Rapports

Initial phase of government housing strategy The Inter-American Development Bank today announced the approval of a $10.39 million soft loan to Honduras to support the initial phase of a government strategy to provide housing for low-income households that were made homeless…

Until that fateful Friday last October, the river had been their friend, providing them with water and playing the role of a sink, washing machine and bathtub all in one. Nobody in the remote, small village of Avispa in…

Planting of the 1999/2000 first season cereal and bean crops started in May with the arrival of rains. Despite favourable weather conditions, below-average plantings of maize, the main cereal, are anticipated due to low prices, as a result of…

HUD No. 99-97 Información Adicional: En el Area de Washington, DC: (202) 708-0685 O communique se con su oficina local de HUD TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS - El Secretario de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de los Estados Unidos, Andrew Cuomo, y el…

HUD No. 99-97 Further Information: In the Washington, DC area: 202/708-0685 Or contact your local HUD office TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS - U.S Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo and U.S. Special Envoy for the Americas Buddy MacKay today announced an…

SG/T/2182 19990602 The Secretary-General began his official visit to Sweden on the morning of 25 May, with an address to a donors' conference on Central America called to address two themes -- the unfinished political and human rights agendas of…

Following the devastation caused by Hurricane Mitch, MERLIN is completing the construction and rehabilitation of wells and rainwater harvesting systems to supply rural health centres and the main hospital in Gracias a Dios province. Working with the Ministry of Health on…

Participants stressed the need not only for political leadership, but also for a broad involvement by civil society in the region. The decentralization and strengthening of administrative capacities at local levels were said to be high priorities, together with the…

At closing of Consultative Group meeting in Stockholm chaired by the Inter-American Development Bank The Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank today confirmed a level of commitments of up to $5.3 billion to the five Central American Countries, for…

PRESENTACION Honduras está de pie, y tanto su pueblo como su gobierno democráticamente electo en 1997, trabajan juntos en la rehabilitación de un país cuya estructura productiva fue literalmente devastada por el huracán, al dañarse un elevado…