Building Rural Entrepreneurial Capacity Programme: Trust and Opportunity (TOP)

General

The programme aims to tackle problems of inequality and poverty in rural areas, and to promote equal access to basic services, including rural financial services. Its target group is composed of approximately 50,000 rural households composed by small farmers, indigenous groups, Afro-Latino communities, rural young people, families who have been forcibly displaced and households headed by women, living in extreme poverty across 17 departments in Colombia. Land and natural resource governance issues are central to this programme supporting the improvement of environmental conditions by defining regulations signed by the community members for access to, use and protection of natural resources. These activities are specifically focusing on women and young people.