LAIF Projects
The objective of the program is to improve the infrastructure and institutional capability of beneficiary municipalities to help both migrants and their host communities through the implementation of performance-based management systems.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) loan operation will contribute to improve fiscal and urban sustainability in 5 metropolitan areas through investments in institutional strengthening and infrastructure. The complementary EU-LAIF grant will enhance this objective by strengthening the capacity of Colombian metropolitan areas that are receiving Venezuelan migrants to integrate newcomers effectively. And, grant funds from the Korean Poverty Reduction Fund (KPRF) will help to design an integrated migrant assistance model (MAM) based on baseline and diagnostic studies of existing management systems utilized by subnational governments to support migrant integration.
Specifically, the program will finance the consolidati...
Dates: Nov/2020 - Dec/2023 | Status: | Países: Colombia
Este programa contribuirá para o alcance da meta brasileira de universalização de serviços básicos de água e saneamento e para o desenvolvimento socialmente inclusivo nas áreas rurais de um dos estados mais pobres do Brasil, o Ceará. O Ceará tem uma população estimada de 9 milhões, 4% da população total do Brasil, e compartilha apenas 2% do PIB nacional. O Ceará está localizado em uma região semiárida, com características de altas temperaturas médias, baixa precipitação e secas recorrentes, onde a infraestrutura de água e saneamento é insuficiente. Apenas um terço dos domicílios em áreas rurais têm acesso a água potável segura e canalizada.
O objetivo geral do programa é fortalecer a resiliência da população rural em relação à escassez de água e melhorar o acesso à água potável, ao saneamento e ao tratamento de esgoto. Para isso, o programa reforçará as capacidades dos SISARs (Sistemas de saneamento rural integrados — que sã...
Dates: Jun/2020 - Jun/2026 | Status: | Países: Brasil
The aim of the Facility is to establish a strategic partnership between the European Commission, AECID and other LAIF-assessed financial institutions, to channel the Commission’s resources towards the identification and design of projects aimed at increasing the sustainability and resilience of cities in Latin America. The strategic Facility will finance project identification activities and the different steps leading to the design of comprehensive investment projects, capacity building activities and knowledge management, to build up bankable projects.
Dates: Dec/2019 - Aug/2024 | Status: ONGOING | Países: Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Paraguay
The National Sustainable Urban Transport Program aims to improve sustainable urban mobility by supporting the reform of public urban transport in Peru's main cities. The LAIF contribution co-finances the Technical Assistance component to support central and local governments and to develop a pipeline of feasible and bankable projects.
Dates: Sep/2019 - Dec/2024 | Status: ONGOING | Países:
This project wil consolidate the ongoing means to offer an increased access to affordable yet formally certified “sustainable” quality social housing (10 500 households beneficiaries) by ensuring the transfer of the interest rate subsidy to the final beneficiaries; introducing new and more stringent sustainability criteria in the Mivivienda Verde Program; incorporating green criteria in mainstream operations of the Fund Mivivienda Verde (FMV); developing and, if possible, introducing urban planning measures; reducing the environmental impact and the vulnerability of the current Peruvian development path (ex. reduction in CO2 emissions and in electricity and water consumption, evolutions in the banking sector aiming at better taking into account environmental and social risks).
Dates: Mar/2019 - Apr/2023 | Status: | Países: Peru
This project aims at supporting the identification and financing of investments in agriculture, livestock breeding and agroforestry and at underpinning their implementation in order to promote sustainable practices based on agroecological principles while mainstreaming climate change mitigation and adaptation into the agriculture and livestock sectors.
Specific objectives of the project are:
a) To extend agroecological and agro-sylvo-pastoral technologies, tackle environmental and social risks and bring institutional support to the main stakeholders of the PRODEGAN project (cooperatives, agro-industries, decentralized service providers, local authorities, producers associations, research institutions) in Camagüey, the main animal production area in the country;
b) To enable the most adapted investment for a modern integrated carbonization/cogeneration plant by a private investor (5 candidates identified by Cuban authorities) as a part of an overall clean...
Dates: Jan/2019 - Jan/2024 | Status: ONGOING | Países: Cuba
The envisaged Seed Capital Risk Financing component addresses the bottlenecks identified in the Central American region, specifically regarding the accessibility of new and innovative enterprises to finance solutions in order to start their operations, be consolidated and grow.
By doing this, the new component contributes to developing entrepreneurship and innovation and is therefore an ideal complement to the DINAMICA initiative.
Dates: Dec/2018 - Dec/2025 | Status: ONGOING | Países: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
The Green MSMEs lnitiative aims at reducing carbon emissions in the Central American Region by ensuring the provision of financial and non-financial services to support renewable power generation and energy efficiency measures in Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. In order to do so, the lnitiative contains three main components:
- Technical Assistance for MSMEs as well as Participating Financial lntermediaries,
- Partial Risk Guarantees for MSMEs,
- Financing (loans) for Environmental lnvestments for MSMEs.
Dates: Dec/2018 - Dec/2034 | Status: ONGOING | Países: Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
Argentina, Brasil, Bolívia, Paraguai e Uruguai são acionistas do Fundo Financeiro para o Desenvolvimento da Bacia do Prata (FONPLATA), uma instituição financeira regional multilateral estabelecida para promover o desenvolvimento inclusivo na Bacia do Rio do Prata e nas regiões vizinhas. O projeto tem como objetivo apoiar iniciativas multissetoriais baseadas na mitigação e adaptação do clima, em setores como o fornecimento de serviços básicos em áreas rurais e urbanas, renovação urbana e melhoria da resiliência a mudanças climáticas na Bacia do Prata. Serão direcionados projetos de pequeno porte com foco na privação social e resiliência climática.
A LAIF contribui com assistência técnica para apoiar o FONPLATA na melhoria de suas políticas e seus procedimentos em áreas identificadas como prioridades. O foco principal desse apoio é atualizar proteções ambientais e sociais de acordo com as normas da UE.
...Dates: Dec/2018 - Dec/2023 | Status: ONGOING | Países: Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay
The project consists of the new construction, extension, rehabilitation and equipment of 21 Technical and Technological Institutes (TTIs), classified at the post-secondary level of education. It is part of a national educational reform programme aimed at introducing and enlarging the dual system of vocational, technical and professional education in Ecuador. This dual system is based on modules of formal instruction in classrooms combined with training on the job through apprenticeships with private companies.
Dates: Nov/2018 - Nov/2023 | Status: ONGOING | Países: Ecuador
This is regarded as a pilot operation of European cooperation to support the peace process in Colombia, through a common initiative to boost investment in post-conflict municipalities. This pilot operation is the result of discussions with the Colombian Financial Corporation for the Territorial Development S.A - FINDETER and the experience accumulated through the first LAIF program with FINDETER. The operation consists of a credit facility to finance territorial development in post-conflict areas. This will be accomplished through the structuring of projects (technical assistance) and investments (investment grants) in priority areas which have been selected by the Colombian government through the local Development Programs with a Territorial Focus (PDET - Programas de Desarrollo con Enfoque Territorial).
Dates: Nov/2018 - Dec/2021 | Status: ONGOING | Países: Colombia
This program supports the implementation of an integrated waste management system for the collection, treatment and disposal of municipal solid waste generated in the province of Jujuy, Argentina. The integrated management system is phasing out the dumping of untreated waste, by recovering both energy and material through anaerobic digestion and a better recycling performance.
At the same time, the program is ensuring that targeted municipalities develop and implement specific integrated waste management policies, create jobs related to waste treatment, optimize waste collection and have adequate disposal facilities.
Dates: Dec/2017 - Dec/2024 | Status: ONGOING | Países: Argentina
This project aims at expanding and improving the access to water and sanitation services for more than 200 000 people while enhancing sector governance in Bolivia. Furthermore, national policy for integrated water resources management will be strengthened, reducing the impact of climate change on the poorest segments of Bolivian society.
Dates: Dec/2017 - Sep/2024 | Status: ONGOING | Países: Bolivia
This project consists of a multisector framework loan given by the EIB to finance reconstruction of small-scale infrastructure damaged by the earthquake of 16 April 2016 in the province of Manabí, particularly in the city of Portoviejo, which was the most affected. The socioeconomic level of the province is lower than the national level. Poverty and extreme poverty are 31.3% and 6.3% of the total population, compared to 25.8% and 5.7% at national level.
The technical assistance provided by LAIF supports national and local authorities to ensure the effective and transparent execution of the project, the development and implementation of an Environmental and Social Management Plan and a Stakeholders’ Engagement Plan, and the strengthening and enforcement of Ecuador’s Building Code (2015).
Dates: Dec/2017 - Dec/2023 | Status: ONGOING | Países: Ecuador
This program aims at financing priority wastewater projects in selected cities in Costa Rica. LAIF contributes with preparatory studies that will close a significant information gap and allow investments in improved wastewater infrastructure. The objective is to improve the environmental conditions and to create positive impacts in public health.
Dates: Jul/2017 - Dec/2022 | Status: ONGOING | Países: Costa Rica
The aim of the facility is to finance activities such as feasibility or pre-feasibility studies relating to investment projects likely to be financed by the IFIs in Cuba. The expertise that will be provided could consist of specific sector support (in the field of energy, transport, water, etc.) but could also contribute to improving the compliance of the investment projects with international standards in environmental, social, gender or climate issues. The selected projects will be the ones considered as priorities by the Cuban Government, in particular in the sectors of energy, water and sanitation, urban rehabilitation, agriculture and transportation, and that are likely to be bankable. All the projects will have an expected positive contribution to the country’s adaptation to climate change or to the reduction of GHG emissions.
Dates: Jun/2017 - Jun/2022 | Status: ONGOING | Países: Cuba
The eco.business Fund is a joint initiative of investors intent on supporting the promotion of business and consumption practices that contribute to biodiversity conservation, the sustainable use of natural resources, climate change mitigation and adaptation to its impact. In providing financing to the Fund’s target group for investing in activities that conserve nature and foster biodiversity, the eco.business Fund seeks investments that yield both financial and environmental returns. The financing can be provided directly or through local financial institutions. In addition, final beneficiaries and local lending institutions can count on high impact technical assistance provided by the eco.business Development Facility.
Dates: Dec/2016 - Feb/2033 | Status: | Países: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru
The objective of the project is to improve the income of small and medium producers through the promotion of production based on the rational and climate-smart use and management of natural resources, especially efficient irrigation. National capacities will be strengthened in the design and management of parcel irrigation systems, through the training of experts and irrigation professionals who will contribute to the improvement and modernization of agricultural production systems, the efficient management of irrigation water, improved access to markets and the resilience of the Ecuadorian farming sector to climate change.
Dates: Dec/2016 - Aug/2023 | Status: | Países: Ecuador
Ecuador’s PROSANEAMIENTO program aims to expand and improve access to basic water, sanitation and waste disposal services while strengthening the capacity of water and waste service providers. The LAIF contribution supports efforts to increase the sustainability of the 12 beneficiary municipalities and their public utilities, and to improve their management capacity in the preparation of pre-investment studies, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the program.
Dates: Dec/2016 - Jan/2023 | Status: | Países: Ecuador
This is Bolivia’s first large-scale photovoltaic project. It entails the construction of a 50 MW photovoltaic (PV) power plant in the Altiplano region, in the highlands of western Bolivia, and its connection to the Bolivian national grid. The PV plant boosts electricity generation by approximately 100 GWh/year and contributes to the diversification of the Bolivian energy mix, reinforcing Bolivia's national strategy to develop renewable energies (wind and solar), which are expected to reach 70% of installed capacity in 2025.
Dates: Dec/2016 - Jun/2023 | Status: | Países: Bolivia
The Project assists the Government of Colombia in its policy shift to a more social and greener economy in order to improve the revenues and livelihoods of the population, notably in the Orinoquia basin and more generally in Colombia, while reducing their vulnerability and mitigating their contribution to climate change. More specifically, the project supports the “Green Growth” strategy, which strengthens the capacities of local authorities and stakeholders in the Departments of Meta and Vichada in the formulation and development of their planning instruments to develop investment taking into account climate change impacts and mitigation opportunities. It also promotes investment in "climate-smart" activities in farming and forestry through adapted land-use management.
Dates: Dec/2016 - Jun/2024 | Status: | Países: Colombia
The Western Corridor is part of the main road network of Honduras and it is integrated into the International Mesoamerican Road Network. This corridor connects the second biggest city of the country, San Pedro Sula, in the north-western part of the country with the international border crossings with Guatemala and El Salvador, and with the Mayan ruins of Copán. The project comprises the rehabilitation, upgrading and road safety improvements of the Western Corridor.
Dates: Dec/2015 - Jan/2023 | Status: | Países: Honduras
A ação da LAIF está incorporada no programa "Cities with a Future", lançado pela CAF para acompanhar políticas para desenvolvimento urbano sustentável na América Latina e promover uma abordagem integrada de vários setores para o desenvolvimento urbano a fim de responder melhor aos desafios enfrentados pelos governos locais. O programa ajuda a estruturar um diálogo com as cidades sobre quatro questões principais: desenvolvimento urbano inclusivo, transformação produtiva, sustentabilidade ambiental e fortalecimento e segurança institucional. Na estrutura do programa, o primeiro passo para a implementação inclui a assistência técnica (diagnóstico e prioridades) financiada através de uma concessão, levando a investimentos como uma segunda etapa. A ação tem dois componentes: linha de crédito e assistência técnica.
Dates: Dec/2015 - Mar/2023 | Status: COMPLETED | Países: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador
This project connects several communities of the Department of Potosí with the rest of the country through the construction of a 188.3 km section of a single carriageway road, improving the living conditions of local communities, unlocking large and remote areas and spurring economic development through trade (particularly of agricultural products), improving access to markets and the mobility of people as well as boosting tourism. Likewise, the project contributes to regional integration by improving access to neighboring countries (Chile, Argentina, Paraguay), with the prospect of increasing Bolivian exports to these countries and further developing the local tourism sector.
Dates: Dec/2014 - Dec/2021 | Status: STOPPED | Países: Bolivia
The Geothermal Development Facility for Latin America aims at overcoming existing barriers to the development of geothermal energy by providing: (i) a tailored Geothermal Risk Mitigation Fund in order to diminish geothermal resource risk during the exploratory drilling stage of the project; (ii) geothermal investment financing windows to deliver anchor financing for subsequent investments during the production drilling and construction stages; and (iii) a Technical Assistance Forum to offer a suitable venue for policy dialogue between donors and partner governments.
Dates: Dec/2014 - Dec/2026 | Status: | Países: -Regional América Latina-, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru
The overall objective of the project is to improve the competitiveness of the productive sector and the livelihoods of the Paraguayan population, through greater security of supply and efficient use of the available sources of renewable electricity. This includes access to affordable electricity for the lowest-income segment of the population.
The project involves the construction of a 500 kV, 363 km-long high-voltage transmission line linking the Yacyretá hydroelectric plant with the capital, Asunción, and the reduction of energy losses by replacing electro-mechanical meters that are defective, burnt, or do not measure correctly and by providing informal settlements, social tariff beneficiaries and low-income residential customers with electronic meters and connections.
Dates: Dec/2014 - Dec/2020 | Status: | Países: Paraguay
The program sought sustainable investments and practices in agriculture, fisheries and forestry sectors, which helped improve the quality of life of rural populations, especially in poor regions, and optimize the use of natural resources while mainstreaming climate change mitigation and adaptation in the sector. The project supported a public agriculture development bank, FIRA, with financing, investment grants and technical assistance to provide concessional loans for pilot green rural investments as well as long-term financing in the field of mitigation and adaptation of climate change in rural activities.
Dates: Jun/2014 - Jun/2022 | Status: | Países: México
Dates: Dec/2013 - Sep/2023 | Status: | Países: Chile
The LAIF contribution aims to improve water and sewerage infrastructures and contribute to reducing the risk of diseases caused by deficient water management in the Latin American region through the development of various projects. These are grouped into two components: Component I, projects for adaptation to climate change (ACC) and Component II, projects for the integrated management of water resources.
The projects include the reinforcement of capacities associated with the programs; studies developed in the pre-investment phase to identify new investments in new actions; review of regulations and the development of methodologies, tools and manuals, which in turn will have an impact on future investments.
Dates: Dec/2013 - Dec/2023 | Status: | Países: -Regional América Latina-, Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
Dates: Dec/2013 - Mar/2019 | Status: | Países: Peru
The vision of this program was the enhancement of public investment in energy-efficient and clean technology mass transportation systems in large Latin American cities, to meet the growing demand for public transportation — especially of the poorer segments of the population — while helping to mitigate its environmental impact. LAIF provided funds to prepare pre-financing studies or to complement existing studies, to facilitate investment for the improvement of urban transportation systems.
Dates: Dec/2013 - Dec/2019 | Status: COMPLETED | Países: -Regional América Latina-, Colombia, Ecuador, Panamá, Peru
DINAMICA focuses on promoting entrepreneurial and private sector development for employment and income generation in order to contribute to economic development and poverty reduction in Central America. More specifically, the project aims at:
- Promoting the entrepreneurial environment in order to facilitate the creation of new and innovative enterprises;
- Supporting financial sector development in order to provide adequate access to finance for MSMEs.
Dates: Dec/2013 - Sep/2022 | Status: | Países: -Regional América Central-, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
Dates: Oct/2013 - Apr/2021 | Status: | Países: Colombia
O projeto teve como objetivo modernizar e ampliar a rede de alta e média tensão da Companhia Estadual de Distribuição de Energia Elétrica do Rio Grande do Sul (CEEE-D), a fim de fornecer um serviço de distribuição de energia elétrica confiável e de qualidade e melhorar as capacidades gerenciais da CEEE-D por meio da atualização de seus sistemas financeiros, de controle e informações.
O projeto teve cinco componentes:
Dates: Sep/2013 - Oct/2017 | Status: | Países: Brasil
Dates: Sep/2013 - Oct/2017 | Status: | Países: Colombia
Dates: Dec/2012 - Apr/2022 | Status: | Países: Nicaragua
O objetivo do programa é facilitar e melhorar os investimentos públicos e privados em infraestrutura de água e saneamento, contribuindo, assim, para uma cobertura mais alta da demanda da infraestrutura regional por meio de soluções ambientais e/ou relevantes para o clima. O objetivo é realizar estudos complementares (por exemplo, preparação de perfis de projeto, gerenciamento de conhecimento, treinamento), apoiar a criação de empresas novas e inovadoras e fortalecer o setor financeiro à disposição de micro, pequenas e médias empresas.
Dates: Dec/2012 - Oct/2022 | Status: | Países: -Regional América Latina-, Brasil, Ecuador, Uruguay
Dates: Dec/2012 - May/2023 | Status: | Países: -Regional América Latina-, Colombia, Ecuador
The EcoCasa Programme aims at contributing to the efforts of the Mexican government in reducing greenhouse gas emissions related to the housing sector.
The housing sector represents one of the most important untapped potential for energy efficiency in Mexico. During the last decades, urban expansion was insufficiently planned, which resulted in increased energy demand, infrastructure deficits, and inefficient transport patterns. The non-sustainable development pattern of Mexican cities has also aggravated the contribution of the housing sector to the global climate change.
To support the Mexican government in promoting energy efficiency in the Mexican housing sector, the European Union, through LACIF, provides a combination of economic incentives and technical assistance to support the planning and implementation of energy efficient homes that generate less greenhouse gas emissions.
In this context, the EU through LACIF is supporting the EcoCasa Programme, the worl...
Dates: Dec/2012 - Dec/2020 | Status: | Países: México
Dates: Dec/2011 - Jun/2017 | Status: | Países: El Salvador
O objetivo desse programa foi aumentar o conhecimento sobre desenvolvimento e transporte urbano na região, identificando novas fontes de financiamento para projetos de transporte público (parcerias público-privadas, avaliação do terreno etc.); identificar os obstáculos regulamentares para projetos de transporte inovadores e a forma de superá-los; destacar o potencial das comunidades locais para realizar esse tipo de projeto; e tornar possível a definição dos contornos técnicos e financeiros de projetos específicos em determinadas cidades (planos diretores e estudos de pré-viabilidade), promovendo, assim, a emergência e a implementação de projetos de transporte público na região.
Dates: Oct/2011 - Apr/2017 | Status: COMPLETED | Países: -Regional América Latina-, Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, México, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay
The objective of the project was to meet the growing demand for electricity among the population (estimated at approximately 5% per year) through increased generation of renewable energy. In particular, the project focused on the construction of a second powerhouse, installation of turbines using the existing dam and reservoir, a new access channel to the reservoir, a new water intake and two forced pipelines. The new installation made it possible to use the excess water that currently overflows from the spillway in the rainy months to generate energy.
Dates: Sep/2011 - Jan/2019 | Status: | Países: El Salvador
Este programa visa financiar investimentos em projetos de energia renovável e proteção ambiental na América Latina. Para complementar o financiamento de investimento, a UE concedeu fundos de assistência técnica através da LAIF para realizar estudos que fomentam tecnologias e projetos inovadores no setor com o objetivo de convertê-los em potenciais projetos de investimento para a CAF. Eles incluíram estudos de viabilidade e avaliações de potencial de energia renovável para países da América Latina, entre outros projetos e iniciativas de mudanças climáticas.
Dates: Mar/2011 - Feb/2021 | Status: COMPLETED | Países: -Regional América Latina-, Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, México, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay
The project aimed at strengthening technical and institutional capacity to respond to climate change at a local level; reducing pressure on watershed forests through the promotion of sustainable development, including the reconversion of productive and agricultural activities and community forestry; and developing and implementing a mechanism for access to international carbon finance (REDD+), in line with the national strategy, in two poor Mexican regions.
The project was successfully completed and contributed to the creation and development of six inter-municipal associations to promote and finance sustainable rural development, tackling deforestation and improving water resources management (REDD+ actions with climate change impact).
Dates: Dec/2010 - Dec/2015 | Status: | Países: México
The objective of the PNESER was to support the efforts of the Nicaraguan government to reduce poverty by promoting access to an efficient and sustainable electricity service to an important portion of the population, thus generating the conditions to advance in the diversification of the energy matrix and the mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
The program supported 7 components:
1) Rural electrification through grid extension;
2) Normalization of electricity service in human settlements;
3) Electricity expansion in isolated areas through renewable energy;
4) Pre-investment for renewable energy projects;
5) Energy efficiency programs;
6) Strengthening of the transmission system in rural areas;
7) Sustainability of isolated systems under Empresa Nicaragüense de Electricidad (ENEL)'s responsibility.
Dates: Nov/2010 - Feb/2018 | Status: COMPLETED | Países: Nicaragua
The overall objective of the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program for SMEs in Central America was to contribute to the protection of the climate and the environment. The Program aimed at providing efficient and sustainable access to financing products for environmental investments which correspond to the needs of SMEs in Central America. The Program had two main components:
1) Financing of environmental investments – Provision of funds by the Program Executing Agency to local financial institutions that channel resources to SMEs for energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy projects.
2) Technical Assistance, studies and promotional activities – Including technical assistance for financial institutions, energy audits of SMEs and feasibility studies of small renewable energy projects; information material and promotional events.
Dates: Nov/2010 - Dec/2016 | Status: COMPLETED | Países: -Regional América Central-, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
