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Develop Curriculum and Youth Managers’ Pilot Program in Belize

Código: 5472-00

País: Belice

Inicio: 13/11/2024

Finalización: 12/11/2025

Tipo: Acciones Específicas

Descripción

The Government of Belize, with financing from IFAD and the GCF, launched a six-year programme called Resilient Rural Belize. This initiative aims to reduce the impacts of climatic and economic shocks on smallholder farmers while enhancing sustainable market access for their products. The programme's component on strengthening Producer Organizations (POs) focuses on providing the necessary technical, social, and organizational knowledge to improve their management, operations, and overall performance within the selected value chains.

Objetivo General:

To introduce climate resilient agricultural practices that will allow smallholder farmers to have a sustainable production process and improved market access for their produce, even under the stress of climate change and extreme climatic events; therefore, increasing their economic, social and environmental resilience

Objetivos Específicos:

To develop a six-month training curriculum in business management with specific focus on the sustainability of the Producers Organizations (POs) as a business. The PO gaining the capacity to develop strategic planning, marketing, finance management, record keeping and reporting following governance rules and procedures.
To organize and implement the developed training curriculum for thirty-six (36) young male and female farmers (50%) from the Programme's beneficiary communities.

Resultados Esperados:

18 POs benefitted from the placement of trained young managers within their respective organizations.
Training Curriculum developed and approved by RRB, focused on business administration, basic finances, communication and marketing for the young men and women selected for the training program.
Young men and women from the beneficiary POs enhanced their knowledge and abilities by completing the six-month training curriculum.

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