Cuba: Support for new decentralization initiatives and production stimulation in Cuba
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $7,000,000
Delivery Rate
Main Achievements
- Support for local technical assistance services to cover the emerging needs of the non-state sector.
- Support for 12 cooperatives in two municipalities through the provision of supplies for 11 types of priority crops.
- Development of an action plan to promote gender equality.
In support of Cuba’s new initiatives aimed at decentralization and stimulating national production, this programme aims to incorporate the private sector within municipal priorities as a catalyst for local development by: 1) increasing and diversifying private sector production, 2) strengthening the technical services and management capabilities of municipal government necessary to promote public-private cooperation and 3) improving the local population’s access to goods and services.
The beneficiaries will be individual producers, cooperatives and the general population of five of the country’s municipalities. The programme will lend support to the local Municipal Development Initiative promoted by the national authorities. National efforts towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals will be strengthened at both the local and national level, especially MDGs 1, 3 and 7. The programme is a product of the approved UNDAF 2008-2012, in the area of cooperation on local human development. The UNDP is the proposed lead agency.