PRIVATE VOLUNTARY ORGANIZATION CO-FINANCING; SRI LANKA

private voluntary organizations (PVO) increase their development activities undertaken in collaboration with the country"s rural poor. The GSL"s Ministry of Plan Implementation will be responsible for overall coordination and monitoring of the project. A total of 64 subprojects in such areas as small-scale rural works, livestock and poultry production, and agricultural sanitation, will be financed throughout the life of the project. PVO development activity will be increased and each subproject will be implemented by a Sri Lankan or a U.S. PVO with the help of resources mobilized at the local level. PVO proposals for smaller subprojects or groups of subprojects will be encouraged, while proposals for technically or administratively complex subprojects will be discouraged. Subprojects will be designed to attain the following objectives: (1) enhance the opportunity and capacity of the rural poor to participate in their own development; (2) develop the institutional capacity of PVO"s to collaborate with communities in desiging and implementing projects; (3) generate local innovations which will resolve local problems; (4) increase the participation of disadvantaged segments of society, including women, in activities which will address their particular socioeconomic problems; (5) create employment and raise income levels of rural poor; (6) improve other aspects of community living such as health; (7) accelerate the application of appropriate technology at the local level; and (8) promote broad-based rural development locally, on a self-sustaining basis. The immediate beneficiaries will be the five U.S. and 20 indigenous PVO"s that are involved in the project. The ultimate beneficiaries of the project will be the peoples living in the poor rural and urban communities. Amendment of 12/30/83 extends the PACD to 8/29/89 and increases funding by 166%, in part to support PVO rehabilitation projects necessitated by the recent communal disturbances. Promotion of private enterprise has been added as a project objective. Some 120-130 PVO grants are now expected to be financing over the life of the project. (PD-AAW-334)