![]() Organization for project execution: During the execution period of the project there were three different elected governments, which led to significant institutional, political, and economic changes. The most noteworthy activities in this area were the economic and logistic support provided to the Intergovernmental Commission of the Ministry of the Interior and Justice and to the indigenous leadership, the dissemination of laws 10 and 69 and Charter of the Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca, and the logistic and financial support for the various General and Regional Congresses held during the project execution period. Legal recognition of the Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca: One of the project's most important accomplishments is its contribution to the recognition of the Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca, since the achievement of that legal status will ensure effective protection of the territories of the Ngöbe-Buglé people, establishment of their own forms of government, and maintenance of their way of life and traditions. The execution of the project yielded several lessons of importance for the Government of Panama and IFAD, which will surely help improve the design and execution of the new project planned for the Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca. In addition, monetary and price stability prevailed, thanks to the government's recognition of the unfair distribution of wealth among the Panamanian population and its especially detrimental effect on the indigenous populations, the formulation of social policies targeting the poorest groups, stability of domestic agricultural prices, and the absence of climatic disasters, except for some negative effects of the El Niño phenomenon in 1997.Ĭonclusions and lessons learned from the experience The project was carried out in a favourable macroeconomic, political, and climatic context, characterized by moderate but sustained growth of the national economy. ![]() The project also envisaged activities that posed a significant technical challenge, such as the improvement of family incomes based on agricultural production in an agriculture-ecological environment with restrictions and the establishment of the Capitalization Fund to finance productive activities, which was to be administered by grass-roots beneficiary organizations that lacked an organizational tradition and had weak administrative and managerial capacity. As a result of the latter, the project succeeded in forming human capital among the Ngöbe-Buglé population (technicians, leaders, and producers), which will certainly continue yielding results in the future. The Rural Development Project for Ngöbe-Buglé Communities was a complex project in that it included an ethnic rights objective-legal recognition of the Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca-which endowed the project with very special political characteristics stemming from the involvement of indigenous leaders in the Steering Committee and the provision of training to prepare those leaders to carry out planning and administration for the Comarca. ![]() ![]() These activities will be completed during the current year by the Project Executing Unit (PEU) and the public sector entities involved in the project's execution. Its design and execution have yielded lessons that will undoubtedly be of use for the design of a new project for the Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca, which the Government of Panama has requested from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), as well as for other projects of the Government and of IFAD in similar regions.Ī number of activities remain to be carried out in order to consolidate the actions undertaken. The Rural Development Project for Ngöbe-Buglé Communities was launched in March 1994 and will end in December 2001. ![]()
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