Description of Program and Beneficiaries. 7 The Program, whose objective is to increase the knowledge, skills and competence of the Namibian workforce, and to increase the productivity of agricultural and non-agricultural enterprises in communal areas, consists of three Projects: the Education Project, the Tourism Project and the Agriculture Project. Each Project (the details of which are set forth below) is designed to help address Namibia’s constraints to economic growth and lead to sustainable poverty reduction. Specifically, the Education Project aims to increase skilled labor by helping to create a more efficient and effective educational system that will benefit approximately 1,000,000 young people, and ultimately increase employment opportunities. The Tourism Project will stimulate investment and income generation in poor, rural communities through increasing the income for an estimated 23,000 tourism-related employees and benefitting over 100,000 individuals living in conservancies. Lastly, the Agriculture Project will improve productivity in the livestock and INP sectors, and contribute to enhanced household incomes for over 400,000 Namibians. Specific anticipated results of the Program over a twenty year period include:
Description of Program and Beneficiaries. The Program is designed to reduce poverty in Malawi by addressing the constraints of the power sector to economic growth. The Program Objective is to reduce the cost of doing business, expand access to electricity for the Malawian people and businesses, and increase value-added production in Malawi. The Program consists of three Projects: The Infrastructure Development Project’s objective is to improve the availability, reliability, and quality of the power supply by increasing the throughput capacity and stability of the national electricity grid and increasing efficiency of hydropower generation through investments in infrastructure development, including investment by the Government in new generation, and MCC Funding for generation and increased transmission and distribution capacity; The Power Sector Reform Project’s objective is to create an enabling environment for future expansion of the power sector by strengthening sector institutions and enhancing regulation and governance of the sector by rebuilding ESCOM into a financially strong, well- managed utility and developing a regulatory environment that supports public and private investment in new generation capacity and expanded access; and The Environmental and Natural Resource Management Project’s objective is to mitigate the growing problems of aquatic weed infestation and excessive sedimentation in the Shire River Basin to reduce the costly disruptions to Malawi’s hydropower generation by investing in weed and sediment management, and implementing better environmental and natural resource management in upstream areas. By reducing power outages and technical losses, enhancing the sustainability and efficiency of hydropower generation, and increasing the potential kilowatt hours (“kWh”) of throughput to electricity consumers, the Program will reduce energy costs to enterprises and households, improve productivity in agriculture, manufacturing, and service sectors, and support the preservation and creation of employment opportunities in the economy. The Parties expect the Program to result in the following benefits and distribution thereof: An estimated 983,000 individuals will benefit over a 20 year period through reduced domestic and enterprise energy costs, leading to increased profits; and An estimated US$872.6 million of income benefits to Malawi at the present discounted rate of 10 percent. These estimated income benefits do not include the full value of the benefits of improved gov...
Description of Program and Beneficiaries. The Program Objective is to enable improved agricultural productivity and to expand access to markets and services through critical infrastructure investments in the roads and irrigation sectors. The Program consists of the Roads Rehabilitation Project and the Irrigation and Water Resources Management Project as further described in this Annex I. By 2029, the Program is expected to benefit approximately 1.66 million individuals, or approximately 138,600 households. The largest number of beneficiaries – approximately 1.1 million – would be located in the Casamance. About 75% of the Program beneficiaries in the Casamance are expected to come from households living on less than 2 dollars per person per day. An estimated 42% of total Program beneficiaries in the Casamance live on US$1.25 per person per day, or less. Although Program activities in the Casamance are expected to cast a wider net over beneficiaries, about 38% of total benefits generated by the Program would accrue to beneficiaries in that region. Approximately 62% of Program benefits would accrue to beneficiaries in the Valley. Here, approximately 45% of total beneficiaries are expected to be from households subsisting on less than US$2 per person per day and 25% from households living on US$1.25, or less. Whereas Program investments in the Valley will affect the welfare of a smaller number of people than in the south, they together are expected to extend significantly and solidify gains in the reduction of poverty in the north. The Program would be an important preliminary contribution to the development of the Casamance and greatly facilitate other future investment there.
Description of Program and Beneficiaries
