Project Information
| Project Name: | Program in Support of Communal Initiatives and Local Organizations (PAICOL) |
| Project Description: | |
| This program aims to develop the capacities of key development actors in five districts of the remote Timbuktu region in order to ensure that the rights and needs of vulnerable communities are respected, particularly with regard to access to key social services as well as the means of earning a decent living. Particular emphasis will be given to ensuring that the most vulnerable members of the population, particularly women, have the tools to become actors in the struggle against poverty. By the end of the program, in December 2007, CARE hopes to achieve the following results: 1) Advisors in 20 communes manage effectively communal development plans that respond to the needs and demands of the most vulnerable; 2) Local organizations defend the interests of their members in participating in the development of communal plans; 3) Two hundred small-scale women's savings and credit groups will increase the economic activity of their members and participate actively in the life of their communes; and 4) Nomad associations and communal advisors will ensure that nomadic populations have equal access to communal services. This inter-sectoral, rights-based activity focuses on capacity building and institutional strengthening of both community organizations and communal councils to ensure a sustainable approach to development. The program places a high priority on ensuring that vulnerable populations are competent subjects, and not passive objects, of the development process. (Funded by Norwegian Aid through CARE Norway) | |
| Country: | Mali (View Country Profile) |
| Sector: | Capacity Building/Institutional Strengthening |
| Type: | Development |
| Project Number: | MLI053 |
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