Nicaragua
The Americas

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.
Our Joint Programmes
Democratic economic governance in the Water and Sanitation sector in the RAAN and RAASLess than 20% of people living in the Northern and Southern Autonomous Administrative Regions (RAAN and RAAS), home to many indigenous communities, have access to drinking water and adequate sanitation.
“TUKTAN YAMNI” Integrated ModelThe programme will reduce chronic malnutrition in children under two in the areas of intervention, thus accelerating progress towards the achievement of MDG 1, 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 servicesThe Programme proposes 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 PeopleThe programme seeks to act in support of efforts already being made at national level towards improving the access of young people to decent employment, especially those living in socially vulnerable conditions in urban and rural areas of Nicaragua, and thereby helping to counteract the negative effects of the migration trend.
“From Rhetoric to Reality”: Promoting Women’s Participation and Gender Responsive BudgetingThe proposed Programme is designed to support the implementation of the National Programme for Gender Equality, and has three levels of intervention designed to operationalize a gender focus in public policymaking and budgeting: 1) Incorporating a gender perspective in national budgeting processes, especially with regards to health and employment, in order to begin a broader results-based budgeting process with a focus on gender.
Cultural Recovery and Creative Productive Development on the Caribbean Coast of NicaraguaThe 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 through cultural reclamation, productive development and the furthering of knowledge of tangible and intangible heritage”.
STORIES
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.

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.




