Background and Content of the Expanded Alternative Development Program1 Sample Clauses

Background and Content of the Expanded Alternative Development Program1. The eradication of coca is a joint vital interest of the United States and Peru. In 1993, Peru provided 80 percent of the coca leaves used in making the cocaine consumed in the United States. Coca leaf and cocaine production in Peru have promoted anarchy, impeded democracy, and undermined licit economic activities. In 1991 Peru and the United States signed the “Agreement Regarding the Policy for the Control of Drugs and Alternative Development,” laying the basis for future cooperation. Based on this agreement, from 1995 to 2002, Peru and the United States jointly financed and implemented the Alternative Development Program (ADP). The ADP promoted general economic development in the coca growing areas by promoting licit economic opportunities for coca leaf producers and through the construction of social and economic infrastructure. Together with drug interdiction, the ADP contributed to a decrease in area of coca in Peru between 1998 and 2001 from 54,000 to 32,000 ha. 1 Summarized from the Terms of Reference for the PEA. The area of coca has increased since 2001, however, and now Peru over 36,000 ha of coca. Consequently, as part of the Andean Regional Initiative, on September 12, 2002 the Governments of the United States and Peru signed a Special Objective Grant Agreement entitled “Sustained Reduction of Illicit Coca Crops through Alternative Development in Target Areas of Peru.” Under this agreement, USAID/Peru will receive up to US$320 million over the five-year period from 2002 to 2007 for the Expanded Alternative Development Program (Expanded ADP). USAID/Peru and the Peruvian anti-narcotics institution, the National Commission for Development and Life without Drugs (DEVIDA) will jointly design, plan, supervise, and implement the Expanded ADP. Like the previous Alternative Development Program, the Expanded ADP aims to establish the conditions for farmers to abandon illicit coca cultivation by creating licit market opportunities and by providing rural people in coca growing areas with improved education, health, sanitation and security services. The Expanded ADP, however, will target most of its assistance directly to communities in which all coca growers formally agree to carry out voluntary coca eradication. The Expanded ADP is intended to achieve the following four Intermediate Results. Intermediate Result 1: Increased household income from sustainable licit economic activities In communities that agree to voluntarily eradicate their coca, the Expand...