CFAs: FOMMUR Line 3 to enhance Economic Autonomy Processes of Rural Women – Colombia

This call seeks to select 200 piangüera women who, through their activity, contribute to the conservation and/or restoration of the mangrove, who will be beneficiaries of compensation of up to 6.5 Current Legal Minimum Monthly Wages SMMLV.

Object of the Call

• Call to select individual rural women who will participate as beneficiaries of the granting of compensation within co-financing line No. 3 of the FOMMUR.

Scope of Benefit

• Co-financing line No. 3 of the FOMMUR is aimed at financing or granting incentives, support and compensation to rural women, individually considered, up to the amount of 6.5 SMMLV. For the purposes of the provisions of Line 3, it will be understood as:
  • Compensation: The allocation of resources to a rural woman to compensate for the partial or total loss of one or more of her productive assets or the decrease in her income due to force majeure or fortuitous event.
• Particularly, the MINISTRY prioritizes this call for rural women who cultivate, collect and/or extract piangüa, who through their productive activity develop mangrove restoration actions and are located in prioritized Community Councils of the Pacific of Nariño, Caucano, Vallecaucano and Chocoano.
• Rural piangüero women play a crucial role in productive development and conservation of the Colombian Pacific:
  • Contribution to mangrove conservation: Piangua cultivation is carried out in mangrove areas, and the activity of piangüera women helps preserve these natural ecosystems, which are fundamental for marine biodiversity, coastal protection and climate change mitigation. climate.
  • Economic support of rural women: Piangüera women depend on their work in piangua cultivation as the main or complementary source of income for their families. The partial or total loss of its productive assets, such as the mangrove or the areas of piangua cultivation, due to natural phenomena or human activities, can cause a significant decrease in their income and put their food security and economic well-being at risk.
  • Recognition of work and environmental contribution: The work of piangüera women goes beyond the production of piangüea; It also implies a commitment to the conservation and restoration of the mangrove. Recognizing and compensating their contribution to the protection of the environment and biodiversity is essential to value their work and encourage their active participation in conservation initiatives.
• Part of the piangua farming process carried out by piangüeras involves returning the piangua shells to the seabed once they have been collected. This practice is essential for the life cycle of the piangua and for the health of the mangrove ecosystem. Piangua shells returned to the seabed serve as a substrate for the attachment of new piangua seeds, thus promoting the growth and reproduction of this species. Additionally, they contribute to the restoration of the mangrove as:
  • Improved water quality
  • Sediment stabilization
  • Increased biodiversity
  • Habitat preservation
• Rural piangüa women who carry out mangrove restoration and conservation actions return the piangüa to the mangrove, since this helps maintain the piangüa population and preserve marine biodiversity. However, this process can take time and may result in a temporary decrease in the availability of piangüa for collection and sale, which could affect the income of piangüeras.

Financial Aspects of the Call

• FOMMUR resources will finance ONE HUNDRED PERCENT (100%) of the total value of the strengthening benefit for each of the rural women who are beneficiaries. The above includes the payment of compensation for up to 6.5 SMMLV per rural woman beneficiary of the intervention.

Duration of the Intervention

• The duration of the intervention will vary according to the results of the diagnosis and the strengthening actions identified for each beneficiary rural woman. In any case, it will not exceed ten (10) months.

Geographic Coverage

• For this specific call for co-financing line No. 3 of the FOMMUR, up to two hundred (200) rural Piangüera women will be selected.
• Only one application will be evaluated for each rural woman applicant. If the applicant sends two or more applications, only the last one received will be considered.

Requirements

• Rural, Colombian woman, over 18 years old.
• You carry out cultivation, collection and/or extraction of piangüa activities
• You belong to category A, B or C of the SISBEN and your SISBEN is updated for a period of no less than 6 months.
• You have not received support from the Comprehensive Agricultural and Rural Development Projects, developed by the Rural Development Agency, from the Productive Alliances programs, Campo Emprende or the Agricultural Development Fund of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the calls of the AUNAP or benefit from the delivery of productive assets by the FONDO MUJER in the last year counted from the opening of this call. With your work you restore the mangrove.
• You belong to a Community Council located in one of the following municipalities:
  • In Chocó, Community Councils of: Bahía Solano, Bajo Baudó, El Litoral del San Juan, Nuquí.
  • In Cauca, Community Councils of: Guapi, Timbiquí.
  • In Nariño, Community Councils of: Olaya Herrera, La Tola, El Charco, Mosquera, Francisco Pizarro, San Andrés de Tumaco.

Selection of Beneficiaries

• Submission of the application: As a rural woman who meets the minimum requirements to be part of the FOMMUR co-financing line No. 3. Ensuring that the information is true and verifiable, and that the form is completely completed.
• The WOMEN’S FUND will identify rural women who, according to the information provided, preliminarily meet the qualifying criteria (those that every applicant must meet to participate in co-financing line No. 3).
• Delivery of documentation by applicants who preliminarily meet the qualifying requirements: Preliminary qualified applications will be ordered according to the score they obtain in the evaluation of prioritization criteria.

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