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- National Community Development Project
National Community Development Project
Jamaica
| Borrower | Jamaica |
| Financing Type | Public Sector |
| Instrument | Project Loan |
| Focus Area | Multisectoral |
| Approved | 21.09.2004 |
| Signed | 21.04.2005 |
| Status | Completed |
| Loan Administrator | OPEC Fund |
| Executing Agency | Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) |
| Co-financiers | IBRD, Government, Benefeciaries |
| OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) | 5.00 |
| Total Project Cost (US$m) | 33.20 |
The Jamaican Social Investment Fund is a specialized agency charged with carrying out small-scale, demand-driven sub-projects, with a view to improving infrastructure, boosting incomes and raising living standards among the rural poor.
This project will implement some 330 such sub-projects proposed by the beneficiary communities. Some will construct, rehabilitate or expand schools, health centers, children’s homes and other infrastructure, while others will support economic infrastructure schemes consisting of the building or upgrading of feeder and urban access roads and community-based agro-processing facilities. Capacity-building will take place across community organizations, NGOs and beneficiary groups. OFID’s loan will directly co-finance 50 sub-projects.