PE-M1088 : TAJIMAT: Economic Inclusion of the Awajún People through Cocoa and Banana Value

The project will validate a local economic development (LED) model based on an intercultural intervention with native communities that seeks to: (a) strengthen relations between Awajún farmers and commercial agents; and (b) improve conditions for working with the local government for productive development. Accordingly, the project will carry out specific activities to unblock bottlenecks such as low productivity, little coordination among stakeholders, and lack of small infrastructure that would facilitate logistics and increase production. Through training and technical assistance, the project will build the necessary capacities in the Awajún communities and promote more effective coordination among the key development stakeholders: the government, the private sector, and the native communities. Support will be provided to the local government to improve the targeting of local public investment projects (PIPs) needed by farmers to facilitate their market access.