International Development Grant
L'Oeuvre Léger - Program 2007-2012
Project Number: CA-3-S063317PRG
Status: Closed
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Maximum Contribution: $27,500,000.00
Start Date: December 22, 2006
End Date: December 31, 2011
Duration: 5.0 years
Project Description
This program aims to reinforce the capacity of L'Oeuvre Léger's over 100 local partner organizations with a view to promote the social political and economic inclusion of marginalized groups and communities in 25 countries across Africa Asia and the Americas. The program focuses on five strategic areas: (1) building partner management capacity and improved planning for development; (2) promoting human rights and supporting the participation of civil society in political processes; (3) supporting economic development through sustainable agricultural practices; (4) supporting basic health care; and (5) supporting basic education. Examples of activities for each of the strategic areas include: (1) supporting savings and credit organizations that provide women farmers with opportunities in Mali and providing management training to Honduran consumer co-operatives; (2) providing leaderhip training to indigenous women in Bolivia and to impoverished youth in Sri Lanka; (3) enabling productivity and quality improvements for small milk producers in the Andes and enhancing commercial networks for niche products produced by rural families in Peru; (4) training health promoters in natural medicine in Honduras and organizing campaigns to raise HIV/AIDS awareness in Cambodia and to prevent and treat leprosy in India; and (5) enrolling underprivileged youth and children in education programs in Bangladesh Vietnam and the Philippines.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results at the end of the project (December 2011) include: This program reduced poverty and promoted integration of marginalized social groups and communities by attaining equal and joint local socioeconomic development. Between 2007 and 2011 L’Œuvre Léger’s international programs included 207 projects in 25 African Asian and Latin American countries implemented with the collaboration of 129 local partner organizations. Results of L’Œuvre Léger’s international development programs revolve around five strategic sectors: institutional strengthening human rights and democracy economic development and the environment health education and literacy. Institutional strengthening: In Honduras a capacity-strengthening program allowed an association of community supply stores to diversify its services to members open a centre for the supply of basic products for a network of 15 cooperatives and establish a savings program with preferential interest rates for the 2 718 members who are in majority women in the poor neighbourhoods of Tegucigalpa. Human rights and democracy: In the Philippines 55 000 men and women are more aware of their rights and the due processes available to them to stop abuse and violence towards women and children. Awareness campaigns have also reached more than 37 000 children that now know their rights for protection against any form of physical violence and exploitation. Law enforcement officers trained in 17 regional schools received training on children protection Economic development: In India the program supported the creation of 55 credit unions servicing 1 783 women members who have gradually improved their economic conditions through access to credit and the creation of new income generating activities. The median monthly income of women tripled from CAN $0.63 to $2.10. Health: In Honduras the program promoted access to health care for an isolated rural population through the production and rehabilitation of natural medicine
Key Information
Executing Agency:
L'Oeuvre Léger
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
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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:
Pre-APP