| Date: | 2007- |
| Web: | Official website of the programme |
| Description: | The productive food programme (Zero Hunger) provides the opportunity to produce food and provides tools for poor rural families to get ahead with their work. It has a medium- and long-term perspective and is designed to contribute to the country's economic development: domestic food supply, foreign exchange savings, adding value to local and national products, and increasing exports. |
Characteristics
| Target population: | Households with women owning between 1 and 10 blocks of land in rural areas (the assets are given to the women and are their property). |
| Area of intervention: | Support for self-employment |
| Geographic scale: | National in rural areas |
Institutionality
| Legal framework: | |
| Responsible organization(s): | Ministry of Family, Community, Cooperative and Associative Economy (MEFCCA) |
| Executing organization(s): | Ministry of Family, Community, Cooperative and Associative Economy (MEFCCA) |
1) Transfer
| Recipient(s): | Women in participant households |
| Periodicity of delivery: | Annual |
| Recipient of the transfer: | Woman |
| Conditionalities: | Do not sell the animals in the first years; Return part of the capital (up to NIO $5000) to create a revolving fund managed by the cooperative; Receive and participate in technical training courses; Participate in the creation of stables and pigsties and get involved in productive activities; Send their children to school and attend breastfeeding programmes; become a member and join marketing networks |
| Description: | It consists of a transfer of protein or protein-generating goods (the total value per household of the programme is USD$ 1000 per year -including goods, training, and training, plus programme execution expenses). The goods delivered to the families are animals, seeds and vegetative material for animal food, fruit trees, material for the construction of stables/barns, a biodigester to produce gas with animal excrement, as well as training courses: peasant economy, agricultural practices to increase yields, business culture, animal health, environmental hygiene, associativity and self-management, credit, trade, etc. |
| Amount : | In-kind transfer equivalent to US$ 1000 per household per year (including goods, training, and training, plus programme implementation costs). |
