Guinea has close to 7.5 million inhabitants distributed unequally over a territory of 246,000 square kilometers. Despite its agricultural and mining potential, as well as the efforts toward national economic recovery begun in 1986, Guinea remains marked by a low level of human development and poverty that affects close to 45 per cent of the population. In spite of this, the socio-economic indicators improved greatly during the 1990s; inflation was controlled and public finances were put back on a solid footing.

UNCDF has been active in Guinea since the early 1980s, working closely with the UN Development Programme and other organizations to assist the government with a wide range of poverty alleviation initiatives. In the early 1980s, the Guinean Government, UNDP and UNCDF, with the assistance of other UN organizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), programmed several successful projects in the sectors of rural development and natural resource management in Central Guinea. These included projects such as those called the "Rural Development Project in Fouta Djallon" based at Labé; the "Restoration and development of the Representative Pilot Basin of Guétoya" based at Pita; and the "Production activities and promotion of peasant organizations on the south-east slopes of Fouta Djallon" based at Dalaba.

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