Nicaragua

Less 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.

The 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.

The 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.

The 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.

The 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.