“Entretodos”. Saving and credit education groups

People born and living in the rural sector of developing countries typically have very limited access to basic products and services, exacerbating their exclusion. Exclusion from the financial system and lack of access to liquidity for productive investments or covering their basic needs heightens their vulnerability and limits their development possibilities. In this context, communities…

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Fertilizer Deep Placement (FDP) for poverty reduction in Vietnam

Since 2006 CODESPA has been supporting the development of the market value chain for a fertilizer application technique called Fertilizer Deep Placement (FDP), through the project “Helping poor families in Yen Bai Province to sustainably improve their rice production by integrating them into markets for fertilizer pellets with the fertilizer deep placement method.” The project…

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Civil Society Capacity Building: An Approach in Uganda

For the sake of simplicity, development can be considered to have three aspects or dimensions: economic, social and political. Although these dimensions are interlinked there is a tendency with International Financial Institutes(IFI) to place the emphasis on the economic dimension. As from the early 1990s the aspect of (good) governance appeared, particularly initiated by the…

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