricultural practices; expand production of organic produce by 1.5 hectares, to be sold locally and in farmers' markets in Santo Domingo; and to complement a Catholic Relief Services grant to CREAR to provide extension services to 264 small-scale farmers in seven rural communities with the goal of protecting 495 hectares of hillside agricultural land and applying CREAR's sustainable agricultural technologies practically. (DR-214-A8)
Fundación de Desarrollo Azúa, San Juan, Elías Piña (FUNDASEP)
$49,190, to construct 450 household latrines in 12 rural communities in the provinces of Elías Piña and Azúa, educate participating communities in personal hygiene, and leverage a matching grant from Empresas León Jimenes, a Dominican agricultural products company, with the goals of strengthening community leadership and reducing infant mortality attributable to contagious diseases by 90 percent. (DR-273-A1)
Instituto de Desarrollo y Salud Integral (INDESUI)
$45,000, to expand its community preventive health program by training 930 community leaders, healthworkers, and teachers through 36 workshops and other educational activities in preventive health themes. Trainees will multiply INDESUI's impact and disseminate its educational materials to 4,000 low-income urban families, with the goal of improving family relations, diminishing domestic violence, reducing drug consumption and addiction, and lowering the incidence of illness resulting from environmental contamination. (DR-255-A2)
Instituto para el Desarrollo de la Empresa Asociativa (IDEAC)
$15,000, to manage 22 workshops with 224 staff members from 100 rural development organizations to systematically define, compare, and analyze participants' diverse rural development methodologies and experiences. The process will help establish and strengthen three regional networks to coordinate activities. Ultimately, the goal is to improve the effectiveness of participating institutions' field work, raise rural incomes, and boost the quality of life in the Dominican Republic. (DR-278-A2)
Núcleo de Apoyo a la Mujer (NAM)
$30,000, to decentralize and expand domestic violence detection, treatment, and prevention efforts in the Cibao Region, strengthening individual community, municipal, and regional organizations and networks by training 723 individuals; research and set up a database on the frequency and characteristics of domestic violence, and promote reform of the national penal code to enhance legal protection of women facing domestic violence; and raise public awareness of domestic violence. (DR-254-A1)
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