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Global Grant Proposal Form for Project G-635 1. Host Partner Information
2. International Partner Information
1. Describe the benefiting community including its location, using any relevant geographic and demographic information (Please be as specific as possible). If the activity is a scholarship, enter "N/A". Leticia is a rural town depending of the township of Pasacaballos, suburb of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. It is located by Canal del Dique, a channel connecting the Magdalena River and the Cartagena Bay on the Colombian north coast. Leticia is composedof 74 families with 350 inhabitants, whowere deeply affected by two recent disasters. The first one was the bankruptcy of a shrimp farming company which was providing jobs to a large part of the population.Due to international competition the company drastically reduced its staff, leaving the inhabitants of Leticia without a steady income. The second one was due to La Niña phenomenon 2010-2011 which flooded a wide portionof the area and devastated homes and crops. Our Club helped this community in times of emergency, ( during 2011, 2012 and 2013) to improve home and school water provision by installing two pumps, called for government assistance in several fields, raisedfunds to rebuild the church and builda central park for community interaction with active community participation in the project. The government recently finished the construction of the barrier to avoid future flooding. 2. What community needs have been identified? If the activity is a scholarship, enter "N/A". Family revenues are highly unstable and malnutrition and poverty affect the population, children specially. According to national statistics (DANE 2010), around 56% of the rural communities of Canal del Dique have Unsatisfied Basic Needs (UBN). Our Rotary Club Cartagena de Indias(RCCI)is committed in helping the community regain a source of income A group of women from the village were making a living selling eggs until all their hens were killed in the flood. They willlike now to rebuild their business in a sustainable commercial scale. At the same time food supply to feed the hens will stabilize and improve local crop production starting to revive home lands soils and crops. A small amount of egg production will be donated to the school restaurant. 3. How are these needs currently being addressed with local resources and/or government agencies, NGOs, etc.? If the activity is a scholarship, enter "N/A". The National Government and the Cartagena city Government are developing several programs to alleviate poverty. Cartagena however, has a vast poor population: around 33% of the population is considered in poverty, and 6% in extreme poverty (according to national statistics DANE, 2012). Available resources of course are not enough to effectively and rapidly end this situation. Several NGOs work with the communities of the Canal del Dique, including the town of Leticia, providing for example technical agricultural assistance and food security programs. One of the NGOs most present in the area is the Corporacion Desarrollo y Paz del Canal del Dique (Development and Peace Foundation for the Canal del Dique), will be our cooperating organization in this project. Another ONG is Promotora del Canal del Dique. All of them have scarce resources to rebuild productive activities. Thus all help possible is welcomed. 1. Summarize the proposed activity(ies) in 250 words or less, including the need it will address, the intended beneficiary(ies), and the potential benefits to the community. The Club has worked with the community a sustainable project comprising 2000 laying hens, which would benefit the community's subsistence agriculture stimulating local economy to produce farm eggs that sell for a better price on the market. A cooperative business will be created to manage the hen-house, and be the owner of the infrastructure. They will be responsible for operation and maintenance, and technical assistance will be provided during the first cycle of hens. The project is planned in three steps: First, once the grant from IRF is approved, the cooperative will be legalized Following capex project management, the seed capital provided from the grant will be invested. Second, during the following 15 month-period, the Club will with the Development and Peace Foundation for the Canal del Dique supervise closely aspects related to management, commercialization, accounting, information systems and technical assistance along with the local partners Third,at the end of the first laying hens cycle, the clubwill continue to accompany the project every three months in which the cooperative will restart a new lot of laying hens. 2. Please list any cooperating organization(s) or university(ies) involved in the proposed activity(ies). 1.Name of organization CORPORACION DESARROLLO Y PAZ DEL CANAL DEL DIQUE Y ZONAS COSTERAS Street Address Calle del Curato No 28-43 Piso 3 Barrio San Diego centro Historico City, State/Provincia Cartagena Bolívar Postal code Country Colombia Office phone 5756609660 Fax E-mail r.castillo@pdpdiqueyzonacostera.org Web address http://pdpdiqueyzonacostera.org/index.php/quienes-somos/nuestra-corporacion/mision-y-vision Develpment and Peace Foundation for Canal del Dique (in spanish Corporación Desarrollo y Paz del Canal del Dique y Zonas Costeras 2. UNIVERSITY NAME Universidad de Cartagena Mmail Address www.unicartagena.edu.co Street Address Av del Consulado # Calle 30 No. 48 – 152 Cartagena, Bolívar centro Historico City, State/Provincia Cartagena Bolívar Postal code Country Colombia Office phone Amalia Segrera 573008500062 Fax 3. Describe how the benefiting community will be involved in the activity(ies) (Provide specific examples). If the activity is a scholarship, enter "N/A". As for the community’s commitments, they will include: legalizing the cooperative, supplying the land to build the sheds on, the staff, the growing of spinach, rice, corn, pumpkin, etc. to complement processed food, putting asidepart of the budget for replacement of the hens, and the maintenance of the facilities. 4. Has the benefiting community(ies) confirmed that it would like the activity(ies) to take place? RCCI is meeting them every 40 days to mature the project group and strenght links with community leaders and ONG in the field. Before Project start the community of Leticia involved in the Project are being trained by the National Apprenticeship Service (SENA) in agreement with our Rotary Club Cartagena de Indias on technical and management skills with the aim of improving the overall performance of the laying hens project. Simultaneously, the community has been working in restoring the old hen house in accordance with the new procedures and are being practicing what training is about. 5. Proposed Start Date: 1-FEB-2014 6. Proposed Completion Date: -- 1. With which area(s) of focus is the proposed activity aligned?
2. Please describe how the activity(ies) will address the goal(s) of the area(s) or focus. The developmento of a Rotarian Cummunity Group increas peace culture. The egg provition to school restaurant will help to prevent malnutrition. The Layn Hen Project will stimulate innovations inthe work culture and spillover on homa land agriculture yards. Coordinanting with ONG working in Leticia will stronger strategies, resorces and community envolvement and prevent inaprpopieate competition between agents of change. 1. What will be the immediate and long-term outcomes of the activity(ies). The project has three goals to benefit the community: 1. To contribute to reduce malnutrition for 90 community’s children by supplying eggs to the school,5 days a week during 24 months beginning during the second project quarterly. 2. To provide qualification and additional employment to the community. 12 direct associates , and coordination with two Cartagena non profit organizations with Club Rotario Cartagena de Indias CRCI The Foundation for the Promotion of the Dique Canal, and the Development and Peace Foundation of the Canal del Dique.,these last two start support for improvement of 25 local home yard families producing organic food, by themselves and for the hen project with new technical and entrepreneurship training. 3. To promote productive cooperation within the local economy by means of A) Utilizing excess local agricultural production to feed the hens, and introduction of a marketing plan to sell free-range eggs called “Huevos de Rancho”. B) To encourage production of organic fertilizer for the use on the community soil restoring as well as sales of excess. C) To encourage cooperation amongst other local producers to create economies of scale to lower marketing costs for Leticia’s business. D) To promote a Community Development Rotary Group to grow leadership, team work and conflict resolution in agreement with the School of Social Work from Cartagena University. The production goals of the project are: 1. At the end of first quarterly month, after starting the bussines operation, once built the facilities, monthly operational costs will be covered. E) By the end of sixth month, the cooperative will have sufficient additional funds earned to start fund rising to Replacement Fund. By the end of first 15 months cycle will be able to restore hens and supplies to start a new hens lot cycle. F) To establish an ongoing cycle of production of 15 months under normal conditions, to cover the aforementioned costs and achieve a small surplus by encouraging marketing of excess organic fertilizer. This will guarantee the financial sustainability of the project, after the contribution of the initial matching grant. 2. Explain how all involved parties will act to ensure the sustainability of the activity(ies) and/or outcomes. The cooperative will be monitored by our club and partners during a 20 month period until this will establish commercial relationships with other development agencies like Cemprende, a special fund from the Cartagena Chamber of Commerce and UNDP, and FondoEmprender, another funding program from the SENA (government organization) in order to have advise and special credit loans for small business. The Project monitoring and evaluation will include 1. Planning the information system from Project Committee FRCCI with the cooperative and the Development, Peace Foundation for Canal del Dique and the Leticia community. 2. Budget and financial monitoring will be developed at the end of each step, and every six months from Project Committee FRCCI with the cooperative and the Development and Peace Foundation for Canal del Dique and the community cooperative during the three project steps. An annual report will be sent annually to international partners and IRF 3. Community Project goals monitoring on child nutrition, direct and indirect employment generation, hours of training, linking demand to local agricultural suppliers and number of people attending meetings and projects in team work, conflict resolution and productive planning will be conducted every six months from RCCI Project Committee and share with cooperative and Leticia community. An annual report will be sent annually to International Partners and IRF. 4. Budget follow up execution and Activities Planned will be monitored every three months by RCCI Project Committee and Development and Peace Foundation for Canal del Dique and the cooperative associates and operational plans Once a year will be sent to International P artners and IRF. 5. Agreements with Universidad de Cartagena, Development and Peace Foundation, SENA, Promotora del Canal del Dique and Leticia Community will be evaluated by stakeholders every year. 6. A synthesis of Processes and Outcomes Report will be sent with a community evaluation at the end of the project to International Partners and stakeholders by the host partner.
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