IBSA

This project is building and equipping a centre for HIV/AIDS prevention, testing and treatment. This centre will provide various health-care services, covering reproductive health, sexually transmitted diseases, prenatal care and family planning. The facility will support and expand existing operations providing care and preventive services by the NGO Society of Women against Aids in Africa (SWAA), Burundi Chapter.

Moreover, this project is strengthening the capacity of the government of Burundi and civil society to respond to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and to care for people living with it through training workshops, technical exchanges, a study developing a new national communication strategy and tools, and capacity-building activities in various regions of the country.

This project supports the development of infrastructure and capacity to provide quality services for children and adolescents with special needs. The project built and equipped a pavilion at the Chey Chumneas Hospital to serve these patients and their families. The project is also training, through residency programmes, 17 health professionals in specialties servicing children with special needs. It also engages in public information and various community or group training activities to prevent some disabilities and support the provision of care for children with them.

This project will provide safe drinking water to the population of the island of Sao Nicolau, where water meeting World Health Organization standards for human consumption is scarce and its availability is unreliable. This constant supply of safe drinking water will help to reduce or eliminate the health risks associated with intake of poor-quality water, thereby improving the overall health and quality of life of these communities. This project constitutes a climate-change adaptation measure since global warming is making the water supply in Cape Verde increasingly scarce.

This project reduces poverty and enhances food security by: (a) rehabilitating low-lying coastal lands for rice cultivation, and (b) supporting food processing, which permits its conservation and facilitates its marketing. This initiative is advancing hydraulic infrastructure works that improve lowlands, such as small dams, canals, drainage and plot leveling. Among other benefits, these will reduce and compensate for increases in the salt content of the soil, thereby enabling the continuous use of these lands for rice production. These anti-erosion measures also constitute an effort at climate change mitigation. In addition, this project provides equipment and training in simple food processing and conservation techniques. It further supports commercialization of agro-products by facilitating transportation to markets beyond the village of production. project has organized and mobilized a community.      

This project expands the solar energy component of a finalized IBSA project in Guinea-Bissau, incorporating lessons from the pilot 5 villages that received and are already using solar equipment. This initiative benefits 20 additional villages. By providing access to energy, this project enormously enhances village life. For example, indoor lighting in schools permits studies by adults and other village activities during the evening. Solar water pipes reduce the hardships of obtaining water from wells, making it accessible at fountains or as running water. Refrigerators in health centres can keep cold chains for vaccinations. Street lighting and portable lanterns for village officials provide enhanced security, and cell phone chargers in community centres facilitate connectivity and sometimes even serve as a source of income for village associations.

This project seeks to strengthen the capacity of key State institutions in Sierra Leone to implement macroeconomic reforms and good governance practices for poverty eradication. This includes supporting human resource planning and management, strategy and policy development, implementation and monitoring of delivery. Through South-South cooperation knowledge-sharing activities, the capacity of the Office of the President and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation will be enhanced in order to support the further betterment of leadership to advance human development and poverty reduction.

This project aims at improving the overall livelihoods and food security of local communities in the two poorest districts of Bolikhamxay Province, by supporting the development of irrigated agriculture and the community based management of watershed resources such as forests and fisheries. The project will rehabilitate and improve small-scale irrigation systems. It will also support agricultural extensions as well as fisheries development and co-management activities. In addition, the initiative will enhance the managerial capacity of provincial and district-level government staff.

This project seeks to rebuild and refurbish the Cultural and Hospital Centre in Gaza, which is no longer operational owing to its highly deteriorated state, having suffered damage after armed confrontations. The goal of this initiative is to support the provision of health-care services to the community in Gaza and to provide a concrete expression of IBSA solidarity to the Palestinian people. The rehabilitated hospital will include an open heart surgery unit, patient recovery rooms, administrative offices, a cafeteria and rooms for psychosocial support activities.

9. Occupied Palestinian Territory (Nablus): Construction and Equipping of a Centre for Persons with Severe Intellectual Disabilities  

10. Viet Nam: Establishment of a Rice Seed Production Hub in Hoa Tien  

11. Cape Verde: Refurbishment of Health Care Infrastructure

Guinea-Bissau: 12. Development of Agriculture and Small Animal Herding (Phase I)

13. Development of Agriculture and Services to Rural Communities (Phase II)

14. Haiti: Collection of Solid Waste as a Tool to Reduce Violence