📋 Tender Overview
Activity Id:
215209
Project Number:
72051921CA00004
Implementing Partner:
Fundacion Fafael Meza Ayau
Activity Start Date:
N/A
Activity End Date:
2028-05-11
Country:
El Salvador
Country Code:
SLV
Region:
Western Hemisphere
Funding Agency:
U.S. Agency for International Development
Managing Agency:
U.S. Agency for International Development
Fiscal Year:
2025
Current Dollar Amount:
$1,592,769
International Sector:
Business and Other Services
USG Sector:
Private Sector Competitiveness
Description:
The projects hypothesis is that if local actors in targeted communities share a common vision of sustainable development, they will foster attitudes, capacities, behaviors, leadership, and the necessary commitment to bring improvement to their environment, building a safer municipality with favorable opportunities for all. In this scenario, plotted in the municipality of Soyapango, key actors will use effective leadership and collaboration to align individual and common objectives towards a shared vision of sustainable development, creating violence free neighborhoods, safe public spaces, and generating employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for the population. Consequently, the local economy will boost and families will have better chances to both participate and contribute to that growth and will benefit from the unleashed opportunities and development.The projects comprehensive approach also focuses on children, adolescents and youth through promoting their access to innovative technological resources that strengthen learning and awaken skills and creative abilities and thinking. Hence, Soyapangos school-aged and youth population will be encouraged to be part of and participate in positive education, stepping away from illicit environments and from joining criminal gangs. The project believes that improving the quality of public education and thus, students competencies, will contribute to reducing the technological gap while increasing the motivational factors and the opportunities for youth to enroll in higher education programs and/or enter the workforce. Making scholarships available becomes fundamental not only as a means to continue on to higher education but to transforming lives, as young people succeeding in further education and training will be more likely to increase their household income and have access to a better future. Likewise, the project acknowledges the importance of early childhood care and development and, in partnership
