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Displaying 2051 - 2060 of 6947Los Portales S.A.
General
In operation since 1996, Los Portales S.A. is a Peruvian company with the following core business lines: (i) hospitality services, including the operation of five 3- to 5-star hotels catering to corporate and executive travelers (the Country Club Hotel in Lima, and the Los Portales hotels in Tarma, Piura, Chiclayo, and Cusco; (ii) real estate services, focusing on real property sales through urban land development and low-cost housing projects; and (iii) parking facilities services, including the operation, utilization, and management of its own such facilities via franchise or lease.The IIC loan for up to US$3.5 million would be used primarily to expand and remodel facilities of the Los Portales S.A. hotel division.
Puerto de Antioquia (Puerto de Uraba)
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The project consists of the design, construction, operation and maintenance of a greenfield multipurpose port facility located in the Gulf of Urabá, Antioquia, Colombia, under a 30-year concession contract (the “Project”). The Project will build up on existing and captive traffic (major shipping lines already call at Urabá despite the lack of modern port facilities), becoming the main outlet for Urabá’s banana and fruit exports, which represent 75% of Colombian banana exports. Due to its location and logistic cost advantages, it is also expected that Puerto Antioquia will divert cargo in/out of Medellin (2nd largest city in Colombia and main international trade region in Colombia), in/out Bogotá and their surrounding areas.Project Cost is estimated at US$650 million, including; (i) an offshore deck with 1337 meters of berth (570 for container, 537 for bulk & general cargo, 230 for RoRo) capable of handling super post-Panamax vessels; (ii) a 3.8km viaduct and access road that connects the offshore deck with the inland terminal; and (iii) 38ha inland terminal/logistic facilities, including a container yard, dry-bulk storage facilities, warehouses, inspection areas, maintenance and admin buildings and utilities. The Project’s initial handling capacity is of 600,000 TEU (expansible to 800,000 TEU), 1.15M tones of general cargo/year, three million tons of bulk cargo, and 60,000 vehicles. The Project currently has land access routes, but prior to start of operations there will be an alternate road build of 13Km, in order to allow for the progressive expansion of port operations.
Integrity, Mobilisation, Participation, Accountability, Anti-Corruption and Transparency (IMPACT)
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This project aims to increase the integrity, transparency and accountability of public institutions and businesses, while empowering civil society to advocate for change in policy and practice. By working with businesses to improve their practices, public bodies to develop and enforce better anti-corruption legislation and practices, and individuals and communities to empower them to address corruption, this project contributes to improving the conditions for sustainable economic growth. In the Americas, this project supports increased adoption and exercise of accountability standards and laws by governments and security and judicial institutions to improve the security situation in targeted countries. In Africa, this project focuses on supporting networks of business, community and government actors to integrate existing and develop new evidence to increase access to basic services and improve the governance of land rights. Project activities include : (1) setting up or strengthening Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs) to support citizens in identifying, reporting and dealing with cases of corruption; (2) conducting surveys and capturing data on experiences of corruption to create evidence for strengthening policy making and legal systems; (3) developing, testing and implementing new public sector integrity tools, such as a Security Justice Accountability Dashboard, to assess gaps between security and justice standards and actual public and business experiences, allowing authorities to adjust regulations and legislation according to identified needs; (4) conducting Business Integrity Country Assessments (BICA) to evaluate the anti-corruption operating environment and identify areas to improve business practices; and (5) developing training, standards and initiatives to help companies and business associations implement anti-corruption programs.
Tracking rhinos through the habitat matrix in Khata to optimize corridor's functionality and its natural resou
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The purpose of this project is to map rhino movements to optimize the design of and conservation practices in the Khata corridor of the Terai Arc Landscape of Nepal. This will be done by: (a) organizing a central level consultation meeting in Kathmandu to establish the roles and responsibilities of organizations participating in the project; (b) obtaining government approval to place GPS collars on rhinos; (c) procuring the necessary equipment for conduct of the project; (d) conducting a field level coordination meeting at Bardia National Park to coordinate field level activities among the various involved agencies; (e) training the four local people who will carry out the projects field duties; (f) capturing, collaring and tracking four rhinos for one year; (g) mapping the land-use and land cover data in Khata corridor using high resolutions satellite imagery; (h) interpreting the images and assigning rhino movement data to land-use and land cover classes based on wildlife habitat suitability; (I) assessing and classifying the forests of the project area into different classes based on succession and restoration; (j) overlaying the GPS locations from the collared rhinos on the land-use and land cover maps to determine how rhinos move through the corridor habitat matrix; (k) using the preferred habitats of rhinos in the Khata to optimize land-use planning; (l) using the rhino habitat use data to develop a tactical patrolling plan for use by the CBAPO at the local level; and (m) utilizing the project data in assessing the potential of the Karnali, Basanta and Laljhadi corridors for rhino movement.
Privatisation of Customary Land and Implications for Women in Southern Africa
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The overarching objective of the project is to contribute to securing women’s land rights and livelihoods by changes in land tenure policies and practices. Interventions will be carried out in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia where women’s land rights remain insecure and poverty rates are high. The envisaged outcome is that rural women, policy makers and civil society organizations across the four countries have the capacity, evidence and platforms needed to promote policy formulation and implementation based on local practices and livelihoods realities as opposed to normative perceptions about the tenure system.
Global Land Tool Network Partnership
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Land rights are powerful resources for people to achieve sustainable livelihoods. Switzerland joins others in supporting the Global Land Tool Network (3 rd Strategic Cycle) for its advocacy work and efforts to provide practical land tools available for authorities to ensure that all people, including women, youth and vulnerable groups, have access to land and tenure security. Switzerland brings in the experiences from other land related partnerships at national, regional and global levels.
Strategic Partnership Caritas Austria 07/2021-06/2026, Food Security and Gender Equality in Burkina Faso, Mal
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The programme objective is to achieve gender equality and empower women while improving food security in the West African countries of Burkina Faso (Centre-North region), Mali (Kayes region) and Senegal (Tambacounda and Kaolack regions).
Global Land Tool Network Partnership
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Land rights are powerful resources for people to achieve sustainable livelihoods. Switzerland joins others in supporting the Global Land Tool Network (3 rd Strategic Cycle) for its advocacy work and efforts to provide practical land tools available for authorities to ensure that all people, including women, youth and vulnerable groups, have access to land and tenure security. Switzerland brings in the experiences from other land related partnerships at national, regional and global levels.
Global Land Tool Network Partnership
General
Land rights are powerful resources for people to achieve sustainable livelihoods. Switzerland joins others in supporting the Global Land Tool Network (3rd Strategic Cycle) for its advocacy work and efforts to provide practical land tools available for authorities to ensure that all people, including women, youth and vulnerable groups, have access to land and tenure security. Switzerland brings in the experiences from other land related partnerships at national, regional and global levels.
Global Land Tool Network Partnership
General
Land rights are powerful resources for people to achieve sustainable livelihoods. Switzerland joins others in supporting the Global Land Tool Network (3 rd Strategic Cycle) for its advocacy work and efforts to provide practical land tools available for authorities to ensure that all people, including women, youth and vulnerable groups, have access to land and tenure security. Switzerland brings in the experiences from other land related partnerships at national, regional and global levels.