Nicaragua

 

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Capital Managua
Population 5.8 million
Life Expectancy 71.5
Access to clean water 79%
Adult Literacy 67.02%
Under five mortality 25.5 per 1,000 live births
GDP per head (US$ PPP) $2,900
Nicaragua


Unity is strength in Nicaragua

Until recently, the women of the village of Venus spent a part of each day searching for and collecting drinking water. That all changed when they and the MDG-F started working together.



Our Joint Programmes

Democratic economic governance in the Water and Sanitation sector in the RAAN and RAAS
Less than 20% of people living in Nicaragua's Northern and Southern Autonomous Administrative Regions, home to many indigenous communities, have access to drinking water and adequate sanitation. The goal of the Joint Programme is to increase sustainable access to water and sanitation for poor population groups by strengthening democratic economic governance in the water and sanitation sector.
“TUKTAN YAMNI” Integrated Model
This Joint Programme's goal is to reduce chronic malnutrition in Nicaraguan children under two in the areas of intervention by prioritizing pregnant and breastfeeding women, children under five and school children up to 12 and providing them with integrated food security and nutrition services.
Local and regional environmental management for the management of natural resources and provision of environmental services
The Programme proposed a series of activities in the area of the Bosawas Biosphere Reserve (BBR) in Nicaragua, one of the most important protected areas in Central America and part of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor.
National Development Capacities for Improving Employment and Self-Employment Opportunities for Young People
This Joint Programme is supporting the government's work to improve young Nicaraguans' access to decent employment, especially those living in socially vulnerable conditions in urban and rural areas, and thereby helping to counteract the negative effects of the migration trend.
“From Rhetoric to Reality”: Promoting Women’s Participation and Gender Responsive Budgeting
This Joint Programme was designed to support the implementation of the National Programme for Gender Equality, and had three levels of intervention designed to operationalize a gender focus in public policymaking and budgeting.
Cultural Recovery and Creative Productive Development on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
The aim of the Programme is to help to reduce equality gaps in the human, social and economic development of indigenous and afro-descendant villages on the Caribbean Coast. This is being achieved through cultural reclamation, productive development and the furthering of knowledge of tangible and intangible heritage.




STORIES


Miskito families protect Nicaragua’s ecological treasures

MDG-F-supplied solar panels are helping Nicaragua's indigenous communities preserve their environment.



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Unity makes strength for Nicaraguan women

The MDG-F is helping Nicaraguan women to break the cycle of poverty in which they live through business training and access to specialized health services.

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Coffee as a route to women’s empowerment

María José Blandón Villavicencio, a Nicaraguan housewife turned coffee producer, has a sales record that would make any entrepreneur green with envy: 1600% growth in her first year.

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