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Border Provinces Rural Development Project

Dominican Republic

Borrower Dominican Republic
Financing Type Public Sector
Instrument Project Loan
Focus Area Agriculture
Approved 10.12.2002
Signed 20.06.2008
Status Cancelled
Loan Administrator IFAD
Executing Agency Ministry of Agriculture
Co-financiers IFAD, Government, Beneficiaries
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) 5.00
Total Project Cost (US$m) 24.00

The project will address the severe poverty situation of some 105,000 inhabitants living in worker settlements along the Dominican- Haitian Border, as well as their social and political exclusion.

  • capacity building and institution strengthening;
  • provision of support to grassroots organizations that offer legal assistance, literacy programs and other services;
  • provision of training to small and micro-enterprises owners in areas such as livestock production, micro-enterprise management and marketing;
  • setting up of a productive infrastructure fund to give local organizations capital for financing small irrigation systems, rural roads, inputs and equipment;
  • construction/rehabilitation of over 1,000 homes;
  • construction of basic infrastructure.
At least 15,000 families are expected to benefit from the project.

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