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Fortalization of rural organizations through a program of instensification and comercialization of the production of bovine cattle
The project works for the enhancement of quality of life through three components: the increase of familiar entrances through the intensification of earnings, the giving of special attention to health, and the fortalization of the community organization.
Counterpart: Center for Promotion and Cooperation in Ranching (Centro de Promoción y Cooperación campesina) (YUNTA)
Population Benefitted: 318 families (approximately 1,844 people)
Population Sector: Ranches
Cooperation Sector: Agriculture, health, basic healing, and community organization
Productive credit background for the development in unfavored sectors (urban and rural) in the region of Cochabamba
The action consists of the concession of credits to micro- and small businesses in the urban sector and to individual propieters and organizations dedicated to agricultural production in the rural sector. It complements itself with the enabling of productive management and administration of the agents of both sectors in order to support the formation of associative groups in the rural sector.
Counterpart: Center for Regional Investigation and Development (Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo regional)(CIDRE)
Population Benefitted: 649 people in the urban area and 345 in the rural area (total: 994)
Population Sector: Proprieters of micro and small industrial and artisan businesses (in the urban scope) and small farms and agricultural associations (in the rural scope).
Cooperation Sector: Agricultural production, industrial production, and the enabling of productive and administrative management.
Enabling of management of productive associations in Talamanca, Costa Rica
The present project forms part of an integral productive plan for the region of Talamanca, that consolidates alternative rentable products that are culturally substainable and pertinent. Following this plan, the project is working on three components: organizational fortification, enabling of the credit administration to the producers, and productive organization and enabling. The befitted population is rural and poor in the Talamanca zone.
Counterpart: ANAI
Benefitted Population: Approximately 800 people
Population Sector: Rural
Cooperation Sector: Agricultural production
Fortalization of the artisanal and industrial cooperational movement in Central America.
The objective of this project is to fortalze the Central American cooperative movement. The project intends to develop its integration in the economy of the region, through the improvement of internal management and the capacity of commercialization of its products. This will be accomplished through a program of assisted management and the formation of distinct aspects of necessities in order to assure the future of the cooperations in the two beneficiary countries: El Salvador and Costa Rica.
Counterpart: Cooperative International Alliace (Alianza Cooperativa Internacional)(ACI)
Benefitted Population: 20 cooperatives
Population Sector: Cooperatives in the industrial and artisan sectors.
Cooperation Sector: Cooperativism, technical formation.
Self-sustained development project in the region of Del Valle de Santa Rosa, Holguín
The project is taking the strategy of the reactivation of distinct regions in Cuba taken on by the counterpart (ANAP) through a process of self-sustainable development. Its possiblities cover the basic necessities without any exterior dependance. The proposed actions introduce the diversification of cultivations, the extension of the lands to cultivate, the intensification of ranching herds, and the construction and endowment of the infrastructure of a conservation plant, the instalation of a biological plant, and the construction of a bakery. Likewise, it gives itself covering to the canalization of waters and the extension of electrical layouts. The actions continue through the enabling of the local people in the distinct areas of work.
Counterpart: National Association of Small Farms (Asociación Nacional de Agricultores Pequeños (ANAP)
Benefitted Population: 3,752 people of the rural sector
Population Sector: Rural
Cooperation Sector: Agricultural production, infrastructure construction, women, and enabling
Program of development of modules in the cooperative "Ciro Redondo" and "9th of April" in Batabanó, in the provice of Havana.
The actions of this project are directed to the dynaminzation of the agrarian sector. The means proposed are the improvement of seeds, diversification of cultivations and the extension of lands to cultivate. The sector proposes the utilization of effective forms of managing of the flock, intensification of animal production, and the gradual increasement of the herd. The project is financed through various municipal governments, and is working itself in distinct phases.
Counterpart: National Association of Producers (Asociación Nacional de Productores)(ANAP)
Benefitted Population: 1,987 people. The population is suffering more accusations from the effects of the special period that is happening in the country.
Population Sector: Rural
Cooperation Sector: Agriculture production
Center for the Processing and Diffusion of Conservation of Artisanal Conservation of Fruits and Vegetables
Development and introduction of simple technologies that require a minimum of technology, low energy use, and economically accesible to anybody, implicating the maximum local resources, and accomodating modern methods of conservation of fresh fruits and vegetables, with special emphasis on those that implicate the elimination of chemical additives.
Counterpart: Center for information and studies of Interamerican Relations (Centro de información y estudio sobre Relaciones Interamericanas)(CIERI)
Benefitted Population: 17 horticulturists, 22 women, 20 children of the Horticulture Club of Las Cañas Santasî, Municipality of San Miguel del Padrón, Cuba.
Population Sector: Rural
Cooperation Sector: Production
Development of the therapeutic use of natural fountains in the community (natural medicine), Havana, Cuba.
The project claims the organizations of the communities of people in the town of Santa Fe in the city of Havana, in order to find a collective solution to meet the necessities of medicinal resources. The project intends to make good use of the avaliable lands for the planting of medicinal plants in order to elaborate the production of micro-doses that can be put into pharmacological dispense.
Counterpart: Center for information and studies of Interamerican Relations (Centro de información y estudio sobre Relaciones Interamericanas)(CIERI)
Benefitted Population: Horticulture groups and resident population (21,285 people)
Population Sector: Urban population
Cooperation Sector: Health
Central wind-generated demonstrative of 1 MW in La Loma, Island of Turiguanó, Province of Ciego de Ávila
The project aims at the installation, as a pilot experience that will effect other municipalities, of a central wind-generate energy. The central objective is the stimulation of a process of technological transference that permits the introduction of generation systems, electricity generated by wind turbines, the making use of natural resources of the island, to alleviate the electrical energy demand dependent on combustible imports. The technical involvements recieve enablings from the installation and maintaiment of said machines to guarantee the viability of the project and its effect to be multiplicated to other communities.
Counterparts: Cuban Society for the Protection of Nature and the Environment (Pro-Nature) and the Cuban Society for the Promotion of Renewable Energies (Cuba Solar)
Benefitted Population: 1,600 inhabitants of the town of La Loma
Population Sector: Rural
Cooperation Sector: Environment
Rehabilitation of people living in the neighborhood of Zamora de Marianao, Havana.
The project intends to better the living conditions of the people of the Zamora neighborhood in Havana, through the experimental rehabilitation of four residential complexes and the installation and placement in the functioning of the construction materials workshop to supply the continuity and extension of actions to better the neighborhood.
Counterpart: Group of Integral Development in the Capital (Grupo de Desarrollo Integral en la Capital)(GDIC)
Benefitted Population: Directly: 160 people. Indirectly: 30,000 people in neighborhood
Population Sector: Urban
Cooperation Sector: Social infrastructure. Living. Small industrial production.
Humanitarian Aid
Fourth global plan for the benefit of the Cuban population
With the end of the mitigation, the alarming shortage of necessary imputs for the functioning of the Cuban health system, a global action has been undertaken along with 11 other European NGOs, and have been assigned distinct productions and localizations. ACSUR has assigned sutures and dialysis machines for the distribution in the provinces of Las Tunas and Granma.
Counterpart: Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP)
Benefitted Population: Cuban population
Population Sector: Cuban population
Cooperation Sector: Health
Microproject in favor of the Cuban population: Construction of economic kitchens in Las Tunas
Construction of 20 economical and efficient kitchens in the Units of Health in the provice of Las Tunas.
Counterpart: Complex of Services for Health, pertaining to the Provincial Sector of Health (MINSAP)
Benefitted Population: Population of the province of Las Tunas (536,000 people)
Population Sector: Population of the province of Las Tunas
Cooperation Sector: Health
Enabling of local teachers and adult literacy
Activities of formation directed to better the academic level of teachers of local communities of five municipalities in the regions of La Libertad and San Salvador. Formation of personal literacy and realization of a campaign to aid in adult literacy.
Counterpart: Intersectorial Cooperation for Economic Development and Social Progress (CIDEP)
Benefitted Population: 748 people
Population Sector: Teachers
Cooperation Sector: Education
Integration of women in the plan of six cooperatives of Jucuarán
The project is trying to offer a sustained force that, in an integral form, permits the tangled communities- thanks to the economic activity and the received enabling- to pass the living quarters into a state of self-sufficiency and, finally, through the economic increase of agricultural production; program of alphabetazion and enabling.
Counterpart: National Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives (FENACOA) and Confederation of Federations for Agrarian Reform (CONFRAS)
Benefitted Population: Directly: 160 women in precarious labor situations- unemployed or only in the informal sector Indirectly: 817 indirect benficiaries
Population Sector: Women
Cooperation Sector: Ranches, women in development
Support of the construction of an enabling service, accessories, and production of non-sexist educational material.
Through the production and diffusion of non-sexist educational material, we are attempting to contribute to the transformation of the gender system in El Salvador, supporting the new generations with a feminist and masculine identities in order that oppresion or dependance will not continue. In order to achieve this directive, we propose an accesory service, enabling, and production of material to give support to 53 El Salvador organizations and institutions specialized in women´s programs and to 40 non-specialized organizations.
Counterpart: CE-MUJER
Benefitted Population: Benefits from enabling: 60 women; Benfits from the accesory: 93 women´s organizations
Population Sector: Women
Cooperation Sector: Educational equipment and complementary educational services
Construction of alternative living quarters in the muncipality of Delgado
Coming from the Advisory of Marginal Communities (Consejo de Comunidades Marginales) of the Department of San Salvador, the CCM development is a strategy of action in favor of the access of urban communities to the land, the living, and other basic social services. Having this context as a line of action, the project intends to give support to the process of organization of the community of Santa Rita, in the municipality of Delgado, through the construction of living quarters.
Counterpart: Coordinating Association for Communal Development (CCM)
Benefitted Population: 193 people of the Community of Santa Rita
Population Sector: Inhabitants of the zone
Cooperation Sector: Living quarters, communal development
Center of integral attention to women who are victims of violence
Put in place as a center for maltreated women, with free services of individual psychological support or group therapy, legal orientation and assistance, bank of facts with information about sources of work for women, loans for support organizations, etc.
Counterpart: Women for Dignity and Life (DIGNAS)
Benefitted Population: 1,050 women per year
Population Sector: Women who are victims of violence
Cooperation Sector: Legal accesory, psychological support, information. Supervision with the respect to human rights and education.
Semi-intensive cultivation of freshwater shrimp in the community of Las Americas, Suchitoto, El Salvador
The cultivation of freshwater shrimp supposes an alternative economy for the population of the community of Las Americas. In this project the beneficiary population are going to overturn all of its forces to put in place a shrimp farm that, through the comercialization of the product, improving the quality of life of the people. The project will aid in the construction of the infrastructure, enabling for the production and commercialization, and puting in place of the production.
Counterpart: Cooperation for Communal Protection of El Salvador (PROCOMES)
Benefitted Population: Rural population of low resources
Population Sector: Rural population of low resources
Cooperation Sector: Fishing development
Program for integral development of the municipalities of Concepción Bartres and Jucuaran
The project takes place in nine communities of a zone effect for 12 years by war in the country, where there is a large number of displaced former soldiers that live in coditions of precarious substinence.
The action centers around five components; agricultural production; commercialization; improvement of health and living conditions with the construction of living quarters.
Counterpart: El Salvador Foundation for the Promotion of Economic and Social Development (FUNSALPRODESE)
Benefitted Population: 454 families
Population Sector: Organized rural people
Cooperation Sector: Production, organization, enabling, and infrastructure
Program of production, processing, and commercialization of medicinal plants in Usulután, Chalatenango, and San Salvador, for the improvement of levels of development and health of the population
The project proposes to convert in a process of productive and health alternative that the population realize in a traditional form, as a cultivation and processing of medicinal plants for health application.
Through the transference of technology and qualification, the project will convert the production process of medicinal plants in the form of development for these communities. This is thanks to the production, the processing, and the commercialization of these plants, the generation of of entrances and coverings for back necessities. In this form, we will generate, on one side, a process of development with a productive component and, on the other, a consolodation of traditional medicine as a complement to western medicine within the country.
Counterpart: El Salvador Foundation for the Promotion of Social and Economic Development (FUNSALPRODESE)
Benefitted population: 454 families
Population sector: Organized rural people
Cooperation sector: Production, organization, enabling, and infrastructure
Health and aid in literacy in rural communities of the region of Usulután
Directed to fortalize the communal organization, the participation of local people and the process of self-management of the communities concerning health problems. The project put into progress a module of alphabetization concerned with health and another module concerned with enabling of ***,***, and other health workers of 21 rural communities of Usulután.
Counterpart: Center for the Coordination of Alternative Health Programs (CPAS)
Benefitted Population: Directly: 1,040 people Indirectly: 8,700 people
Population Sector: Rural population
Cooperation Sector: Health education
Integration of women in the plan of six cooperatives of Jucuarán
The project is trying to offer a sustained force that, in an integral form, permits the tangled communities- thanks to the economic activity and the received enabling- to pass the living quarters into a state of self-sufficiency and, finally, through the economic increase of agricultural production; program of alphabetazion and enabling.
Counterpart: National Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives (FENACOA) and Confederation of Federations for Agrarian Reform (CONFRAS)
Benefitted Population: Directly: 160 women in precarious labor situations- unemployed or only in the informal sector Indirectly: 817 indirect benficiaries
Population Sector: Women
Cooperation Sector: Ranches, women in development
Support of the construction of an enabling service, accessories, and production of non-sexist educational material.
Through the production and diffusion of non-sexist educational material, we are attempting to contribute to the transformation of the gender system in El Salvador, supporting the new generations with a feminist and masculine identities in order that oppresion or dependance will not continue. In order to achieve this directive, we propose an accesory service, enabling, and production of material to give support to 53 El Salvador organizations and institutions specialized in women´s programs and to 40 non-specialized organizations.
Counterpart: CE-MUJER
Benefitted Population: Benefits from enabling: 60 women; Benfits from the accesory: 93 women´s organizations
Population Sector: Women
Cooperation Sector: Educational equipment and complementary educational services
Construction of alternative living quarters in the muncipality of Delgado
Coming from the Advisory of Marginal Communities (Consejo de Comunidades Marginales) of the Department of San Salvador, the CCM development is a strategy of action in favor of the access of urban communities to the land, the living, and other basic social services. Having this context as a line of action, the project intends to give support to the process of organization of the community of Santa Rita, in the municipality of Delgado, through the construction of living quarters.
Counterpart: Coordinating Association for Communal Development (CCM)
Benefitted Population: 193 people of the Community of Santa Rita
Population Sector: Inhabitants of the zone
Cooperation Sector: Living quarters, communal development
Center of integral attention to women who are victims of violence
Put in place as a center for maltreated women, with free services of individual psychological support or group therapy, legal orientation and assistance, bank of facts with information about sources of work for women, loans for support organizations, etc.
Counterpart: Women for Dignity and Life (DIGNAS)
Benefitted Population: 1,050 women per year
Population Sector: Women who are victims of violence
Cooperation Sector: Legal accesory, psychological support, information. Supervision with the respect to human rights and education.
Semi-intensive cultivation of freshwater shrimp in the community of Las Americas, Suchitoto, El Salvador
The cultivation of freshwater shrimp supposes an alternative economy for the population of the community of Las Americas. In this project the beneficiary population are going to overturn all of its forces to put in place a shrimp farm that, through the comercialization of the product, improving the quality of life of the people. The project will aid in the construction of the infrastructure, enabling for the production and commercialization, and puting in place of the production.
Counterpart: Cooperation for Communal Protection of El Salvador (PROCOMES)
Benefitted Population: Rural population of low resources
Population Sector: Rural population of low resources
Cooperation Sector: Fishing development
Program for integral development of the municipalities of Concepción Bartres and Jucuaran
The project takes place in nine communities of a zone effect for 12 years by war in the country, where there is a large number of displaced former soldiers that live in coditions of precarious substinence.
The action centers around five components; agricultural production; commercialization; improvement of health and living conditions with the construction of living quarters.
Counterpart: El Salvador Foundation for the Promotion of Economic and Social Development (FUNSALPRODESE)
Benefitted Population: 454 families
Population Sector: Organized rural people
Cooperation Sector: Production, organization, enabling, and infrastructure
Program of production, processing, and commercialization of medicinal plants in Usulután, Chalatenango, and San Salvador, for the improvement of levels of development and health of the population
The project proposes to convert in a process of productive and health alternative that the population realize in a traditional form, as a cultivation and processing of medicinal plants for health application.
Through the transference of technology and qualification, the project will convert the production process of medicinal plants in the form of development for these communities. This is thanks to the production, the processing, and the commercialization of these plants, the generation of of entrances and coverings for back necessities. In this form, we will generate, on one side, a process of development with a productive component and, on the other, a consolodation of traditional medicine as a complement to western medicine within the country.
Counterpart: El Salvador Foundation for the Promotion of Social and Economic Development (FUNSALPRODESE)
Benefitted population: 454 families
Population sector: Organized rural people
Cooperation sector: Production, organization, enabling, and infrastructure
Agricultural production and enabling of technical-organization in four villages of the Guatemalan Altiplano
The project consists of the creation of 250 small agricultural operations of a familiar character, in order to develop a strong administration, book-keeping, and technology appropriateed to these operations. Simultaneously we will form health facilities.
Counterpart: Center for Integration Studies for Communal Development (CEIDEC) and Petition for Worker and Rural for Emergency (IOCE)
Benefitted population: 1,500 people
Population sector: Indigenous population
Cooperation sector: Ranching
Popular education in human rights and rights of "L@s Niñ@s"
The projects contains two parts, in one we will approach the thematic of the impunity and the fundamental denouncement of events; in the other, we will deal with the role of the Organizations of Human Rights of the country.
Counterpart: Human Rights Commission of Guatemala (CDHG)
Benefitted population: 85 people, originating from sindicated, humanitarian, popular, student, and indigenous populations, and representatives from the main human rights organizations of the country.
Population sector: Members of social organizations
Cooperation sector: Human rights
Program for the integral development of the Communities of Population in Resistence (CPR) of the Sierra. Second phase.
This constitutes the second phase of the support project for development in the Communities of Population in Resistence of the Sierra. This phase will attempt to consolodate the following profits with the first phase, fundamentally in the area of health, continuing with the enabling of the health services, and equipping them with medicines and other health materials. At the same time, the project will support CPR with the legalization of the lands in which they are found and its organizative fortalization in relation with the management of projects.
Counterpart: SIEMBRA
Benefitted population: 24,754 inhabitants of refugee indigenous communities in the jungle due to the armed internal conflic, Communities of Population in Resistance.
Population sector: Quiché indigenous population
Cooperation sector: Attention in primary health
Integral support program for the internally displaced population- PAIDI- in Retalhuleu and Izabal. Second phase.
The proposal of the program of integral support to internally displaced Guatemalans in the regions of Izabal and Puerto Barrios, profounding in the generative process of the first phase, through the attention to community health, promotion of women, agricultural production, and in the frame of cooperative creation (CAIDI) in the previous projects.
Counterpart: Association for Education and Development (ASEDE)
Benefitted population: 446 displaced people. Population of internal displaced victims of armed conflict. Due to the persecution that they have suffered, their economic situation is precarious with grave problems of substinence.
Population sector: Internally displaced population
Cooperation sector: Agricultural production
Integral development- technical and production enabling- of the women´s associations of Mezquital
Support for the organizational movement of women and the improvement of their gender position through the enablement for the creation of alternative productions that generate entries, improving their level of life, and contributing to increase their possiblities for professional and personal development.
Counterpart: Foundation of Community Development (FUNDESCO)
Benefitted Population: Directly: 1,160 Indirectly: 40,000
Population Sector: Women
Cooperation Sector: Non-academic education
Support for development and the integration of the returned population of La Vertiente North, Petén
This proposal constitutes the continuation of support offered for the return of the refugee Guatemalan population in Mexico to the communities of La Quetzal and La Esmeralda, in El Petén. This project will attempt to provide formative resources and support to generate a process of self-managed development that permits the better intergration for the communities in the zone and in the political and social life of the country. The princpal points of work are health, enabling in management of produtive projects, and activities put in place with those that assure the satisfaction of basic needs.
Counterpart: ADEPAC
Benefitted Population: 921 people in La Quetzal and 1,023 in La Esmeralda
Population Sector: Rooted-out population
Cooperation Sector: Help to refugees in the benefitted country, ranching, and non-academic education
Integral project of development in rural communities in Chimaltenango Altiplano Centroccidental. Chimaltenango
The project will attempt to continue the actions completed in this zone by CEIDEC. The project continues the objective of fortalizing the self-management in the necessities of the nourisment of the population put in place by the productive activities accompanied by the enabling through actions to the undertaking. Likewise it continues the support of community organizations and the articulation of the social fabric.
Counterpart: Center for Integrated Studies for Communal Development (CEIDEC)
Benefitted Population: 1,320 indigenous rural people of the region of Chimaltenango
Cooperation Sector: Ranching
Support to the reassignment of internally displaced people, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
ACSUR orignally supported two projects for displaced peoples of San Ildefonso Ixtahuacán Huehuetenango who had to flee to the zone from the coast by means of the hardening from the armed conflict. This population began to return to its zones of origin once the peace accords were signed in Guatemala. The situation in their zones of definitive assent is very precarious, reasons that ACSUR saw necessary to continue the previous work in the zone with this population. The objective of the project is to support the reassignment through the creation of infrastructure of health, envinronmental guarantee, and the enabling of local health resources.
Counterpart: Association for Education and Development (ASEDE)
Benefitted Population: 10,754 people
Population Sector: Rooted-out population
Cooperation Sector: Help to displaced population, health, non-academic education
HUMANITARIAN AID
Humanitarian aid project for the benefit of the returned population in Petén
Humanitarian support to the returned population in the communities of Nuevo Amanecer (Huacutz), Nueva Guatemala (San Francisco el Tumbo I), Santa María Dolores (Santa Amelia), and Unión San Juan (Entreríos)
Counterpart: Association for Development for Central America (ADEPAC)
Benefitted Population: Population of the communities of Huacrutz, El Tumbo, Entreríos, and Santa Amelia
Population Sector: Returned population (mostly indigenous people)
Coooperation Sector: Basic medical attention and basic endowment for production (nourishment security)
Continued formation for medical and auxilary professionals
To develop a program of continued formation for the medical and auxilary professionals of the area, with the end of proportionating the theoretical knowledge, technigacl abilities, and appropriate attitudes that permit the improvement of quality of care for the public.
Counterpart: Syndicate of Health Professionals of Haiti (Spi)
Benefitted Population: 150 auxiliary and health professionals
Population Sector: People affiliated with the syndicate
Cooperation Sector: Health and Enabling
Cultural extension and literacy in Haiti, with the installation of a print shop in Puerto Príncipe.
The idea of this project is to contribute to the fortalization of Haiti´s community organizations through the installation of a print shop that prints educational and cultural materials and allows for the improvement of education and culture of Haiti. Relating to this is our campaign for literacy.
Counterpart: Centre de Recherches et Economique le Sociale pour le Développment (CRESFED)
Benefitted Population: 10,000 workers from Puerto Príncipe that CRESFED works with.
Population Sector: Destructured population and socially and culturally marginalized people.
Cooperation Sector: Literacy and culture
Rehabilitation of health centers in the Central Plateau
The project marks one of the strongest programs of support for the improvement of the health system in rural zones of Haiti. It consists of the rehabilitation and reconstruction of health systems in one of the most poverty-stricken zones in Haiti, the Central Plateau. The project is accomplished with the help of Haiti´s Ministry of Health.
Counterpart: Ministére de la Santé Publique et de la Population -MSPP-
Benefitted Population: 550,000 people of the Central Plateau
Population Sector: Rural population
Cooperation Sector: Health, infrastructure.
Rehabilitation and community health program
The project consists of the rehabilitation and reinforcement of the services of the dispensaries of Savanette and Paraidos, the improvement of environmental conditions, and the situation of maternal and infantile health through a program of health education and of the formation of personal health.
Counterpart: MinistËre de la Santé Publique et de la Population -MSPP-
Benefitted Population: 550,000 people in the Central Plateau
Population Sector: Rural population
Cooperation Sector: Health, infrastructure
Program for rural development and support socio-economic initiatives for women.
This project intends to improve the socio-economic situation of women and their families in the Central Plateau. It will work in the area of agriculture with support of production, transformation, and commercialization of agricultural products of the region. It organizes committees of managment in order to create self-management. It also helps in the internal commercialization of workshops and fabric artisans.
Counterpart: Mouvement Peyizan Papay -MPP- and Cáritas
Benefitted Population: Women, rural peoples, and families, and public education teachers.
Population Sector: Rural population
Cooperation Sector: Production, education, and gender.
Institutional support of the Center for Supervision and Continued Formation that secures a minimum service for peripheral institutions.
The program is being developed in Belladére in the Central Plateau of Haiti, a poverty-stricken zone of the country. The program reinforces the rehabilitation of the health system in rural zones through ACSUR, operating under the finances of the European Union. We forsee three fundamental actions: 1. Putting in place of a unified community of health in Belladére, 2. Institutional support of the Ministry of Health through departamental direction that bears actions of supervision and continued and concentrated formation with ministerial teams, 3. Actions of cultural animation for messages about health and organizational fortalization of grass-root organizations and local institutions. This includes, likewise, literacy aid through themes of health.
Counterpart: Ministére de la Santé Publique et de la Population -MSPP-
Benefitted Population: 60,000 people in the Central Plateau
Population Sector: Rural population
Cooperation Sector: Health, infrastructure
Humanitarian Aid
Haiti IV and Growth
This is the fourth phase of a programs designed to improve public health in the Central Plateau. This phase concretely develops the continuation of the third phase in the areas of supervision, formation, and continuing of support to the peripheral deposits of Hinche and Mirebalais. Meanwhile, it presents a new scope of actuation in the community health in the Comuna de Savanette (Lower Plateau) and rural sections of Colombiers, La Haye, adn Baptiste. With the growth of Phase IV, it has re-opened the Belladére Hospital (physical rehabilitation, endowment of logistic and medical materials, formation and information activities, education, and communication) and has brought diverse community actions implemented through microprojects that reinforce the areas nutrition and hygiene.
Counterpart: Ministry of Public Health and Population -MSPP-, Mayor´s Office of Savanette, Red Cross, and local institutions and organizations
Benefitted Population: Disfavored population of rural and urban zones
Population Sector: Population of the Central Plateau
Cooperation Sector: Health, nutrition, and hygiene
Haiti V
Continuation of Phase IV in the Central Plateau and the zones of Balladére and Savanette (Lower Central Plateau).
Counterpart: Minstry of Public Health and Population -MSPP-
Benefitted Population: People of the Central Plateau
Population Sector: People of the Central Plateau and people in the zones of Balladére and Savanette.
Cooperation Sector: Health
Organizational consolodation of buisness groups of the rural population of Quimistán, Santa Bárbara
The project intends to increase the organizational and business fortification of cooperatives, associated businesses, and rural groups in Quimistán in order to create jobs and worthy entrances in order to diminish the rural migration to the city and to improve the quality of life for the people in that zone. It operates in two forms: 1) Enabling of production: appropriated technologies, diversification of cultivation, and systems of irrigation. 2) Establishment of a background of rotary credit of support for agricultural activities and technological experiments adapted through the enbaling.
Counterpart: Honduras Institute for Rural Development (HDER)
Benefitted Population: 1,990 people
Population Sector: Organized rural people
Cooperation Sector: Rural, agricultural business
Promotion and defense of Honduran women´s rights
The project´s objective is the promotion, defense, and excercise of women´s rights through the areas of judicial, social, and labor in Honduran society and in state organizations in order to change the discriminatory socio-cultural roles that exist. There are three programs: a) Schools that will educate women of their juridical and legal rights, b) Program of defense of women workers´rights, c) Program of awareness.
Counterpart: Center for the Rights of Women (CDM)
Benefitted Population: 123 legal promoters, 60 women workers in the sectors of health, teaching, and law.
Population Sector: Women
Cooperation Sector: Human rights, enabling, and awareness.
Support of the productive and organization process of citizens of Guayape
The project supports the organization process of rural people (ìparcelerosî) to obtain a defense and collective management of their interests, with components of enabling and establishment of a background credit.
Counterpart: Center of Development Projects for the Rural People of Parceleros (CPDECAP).
Benefitted Population: Directly: 100 rural people Indirectly: 540 people
Population Sector: Organized rural people
Cooperation Sector: Rural
Defense of human rights in Honduras. Program of legal and social assistence. Program of enablement for personal legal knowledge.
The project occurs through a process of institutional development by COFADEH. For the project, two plans are proposed: legal assistance and enablement.
Counterpart: Committee of Families of Missing and Detained People in Honduras (COFADEH)
Benefitted Population: 150 judicial functionaries. Victims of abuse of authority
Population Sector: Judicial functionaries. Victims of abuse of authority. Members of NGOs and, in general, the Honduran society.
Cooperation Sector: Human rights.
Creation and fortalization of Units of Rural and Social Integrated Development (UDRIS) in four communities in Francisco Morazán, Honduras.
The project intends to support the organization process of rural people to improve the defense and management of their collective interests. Through the implementation of Units of Rural and Social Integrated Development (UDRIS), the project will contribute to the transformation, based in alternative strategies, of the LPRs (Local Rural Parcels). The end of the project is to resolve their problems through the conception of integral development of the entire community. In relation to the productive activities, the project intends to strive for the diversification of cultivation through the introduction of tomatoes, sugar cane, and potatoes. Also, the project intends to improve the production of basic grains, corn, and beans and the introduction of poultry: breeding of chickens, production of eggs, and bovine cattle.
Counterpart: Center of Projects for Development of Rural People (CPDECAP)
Benefitted Population: Directly: 9,912 inhabitants of communities in which will be implemented 4 UDIRS. Indirectly: 26,935 inhabitants of the municipalities around the benefitted locations.
Population Sector: Rural people
Cooperation Sector: Integral development. Subsector organization, agricultural production, enablement, cultural rescue, and social services.
Promotion of integral development of indigenous women of Chiapas, State of Chiapas.
The project intends to generate a process of integral development in the zone Altos de Chiapas, through the formation and enablement of women in the communities, simultaneously generating production activities that will improve the quality of life. The process of formation and enablement will occur through the perspective of gender, in order to improve gender relations- until now unequal in prejudice towards women- of the interior of the communities. The project attempts not only to attend to the practical immediate needs of the female population, but to endow them with economic and formative resources to aid in their process of self-management for development.
Counterpart: Chiltak.
Benefitted Population: Directly: 946 indigenous women of Altos de Chiapas of different ethnicities: tzeltales, tojolabales, tzotziles, and mames. Indirectly: 57,300 inhabitants of the three zones of influence.
Population Sector: Women
Cooperation Sector: Women in development, ranching, non-academic education.
Integration of women in the formal sector of the economy: A proposition of local development
The project intends, through the creation of a permanent center of enablement, to offer a continued possibility of formation to women of the poorest neighboorhoods in the Federal District. This will contribute to the improvement of insertion in the regulated market of work, helping them to leave the informal economy. The formation centers in non-traditional female professions of high demand Mexico DF. At the same time, the project works in aspects of gender in order to transform unequal relations between men and women.
Counterpart: Group for Popular Education of Women
Benefitted Population: Approximately 1,080 people
Population Sector: Women
Cooperation Sector: Women in development, PYMES development.
Enablement in human rights, legal accessory and defense between Mixtecos, Tlapanecos, and Nahuas of the Guerrero Mountain.
This project is part of a work initiated in 1993 between the towns of the mountain in order to offer a personal free service in the fields of enablement, diffusion, and defense of human rights. The Center for Human Rights works in 18 municipalities of the mountain. The work has centered around the community promotion and the creation of municipal committies, to create a regional network for promotion and defense of human rights.
Counterpart: Center for Human Rights of Guerrero Mountain
Benefitted Population: Approximately 3,600 people
Population Sector: Indigenous Mixteca, Nahua, and Tlapaneca population.
Cooperation Sector: Supervision in respect to human rights and education.
Creation of a recycling business by poor women in the State of Morelos, Mexico.
The project intends to function through the resolution of environmental problems that effect the Juitepec zone in the State of Morelos. It functions principally through the degradation of soil by the accumulation of solid waste. To attend to these aspects, CIDHAL proposes the creation of a micro-business of recycling of waste, that will urge the orientation of organic waste through the production of fertilizer through compost piles. It will also channelize waste from the recycling of organic waste thanks to the signing of a pact with other groups.
Counterpart: Women´s Center, CIDHAL.
Benefitted Population: Approximately 800 people
Population Sector: Poor, migrant women.
Cooperation Sector: Environment, women, and development.
Enablement of the empirical midwives of Posoltega
The context of politics of structural adjustment significantly effects the Nicaraguan health system. This project intends to enable the health system to improve the quality of attention given to midwives who are a critical part of the reproducive health of these communities. So, the action bases itself in the enabling and reinforcement of 20 empirical midwives in different rural areas, while at the same time endowing the areas with important technical materials.
Counterpart: Popol-Na
Benefitted Population: Population of Posoltega
Population Sector: Women and infants
Cooperation Sector: Health and enablement
Program of integral community development in Condega
Through the experience and knowledge of the rural population, the project intends to transform the rural reality and to improve living conditions through a program of agricultural production, preservation of natural resources, health and environmental components, construction of rural living quarters, education and communication, and enabling of human resources.
Counterpart: Institute for Social Promotion "Women and Community"
Benefitted Population: Directly: 3,750 people Indirectly: 5,430 people
Population Sector: Rural
Cooperation Sector: Integral development
Fortalization of production and improvement of agricultural and ecological means in Miraflor.
The project works in consort with the German NGO Dritte Welt Haus-Bielefeld. The project will work for production development with the objective of harmonizing the agriculture of the zone to improve environmental conditions, with substainability as a model of development. The actions are devoted to the recuperation and defense of the environment, the intensification of ranching, and the diversification with coffee, minor ranching, vegetables, fruits, and fishing.
Counterpart: Union of Agricultural Cooperatives of Miraflor (UCA-Miraflor)
Benefitted Population: Directly: 1,500 people Indirectly: 4,100 people
Population Sector: Cooperative rural people
Cooperation Sector: Agriculture
Group of mutual aid for women victims of violence and attention to adolescents
The project offers psychological attention to women victims of violence through the creation of self-help groups in which they will work on conflict resolution and overcoming of psychological trauma. At the same time the project will help adolescents, working on personal development in groups.
Counterpart: ITZA MUJER
Benefitted Population: Directly: 500 women Indirectly: 10,000 women
Population Sector: Women
Cooperation Sector: Gender, awareness, and education.
Plan to support members of the Nicaraguan resistance and ex-military soldiers
The project is support of the construction of living quarters, through plans of dismobilization of armed Nicaraguan forces for ex-military soldiers that are now living the lives of civillians.
Counterpart: POPOL-NA Foundation
Benefitted Population: 300 people (55 ex-military soldiers and their families)
Population Sector: Ex-military soldiers and their families
Cooperation Sector: Housing
Program for the fortalization of production and commercialization of rural people in Santa Lucía, Boaco.
This project is part of the Campesino to Campesino program, that works in aspects of organization and enablement to improve rural peoples´ production with few resources. The priority objectives are developing new forms of management, and local organizations, especially in field of commercialization.
Counterpart: National Union of Agriculturists and Ranchers (UNAG)
Benefitted Population: 130 small farms in Santa Lucía and their families (about 520 people)
Population Sector: Rural
Cooperation Sector: Agriculture, commercialization, and environment
Cooperative development for peace in Tuma
The project intends to make an incision in the culture of the Jinotega zone, elevating the levels of production to 2.500 kgs. of gold. Furthermore, the project will initiate the contribution of modes of alternative commercialization and support the cooperative movement and defense of their interests.
Counterpart: National Union of Agriculturists and Ranchers (UNAG)
Benefitted Population: 110 members of affiliated cooperatives of UNAG in Jinotega.
Population Sector: Organized cooperative farmers
Cooperation Sector: Production
Title: Self-sustainable social development in "El Guaylo." Improvement of living conditions for rural people.
The action intends to contribute to the improvement of the quality of life for rural families in El Guaylo through the construction of 30 living quarters, 30 latrines, and a rural school with three classrooms, totaling 144 m2 and able to hold 90 students.
Counterpart: Escuelas Radiofónicas de Nicaragua -ERN-
Benefitted Population: 30 rural families, 207 people in El Guaylo, small land proprieities, that obtain products for survival.
Population Sector: Small proprieities
Cooperation Sector: Construction
Eco-touristic development in River San Juan: endowment of didactic material for the Center for Interpretation of Nature
The project is part of a program to increase the search for alternative economies for the population with a fragile ecosystem of a rain forest. The proposal constributes to the progress of a Center for Interpretation of Nature, endowing it with audio-visual educational material to increase knowledge of the richness of the zone to visitors and to locals.
Counterpart: Association of the Municipality of San Juan (AMURS) and Association for the Development of Local Sustainability (ASODELCO)
Benefitted Population: 1,000 inhabitants of El Castillo (River San Juan)
Population Sector: Rural population
Cooperation Sector: Eco-sustainable development, environment, ecological tourism
Development of productive capacities of rural women in Santa Cruz, Estelí.
The project intends to develop the self-managed capacities of women´s production through economic credit resources for the inversion in production activities, enablement, fortalization of their own organization, and promotion of the exchange of ideas of experience in production.
Counterpart: Institute for the Social Promotion of Women and Community (IMC)
Benefitted Population: Directly: 100 women Indirectly: 6,000 people
Population Sector: Rural women
Cooperation Sector: Professional and vocational formation . Gender.
Equipping of vocational workshops and support of educational groups of Hogar Zacarías Guerra.
The project itends to fortalize and increase the services that are occuring in Hogar Zacarías Guerra of Managua through the equipping of vocational workshops of carpenters, welders, and mechanics for the social reinsertion of abandoned students. Likewise the project attempts to fortalize and support educational groups and school services that permit the completion of education of children.
Counterpart: Hogar Zacarías Guerra
Benefitted Population: Directly: 350 children Indirectly: Families or tutors that maintain links with children
Population Sector: Infants and juveniles
Cooperation Sector: Education
Humanitarian Aid
Control and prevention of malaria, dengue, cholera, and leptospirosis in León and Chinandega. Phase I
The action is directed at the diminshment of deaths from malaria, dengue, cholera, and leptispirosis, through a strategy of integral intervention. This happens through vector control (larvie, adult insects, elimination of bugs), control of patients, and an important component of health education.
Counterpart: Communal Movements of León and Chinandega -MC- and Local System of Integral Attention to Health -SILAIS- of León and Chinandega
Benefitted Population Inhabitants of León (350,212 people) and Chinandega (336,894 people)
Population Sector Inhabitants of León and Chinandega
Cooperation Sector: Health
Control and prevention of epidemics of malaria, dengue, cholera, and leptospirosis in the western zone of Nicaragua. Phase II.
The phase intends to continue controlling malaria, dengue, cholera, and leptospirosis in León and Chinandega initiate through the humanitarian aid project finished in March 1997. At this time, the project introduces new actions directed at evaluating the impact of the epidemics.
Counterpart: Communal Movements of León and Chinandega -MC- and Local System of Integral Attention to Health -SILAIS- of León and Chinandega
Benefitted Population Inhabitants of León (350,212 people) and Chinandega (336,894 people)
Population Sector Inhabitants of León and Chinandega
Cooperation Sector: Health
Improvement of health conditions in the rural population of Palestine. Loan program of oftamological and optometrical services in the West Bank of the Jordan
The proposition of the project is the improvement of quality of life of the population of rural Palestine through the improvement of visual health through the endowment of a technical-health infrastructure that permits the loaning of oftamological and optometrical services.
Counterpart: Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees -UPMRC-
Benefitted Population: 15,000 people, neighboors of the villages and rural towns and marginalized people in urban zones of Jenin, Turkarem, Hebron, and the Jordan Valley
Population Sector: Urban and rural population
Cooperation Sector: Health: Oftamology and optomology
Program of support of the rehabilitation and empowering of Palestinian women
With the execution of this project, an increase program of rehabilitation and psychological treatment will be put in place. It is directed towards women of the Gaza Strip that have been vicitims, directly or indirectly, of the occupation the region has suffered. There are wives of ex-prisoners, widows, or families of victims of the fighting and that on some occasions have suffered and continue to suffer other types of violence: domestic violence. The point of reference of this attention is the Center for Attention of Women and manifests itself through psychological attention and creation of self-help groups and also propose a plan of vocational enablement.
Counterpart: Gaza Community Mental Health Program
Benefitted Population: Directly: 3,070 women
Population Sector: Women
Cooperation Sector: Gender, mental health, and enablement
Support, rehabilitation, and improvement of community centers for Palestinian infants and adolescents
The project works for the social and psychological rehabilitation of adolescents and young Palestinians that are victims of military occupation and violence against the Palestinian people. Through the endowment of community centers and educational materials for young people, the project intends to initiate an educational experience for the children. The themes that will be dealt with are of peace, education for development, and cultural and physical education.
Counterpart: Palestinian Youth Union
Benefitted Population: Directly: 260 Palestinian children and adolescents
Indirectly: 1,000 people
Population Sector: Infants, youth
Cooperation Sector: Rehabilitation, equipment endowment, enablement
Support program for the rehabilitation and empowering of Palestinian women in Rafah, Phase II
The project, in its second phase, is a phase of empowering Palestinian women in the zone. In this new phase, the project aims to orient refugee women of Rafah, a zone in the Gaza Strip. The project intends to increase women´s self-confidence and personal development and intends to be an instrument of change for the Palestinian society. In the same manner, the project intends to accomplish awareness and diffusion placing emphasis on local authorities and governmental agencies.
Counterpart: Gaza Community Mental Health Program
Benefitted Population: 7,500 people, relatives of 1,500 women who benefit from the project
Population Sector: Women
Cooperation Sector: Gender, mental health, and enablement
Legal and social support to defend rights of Arab-Palestinian workers in Israel
This project pursues the defense of labor, education, and working conditions of laborers of Palestinian workers born in Israel. The initiative intends to institutionalize a space of support and accessory for Palestinian workers in Israel to educate them about the Palestinian situation. There are three components of the project: 1. Social and legal accessory for workers. 2. Education of Palestinian population about labor rights. 3. Implication of public opinion concerning Palestinian labor. These elements generate integral action while at the same time focalize on material for the defense of labor rights.
Counterpart: Hanitzot
Benefitted Population: 3,750 people
Population Sector: Palestinian and Israeli professionals
Cooperation Sector: Enablement, integration
Productive integration and nourishment security of the rural people of Panama
The project intends to reactivate the principal productive activities of organized rural people in order to guarantee nourishment security.
Counterpart: Federation of the Campesinos of Panama
Benefitted Population: 4,175 people
Population Sector: Rural people
Cooperation Sector: Agricultural production, environment
Development of sustainable agriculture in Ngöbes in the Cuenca Alta of the River Fonseca
The project is directed at establishing the bases as a model that constitutes an element of capability of detaining the malnutrition of the Ngöbe people, supporting the sustainablilty of the natural environment, and to avoid the process of loss of biodiversity in the zone.
Counterpart: Panama Foundation of Ecology and Development
Benefitted Population: Directly: 3,000 people in communities of activity. Indirectly: Influence on approximately 4,000 people
Population Sector: Indigenous population
Cooperation Sector: Self-sustainable production, environment
Integral project of production and enablement of rural peoples in the province of Veraguas, Panama.
The project intends to improve the living conditions of the rural peoples from different communities of Veraguas. To accomplish this, the project will try to improve production to guarantee nourishment security. It will also urge participation in the economic system through the fortalization of management capability, organization, and knowledge of technical products appropriated to different communities, and to support the formation of women of different communities in their knowledge and defense of rights.
Counterapart: Federation of Organizations of Campesinos and Indigenous Peoples of Veraguas
Benefitted Population: 9,299 men and 7,920 women
Population Sector: Rural people, Indigenous people
Coopeation Sector: Agricultural production, enablement, organization
Project for the benefit of the communities of Ngöbe-Buglé in the district of San Felix, San Lorenzo, and Remedios-Chiriquí
This project intends to improve living conditions of the indigenous population of the Ngöble-Buglé of Chiriquí through the construction of 110 living quarters, placing this activity in a dynamic of concentration between different indigenous-based organization and the institutional fortalization of the Regional Congress of the Ngöbe-Buglé of Chiriquí as a representative organization of all peoples.
Counterpart: Ngöbe-Buglé Regional Congress
Benefitted Population: Population of 13 indigenous communities of the districts of San Felix, San Lorenzo, and Remedios
Population Sector: Ngöbe-Buglé peoples
Cooperation Sector: Construction
Emergency project for defense and campaign of people unjustly accused of terrorism in Peru
The project accomplished two great actions in Peru. 1) Defense of people unjustly accused of terrorism which were in jails around the entire country, and 2) political propositions given to the government of Peru that modified special laws that regulate terrorism crime, at the same time demanding the creation mechanisms for the review of cases that took place unjustly and for people who were unjustly sentenced for this crime.
Counterpart: Pro- Human Rights Association of Peru
Benefitted Population: 142 people unjustly accused of terrorism
Population Sector: Jailed peoples
Cooperation Sector: Human rights
Emergency project for legal defense and social help for people unjustly accused of terrorism
The project continues the previous campaign in favor of the liberty of unjustly jailed peoples accused of terrorism, as well as offering social help (sanitary and transport) for those already freed from jail.
Counterpart: Pro- Human Rights Association of Peru
Benefitted Population: 142 cases of people unjustly accused of terrorism
Population Sector: Population victims of human rights violations
Cooperation Sector: Human rights
Communication and environment (Ecology and development)
The project centers around the accomplishment of awareness for the general population, through distinct means of communication, about the importance of ecological conservation and the environment of the area. Furthermore, the project intends to modificate mining activities, the diffusion of certain legal aspects, creation of accords and plans to help solve the problem of ecological and environmental contamination.
Counterpart: Center of Popular Culture (LABOR)
Benefitted Population: 2,000 rural people, mine workers, primary and secondary educators, and functionaries of the Peru´s Ministry of Education, Energy and Mines, and Agriculture
Population Sector: Organized people and workers in the private and public sector
Cooperation Sector: Environment
Agro-ecological and socio-economic recuperation, with clubs of mothers of rural communities in the rural zone of Tarapoto Metropolitano
The project intends to contribute to the improvement of environmental conditions in Tarapoto Metropolitano, creating a zone of agricultural recuperation. Furthermore, the project will include the organization of women.
Counterpart: Institute for Development and Peace in the Amazon
Benefitted Population: 750 women, organized in 25 Mothers´ Clubs in Tarapoto Metropolitano
Population Sector: Rural women
Cooperation Sector: Production, ecology, and enablement
Primary intercultural bilingual education in Aguaruna and Huambisa of the Alto Marañon
This project continues the bilingual Program of Formation in the Peruvian Amazon region. It intends to increase the quality of intercultural bilingual education of Aguarunan and Huambisan children in schools. It is completing the teaching of the Program and in professional practice, forming new teachings in primary education, elaborating acquired didactic educational materials, supervising the centers of application of the program, and aiding teachers in their service.
Counterpart: Interethnical Association for Development in the Peruvian Jungle
Benefitted Population: 39 students from Aguaruna and Huambisa of the Department of Formation and 656 primary school aged children. Indirectly: 30,000 people
Population Sector: Indigenous communities
Cooperation Sector: Education
Program of improvement of the health of the indigenous population of Achuar through the construction of artisan wells, Alto Amazonas, Peru.
The project intends to contribute to the improvement of health for the 16 communities of Alto Amazonas, where the death rate has increased due to the contaminated waters of the river. The project will construct artisan wells in each community to facilitate clean water.
Counterpart: ORACH, Achuar Chayat Organization
Benefitted Population: 16 communities of the Alto Amazonas (about 3,850 people)
Population Sector: Indigenous population
Cooperation Sector: Health, environmental cleanliness
Basic program of environmental control in national fishing
The project attempts the completion of environmental studies in the bays of the fishing ports most effected by contamination brought about by the fishing industry. Equally, the project will coordinate with the Association of Municipal Peruvian Coastal Zones (AMULPE) for the completion of awareness actions and proposals to the general population, industries, and central administration of the country.
Counterpart: Intitute for the Development of Fishing and Mining (IPEMÍN)
Benefitted Population: Fishers, local institutions and organizations, in the project and the general fishing population.
Population Sector: Fishers and the general population in fishing ports
Cooperation Sector: Environment, awareness.
Health and environmental sanity in San Felipe, Lueperón, and Imbert
Enablement of community promotors of health, construction of latrines, and elaboration of a proposition for the plan of health in the province, with the cooperation of the communities.
Counterpart: CIPROS, Center for Investigation and Social Promotion
Benefitted Population: 10,355 people
Population Sector: Rural and urban population
Cooperation Sector: Health
Awareness and Education for Development Projects
Move So Things Can Happen (Muévete para que pasen cosas)
Program of action-formation for awareness in scholarly centers.
Young Europeans Against Racism
This program consists of the convocation of a collection of drawings from young people in European countries such as Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, and Spain.
Survive
The objective of this program is the creation of a social, economical, and political network that sets and/or communicates the multiple spaces and initiatives that from the south elaborate and practice as resistance, response, and alternatives to the only-thought systems. The program developed in Valencia, organized by ACSUD-Valencia.
Course on Gender and Cooperation for Development in Latin America
The objecives of this project are: formation of women in the area of international cooperation and the politics of development, collision of themes of cooperation from the perspective of gender, aiming at the intervention of assosciations of women. This course developed in Valenica, organized by ACSUD-Valencia.
Women, Cooperation, and Development in Latin America
Program of formation and awareness concerning gender and development that lasts 147 hours (course, workshop, monothematics). In 1997, the project initiated the process of developing a publication with the contribution of the program taht will be volume 2 of Cuadernos de Asturias (Notebooks from Asturias).
Formation Course of the Professorate
Its objective is to supply information and basic knowledge in material of cooperation for development with an specific orientation to teaching.
And You...How Do You See It?
Last phase of the program that the Youth Section, with support from the Area of Education for Development, has been developing since 1994. With it, we have put in place an outreach towards educators of youth, theoretical materials, methodological orientations, practical activities, and audio-visual documents with the end of promoting an exchange of attitudes toward suppression and intolerance, xenophobia, racism, and the stimulation of tolerance values, respect, and curiosity for diversity.
This Is Our People
Program aimed at the promotion of solidarity and knowledge of human rights: the right to develop of the towns of the South. Full of conjoint integrated activities (publications, theatrical representations, videos, children´s stories, unified teachings...) with the objective of creating a network of active and stable solidarity by social organizations in our country, together with organizations from Central America and the Carribean, dedicated to the goal of the promotion of the right to develop in many areas.
Once upon a time...the South
Project aimed at the awareness in universities about the importance of cooperation for development. It basically consists of an exposition that has been shown in several universities in Spain, with the collaboration of student associations.
International Encounter: "Women, Cooperation, and Development on the 50th Anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights"
Enmarked in a global line, in association with the rest of the organization, of promoting exchanges and work meetings with the goal of facilitating the elaboration of consensual and common proposals in the field of gender, with an international cooperation for development. The group Women and Development from the delegation of Asturias organized this encounter with the objective to create a forum of debate concerning human rights and rights of women, from the strategic point of view and a point of view of action.
Cultural Courses and Activities
Courses of "Unequal North/South" in collaboration with the Universidad Popular de Gijón y Jornadas concerning the "development rights."
Survival- 2nd Phase
The project Survival 2: New Roads for Solidarity continues the work began by the project Survival wotj social movements in Valencia with the objective of creating a social, cultural, economical, and political network, that demonstrates the many spaces and initiatives in the South that elaborate and practice as resistance, response, and alternatives of the impositions of unified and systematic thought.
For this year, the organizations of Central America that participated in the past year: CEASPA, CDM, Communal Nicaraguan Movement, Youth Work of FUNDESCO. The following have confirmed their participation for this year: ADP, Quality of Honduran Life, ADEJUC, and UDINOV of Guatemala.
Look to Your North, Find Your South
The objective of this project is the formation of educators and other peoples that will be capable of finishing work of awareness, understood as a modification of negative attitudes and values of our society and the generation of solidarity responses from tolerance.
Genetic Patents
The program´s objective is to facilitate democratic public and social debate about the possible uses and abuses of genetics and genetic engineering. This is organized by ACSUD-Valencia, in coordination and collaboration with numerous ecological and solidarity organizations.
93.Decentralized Cooperation
The objective is to profound the knowledge of the important modality of the cooperation for development through the work of its protagonists.