The Rural Economic Development Services Program (PROSEDER) is the consolidation, under a programmatic approach, of two SDC projects implemented in Bolivia: PROFIN and FOMEN.  During the coming phase, PROSEDER will operate with the following objectives: 1. At micro level, to contribute to the decrease in poverty of at least 12’000 rural producer households (about 50'000 people, including family members) by increasing their income (30%) and improving self-employment (80% of producers will improve their production processes). Here, SDC will leverage between 30 to 250% of its investment. 2. At meso level, to support participatory Local Economic Development processes (12 public-private and community coordination platforms will have the capacity to promote the production and marketing of agricultural products, in a participatory and transparent manner). Thus, benefiting indirectly the rural population of six departments and thereby achieving improvements in governance processes from municipal to departmental levels. SDC will leverage here up to 400% the amount invested. 3. At the macro level, policies and standards for a better territorial development will be supported.

The project in brief

Directorate/federal office responsible	SDC
Credit area	Development cooperation
Project partners	Contract partner International or foreign NGO Swiss Non-profit Organisation SDC Field Office Swisscontact
Budget	Current phase Swiss budget CHF    10’000’000 Swiss disbursement to date CHF    7’402’391
Project phases	Phase 3 01.07.2020 - 30.09.2022   (Completed) Phase 2 01.11.2012 - 31.10.2020   (Completed) Phase 1 01.08.2010 - 31.10.2015   (Completed)

Further technical details

• Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES OTHER MULTISECTOR INDUSTRY
  Sub-Sector according to the OECD Developement Assistance Commitiee categorisation	Financial policy and administrative management Agricultural policy and administrative management Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) development Financial policy and administrative management Informal and semi-formal financial intermediaries Rural development Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) development
  Cross-cutting topics	The project takes account of gender equality as a cross-cutting theme. The project takes account of democratisation, good governance and human rights as cross-cutting themes. The project also supports partner organisation improvements
  Type of support	Official development assistance (ODA)
  Type of collaboration	Bilateral cooperation
  Finance type	Aid grant
  Aid Type	Mandate with fiduciary funds Project and programme contribution SDC direct implementation
  Tied/untied aid	Untied aid
  Project number	7F06552