The objective is to contribute to the development of the regions of Sanchez Ramirez, Salcedo, Espaillat, El Seibo, Hato Mayor, San Jose de Ocoa, Peravia through the restoration and improvement of road infrastructures in order to ensure access to basic social services, reduce the price of products and inputs and in general facilitate commercial exchanges and communications.

Specific activities are:

• Control and supervision of works
• Traffic counting during the execution period of works

The Municipal regime of Costa Rica displays weaknesses within its institutional, financial and human resources development, which reinforces the centralistic governmental policy of the State offering arguments to the incapacity of municipalities to assume new responsibilities.

The project aims at improving knowledge and perception of the population in Costa Rica with respect to its Municipal Regime and the work that the project FOMUDE is carrying on to support modernization and decentralization of the State in the framework of the Cooperation policy of the European Union towards Costa Rica. 

Main activities:

• Creation, production and implementation of four awareness campaigns in the main written and audiovisual Medias of Costa Rica so as to have an impact over the whole national territory.
• Production of 5 institutional and didactical videos from 8 to 10 minutes. Click here to watch one of the videos online.

The objective of the programme is to improve the living conditions of the poor rural communities located along Haiti’s border. The PMR2 finances and executes the supervision of the implementation and then the startup of the various initiatives and projects, including dispensaries, schools, aqueducts and sewerage systems. 70 projects were carried out for a total of 15 million euros approximately.

The new Municipal Market of Dajabón has a covered surface of 11.600 m2 on two levels, with a metal structure. In addition to the commercial zones, its construction envisages zones of service and administration. The building of the customs infrastructure, on two levels also, has a total surface of 2.000 m2. The project includes a component of institutional strengthening of the Municipality of Dajabón.

The principal objectives of the Programme are:
(i) Information: improve and implement information systems to adequately prevent from, anticipate and respond to natural disasters.
(ii) Preparedness: improve the assistance to the victims thanks to a decentralized answer that would be more efficient, timely and adapted to the requirements of the moment
(iii) Prevention: reduce the vulnerability of the country towards natural disasters by means of prevention measures through the use the state’s resources focusing on risks and a major control of forest fires. The efforts of the Programme aim at fostering the Government institutions in charge of Risk Management.

The goal of the mid term evaluation was to provide the Dominican Republic Government, the EC Delegation, the PNUD and all the partners of the Programme sufficient information to:

- Have a general independent evaluation on the results of the Programme
- Identify the lessons learned and propose recommendations to continue the implementation of the Programme, including its possible reorientation.

Showing the current situation, the documentary presents the reasons why the project was developed and highlights the specific problematic of the local border context as well as interrelations of Dominican and Haitians actors. In the end, a 25 minutes DVD was produced in Spanish with subtitles in French and didactical elements such as maps, graphs, plans and the virtual animation of the future market of Dajabón to facilitate the diffusion of the messages.

STABEX is a compensatory finance scheme intended to stabilize the export earnings of the ACP States. STABEX resources mainly target the commercialization of industry and the restoration of confidence by improving the capital base of banana growers, providing working capital assistance and the provision of infrastructure such as sheds, reception centres and irrigation systems. The Special Framework of Assistance (SFA) Programmes from 1999 to 2001 came into being to further modernize the banana sector. These funds were earmarked for infrastructure, improving farm productivity and yields and for agriculture diversification.

PROBANANO is a programme cofinanced by the EC (EDF) with a contribution of 1.650.000 EUR. Its goal is to improve the competitiveness of the exporting banana sector of the Dominican Republic. The target group are 713 producers working a total of 5.000 hectares of banana tree plantation.

Technical Assistance to the National Authorizing Officer for the dissemination of the principles of the initiative and the follow-up of the proposals elaboration.
The EU-ACP Water initiative answers the need for providing additional investments in ACP states specifically in the Water sector. The initiative plays a part of catalyst in order to promote proposals, strengthen the institutions and the management capacities in the partner countries.

Identification and formulation of a programme in the Water and Environment sector to be financed by the EC through EDF (2004-2009) with a total amount of 56.880.000 EUR. Projects include important rural and urban hydraulic infrastructures and specific actions for environmental protection.

A rehabilitation of drinking water networks associated to institutional reform has been implemented with IADB financing during the late nineties. A sector reform unit was put into operation in the Ministry of Public Works, Communication and Transport in collaboration with the SNEP and CAMEP operators.