International Development Grant
Amazon Business Alliance
Project Number: CA-3-P011116001
Status: Operational
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $10,000,000.00
Start Date: March 29, 2022
End Date: December 31, 2025
Duration: 3.8 years
Project Description
This project focuses on mitigating climate change and conserving biodiversity in the Peruvian Amazon. The objective is to limit deforestation and forest degradation by restoring degraded ecosystems while creating and strengthening bio-enterprises in the region that generate income for vulnerable populations particularly women and indigenous peoples of the Amazon. Project activities include: 1) creating a public-private financing platform for bio-enterprises; 2) providing technical assistance to producers in commercial and financial management as well as in the sustainable management of natural resources and land; 3) developing national and regional laws policies regulations and programs favorable to bio-enterprises.
Expected Results
The expected results of this project include: 1) increased sustainable management of natural ecosystems and biodiversity in the Amazon by sustainable and gender-sensitive communities and bio-enterprises that address climate change; 2) an improvement in the gender-sensitive enabling environment and climate governance for the growth and emergence of bio-enterprises that improve the conservation and use of biodiversity.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of March 2024 include: (1) enabled more than 18 bio-enterprise projects (entrepreneurs or farmers) to benefit from financial services and entrepreneurial development services to achieve sustainable management of natural resources; (2) allowed 18 bio-enterprise projects to generate more than US$13 million in co-investment for environmental purposes from the public and private sectors; (3) 67 903 hectares of biologically important areas have been subject to improved natural resource management and restoration of forest cover; (4) facilitated the proposal adoption and implementation of laws policies regulations or standards dealing with the conservation of biodiversity and other environmental themes officially proposed adopted or implemented as a result of project assistance and promoted gender equality and interculturality; and (5) more than 4 332 people including 1 361 women gained benefits (monetary or non-monetary) associated with the implementation of sustainable activities for climate change adaptation.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
USAID - United States Agency for International Development
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
NGM Americas
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Project-type interventions
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Department-Initiated