Nicaragua

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.

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