6 Quarter: April – June 2007

II. ADAM MUNICIPAL
INITIATIVES & ACTIVITIES
In this chapter, program activities are organized by ADAM’s four USAID strategic regions:
a) Southwest Colombia (Nariño, Cauca, and Valle de Cauca),
b) Macizo/Putumayo (northern Putumayo, Huila, and Tolima),
c) Magdalena Medio/Norte de Santander (portions of Santander, Bolívar, and Cesar), and
d) Urabá/Northwestern Antioquia/Chocó (includes the Bajo Cauca sub-region, most of
Urabá, Cordoba, portions of Chocó and northwestern Antioquia).
Within the four regions, ADAM has seven regional offices: offices in Pasto, Nariño and Popayan,
Cauca in the first region; offices in Puerto Asis, Putumayo; Ibague, Tolima; and Neiva, Huila in
the second region, and offices in Bucaramanga, Santander and Caucasia, Antioquia in the third
and fourth regions, respectively. ADAM regional staff led program efforts to establish
relationships with municipal and regional leaders, realize the concertación process at the
municipal-level, and formulate ADAM Municipal Initiatives and the specific follow-on
component activities. ADAM staff believes that critical to a successful program is the
decentralization of responsibilities to the regions where staff have direct contact with program
beneficiaries and better sense of local needs and capabilities.
The decentralized nature of the ADAM Program will become even more evident as the program
moves into implementation. With 69 Municipal Initiatives finalized and dozens of activities
underway, the regional offices will ensure that activities are being implemented in the timely
manner, complementing other ADAM activities, and meeting their indicator targets.
The sections that follow provide the progress to date of each ADAM regional office and therefore
in all four USAID regions. Each regional section opens with a map presenting all ADAM
activities in implementation. The sections are then divided by ADAM regional office and begin
with a table summarizing where the regional office stands in relation to the projected results
established in AWP2 for the following key indicators: families benefited, hectares supported,
sales generated, and infrastructure projects completed. The tables include each regional office’s
progress to date, disaggregated from the results to date provided in Chapter I, and the projected
results from activities technically approved by USAID in Q6, but still requiring USAID
contractual approval or still in the contracting process (activities in pipeline).
Each regional office sub-section then outlines the number of activities in implementation and in
the pipeline by component. The text that follows highlights notable accomplishments during the
quarter. Following the regional sections is a fifth section detailing cross-cutting activities that
span municipalities and regions, such as the National Community Radios Program or ADAM’s
efforts in financial services. More specific information on targets and results to date for each
activity can be found in Annex B, while Annex C provides financial information by activity.
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