Bahia State Integrated Project: Rural Poverty

The Project would increase social and economic opportunities for the rural poor in Bahia by improving their access to basic socioeconomic infrastructure, thus contributing to the Borrower's objective of increasing the HDI. While building on the CDD approach proven successful under the first phase of Produzir, the second phase would improve on this experience by: (a) integrating with and/or complementing activities of other Bank loans for the State (under the Bahia State Program), particularly the PGRH and Viver Melhor Urbano II; (b) strengthening the cross-sectoral integration and providing significantly more emphasis on education, health, culture, natural resources management and environmental sustainability; and (c) scaling up the impact on poverty by using the skills, social capital and experience of the Municipal Councils and community associations to improve the relevance, efficiency, sustainability, targeting and outcomes of non-project State and Federal investments in rural Bahia.