PROAGRO 3 Bolivia - PROAGRO 3 PROAGRO 3 Bolivia GIZ has applied to Sida for funding of 25 million SEK to carry out "Phase 3 of the Sustainable Agricultural Development Programme, PROAGRO" in Bolivia during the period 2014-2017. 
The objective of the programme is to promote climate-adapted agriculture that contributes to food production and improved living conditions in dry areas of Bolivia. PROAGRO is expected to contribute to improved public services for actors in production and Integrated Water Resource Management, who want to implement projects, systems, technologies that will improve resilience to climate change and improve climate adapted agriculture under irrigation. Secondly the program supports the Bolivian systems for continuous training within climate adapted sustainable agriculture. Thirdly, the program aims at better use of and better access to technologies and innovations for sustainable use of water resources and more efficient and profitable. Fourthly, PROAGRO contributes to better services from public, private and cooperative entities will be offered to small-scale producers in the river basins where climate change has affected water resources and other production means.The technical assistance provided by the PROAGRO is closely linked to the activities implemented through the National Sector Plan for River Basin Management (in Spanish: Plan Nacional de Cuencas - PNC), which is financially supported by a donor basket fund including Sweden).

The intervention’s total budget is 115 million SEK (12,6 million Euro), out of which GIZ’s own funding is approximately 91 million SEK (10 million Euro) and the remaining 24 million SEK (2,6 million Euro) is contributed by Sida. Continuation of the climate adaptation programme, PROAGRO. The resilience to climate change of the agricultural systems with irrigation has improved.