Promotion of women's bio-economy initiatives in the Colombian Amazon (IADB-CO-T1746)

Countries
  • Colombia
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Financial Institutions
  • Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
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Project Status
Active
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Bank Risk Rating
U
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Voting Date
Jun 25, 2024
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Borrower
Government of Colombia
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Sectors
  • Technical Cooperation
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Investment Type(s)
Fund
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Investment Amount (USD)
$ 0.40 million
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Project Cost (USD)
$ 0.40 million
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Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ IADB website

Updated in EWS Jul 25, 2024

Disclosed by Bank Mar 1, 2025

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Project Description
If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

The general objective is to design and implement a training and mentoring program for women entrepreneurs in the bio-business sector in the Colombian Amazon. The specific objectives are: (i) Strengthening of leadership, production and business skills for women entrepreneurs in bioeconomy; (ii) Strengthening the voice and agency of women in the bioeconomy.

IADB's reponse to request for information on the meaning of "bio-economy" in the context of IADB's investments:

At the Inter-American Development Bank, we consider the following: Bioeconomy refers to any economic activity based on the use of natural renewable biological resources, from both land and ocean, to obtain food, materials, and energy in a sustainable way without compromising their availability for future generations. More specifically, in the context of the bio-economy, bio-businesses are defined as business models, practices and technologies that sustainably use natural capital and forest assets leading to reduced emissions, increased carbon stocks, net gains in natural capital and increased climate resilience in any of seven sectors: perennial agriculture, agroforestry, aquaculture, forestry plantations, non-timber natural forest products (“NTFP”), nature tourism and ecosystem services. In addition, and according to the FAO definition, "aquaculture covers the farming of both animals (including crustaceans, finfish and molluscs) and plants (including seaweeds and freshwater macrophytes)". Therefore, we consider animal farming would be included in the general definition.

However, in our technical cooperation Promotion of women's bio-economy initiatives in the Colombian Amazon (CO-T1746) we will only focus on three sectors (non-timber natural forest products (“NTFP”), nature tourism and ecosystem services).

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