Contextualization

In general, the BNDES/FBB partnership has been relevant to substantiate the strategy to provide scale to BNDES's operations in supporting projects that enable the development of productive activities aligned with the promotion of conservation and sustainable use of socio-biodiversity in the country. With regard to specific action in the Legal Amazon region, the focus of the Amazon Fund's operations, with the third contract between FBB and the Amazon Fund, it is understood that there is room for expanding support and positive socio-environmental impact of its actions.

To this end, it is extremely important to adopt robust action strategies, which takes into account the particularities and limitations of each region, such as, for example, a strategy for publicizing the actions to be promoted within the scope of the partnership, aiming at mobilizing local actors and enabling the presentation of good projects. In this way, the intention is to use, among other actions, the establishment of partnerships aimed at carrying out communication actions, supporting the development of projects and clarifying doubts about the public calls. It is also relevant that: (i) transversal actions that promote better management of knowledge generated within the scope of supported activities, with actions aimed at systematizing information, disseminating results and lessons learned, knowledge sharing between actors in socio-biodiversity production chains (such as cooperatives, associations, research institutes, agroecology networks, etc.) are supported; and (ii) the practice is maintained that the actions to be supported, in particular the public calls to be published , are designed collectively, with broad participation from civil society and with investment proposals coming from the networks to be supported.

THE PROJECT

Support projects aimed at developing productive activities aligned with promoting the conservation and sustainable use of socio-biodiversity in the Legal Amazon, including actions aimed at strengthening and expanding networks, as well as cooperatives and socio-productive and economic organizations, divided into two subcredits, as follows: 

Subcredit "A", in the amount of fifteen million reais (R$ 15,000,000.00): intended to support projects to strengthen and expand networks, cooperatives and socio-productive and economic organizations in agroecology, extractivism and organic production, as well as structuring and /or transversal, within the scope of the Program for Strengthening and Expanding Agroecology, Extractivism and Organic Production Networks – ECOFORTE Program;

"B" subcredit, in the amount of thirty-five million reals ($ 35,000,000.00), intended to support projects to strengthen and structure production chains, cooperatives, associations and other organizations that integrate the economies of socio-biodiversity and family farming, which may include knowledge management actions and exchange of experiences, with the aim of consolidating and strengthening the results of the actions supported within the scope of the project. It is noteworthy that, in addition to resources from the Amazon Fund, the project will have R$15 million in financial compensation from FBB.

INTERVENTION LOGIC

The project falls within the Sustainable Production (1) of the Logical Framework of the Amazon Fund, contributing to the direct effects 1.1 Economic activities for the sustainable use of the forest and biodiversity identified and developed; 1.2 - Agroforestry and biodiversity products chains with increased added value; 1.3 - Expanded managerial and technical capabilities for the implementation of economic activities for the sustainable use of forest and biodiversity and 1.4 - Deforested and degraded areas recovered and used for economic and ecological conservation.