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ATTACHMENT A

Active Projects (9-3-09):

Asociación de Pobladores por el Desarrollo a Escala Humana en el Ámbito Local (PRODEHL)

$275,400 over three years

PRODEHL will help raise the living standard of more than 2,300 low-income families in León, Nicaragua, by promoting the concept of a “healthy house” and supporting community participation, local partnerships, assisted self-help housing and access to credit. Women heads of households will be targeted. (NC-260)

Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples Tepeyac (TEPEYAC)

US$398,000 over three years

TEPEYAC will undertake a three-year project to increase the income of local dairy farmers. The project will construct an industrial dairy pasteurizing and processing plant, provide technical and financial assistance to improve the quality and quantity of dairy production, strengthen the local dairy sector and support marketing and commercialization activities. (NC-263)

Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Mujer (FUNDE MUJER)

$289,210 over three years

FUNDE MUJER will promote the economic and civic empowerment of female entrepreneurs in the Department of Estelí through access to credit, institutional strengthening for the Association of Female Micro-Entrepreneurs of Estelí (AMME), training and technical assistance activities, product fairs, the development of new markets and opportunities for engagement with municipal government. (NC-267)

Fundación para el Desarrollo Humano Sostenible (FUNDEHUSOS)

$229,200 over three years

FUNDEHUSOS will promote economic opportunity in the municipality of San Francisco Libre through the development of new businesses which it will support with access to credit, training in small-business development and administration, the creation of a local brand, sub-grants funding start-up, a new locale for four enterprises, and technical assistance in business administration. (NC-270)

Fundación Luchadores Integrados al Desarrollo de la Región (LIDER)

$285,209 over two years

LIDER will promote civic organization and economic opportunity in 18 communities on the Cosigüina Peninsula by providing training and technical assistance to community groups, cooperatives and farmers; extending credit in cash and in kind; and establishing a sub-grant fund to finance community priorities identified though an IAF-supported planning process. (NC-271)

Cooperativa Agrícola de Crédito y Servicios Juan Ramón Rodríguez Pérez (CJRRP) $330,859 over three years

CJRRP will improve the quality of life of residents of six communities in the buffer zone of the Chocoyero-El Brujo Nature Reserve by promoting the reserve as a tourist destination, creating economic opportunities for farmers and small-business owners, and providing training and technical assistance to the farmers and community groups. (NC-272)

Centro Promocional Cristiano por la Paz y la Vida (CPCPV) $167,355 over three years

CPCPV will provide organizational, financial, material and technical support to local entrepreneurs, primarily women and youths, offering high-quality cultural tourism services to Nicaraguan and foreign visitors to San Ramón, Matagalpa. (NC-273)

Fundación para el Desarrollo Rural Padre “Francisco Luiz Espinoza Pineda” (FUDER) $219,450 over three years

FUDER will provide training, technical assistance and credit to enable small-scale producers to increase and diversify their production, develop value-added processes, improve marketing strategies, strengthen grassroots leadership organizations, and develop and administer community-based agricultural businesses. (NC-275)

Asociación Alternativa para el Desarrollo Integral de las Mujeres (ADIM) $282,012 over three years

ADIM will improve the economic well-being of female micro-entrepreneurs in the communities of Acahualinca and Diriá by providing training, technical assistance, financial services and credit to women operating small businesses. (NC-277)

Unión de Cooperativas Agropecuarias Productoras de Café Orgánico (UCPCO)

$353,120 over three years

UCPCO will increase the income and quality of life of farmers in Madriz by improving their ability to produce and export certified fair-trade and organic coffee. It will provide the farmers financial and technical assistance and equipment, will construct an office and a store, and will improve its processing plant to include a quality control laboratory, a drying patio and a storage facility. (NC-278)

Cooperativa Multisectorial Verde Esperanza, R.L. (COMULVERL)

$228,817 over three years

COMULVERL will implement a project in two rural municipalities, El Jicaral and Santa Rosa del Peñon, in the department of León. COMULVERL will citizen organizations in 22 communities, provide farmers with credit, materials, training and technical assistance and make credit and training available to entrepreneurs operating retail and small-scale industry enterprises. (NC-279)

Fundación Caja Rural San Lorenzo (CARUSALO)

$287,400 over three years

CARUSALO will provide four groups of farmers in Boaco training, technical assistance and credit toward improving their production of beans, rice, vegetables and dragon fruit. It will support the farmers’ efforts to apply new irrigation strategies, construct crop collection centers and a greenhouse, and pool their crops to market in volume to wholesalers in Managua. (NC-280)

The Asociación para el Desarrollo de la Costa Atlántica “PANA PANA” (PANA PANA)

$347,300 over three years

PANA PANA will assist residents in 21 communities affected by Hurricane Felix by providing in-kind loans to support crop recovery, cash loans to rural and urban entrepreneurs, and credit and building materials for housing reconstruction. Its training program will strengthen traditional indigenous leadership structures and promote good governance. (NC-281)

Unión de Cooperativas Agropecuarios Héroes y Mártires de Miraflor, R.L. (MIRAFLOR)

$264,453 over three years

MIRAFLOR will work in the rural communities inside the Miraflor Nature Reserve to augment the production of its organic pesticide business, increase water conservation and reforestation activities, promote the use of fuel-efficient stoves, provide credit to support the production of organic coffee and ecotourism infrastructure, build wet mills for processing coffee beans at farm sites, expand its in-kind revolving loan of dairy cattle, and improve the physical plant of its agro-ecological institute. (NC-282)

Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (INCAE)

$142,235 over one year

INCAE will work with 10 IAF grantees to enable them to enter into contracts to export their agricultural products. Its program will include classroom instruction, on-site technical assistance, market research and travel to the United States. (NC-286)

Asociación Familia Padre Fabretto (AFPF)

$235,990 over three years AFPF will reach more than 1,200 students with its application of the Sistema de Aprendizaje Tutorial, a secondary-school program, in the communities of San José de Cusmapa and San Isidro de Bolas. It will develop teaching materials, train tutors in the SAT methodology and launch the academic curriculum. Through the AFPF program, students will also be able to take advantage of community development and revenue-generating activities and opportunities to volunteer. (NC-287)

Unión de Cooperativas Agropecuarios Sociedad de Pequeños Productores de Café (SOPPEXCCA)

$243,770 over three years SOPPEXCCA will increase the profits of its member-farmers cultivating conventional and organic coffee in the municipalities of Jinotega and El Cuá through training and technical assistance, the expansion of its dry mill, construction of two new drying patios, and the purchase of machinery and equipment. (NC-288)

Fundación Entre Volcanes (FEV)

$49,800 over one year

FEV will engage four communities in the buffer zone around the Maderas volcano in a community development planning process that will identify business opportunities for residents to pursue related to the tourist industry. (NC-298)