General

The Economic Reforms and Diversification Support Programme - Phase I is an intervention, both on the efficiency of public spending and on the production system excluding extractive industries. This is the first budget support program that the AfDB Group has implemented in Mauritania. However, it is part of the Bank's past operations, or those being implemented, in the governance sector and in the agricultural sector (PAGIP, PAGOCI, P2RS, etc.). It is also part of the efforts made by the Mauritanian authorities to move from a rent economy to a diversified economy driven by productive growth sectors, excluding the extractive industries. In its implementation, PAREDE l comes in two complementary components. The first focuses on improving the efficiency of public spending and focuses on structural reforms, the implementation of which will achieve the overall objective of economic diversification, and this, by mobilizing resources and optimize the management of public investments. The second consists in promoting the production system outside the extractive industries through support for Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and land reforms as well as strengthening reforms in the agro-pastoral sector.

Objectives

The main objective of the programme is to create conditions conducive to the diversification of the Mauritanian economy in order to promote inclusive and sustainable growth. Specifically, the programme aims to (i) improve the efficiency of public spending; and (ii) promote the productive system outside the extractive industries.

Target Groups

The direct beneficiaries of the programme are the Mauritanian State, through the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Livestock. The indirect beneficiaries are Mauritanian citizens, who will benefit from the stabilisation of the country's macroeconomic situation and increased economic growth outside the extractive industries through the creation of sustainable jobs in growth sectors and income generation. Private entrepreneurs, professional organizations, farmers and herders, especially women and youth, are also indirect beneficiaries of PAREDE, in that the reforms that will affect the productive system, particularly in the areas of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and land law, will facilitate their integration into the economy and thus contribute to creating wealth for the country.

General

The Inclusive and Sustainable Development Support Programme for Agricultural Sectors (PADIDFA) is intended to sustain and consolidate the achievements of Green Morocco Plan (PMV), and launch its acceleration phase (2017-2020). It is a EUR 200 million sector budget support operation in two tranches to be executed over the 2018-2019 period to help achieve the objectives of PMV. The programme helps the authorities with the formulation and implementation of inter-sector strategic reforms to strengthen the social and environmental dimensions of the PMV and promote inclusion, sustainability and competitiveness in Morocco’s agricultural sector. Its design is informed by lessons from Phases I and II of PAPMV (cf. 4.4.3), the principles of the Paris Declaration as well as good practice principles for the application of conditionality. PADIDFA supports a series of medium- and short-term strategic reforms to improve the quality of life for the people through quality jobs and self-employment in rural areas, and the protection of such jobs through sustainable natural resource management. It is an important institutional lever for creating synergies between strategies governing agriculture, the environment, water, energy and employment.

Objectives

The programme objective is to help boost agricultural sector competitiveness to ensure inclusive and sustainable economic growth through the promotion of value chains, job creation, improvement of the business climate and sustainable natural resource management. Hence, PADIDFA will help to: (i) support the PMV ecosystem and amplify its impact; (ii) promote the inclusion of vulnerable stakeholders (especially the youth and women); and (iii) build agricultural sector resilience.

Target Groups

PADIDFA will benefit the Moroccan population in general, and the youth and women in the rural areas in particular. It will specifically benefit: (i) local councils; (ii) inter-professional associations and professional organizations; (iii) agricultural VSMEs and organizations (crop sectors, waste management, etc.); (iii) the private sector (training, research, private agricultural councils, etc.); (iv) project proponents and young agricultural and rural entrepreneurs due to improvement of the business environment; and (v) women's associations and rural women (access to value chains, land tenure security, local services, etc.).

General

The initiative is a project support which ??seeks to support the effective design and implementation of the rights and environmental justice approach in processes of conservation and sustainable resource management on indigenous lands and territories in Central and South America with nature-based solutions from their own vision as indigenous communities. It will help to strengthen governance structures and capacities to contribute to the management and integrity of the territories as a basis for the conservation of biodiversity, the increase of resilience and opportunities to improve their livelihoods. The project will support indigenous groups in Latin-America (Central America och the Amazon) by assisting: - indigenous communities in highly biodiverse ecosystems to apply tools and mechanisms to prevent and reduce the treats to their territorial management. - environmental defenders and leaders to improve their management, advocacy, and communication capacities for an equitable governance and defence of territorial rights. - indigenous people’s organizations and communications networks to make visible IPCL contributions to conservation, strengthen the prevention and denounce threats to their integrity. - environmental defenders and indigenous people’s organizations to harmonize their agendas ad action proposals to negotiate them in international and regional fora.

Objectives

The project "Advancing towards effective conservation and territorial management with a rights-based approach: strengthening indigenous regional cooperation in Latin America" seeks to support the effective design and implementation of the rights and environmental justice approach in processes of conservation and sustainable resource management on indigenous lands and territories with principles based on nature-based solutions from the perspective of indigenous peoples; strengthen governance structures and capacities to contribute to the management and integrity of the territories as a basis for the conservation of biodiversity and the increase of resilience and opportunities to improve their livelihoods. The project aspires to work on collaboration and dialogue actions between local actors (e.g. indigenous authorities and organizations) and with national and regional authorities and non state stakeholders, from an intercultural approach to consolidate governance structures, indigenous leadership and improve the inclussion and effective participation of women and youth in spaces for dialogue and decision-making on conservation and environmental issues. Sida considers that the project aims to strengthen environmental governance, justice and a rights-based conservation approach within Latin America through empowerment and capacity building for organizations, IPLCs and environmental leaders in a sustainable, culturally adapted and inclusive manner, and in the full exercise of their rights to prevent and address threats to their territorial management. In the long term the project will contribute to secure Indigenous peoples rights in conservation and territorial management of their territories and megadiverse ecosystems.