The FAO disburses $ 16.3 million for development projects in Cape Verde

The Organization of the United Nations Food and Agriculture organization (FAO) released 16.3 million dollars to the Government of Cape Verde to finance development projects in this country, I knew the PANA Tuesday from a reliable source in the city of Praia.

To do this, a document Programming Framework has just been signed in the city of the Beach by the two parties for the period 2018-2022, in accordance with the source.

The document, signed by the FAO representative in Cape Verde, Rémi Nono Womdim, and by the minister of cape verde’s Agriculture and the Environment, Gilberto Silva, lays out three priority areas that define the framework of collaboration between the two parties over the next four years.

As Gilberto Silva, in this moment, is already available in a “significant portion” of the financial volume necessary to the implementation of the Framework document for Country Programming, in its entirety, being that it lacks mobilize the 57 percent of this amount.

“Part of the framework indicators very specific to the quality control of its implementation and, to this end, we have to have the sense of cohesion and integration. The framework summarizes everything that the nation wants to accomplish in the next few years, as for example the improvement of the use of water as a natural resource and the restriction of animals.

The improvement of the governance of food and nutritional security and the welfare of the most vulnerable groups with policies of social protection and inclusion, and the increase of the income of the population, through the transformation and growth in economic sectors on the keys, including the green economy and the blue, are other priority areas of action of the FAO in Cape Verde.

The other area is set as a priority in the context of the Programming Framework of the Country has to do with the development and implementation of integrated and innovative approaches for the sustainable management and participatory natural resources, mitigation of and adaptation to climate change and the risk of natural disasters.

“This Programming Framework of the Country was developed in a context marked by the rise to power, through a democratic process, of a new Government in 2016 and a new cycle of programming,” said the FAO representative in Cape Verde.

According to Rémi Nono Womdim, the preparation of this framework was carried out through a process of participatory consultation with all stakeholders, including ministries and national institutions linked to the sector, different United Nations agencies, financial institutions, civil society organizations and the private sector.

However, he warns that, for a “total success” in its implementation, it is necessary to the ownership of the Programming Framework of the Country 2018-2022 by all the partners involved, and their permanent update an “imperative need”.