Tourism Revitalisation and Requalification Project in the Maio Island
Cape Verde, Maio Island
With continuous work in Cape Verde since 2001, the IMVF has kept a close eye on the evolution and development of the archipelago – specifically the island of Maio – its constraints and potentialities. The present action bets on local entrepreneurship (as a means) for the affirmation of Ilha do Maio as a sustainable and solidary tourist destination (as an end). The project aims to combine the appreciation of the island’s environmental and cultural heritage with the reinforcement and promotion of new local economic activities, as an engine of development and socioeconomic growth, consolidating its cultural identity and territorial and social cohesion.
OBJECTIVES:
Overall: improve the living standards of the population in the Maio island.
Specific: promote local entrepreneurship and urban regeneration as drivers of sustainable socioeconomic, touristic and cultural development in the Maio island.
BENEFICIARIES:
Direct: 20 women members of the Salt Cooperative, 10 local artisans and small producers, 6 municipal civil servants, 20 young trainees and 13 community associations.
Indirect: population of the Maio island (8.000 residents).
Duration
- 42 months: March 2016 to August 2019
Financing
- European Union and Camões,I.P
Partners
- Maio Municipality
- Loures Municipality
- Tourism Development Society of the Boavista and Maio Islands