Costa Rica: Developing competitiveness for the Brunca Region in the Tourism and agro-industry sectors, with emphasis on creation of green, decent employment for reducing poverty.
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $4,000,000
Delivery Rate
Main Achievements
- Promotion of a model of competitiveness focused on businesses that create green and decent employment in tourism and the agro-industry.
- Development of technical, financial, economic, organizational, and environmental feasibility studies for the Jatropha cultivation pilot project.
- Development of a customer service platform for municipalities in the Brunca region to facilitate the creation of and support for businesses.
The proposed Programme will develop the competitiveness of the Brunca Region in the tourism and agro-industry sectors, with particular emphasis being placed on the creation of green, decent jobs in new, innovative enterprises that significantly help to reduce poverty in an area that is rich in biodiversity and natural resources, but which continues to be the poorest zone and consequently suffers the most from inequality.
The intended outcomes are to improve: 1) the conditions for making businesses competitive; 2) competitiveness and productivity of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (especially those owned by the poor); 3) innovation capacity, based on the implementation of two demonstration projects: one involving biofuel production and the other, development of “ethnic tourism” in indigenous communities. The sustainability of the proposal will be guaranteed by the transfer of skills and methodologies and the creation and/or strengthening of public-private alliances in order to promote competitiveness.