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Funding For Social Projects
posted (May 19, 2010)
The Organization of American States signed three funding partnership agreements today for the National Committee for Families and Children, the Ya'axche Conservation Trust and the Belize Tourism Board. Here's more.

Lisel Alamilla - Ya'axche Conservation Trust
"People have not really gone in to understand what we are doing in the communities that we are working with and the impact, the positive contribution that we're making."

Kim Osbourne - OAS Belize Representative
"For example Ya'axche in the south, it will be amazing to see the new green house, because we are encouraging farmers to grow and control the environment. The drying facility that will go up at Ya'axche and some of the very good work that has been done under this project. The solar panels that were put up to pump water into the community of Medina Bank. These are some very important good things that are happening within the community. This office does constant monitoring for compliance. We visit the projects and make sure that they are doing what they say they are doing, if we need to redirect. One of the very good things about this particular funding mechanism unlike others is that it's very flexible. As we go through implementation, if we realize that we are not achieving the objectives, that things have changed, you may have a flooding for example, a hurricane, or something may have changed within the country or within the community we can redirect. This allows us to do that. So there is constant monitoring, evaluation of the projects. At the end of each project cycle we will do the formal evaluation, not necessary to penalized but to see how we could better and improve projects coming from that particular entity or from the country."

The projects are:
NCFC "Building Capacity of Disadvantaged Communities in Belize for Income Generation and Job Creation.

Ya'axche Conservation Trust

"Building Sustainable Community Enterprise Development Capacity for Poverty Alleviation among Indigenous Communities in Southern Belize."

Belize Tourism Board
"Capacity Building Tourism Training and Certification Project."

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