Inter-American Foundation

 An Independent Agency of the U.S. Government 

 FISCAL YEAR 2008 

 ANNUAL GRANT RESULTS REPORT 
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Cover: A shrimp farmer in Usulután, El Salvador, is one of 500 participants in an IAF-funded 

project undertaken by the Asociación Salvadoreña de Desarrollo Campesino (ASDEC). 

Photo: Luis González. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Executive Summary........................................................................................................................ 3 

About the IAF ................................................................................................................................. 4 

About this Report............................................................................................................................ 4 

Methodology................................................................................................................................... 5 

Measuring Results........................................................................................................................... 6 

Effective Development that Improves the Quality of Life ......................................................... 7

Housing................................................................................................................................... 7 

Nutrition.................................................................................................................................. 7 

Access to Water and Health Care ........................................................................................... 8

Training................................................................................................................................. 10 

Creating Jobs......................................................................................................................... 12 

Increasing Income................................................................................................................. 13 

Access to Credit .................................................................................................................... 14 

Broader Participation in the Development Process and Broader Engagement in Democratic 

Practices .................................................................................................................................... 16 

Toward Full Inclusion........................................................................................................... 16

 African Descendants .......................................................................................................... 16

 Indigenous Peoples ............................................................................................................ 17

 People with Disabilities ..................................................................................................... 19

 Women............................................................................................................................... 19

 Young People..................................................................................................................... 20

Access to Information........................................................................................................... 21

Participatory Decision-Making............................................................................................. 22

More Resources for Grassroots Development .......................................................................... 24

Resources Mobilized............................................................................................................. 24

Resources Brokered .............................................................................................................. 24

Better Understanding of Grassroots Development ................................................................... 28

Dissemination of Experiences and Practices ........................................................................ 28

Replication of Methods and Techniques............................................................................... 28

Rapid Assessments of Selected RedEAmérica Projects ........................................................... 30

Findings from Colombia....................................................................................................... 30 

Findings from Chile .............................................................................................................. 31 

Organizations Referenced in this Report ...................................................................................... 33 

Selected Additional Tables........................................................................................................... 35 

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Executive Summary 

Results data gathered in the 12-month period ending in September 2008 reveal the following: 

• More than 8,700 beneficiaries improved their diet. 

• More than 12,800 beneficiaries received medical attention. 

• Close to 2,400 individuals benefited from access to clean water. 

• IAF grantees helped improve 322 homes. 

• Registration in courses, workshops and seminars in agriculture counted more than 21,900 

individuals; in civic participation, approximately 16,700; in management, close to 

14,000; and in topics related to manufacturing, more than 9,200. 

• IAF grantees created 350 full-time and 456 part-time permanent positions and 1,280 fulltime and 725 part-time seasonal positions. 

• 1,660 organizations had some type of formal or informal relationship with IAF grantees. 

• Of the 598 organizations working in partnership with IAF grantees, 395 became partners 

during FY-08, the year during which reports were submitted. 

• Grantees mobilized $4.3 million and brokered another $1.1 million for project activities, 

or a total of $5.4 million ($4.2 million in cash and $1.2 million in kind). 

• Businesses located near IAF projects contributed more than $565,000, mostly in cash, to 

the IAF grantees; local governments contributed $670,000. 

• International nonprofit organizations contributed over $662,000 to IAF grantees. 

• IAF grantees extended more than 4,800 loans that averaged $596 each. Loans for 

business development represented 48 percent of the total and averaged $530 each. 

• In 17 of the 18 countries where the IAF funds projects, grantees disseminated information 

on approaches, practices and/or techniques. Haiti was the exception. 

Highlights from RedEAmérica’s Programs in Colombia and Chile. 

Colombia: 

• RedEAmérica members working together as the Colombian National Fund are committed 

to fostering grassroots development to reduce poverty in the vicinity of their operations. 

• The CNF has mobilized $230,000 from Acción Social and $250,000 from CODESPA. 

• Each corporate foundation in the CNF contributed $67,500 to the Fund over a three-year 

period. 

• RedEAmérica partners also provide technical assistance to subgrantees they support. 

Chile: 

• The Chilean corporate foundations find areas of interest, gather base groups, explain their 

objectives, help applicants design proposals, award subgrants and provide the technical 

assistance necessary for the projects to succeed. 

• Of those reviewed, Fundación Pehuén has mobilized the most resources for grassroots 

development, followed by Corporación Sociedad Activa and Fundación Telefónica. 

ENDESA, a power company, and CONADI, the government agency in charge of 

indigenous matters, are Pehuén’s major contributors. 

• Fundación Pehuén and Fundación Telefónica have switched from funding charity to 

supporting grassroots development projects as a result of their agreements with the IAF. 

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ABOUT THE IAF 

The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) an 

independent foreign assistance agency of the 

United States government provides grants 

for grassroots development in Latin America 

and the Caribbean. Created by Congress in 

1969, the IAF responds to self-help 

development projects proposed by 

grassroots groups and organizations that 

support them. It also encourages 

partnerships among community 

organizations, businesses and local 

government directed at improving the 

quality of life for poor people and 

strengthening democratic practices. To 

contribute to a better understanding of the 

development process, the IAF shares its 

experiences through its publications and in a 

variety of fora. 

The Inter-American Foundation is governed 

by a board of directors appointed by the 

president of the United States and confirmed 

by the U.S. Senate. Six members are drawn 

from the private sector and three from the 

federal government. The board is assisted by 

an advisory council. A president, appointed 

by the board, serves as the Inter-American 

Foundation’s chief executive officer, 

managing a staff of 47 employees based in 

Arlington, Virginia. 

Congress appropriates funds annually for the 

Inter-American Foundation. The IAF also 

has access to the Social Progress Trust Fund 

administered by the Inter-American 

Development Bank and consisting of 

payments on U.S. government loans 

extended under the Alliance for Progress to 

various Latin American and Caribbean 

governments. Since 1972, the IAF has made 

4,773 grants for more than $631 million. 

Together, the IAF and its grantees have 

improved the conditions of hundreds of 

thousands of poor families in communities 

throughout the hemisphere. 

ABOUT THIS REPORT 

This is the IAF’s 10th report in response to 

the Government Performance and Results 

Act of 1993, requiring all federal agencies to 

document and report results of strategic 

plans and performance goals for the fiscal 

year. It summarizes the results of grants 

active in fiscal year 2008. The report is 

based on data collected twice a year and 

forwarded to the IAF in compliance with the 

respective grant agreements. A cadre of incountry data-verifiers contracted by the IAF 

corroborates the data and comments on 

factors that facilitated or impeded 

achievement of the grantees’ objectives. 

IAF data-verifiers have been visiting grantee 

sites for nine years. They meet with the staff 

of the Evaluation Office at an annual 

conference to review techniques, concepts 

and definitions and discuss problems 

encountered in collecting data. On-site 

experience with grantees and participation in 

the conference help contractors develop 

their skills, resulting in more accurate 

reporting.

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METHODOLOGY 

What is grassroots development? 

The Inter-American Foundation uses the 

term “grassroots development” to describe 

the process by which disadvantaged people 

organize themselves to improve social, 

cultural and economic conditions. 

What is the Grassroots Development 

Framework? 

The IAF designed and developed the 

Grassroots Development Framework (GDF) 

to collect and assess results data. A practical 

tool consisting of a menu of 40 indicators, it 

measures the tangible results of the projects, 

as well as the subtler, no less vital, 

intangible effects, and their impact on the 

individuals, groups and communities. 

How does it work? 

The premise of the GDF is that grassroots 

development produces results at three levels, 

and important tangible and intangible results 

should be taken into account. In business, 

profits are the bottom line. In grassroots 

development, a project must generate 

material improvements in the quality of life 

of the poor. Because poverty entails not only 

lack of income but also lack of access to a 

range of basic services (including education, 

health care and housing), as well as 

insufficient opportunity for active civic 

participation, the GDF draws these 

indicators into a single tool. 

 The IAF’s experience has demonstrated that 

each project can plant a seed for change and 

that grassroots development produces results 

not only for individuals but also for 

organizations and society. The cone shape of 

the GDF portrays the potential impact of 

grassroots development, progressing from 

individuals and families, to organizations, to 

the community or society at large — the 

three levels of the GDF. 

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MEASURING RESULTS 

This report matches four of the IAF’s strategic goals for fiscal 2008 to indicators relevant to the 

achievement of those goals. 

IAF Strategic Goals and Indicators 

Strategic goal Indicator 

EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT THAT 

IMPROVES THE QUALITY OF LIFE 

• Housing 

• Nutrition 

• Access to water and health care 

• Training 

• Creating jobs 

• Increasing income 

• Access to credit 

BROADER PARTICIPATION IN THE 

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AND 

BROADER ENGAGEMENT IN 

DEMOCRATIC PRACTICES 

• Inclusion of marginalized and excluded 

groups: African descendants, 

indigenous peoples, people with 

disabilities, women and young people 

• Access to information 

• Participatory decision-making 

MORE RESOURCES FOR 

GRASSROOTS DEVELOPMENT 

• Resources mobilized 

• Resources brokered 

BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF 

GRASSROOTS DEVELOPMENT 

• Dissemination of successful approaches, 

practices and techniques 

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EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT THAT IMPROVES THE 

QUALITY OF LIFE 

IAF delivers development assistance to 

organizations of poor people in Latin 

America and the Caribbean. In fiscal 2008, 

this had a positive impact on the lives of 

99,500 individuals. 

 

HOUSING

Asociación de Pobladores por el Desarrollo 

a Escala Humana en el Ámbito Local 

(PRODEHL) is helping raise the standard of 

living of low-income families in León, 

Nicaragua, by improving their housing. 

More than 250 persons, 80 percent of them 

women, were trained in masonry, types of 

construction materials and building 

techniques. PRODEHL created a revolving 

loan fund that extended more than 300 

loans, averaging $392 each, to families 

repairing roofs, floors and walls and 

connecting their homes to the water supply 

and sanitation system. More than 70 per cent 

of the borrowers were women. 

NUTRITION

IAF supported 13 projects designed to 

diversify food production and improve 

nutrition. Six Panamanian grantees reported 

having improved their beneficiaries’ diet; 

four grantees in El Salvador, two in Bolivia 

and one in Mexico reported improving the 

reliability of the food supply. Examples 

follow: 

 TUKUYPAJ is undertaking a 

community-managed trout-farming 

project to diversify food production and 

improve nutrition, especially among 

children, in the department of 

Cochabamba, Bolivia. Close to 1,400 

Bolivians benefited in the municipality 

of Sacaba. In 2006, participants began 

breeding fingerlings in high valley 

lagoons filled by regular rainfall. By 

2007, 277 families were regularly 

enjoying trout. Consumption increased 

as well in 2008. 

 The Instituto Para el Hombre, 

Agricultura y Ecologia (IPHAE) in 

Bolivia’s North Amazon region, is 

improving the reliability of the food 

supply through diversified farming in 

secondary and degraded forest areas and 

by developing value-added products 

from peach palm, cacao and other crops. 

More than 2,500 Bolivians benefited 

from the increased production of crops 

that included chestnuts, citrus fruits and 

cupuazú, a relative of cacao. Traditional 

crops such as sorghum, pigeon peas and 

rice were also cultivated. 

 Six grantees in Panama improved the 

local diet by including a sustainable 

agriculture component in their projects. 

Increased crop production benefited 

3,610 Panamanians. One grantee, the 

Asociación Programa Vergüense de 

Desarrollo Ecológico Sostenible 

(PROVERDES), worked with 

indigenous farmers in the province of 

Veraguas, teaching them to diversify and 

to apply farming methods compatible 

with the responsible use of the 

environment. Another, Asociación de 

Productores Agropecuario Forestal San 

Franciso de Asís (APAFSA), helped 

farmers correct damaging practices. 

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Courtesy of PROVERDES 

Anita Sire, a farmer in the indigenous 

community of Guayabalito, Panama, carries 

kidney beans. 

 Farmers working with IAF grantee 

Alternare in Michoacán, Mexico, now 

use organic methods to plant basic grains 

and vegetables. Since Alternare began 

work in 2002, more than 1,200 Mexicans 

have benefited from crops yielding more 

food with greater nutritional value for 

household consumption. 

ACCESS TO WATER AND HEALTH CARE

Nearly 20 percent of the world’s population 

does not have ready access to drinking water 

and 40 percent lack sanitation facilities. The 

vast majority of these people are in 

developing countries. Clean water for 

drinking and sanitation is essential to wellbeing and development. In 2008, the IAF 

supported five grantees, three in Panama, 

working to improve access to potable water: 

 Fundación para la Superación de la 

Pobreza (FUNSUPO) funded 

construction of a water system in Boo 

Yala, a Kuna community approximately 

seven miles from Panama City. 

 

 Asociación para el Fomento del Turismo

(AFOTUR) constructed two new 

aqueducts in the hamlets of La Bonga 

del Río de Pequení and Tusipono 

Emberá, in the Chagres National Park, 

benefiting 138 indigenous Panamanians. 

 Fundación Instituto Panameño de 

Desarrollo Humano y Municipal 

(FIPADEHM) is training local groups 

and municipal authorities in several 

corregimientos (subdistricts) to mobilize 

resources and design and undertake 

development projects. As a result, two 

aqueducts were built in the subdistricts

of Palanque and in Cerro Casa, 

benefiting, respectively, 739 and 73 

residents, mostly of African descent. 

 Alexis Pino 

A young resident of El Congal in Colón 

enjoys clean tap water from the system 

installed by IAF grantee FIPADEHM. 

 Equipo Técnico de Fortalecimiento 

Comunitario (TENTAPEGUA) refitted a 

water pump system, which gave 15 

Guarani families in southern 

Chuquisaca, Bolivia, access to water for 

personal use and for their livestock. 

 Asociación Civil "Una Casa un Sueño" 

(UCUS) is training residents of Villa del 

Chancho in Montevideo to construct 

permanent homes to replace shelters 

improvised from cardboard and tin and 

lacking connection to water, electricity 

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and sewer services. The grantee expects 

to build at least 25 homes on land 

donated by the municipality. During the 

reporting period, UCUS in partnership 

with Fundación Viven and Un Techo 

para Mi País built 12 temporary units 

with bathrooms on land donated by the 

Fundación Don Pedro to lodge 35 

participants awaiting construction 

permits. 

Significant gaps exist in the delivery of 

health care to rural Latin Americans. IAF 

grantees are working to close the gap by 

providing services in poor communities. 

 IAF grantee Asociación de Salud y 

Desarrollo Rxiin Tnamet (RXIIN) 

reaches some 7,000 people, mostly 

indigenous women and young children, 

with its program of preventive measures, 

medical attention, education, and 

community organization. RXIIN uses its 

cadre of trained volunteers to reduce the 

 Courtesy of Rxiin Tnamet 

A nurse weighs a toddler at a clinic run 

by IAF grantee Rxiin Tnamet in 

Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. 

prevalence of diarrhea and respiratory 

diseases thereby reducing infant 

mortality. During the reporting period, 

more than 11,000 patients were treated 

in RXIIN’s three clinics offering 

services such as contraception, prenatal 

care and weight control. RXIIN 

inoculated over 250 infants and children 

with the DPT vaccine and immunized 

250 expectant mothers against tetanus. 

 Fundación Salud Integral y Desarrollo 

Comunitario (SIDECO) trained 49 

traditional health workers in indigenous 

practices using medicinal plants to 

address basic health concerns of 

approximately 7,000 residents in the 

municipality of Antonio Ante in 

Imbabura province, Ecuador. SIDECO is 

constructing a community health center 

and, in collaboration with the 

Ecuadorian Ministry of Public Health, 

began collecting medical information 

from approximately 900 residents (85 

percent of them of indigenous descent) 

as part of a health assessment.

 In addition to improving access to clean 

water for Emberá Panamanians, which is 

important in preventing diseases such as 

typhoid and cholera, AFOTUR, supra, is 

coordinating the promotion of 

awareness, behavioral change and better 

health practices. In La Bonga del Río de 

Pequení, AFOTUR collaborated with the 

Panamanian Ministry of Health in 

offering 78 indigenous residents 

obstetric services, dental work and 

physicals.

 Fundación Internacional de la 

Comunidad (FIC) and the Ford 

Foundation funded a community health 

center where 30 Mexicans from Ejido 

Alfredo V. Bonfil in Baja California 

received medical attention. 

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 UCUS, supra, partnered with the 

municipal mobile health clinic to 

vaccinate 68 Uruguayans against 

tetanus. Those vaccinated were building 

temporary housing for Villa del Chancho 

residents. 

TRAINING 

Training was an important element in most 

IAF-funded projects in 2008. Eighty-eight 

percent of all IAF grantees reported offering 

on-the-job training, courses or workshops of 

one to several days. Grantees also provided 

technical assistance to complement or 

reinforce material learned. The most 

common topics were agriculture, civic 

participation, business management and 

manufacturing. (See Table 1.) Examples 

follow: 

 APAFSA is offering training and 

technical assistance in sustainable 

agriculture, environmental conservation 

techniques and reforestation to farmers 

in the south-central province of Herrera. 

Close to 150 Panamanians, of whom 35 

percent were women, participated in the 

various workshops. 

 Asociación de Productores de Leche de 

Paysandú (APLP) trained 125 

Uruguayan farmers in workshops on 

sheep husbandry, shearing and meat 

traceability (the ability to trace meat 

back to the farm or animal of origin), 

whose application the Uruguayan 

government plans to require by 2010 in 

an effort to help the farmers stay ahead 

of Argentine and Brazilian competitors. 

 Pronatura Noreste (PNE) works to 

preserve the ecosystem of the Laguna 

Madre de Tamaulipas, Mexico, by 

reducing dependence on harmful fishing 

practices and by educating children on 

the environment. PNE’s four-month 

program for 265 fourth and fifth graders 

in Carbajal, Carboneras, Mano de León 

and Higuerillas used a drawing contest 

as motivation. The winner received a 

bicycle. 

 Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Mujer 

(FUNDE MUJER) trained 144 

Nicaraguan women entrepreneurs in the 

urban communities of Estelí and 

Condega, department of Estelí, in basic 

accounting, business administration, 

credit management and marketing. Many 

of the trainees felt confident enough to 

apply for loans to start new businesses or 

expand existing ventures. 

. Delia Sevilla 

Karla Patricia Montenegro Morales, a 

FUNDEMUJER beneficiary, wraps sweets 

to be sold in her candy store. 

Far more important than the number of 

people trained is whether they apply what 

they learned (see Table 2). In 2008, more 

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than 70,000 graduates of IAF-funded 

training applied new skills to their activities, 

especially in agriculture: 

 The 560 Bolivian alpaca herders trained 

by Protección del Medio Ambiente 

Tarija (PROMETA) expanded pastures 

and increased fodder production without 

relying on chemical fertilizers by 

applying their mastery of traditional 

indigenous techniques that had almost 

been lost. 

 More than 600 Peruvian livestock 

producers participating in workshops 

offered by the Asociación de 

Productores Agropecuarios de 

Chuquibamba (APROACH) in the 

Arequipa region applied practices related 

to animal nutrition and health, forage 

production and genetic enhancement. 

 More than 1,000 Mexican farmers 

applied newly mastered agricultural 

practices. Close to 60 percent of them 

were served by ALTERNARE and 

employed organic methods to produce 

vegetables. 

Table 1: Beneficiaries reporting the acquisition of knowledge and/or skills 

Knowledge/Skills Men % Women % Total 

Agriculture 13,668 62% 8,255 38% 21,923

Civic participation 6,307 38% 10,399 62% 16,706

Construction 529 49% 551 51% 1,080

Domestic relations 1,111 42% 1,515 58% 2,626

Environmental 3,256 63% 1,934 37% 5,190

Finance 1,500 29% 3,604 71% 5,104

Health 674 31% 1,473 69% 2,147

Leadership 3,791 49% 4,006 51% 7,797

Legal system 3,589 42% 4,944 58% 8,533

Manufacturing 2,547 27% 6,730 73% 9,277

Marketing 2,092 39% 3,299 61% 5,391

Planning & administration 6,075 45% 7,536 55% 13,611

Political system 1,152 48% 1,233 52% 2,385

Table 2: Beneficiaries reporting the application of new knowledge and/or skills 

Knowledge/Skills Men % Women % Total 

Agriculture 9,128 66% 4,682 34% 13,810

Civic participation 3,638 48% 3,899 52% 7,537

Construction 604 52% 548 48% 1,152

Environmental 4,318 59% 2,978 41% 7,296

Finance 2,129 44% 2,720 56% 4,849

Health 417 25% 1,219 75% 1,636

Leadership 2,730 46% 3,149 54% 5,879

Legal system 3,454 41% 4,971 59% 8,425

Manufacturing 674 21% 2,470 79% 3,144

Marketing 1,455 44% 1,851 56% 3,306

Planning & administration 5,508 51% 5,306 49% 10,814

Political system 1,016 39% 1,568 61% 2,584

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CREATING JOBS

Many IAF grants include a training 

component intended to prepare trainees for 

employment. Training offered by IAF 

grantees is linked to the creation of close to 

800 permanent jobs and 2,000 seasonal jobs. 

 Four Nicaraguan grantees helped create 

close to 230 new permanent jobs. By 

offering training, technical assistance 

and microloans, FUNDE MUJER 

assisted 38 women in starting successful 

businesses. Their bakeries, candy shops, 

beauty salons and clothing, tortilla and 

handicraft enterprises employ 74 

workers. 

 Fundación para la Tecnología y el 

Desarrollo Latinoamericano - 

Ecuatoriano (FTDE) is assisting 600 

Afro-Ecuadorian and mestizo families 

from approximately 30 rural 

communities in organizing to start and 

operate collective microbusinesses. 

Working together in defined groups, 18 

communities received loans of $1,800 

each from FTDE, which they used to 

build and equip a collection and 

processing center in the community of 

Abdón Calderón, a cacao-producing area 

southwest of Cuenca, Ecuador’s third 

largest city. FTDE created the loan fund 

with $145,000 from the IAF. The 

construction resulted in 46 temporary 

jobs and 55 new producers are currently 

supplying the center. FTDE also assisted 

20 shellfish traders with training and 

loans toward starting businesses that 

buy, shuck and resell fresh shrimp. 

 Cacao production was also the principal 

activity for Peruvian farmers living 

along the border with Ecuador. For 

many, cacao provides the only reliable 

income earned by remaining in the area, 

so development of this sector reduces the 

tendency to migrate. In this area of 

northern Peru, Programa Integral para el 

Desarrollo del Café (PIDECAFE) is 

coordinating training, technical 

assistance, post-harvest processing and 

marketing services for approximately 

760 farmers as part of a regional 

program to export organic cacao and 

granulated brown sugar. Of the 40 

seasonal jobs the grantee created, 37 

were related to cacao and three to sugar 

production. The cacao-processing 

facility rehires the seasonal workers for 

every harvest. 

 Haitian Partners for Christian 

Development (HPCD) created a business 

incubator in Port-au-Prince to support 

the development of start-up enterprises 

with technical assistance, mentoring and 

group training as well as workspaces, 

electricity, security, communications, 

and secretarial and bookkeeping 

services. In fiscal 2008, Best Quality 

Production, a participant in the project 

landed contracts to make bags and lunch 

boxes for the International Red Cross 

and Digicel, a mobile phone company. 

As a result, Best Quality hired an 

accountant, a secretary and 29 workers 

to help fill the orders. 

Two IAF grantees in Central America are 

working to prepare, respectively, young 

people and people with disabilities for the 

labor market. 

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Table 3: Jobs Created 

Permanent 

Jobs 

 

Seasonal 

Jobs 

 

Country 

Full 

time 

Part 

time 

Full 

time 

Part

time 

Argentina 6 0 0 14

Bolivia 7 0 1,173 19

Brazil 2 0 0 0

Ecuador 79 92 57 178

El Salvador 13 66 2 304

Haiti 31 8 34 0

Honduras 49 0 0 1

Jamaica 5 8 0 0

México 15 0 0 0

Nicaragua 139 90 0 0

Panama 0 0 0 55

Peru 0 178 0 154

Venezuela 4 14 14 0

Total 350 456 1,280 725 

 Centro de Educación Vocacional Grupo 

Juvenil Dion (GJD) is improving 

vocational training for young Hondurans 

from Tegucigalpa and their prospects for 

employment. In fiscal 2008, 39 young 

men and women trained by GJD found 

permanent jobs as electricians, 

cabinetmakers, hair stylists and 

computer programmers. 

 Fundación para la Rehabilitación 

Walking Unidos (FURWUS) is assisting 

Nicaraguans with disabilities in the cities 

of León and Quezalguaque in finding 

productive employment by addressing 

social attitudes that lead to their 

exclusion from economic life and by 

supporting individuals and businesses 

willing to hire them. FURWUS provided 

credit and technical assistance so some 

could start their own businesses. The 

loans resulted in 35 new jobs, many for 

disabled veterans. 

INCREASING INCOME

Improvement is difficult to measure 

accurately because of the reluctance to share 

information on income. Starting in fiscal 

2009, the IAF will apply a new collection 

technique to improve the reliability of 

income-related data reported. Below are 

examples of income reported for 2008. 

 Women served by Fundación Proteger 

(PROTEGER) along the Paraná River in 

Argentina, reported average incomes of 

$400 per month from the sale of fish. 

Proteger trained the women to add value 

to fish via a series of workshops on 

processing techniques and quality 

control. Some women found jobs at the 

fish-processing center in Santa Fe; 

others applied their new skills to adding 

value to their catch. 

 Peruvians producing granulated brown 

sugar for PIDECAFE, supra, reported an 

83 percent increase in household 

income, which rose from $498 in 2007 

to $910. For cacao producers, the 

average income per harvest rose from 

$117 to $238 as a result of an increase in 

the price of the cacao from $2,200 to 

$4,500 per metric ton. 

 Asociación Especializada para el 

Desarrollo Sostenible (AEDES) 

provided credit, technical assistance and 

training for farmers growing and 

processing organic grains such as 

quinoa, wheat, barley and oats in the 

highlands of Arequipa and Puno, Peru. 

With AEDES’ assistance, farmers 

transitioned from traditional to organic 

production and sold their harvest for 

more. The average income per producer 

per harvest rose from $1,044 in 2006, to 

$1,276 in 2007, to $2,534 by the end of 

the project in 2008. 

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 Agencia de Desarrollo Económico Local 

de Sonsonate (ADEL) is helping 

Salvadoran women increase their income 

and improve their business skills through 

training in product quality, management 

and marketing. From 2007 to 2008, the 

average income rose by approximately 9 

percent, from $170 to $185. Many of the 

155 women whose income increased, 

sold produce such as passion fruit. 

Monthly revenues of between $200 and 

$250 netted a profit of 40 percent. 

ACCESS TO CREDIT

For almost 40 years, the IAF has supported 

programs that extend credit to the poor 

without requiring conventional collateral. In 

fiscal 2008, 47 grantees in 14 countries 

made 4,790 small loans totaling $2.8 million 

and averaging $596 each. Almost 44 percent 

were extended to businesses for 

development or expansion. Examples 

follow: 

 Fundación Mujer y Familia Andina 

(FUNDAMYF) disbursed more than 

$300,000 in loans to Ecuadorian 

borrowers starting or expanding 

businesses. Loans used for 

manufacturing enterprises averaged 

$348 for retailers and $307 for serviceproviders (the bulk of the loans). 

Farmers used loans averaging $288 for 

inputs such as small animals or feed. The 

program allowed many borrowers to 

change ventures. Malena Franco of 

Esmeraldas found selling cosmetics too 

competitive to be profitable and invested 

her loan in selling prepared food and in 

raising poultry. She now has more than 

700 full-grown chickens. 

 Asociación Cooperativa de Ahorro, 

Crédito y Agrícola Comunal de Paraíso 

de Osorio (COPADEO) assisted the 

recovery of Salvadoran businesses after 

the 2001 earthquake. During the 

reporting period, COPADEO’s clients 

received 238 loans worth approximately 

$300,000. Two-thirds of the borrowers 

were retailers of apparel, prepared food, 

fresh produce, poultry and seafood, 

among other products. Their average 

loan was $1,248. Agricultural loans 

averaged $1,229 and most were used for 

poultry-related activities. 

 Luis González 

Tomasa Cosme sells alboroto, a popular 

Salvadoran snack made of corn and honey. She 

borrowed $3,450 from COPADEO to purchase 

ingredients. 

 In Peru, Strategies for International 

Development (SID) used $24,000 to set 

up a loan fund administered by Caja 

Rural de Créditos y Ahorros los Andes, a 

financial institution. The fund can be 

accessed by farmers who complete a 

series of workshops in agricultural and 

management. During the first half of 

fiscal 2008, 108 livestock producers 

were extended loans for feed averaging 

$456 each. During the second half of the 

fiscal year, another 111 borrowed an 

average of $521 each for feed and 

genetic improvements. 

Loans also finance education and other 

pursuits: 

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 Fundación Internacional para la 

Promoción del Desarrollo Sostenible 

“Futuro Latinoamericano” (FFLA) 

awarded 23 loans averaging $1,087 each 

to members of an association of 

Ecuadorian fishermen in the Galapagos 

Islands working to concentrate their 

daily catch in a central collection site so 

that it can be sold in volume. Six loans 

financed the education of fishermen’s 

children on the mainland and 17 others 

were used to purchase computers for 

school. 

 Fundación Pro Vivienda Social (FPVS) 

awarded 108 loans averaging $497 each 

to connect homes in the Greater Buenos 

Aires area to the gas grid. 

Table 4: Average loan in US$

Agriculture Construction Manufacturing Business 

development 

Country Education Other 

Loans Avg. Loans Avg. Loans Avg. Loans Avg. Loans Avg. Loans Avg. 

Argentina 55 2,090 274 501 50 920 9 1,600 0 0 231 342 

Bolivia 55 2,036 59 2,277 17 1,908 134 2,334 0 0 0 0 

Colombia 13 1,130 10 2,151 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 

Dominican R. 8 2,003 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 

Ecuador 52 675 0 0 146 561 925 326 23 1,087 0 0 

El Salvador 198 786 0 0 50 1,056 274 870 0 0 0 0 

Guatemala 36 230 0 0 95 206 3 160 0 0 0 0 

Haiti 58 300 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 

Honduras 11 73 0 0 2 197 9 269 0 0 2 2,632 

Mexico 14 5,506 0 0 2 709 22 660 0 0 0 0 

Nicaragua 233 538 333 416 125 391 640 307 0 0 0 0 

Panama 19 445 1 100 0 0 40 583 0 0 2 350 

Peru 238 515 3 333 245 304 48 402 0 0 24 807 

Uruguay 2 1,470 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 

Total 992 818 680 637 732 489 2,104 534 23 1,087 259 403 

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BROADER PARTICIPATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT 

PROCESS AND BROADER ENGAGEMENT IN 

DEMOCRACTIC PRACTICES 

IAF is charged with working toward the 

inclusion of the marginalized and 

disenfranchised in their countries’ economy 

and civic life. The IAF has created 

opportunities for African descendants, 

indigenous peoples, people with disabilities, 

women and young people to participate 

meaningfully in the development process. 

TOWARD FULL INCLUSION

African descendants 

African descendants are among the poorest 

people in the hemisphere. As such, they 

have always been well represented among 

the beneficiaries of IAF grantees. More 

recently, the IAF has reached out to groups 

of African descendants organizing to 

improve conditions. 

 In 2008, the Human Rights Leadership 

Training School of Organización de 

Desarrollo Étnico Comunitario 

(ODECO), founded and run by AfroHondurans, trained 53 African 

descendants in leadership skills and 41 

in the African-descendent presence in 

the Americas. In six communities, 250 

Afro-Hondurans learned about the 

Garifuna tradition in dances, attire and 

food. ODECO also worked to develop 

Afro-Honduran ecotourism businesses 

through training and subgrants, 

including one awarded to a Garifuna 

handicraft shop in the municipality of 

Corozal, Atlántida that employs seven 

artisans who craft souvenirs from 

coconut husks and wood. 

 Norman Sagastume

Luis Fernández and the machine for polishing and 

buffing handicrafts for sale in his shop bought with 

a loan from a subgrantee funded by ODECO. 

 Fundación de Agroecología y 

Agroturismo (AGRECO) is improving 

the food security of African-descendants 

and mestizos from communities 

throughout the Abuquí Valley in 

northern Ecuador by introducing them to 

organic farming practices. During 2008, 

164 Ecuadorians participated in 

AGRECO’s workshops on the 

production of compost and learned to 

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express their concerns as a step toward 

identifying and resolving common 

problems. 

 Unión de Cooperativas de la Red de 

Humedales de la Costa de Oaxaca 

(UCRHO), a network of eight 

community-based organizations of 

Mexicans of indigenous and African 

descent on the Oaxaca coast, is 

committed to improving the quality and 

profitability of its members’ ecotourism 

services. A total of 58 members 

participated in UCRHO’s workshops on 

community tourism, environmental 

education, evaluation and planning. 

 Federación Nacional de Organizaciones 

No Gubernamentales para el Desarrollo 

de las Comunidades Afrocolombianas 

(FEDEAFRO) is using Colombian 

census data to assess the disparate 

impact of municipal support for social 

services and the implications for 

reducing inequality and poverty among 

Colombians of African and indigenous 

descent. 

More than 500 individuals participated 

in conferences held at various 

Colombian universities to discuss 

inequality, racial discrimination, 

affirmative action and the current status 

of the Afro-Colombian population. 

FEDEAFRO trained 33 Afro-Colombian 

university students in demographic and 

statistical analysis. The students will 

collect data and draft monographs for 

used by representative grassroots 

organizations in negotiating for more 

public services in poor neighborhoods. 

 FIPADEHM is working with AfroPanamanian communities in the 

province of Colón to identify their most 

serious needs and draft local 

development plans. More than 1,300 

Afro-Panamanians participated in 

seminars on community service, labor 

organization and leadership. Grassroots 

involvement has led to the construction 

of a walkway benefiting approximately 

500 Panamanians and the renovation of a 

school mess hall benefiting 125 children, 

mostly of African descent. 

Indigenous peoples 

IAF has a long history of funding the 

initiatives of indigenous groups and the 

organizations that support them in their 

struggle with exclusion, inequality and 

poverty. Two examples follow: 

 Asociación de Mujeres Aymaras 

Lecheras de Irpa Chico (AMALIC), a 

grassroots group of indigenous Bolivian 

women, is helping milk producers in the 

municipality of Viacha, La Paz 

department, expand and modernize their 

dairy businesses. During the second half 

of fiscal 2008, AMALIC bought more 

than 80,000 liters of milk from 83 

members. AMALIC’s milk processing 

center, Centro Emilia Pocoaca, 

manufactures yogurt and cheese and 

grosses more than $4,500 a month. 

 AFOTUR’s activities in ecotourism, 

supra, are improving the standard of 

living of 615 indigenous Embera 

Panamanians, many of whom took 

advantage of an IAF-funded credit 

program to start or expand related 

businesses such as handicraft shops or 

food stands. 

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 Comunidad Indígena Asháninka 

“Marankiari Bajo” (CIAMB), a 

grassroots group whose indigenous 

Asháninka members represent one of the 

42 linguistic groups in Peru’s Amazon 

jungle, worked to expand agricultural 

production through diversification and 

irrigation and assisted with post-harvest 

activities. 

The grantee had initially targeted 

planting 50 hectares with fruit trees, but 

planted 77 hectares which are 

maintained by applying responsible 

methods. The community has benefited 

from the introduction of such practices 

and the mature trees will become a 

source of income. 

Miguel Cuevas 

Edgar Arce Yumanga of CIAMB and an 

avocado sapling in the community 

nursery. 

 Alexis Pino

An Embera woman displays her handicrafts to passengers from cruise 

ships visiting her community in the Chagres National Park in Panama. 

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People with disabilities 

IAF continues to support the efforts of 

people with disabilities to participate in all 

aspects of civic and economic life. 

Examples follow: 

 Rony Corvera 

Alejandra Pacotaype Allcca, a beneficiary of 

DEIMUS from the Chuschi district in 

Ayacucho, received eight guinea pigs to start 

her microenterprise after completing her 

training in small animal management.

 On land donated by the municipality in 

the districts of Tambo and Chuschi in 

Ayacucho, Desarrollo Integral de la 

Mujer en la Sociedad Andina del Perú 

(DEIMUS) built two small centers to 

train people with physical disabilities in 

raising and marketing guinea pigs 

(cuyes). Seventy-four individuals learned 

in DEIMUS’ workshops to manage the 

animals and to produce forage for use 

with other crops to feed guinea pigs. 

Close to 200 people with disabilities are 

eligible for DEIMUS’ program of 

training, technical assistance and credit. 

Upon completion of their training, 42 

participants received eight guinea pigs 

(one male and seven females) to start 

their enterprises. Trainees can also 

apply, individually or as a group, for a 

loan to purchase materials and cuyes to 

start an enterprise. 

 

 Centro de Atención Infantil “Piña 

Palmera” promotes independent living 

for Mexicans with disabilities. Among 

its activities are workshops directed at 

teachers, local authorities and the 

community to raise awareness around 

people with disabilities; workshops to 

inform family members about domestic 

violence, self-esteem, gender equity and 

types of disabilities; special events to 

promote participation in games and 

sports for people with disabilities; and 

vocational training to prepare young 

people with disabilities for the labor 

market. 

The sports event brought people with 

and without disabilities together to 

compete in swim meets, basketball 

games and track and field events. 

Workshops on gender equality and 

communication were also well received; 

especially by the young people in the 

leadership group. In all, 155 individuals 

benefited from the workshops. 

Women 

The IAF is committed to funding assistance 

that improves the lives of women. A key 

consideration in all IAF awards is evidence 

of women’s participation. The IAF funds 

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women organizations as well. Some 

examples follow. 

 Fundación Taigüey assisted Dominican 

women who had organized in La 

Ciénaga, Barahona in formalizing 

Cooperativa para el Desarrollo de La 

Ciénaga (COODECI), which offers 

employment to its members processing 

local produce. The cooperative’s 

application for status as a legally 

constituted entity is now pending. The 

jams and jellies it sells to niche markets 

will earn income for 100 individuals and 

another 250 will benefit indirectly. 

 Sandra Lafontaine 

Two COODECI members, Adria María 

Féliz and Josefa Gómez, wash bananas 

for their cooperative’s shimmering 

homemade marmalade. 

 The Nicaragua organization FUNDE 

MUJER, supra, has participated in 

several conferences on women issues 

sponsored by local universities, in an 

international microfinance forum in 

Guatemala and in regional events that 

include a forum for female microentrepreneurs and an ecological fair. 

FUNDE MUJER is supporting the 

development of a strategic plan by the 

Association of Female MicroEntrepreneurs of Estelí (AMME) and 

training for its members. 

 

 Sagrada Tierra is working to improve the 

income level of indigenous Guatemalan 

women and their families in the 

community of Boloncó. The women, all 

members of the Asociación Mujer Maya 

(ASMUMA), are being trained in 

baking, dressmaking, business 

organization and management, and 

marketing. Approximately 80 

participated in the workshops and 60 are 

applying their skills in baking and 

dressmaking in their jobs. Demand in 

Boloncó and two adjacent towns, Raxaja 

and Tuila, is soaring as residents take 

advantage of the opportunity to buy 

fresh bread still hot from the oven. 

Young people 

The IAF encourages the notion that all 

people be afforded the opportunity to 

develop their potential by providing them 

the means to obtain life skills and capacities 

which would ultimately increase their 

employability, self-confidence, leadership, 

and sense of belonging to the community.

Enabling young people to become full and 

active partners in the development process is 

what the IAF has been striving for over the 

past decade. 

 Fundación ph15 para las Artes (ph15) is 

training young Argentines from “Ciudad 

Oculta,” an impoverished neighborhood 

on the outskirt of Buenos Aires, in 

photography as a means to develop skills 

and improve their employment prospects 

and, subsequently, social inclusion. 

About 150 teenagers, two-thirds of them 

women, have participated in weekly 

beginning and advanced courses using 

film and digital cameras. 

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Courtesy of ph15 

An instructor from ph15 helps a young 

photographer from Ciudad Oculta set up 

his equipment. 

 Fundación Defensores del Chaco (DCH) 

and its partners used neighborhood 

sports leagues and cultural activities to 

promote civic participation. 

Approximately 2500 Argentines learned 

about civic participation and pressuregroup tactics through “neighborhood 

assemblies” or caravana cultural de los 

barrios, which emerged in the wake of 

the 2001 economic crisis as a way to 

develop grassroots solutions to problems 

faced by the poor. An additional 485 

members of soccer leagues learned about 

their rights as citizens through their 

secondary schools and community 

centers; 735 young soccer players were 

trained in conflict resolution, mediation, 

rights and leadership skills. The concept 

of organized soccer as an instrument for 

social change and community 

development originated in Germany. 

 Corporación Ser Paz (SER PAZ) is 

working with five street gangs in 

Guayaquil, Ecuador, to reduce juvenile 

delinquency and improve safety. In 

collaboration with the Servicio 

Ecuatoriano de Capacitación Profesional 

(SECAP), SER PAZ trained 520 

members of street gangs in first-aid, 

computer maintenance, graphic design, 

locksmithery and other business-related 

topics as well as leadership and selfesteem. SER PAZ offers financial 

assistance for microenterprises to those 

committed to renouncing criminal 

activity and to working with rival gang 

members.

 The Leadership School for a New 

Millennium (LSNM) developed by 

Movimiento Mi Cometa (Mi Cometa) 

offers young adults the opportunity to 

learn about civic responsibility and 

democratic leadership and to undertake 

small development projects. More than 

200 young people trained in fiscal 2008 

assumed leadership positions in cultural, 

religious, social and sports 

organizations. All trainees participated 

in drafting the “youth manifesto” 

delivered to the Constituent Assembly 

rewriting the Ecuadorian constitution.

The AVINA Foundation awarded Mi 

Cometa $25,000 to allow its young 

beneficiaries to draft an agenda 

clarifying the rights of young people for 

the Ecuadorian government to adopt 

with the new constitution.

BROADER ENGAGEMENT IN DEMOCRATIC 

PRACTICES

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

To participate more fully in the decisions 

that affect their lives, people need good, 

reliable information. 

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The IAF encourages grantees to provide 

clear information on policies, programs and 

finances. More than three-quarters of those 

reporting on indicators related to “access to 

information” were rated high, and the rest 

were rated medium with one exception. 

Three examples follow. 

 Servicios Ambientales de Oaxaca (SAO) 

is working with indigenous communities 

to improve their management of natural 

resources in Mexico. SAO keeps 

beneficiaries and local officials informed 

through a series of events that address 

ecosystems, environmental services, 

internal control systems and other topics. 

 Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples 

Desarrollo Integral de Gualaca (COOP) 

is training young people and other 

community residents to offer ecotourism 

services to Panamanian and international 

tourists visiting the Gualaca district in 

Chiriqui. COOP staff provides monthly 

updates on its project to beneficiaries, 

associates and others involved and meet 

frequently with staff from the Instituto 

Panameño Autónomo Cooperativo 

(IPACOOP), which provides the grantee 

guidance in managing the organization 

and its finances. 

 People’s Action for Community 

Transformation (PACT) in collaboration 

with Local Initiative Facility for the 

Urban Environment (LIFE) is providing 

microcredit to individuals and groups for 

business ventures. PACT/LIFE meets 

with beneficiaries to keep them informed 

on its programs, policies and progress 

with its project. It held three board 

meetings in addition to staff meetings on 

operations, achievements and 

challenges. PACT/LIFE informed 

donors such as the Environmental 

Foundation of Jamaica and the GEF 

Small Grants Programme, and 

community groups on its community 

development approach and success with 

resource mobilization. 

PARTICIPATORY DECISION-MAKING

The IAF encourages its grantees to include 

their beneficiaries in their decision-making. 

During fiscal 2008, slightly more than half 

of the grantees reporting on the indicator on 

“participatory decision-making” were rated 

high. These included the following: 

 The APLP in Uruguay encourages 

participation in "mesas zonales" (akin to 

neighborhood boards) that plan and 

negotiate solutions to community 

concerns. 

 During the construction of a new water 

system that included a storage tank, a 

pump and distribution pipes, in the Boo 

Yala community, Panamanian grantee 

FUNSUPO maintained an open dialogue 

with residents, the community’s board of 

directors, the staff of the Panamanian 

Instituto de Acueductos y 

Alcantarillados Nacionales staff and the 

general contractor. 

 Centro de Investigaciones Familia Negra 

(CIFANE) gauges the acceptance of its 

activities before initiating them. 

CIFANE is helping a group of AfroEcuadorian farmers in an area with 

limited water improve their earnings by 

diversifying their crops. Production 

goals, the quantities for sale and prices 

are negotiated among CIFANE 

technicians, farmers and buyers’ 

representatives. All farmers participate 

in the negotiations. 

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 Carlos Criollo 

José Chala, CIFANE’s director, harvests insects that live on cacti and are 

the primary source of the crimson dye, carmine, used in food coloring 

and cosmetics. 

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MORE RESOURCES FOR GRASSROOTS DEVELOPMENT 

In addition to requiring grantees to 

contribute resources in kind and in cash to 

their projects, the IAF encourages them to 

obtain additional support. Grantees do this 

by mobilizing and brokering resources 

through partnerships with local government 

and businesses. Resources mobilized are 

financial, material or human resources 

marshaled by the grantee from international, 

national or local sources, private and public 

to support the organization and/or its 

projects. Resources brokered are secured by 

the grantee for its beneficiaries and are 

channeled directly to them, bypassing the 

grantee. In fiscal 2008, grantees mobilized 

close to $4.3 million, $3.6 million in cash 

and $668,000 in kind. Resources brokered 

totaled just over $1.1 million. Thus IAF 

grantees raised a total of $5.4 million or 

$0.34 for every dollar that the IAF invested 

during fiscal 2008. 

RESOURCES MOBILIZED

Individual donors contributed most 

generously to IAF grantees. Mexican 

grantees, Fundación Comunitaria de la 

Frontera Norte (FCFNAC) and Fundación 

del Empresariado Sonorense (FESAC), 

received nearly $1 million in cash donations 

from individuals. 

International organizations contributed more 

than $600,000 to IAF grantees. Fundación 

Defensores del Chaco in Argentina received 

$119,000 from the W.K. Kellogg 

Foundation; $30,000 from the Football for 

Hope alliance led by FIFA, the governing 

body for soccer worldwide; and $20,000 

from the AVINA Foundation. 

The Ford Foundation donated $150,000 in 

cash to FCFNAC, supra, for projects 

undertaken by grassroots groups and NGOs 

to benefit residents of Ciudad Juarez, 

Mexico. 

Businesses, of which 96 percent were 

domestic, contributed close to $820,000 to 

IAF grantees. Fundación ProVivienda Social 

in Argentina received $16,500 from 

FERRUM, S.A., a manufacturer of porcelain 

bathroom fixtures. Mexican grantees 

FCFNAC, FESAC and ALTERNARE 

received more than $500,000 in cash from 

contributors that included Nissauto Sonora, 

Compañía Maderera de Chihuahua, the law 

firm of Baker & McKenzie and Cooper Gay, 

one of the world’s largest insurance 

companies. 

Foreign government agencies also provided 

funds. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services 

awarded $45,000 to ALTERNARE for its 

training in water management, soil 

conservation, reforestation, organic 

production and the construction of energyefficient stoves in communities in Mexico's 

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, 

approximately 100 miles west of Mexico 

City. Instituto Galego de Xestión para o 

Tercer Sector (IGAXES 3) of Spain awarded 

Fundación para la Capacitación y 

Mejoramiento Social del Joven Torrense 

(FUNCAMET) of Venezuela $36,000 for its 

proposal submitted to the IGAXES 3 

competition. FUNCAMET used the award 

to purchase construction materials for the 

swimming pool, spa and restaurant in the 

hospitality center under construction as part 

of its aloe garden complex. 

RESOURCES BROKERED

IAF grantees brokered resources from 

government agencies. Terra Peninsular 

(TERRA), which works to help Mexicans of 

indigenous descent in northern Baja 

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California earn income from crafts and 

ecotourism, negotiated $178,000 from the 

Comisión para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos 

Indígenas for construction of an 

amphitheater and restrooms for its 

ecotourism project in San Antonio Necua. 

Migración y Desarrollo (MIDE) helped its 

beekeepers obtain $32,600 from Mexico’s 3 

X 1 Program for Migrants through which 

municipal, state, and federal administrations 

match 3 to 1 dollars channeled by migrant 

organizations abroad to productive projects. 

PIDECAFE acquired from local, regional 

and national Peruvian government entities 

the services of 13 sugar-cane and cacao 

technicians for a period of six months, and 

another 11 for a period of three months. The 

value of their assistance was calculated at 

$40,000. Fondo de Cooperación para el 

Desarrollo Social (FONCODES), a program 

of the Peruvian Ministry of Women and 

Social Development, provided 10 experts in 

granulated brown sugar for one month at an 

estimated cost of $5,800. 

APLP brokered $38,525 from the 

Uruguayan Ministry of Livestock, 

Agriculture and Fishery (MGAP) as part of 

a program to mitigate drought and conserve 

natural resources. 

PACT/LIFE assisted eight Jamaican 

community groups in procuring close to 

$375,000 for projects. These included the 

Jeffrey Town Farmers Association which 

received $30,000 from the GEF Small 

Grants Programme for application of soil 

conservation techniques including terracing 

and check dams (small dams designed to 

reduce water flow velocity and control soil 

erosion). 

 

 Jenny Petrow 

Women from Mango Valley Visionaries, a 

PACT/LIFE subgrantee, sell pickled 

vegetables. 

The European-funded Banana Support 

Project contributed $126,400 to PACT/LIFE 

toward training and economic initiatives and 

completion of the multi-purpose community 

building co-funded by the IAF. The Hills 

United Development Organization, a 

PACT/LIFE subgrantee, received $44,600 

from the Environmental Foundation of 

Jamaica (EFJ) to install a wastewater 

treatment system and toward developing a 

nature trail with lights powered by solar 

energy. EFJ also funded the greenhouse 

project of One Love and Faithful Farmers 

Groups and awarded discretionary grants of 

$2,800 to the Mango Valley Visionaries and 

Dallas Castle Producers for the purchase of 

quality control equipment for their 

processing facilities. 

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Table 3: Resources leveraged in cash and in kind by country 

Country Cash In kind Total

Argentina $648,848 $132,915 $781,763

Bolivia $205,748 $16,472 $222,220

Brazil $36,594 $0 $36,594

Colombia $2,980 $3,673 $6,653

Dominican Republic $0 $857 $857

Ecuador $28,235 $40,948 $69,183

El Salvador $57,834 $70,295 $128,129

Guatemala $1,200 $2,320 $3,520

Haiti $17,420 $0 $17,420

Honduras $533 $36,615 $37,148

Jamaica $408,765 $21,211 $429,976

Mexico $2,350,610 $389,646 $2,740,256

Nicaragua $4,500 $7,336 $11,836

Panama $157,147 $208,976 $366,123

Paraguay $0 $10,287 $10,287

Peru $180,364 $230,055 $410,419

Uruguay $38,525 $33,599 $72,124

Venezuela $61,115 $2,559 $63,674

Total $4,200,418 $1,207,764 $5,408,182

Table 4: Resources mobilized and brokered by source 

Source Cash In kind Total 

Resources mobilized $3,597,741 $668,314 $4,266,055 

International $1,109,777 $101,484 $1,211,261 

Domestic $2,487,964 $566,830 $3,054,794 

Resources brokered $602,676 $539,450 $1,142,126 

International $243,544 $31,885 $275,429 

Domestic $359,132 $507,565 $866,697 

Total $4,200,417 $1,207,764 $5,408,181 

International $1,353,321 $133,369 $1,486,690 

Domestic $2,847,096 $1,074,395 $3,921,491 

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Partnering

The challenges IAF grantees face are 

complex and interdependent, and the 

resources and legitimacy for tackling them 

too dispersed between different objectives 

for any one group or organization to have all 

the solutions. That is why IAF grantees are 

conscious of the importance of forging new 

alliances as a way to leverage resources, 

skills, competencies and technology. 

Partnering allows IAF grantees to access a 

greater range of resources and achieve 

outcomes not otherwise possible. 

 

IAF grantees reported partnering with 598 

organizations, public and private, foreign 

and domestic. Of these, 395 or two out of 

three developed in 2008. 

Table 5: Partnerships 

Country New 

partnerships 

Ongoing 

partnerships 

Argentina 44 154 

Bolivia 86 235 

Brazil 15 15 

Colombia 0 6 

Dominican R. 3 3 

Ecuador 9 12 

El Salvador 3 1 

Guatemala 0 3 

Haiti 6 6 

Honduras 55 56 

Jamaica 0 0 

Mexico 6 22 

Nicaragua 21 22 

Panama 4 4 

Paraguay 0 0 

Peru 31 57 

Uruguay 110 0 

Venezuela 2 2 

Total 395 598 

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BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF GRASSROOTS 

DEVELOPMENT 

DISSEMINATION OF EXPERIENCES AND 

PRACTICES

The dissemination of knowledge and 

experience allows organizations to benefit 

from the success of others and avoid their 

errors. IAF grantees share information 

through presentations, radio and television 

interviews, pamphlets and brochures, 

newspaper and magazine articles, press 

releases, books, videos and movies, and CDROMs. In fiscal 2008, 56 percent of IAF 

grantees undertook some sort of 

dissemination in 17 of the 18 countries with 

IAF-funded projects. Together they 

produced and distributed more than 360 

press releases; produced 225 pamphlets and 

brochures and distributed more than 97,000 

copies; and were the subject of 400 

television and radio interviews. Examples 

follow: 

 Representatives of Mexican grantee 

Desarrollo Binacional Integral Indígena, 

A.C. (DBIIAC) went on a fund-raising 

tour across the U.S. that included five 

presentations on the organization and its 

IAF-funded project. In Mexico, DBIIAC 

discussed the project with a group of 29 

visiting students and professors from 

two universities. DBIIAC produced two 

brochures, one with background 

information and the other on its program 

with traditional Oaxacan foods. DBIIAC 

is assisting indigenous women in the 

Mixtec region of Oaxaca with 

horticulture and poultry production and 

alliances with migrant organizations in 

the U.S. and their affiliates in Mexico.

 IMAGEN is assisting women-led agrobusinesses in Peru’s Cusco region and is 

disseminating, via radio, practices for 

managing waste, applying organic 

fertilizer and obtaining organic 

certification, among others. 

 PROTEGER’S Web site receives 

240,000 hits a month and provides 

information on soil conservation, climate 

change and protection of biodiversity as 

well as social issues relevant to 

Argentina and to Latin America. The site 

featured 24 radio interviews and 27 news 

releases within a 12-month period. 

Receiving ample coverage was the slashand-burn technique for clearing 

pastureland in the delta of the Parana 

River, a huge forested marshland about 

20 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. 

 Asociación de Desarrollo Económico y 

Social Santa Marta (ADESSM) 

broadcasts daily on a community radio 

station a one-hour program on best 

farming practices based on ADESSM’s 

experience with soil conservation, 

poultry management, crop production 

under cover and organic agriculture, 

among other topics. The program uses 

interviews with ADESSM staff and 

farmers.

REPLICATION OF METHODS AND 

TECHNIQUES

Approaches to development, techniques, or 

practices have sometimes been replicated or 

adapted by other organizations. The 

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techniques or practices may be new or 

traditional ones that have been revived and 

put into use by the grantee organization. 

Examples follow. 

 Fundación Nación de Paz "Padre 

Maezo” is adopting for use with gang 

members in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, the 

conflict resolution methodology 

developed by IAF grantee SER PAZ in 

Guayaquil. SER PAZ trained staff from 

the Codesarrollo Cañar project (funded 

by the Agencia Española de 

Cooperación Internacional), who are 

applying the SER PAZ methodology. 

 Empresa Cooperativa del Sur del Cauca 

(COSURCA) trains Colombian farmerorganizers to help families in the 

transition to fully certified cultivation of 

organic coffee and fruits. Its strategy is 

being adopted by an indigenous 

cooperative in the Cauca and seven 

organizations of farmers. Fondo Paez, 

another indigenous cooperative in the 

Cordillera Central, whose primary goal 

is recovering indigenous culture, 

including traditional agricultural 

methods is adopting some of 

COSURCA’s techniques for producing 

organic coffee. 

 Funded by IAF, FEDEAFRO used 

census data from 2005 to assess the 

conditions of Colombians of African and 

indigenous descent in selected areas of 

the department of Nariño. The findings 

were used by the Consultiva 

Departamental de Comunidades Negras 

in its presentations and by the municipal 

government of Cali for a city 

development plan. The Universidad 

Santiago de Cali is planning to use the 

database in connection with its outreach 

and training programs. Cali’s African 

descendent communities are using the 

findings to draft proposals for social 

investment to submit to municipal 

authorities. They expect to negotiate a 

better allocation of resources to benefit 

low-income households in their 

respective localities. 

 Manuel Guillermo González 

María Alexandra Ordoñez, a COSURCA 

technician, inspects organic coffee grown by 

Luis Ijaji 

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RAPID ASSESSMENTS OF SELECTED REDEAMÉRICA

PROJECTS 

RedEAmérica, the Inter-American Network 

of Corporate Foundations and Actions for 

Grassroots Development, an IAF initiative 

launched in 2002, is a business-sector 

alliance committed to supporting grassroots 

development in the Americas. Some of its 

members have entered into cooperative 

funding agreements with the IAF. Parties to 

such agreements must match IAF funding at 

least two-to-one. Funds are disbursed 

through subgrants to community 

organizations undertaking self-help projects. 

 

To assess the results of its investment in 

RedEAmérica, the IAF launched a new 

version of the GDF in 2008. The first 

statistics should appear in the report on 

results for fiscal 2009. The IAF conducted a 

rapid assessment of the RedEAmérica 

program in Colombia and in Chile in 2008 

and scheduled an assessment of the program 

in Ecuador for the beginning of fiscal 2009. 

FINDINGS FROM COLOMBIA

The focus was the eight Colombian 

members of RedEAmérica working together 

as the Colombian National Fund [Fondo 

Nacional Colombiano] (FNC): Fundación 

Corona, Fundación Smurfit-Cartón de 

Colombia, Fundación EPSA, Fundación 

Social de Holcim, Fundación Empresarios 

por la Educación, Fundación Social, 

Fundación Antonio Restrepo Barco and 

Asociación de Fundaciones Petroleras. The 

study concentrated on their approach to 

grassroots development, their subgrantees’ 

performance and resource mobilization. 

 As of June 2008, the FNC had awarded 

32 subgrants valued at $465,000. The 

average award was for $15,400. Each 

subgrantee contributed labor or the use 

of land or infrastructure (e.g., fish tanks, 

grinding mills, office space). The largest 

investment of resources by a subgrantee 

visited was valued at $27,000, the 

smallest, at $2,300. 

 Over a three-year period, FNC raised 

$67,500 for grassroots development 

from each member. Acción Social of the 

Presidencia de la República de Colombia 

contributed $230,000 and CODESPA, a 

Spanish NGO, contributed $250,000. In 

2008, the Multilateral Investment Fund 

of the Inter-American Development 

Bank awarded a grant of $4.7 million to 

RedEAmérica partners in seven 

countries, including Colombia, to fund 

an $8 million project to which 

RedEAmérica members were to 

contribute $.3.3 million over five years. 

 The study revealed that the FNC is now 

focused on developing social capital, 

participatory practices and the skills to 

manage the projects funded. This 

emphasis represents a shift away from 

assistance that creates dependency to 

one that helps project beneficiaries 

become self-sufficient. Before joining 

RedEAmérica, corporate foundations 

provided material goods and limited 

technical assistance; now the assistance 

is technical and nontechnical. 

 Subgrants have yielded quantifiable 

results. In Ciudad Bolivar, on the 

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outskirts of Bogotá, Junta de Acción 

Comunal, in conjunction with the 

Colombian government’s Casa de 

Justicia, has held several workshops in 

conflict resolution, leadership and 

environmental practices for primary and 

secondary school students. In Cartagena, 

eight associations of merchants and 

farmers benefited from COOPFUTURO’s legal formation as a 

cooperative. The cooperative facilitated 

direct dealings between farmers and 

retail merchants, eliminating the 

middleman, which led to more income 

for farmers and less expensive goods for 

retailers. 

FINDINGS FROM CHILE

Four Chilean corporate foundations that are 

currently parties to cooperative agreements 

with the IAF were studied: Fundación 

Telefónica de Chile, Corporación Sociedad 

Activa (CSA), Fundación Pehuén and 

Fundación Microfinanzas y Desarrollo 

(FMD). Except for FMD, each 

RedEAmérica member in Chile has funded 

projects that have yielded concrete results. 

 Telefónica supports projects in 

education, the arts and culture benefiting 

Chileans with special needs. Subgrants 

awarded range in value between $13,000 

and $20,000; the average award is 

$18,275. A subgrant awarded to Unión 

Nacional de Instituciones de Ciegos de 

Chile (UNCICH), an organization for the 

visually impaired, funded a cast-iron die 

for use in manufacturing slates and 

stylus tools for writing Braille, which 

UNCICH sells at an 80 percent markup. 

Proceeds cover expenses and efforts on 

behalf of more than 600,000 visuallyimpaired Chileans to educate the public 

as to their condition and potential. 

 

 CSA provides seed capital to new microentrepreneurs. It has awarded 13 

subgrants totaling $147,000; the awards 

range between $3,700 and $28,000; 

some subgrantees receive multiple 

awards. Centro de Estética Belleza 

Urbana, a beauty salon operated by 10 

women, used its $18,700 for equipment, 

rent, and licenses and permits. 

 Miguel Cuevas 

Owners of Centro de Estética Belleza Urbana, 

a new beauty salon funded by a grant from the 

IAF. 

Another, Guardería Arcoiris, a childcare 

center received three awards totaling 

$28,900 to cover rent and equipment 

(desks, tables, mattresses and 

educational materials). The nursery 

provides a safe place where low-income 

women can leave their children. Without 

it, they could not work. 

 Fundación Pehuén supports 600 

indigenous Pehuenche families through a 

program that offers training in cultural 

identity and livestock production and 

management. Pehuén’s subgrants range 

from $2,700 to $81,000; the average 

grant is for $22,200. Pehuenches are 

enthusiastic about a scholarship fund 

that allows indigenous children access to 

secondary and higher education that 

their parents cannot otherwise afford. No 

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secondary schools or universities are 

located in their communities and the 

scholarship pays for room and board 

away from home as well as all other 

expenses. 

Pehuén’s workshops on managing and 

marketing livestock taught 12 farmers 

new techniques for animal care and 

reproduction and how to sell their 

animals. With IAF support, Pehuén also 

funded the construction of El Avellano, 

a campground on the banks of the Upper 

Bío Bío River in southern Chile. The 

area offers a range of outdoor activities, 

such as hiking, mountain climbing, 

white-water rafting, biking and 

swimming. The campground includes a 

restaurant, handicraft shop, swimming 

pool, whirlpool and bathrooms. 

Approximately $50,000 has been spent 

building the various facilities.

 Miguel Cuevas 

With the construction of cabins, a swimming pool, a whirlpool and other amenities financed by 

the IAF and Fundación Pehuén, indigenous Pehuenches plan to attract tourists to their camping 

ground on the Upper Bío Bío River in southern Chile. 

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ORGANIZATIONS REFERENCED IN THIS REPORT 

Acronym Entity 

IAF 

Grant 

Number*

ADEL Agencia de Desarrollo Económico Local de Sonsonate (ES-221) 

ADESSM Asociación de Desarrollo Económico y Social Santa Marta (ES-216) 

AEDES Asociación Especializada para el Desarrollo Sostenible (PU-532) 

AFOTUR Asociación para el Fomento del Turismo (PN-274) 

AGRECO Fundación de Agroecología y Agroturismo (EC-401) 

ALTERNARE Alternare, A.C. (ME-457) 

AMALIC Asociación de Mujeres Aymaras Lecheras de Irpa Chico (BO-508) 

APAFSA Asociación de Productores Agropecuario Forestal San Franciso de Asís (PN-281) 

APLP Asociación de Productores de Leche de Paysandú (UR-180) 

APROACH Asociación de Productores Agropecuarios de Chuquibamba (PU-533) 

ASMUMA Asociación Mujer Maya 

CIAMB Comunidad Indígena Asháninka "Marankiari Bajo" (PU-510) 

CIFANE Centro de Investigaciones Familia Negra (EC-396) 

COODECI Cooperativa para el Desarrollo de La Ciénaga 

COOP Cooperativa de Servicios Múltiples Desarrollo Integral de Gualaca (PN-280) 

COPADEO Asociación Cooperativa de Ahorro, Crédito y Agrícola Comunal de Paraíso de 

Osorio 

(ES-204) 

COSURCA Empresa Cooperativa del Sur del Cauca (CO-503) 

CSA Corporación Sociedad Activa (CH-514) 

DBIIAC Desarrollo Binacional Integral Indígena, A.C. (ME-472) 

DCH Fundación Defensores del Chaco (AR-340) 

DEIMUS Desarrollo Integral de la Mujer en la Sociedad Andina del Perú (PU-543) 

EFJ Environmental Foundation of Jamaica 

FCFNAC Fundación Comunitaria de la Frontera Norte (ME-452) 

FEDEAFRO Federación Nacional de ONGes para el Desarrollo de las Comunidades 

Afrocolombianas 

(CO-508) 

FESAC Fundación del Empresariado Sonorense (ME-453) 

FFLA Fundación Internacional para la Promoción del Desarrollo Sostenible “Futuro 

Latinoamericano” 

(EC-402) 

FIC Fundación Internacional de la Comunidad (ME-460) 

FIPADEHM Fundación Instituto Panameño de Desarrollo Humano y Municipal (PN-282) 

FMD Fundación Microfinanzas y Desarrollo (CH-516) 

FNC Fondo Nacional Colombiano 

FONCODES Fondo de Cooperación para el Desarrollo Social 

FPVS Fundación Pro Vivienda Social (AR-341) 

FTDE Fundación para la Tecnología y el Desarrollo Latinoamericano - Ecuatoriano (EC-406) 

FUNCAMET Fundación para la Capacitación y Mejoramiento Social del Joven Torrense (VZ-198) 

FUNDAMYF Fundación Mujer y Familia Andina (EC-390) 

FUNDE MUJER Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Mujer (NC-267) 

FUNSUPO Fundación para la Superación de la Pobreza (PN-283) 

FURWUS Fundación para la Rehabilitación Walking Unidos (NC-256) 

GJD Centro de Educación Vocacional Grupo Juvenil Dion (HO-244) 

 

*

 Entities without a grant number are not IAF grantees. 

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Acronym Entity 

IAF 

Grant 

Number*

HPCD Haitian Partners for Christian Development (HA-199) 

IAF Inter-American Foundation 

IGAXES 3 Instituto Galego de Xestión para o Tercer Sector 

IMAGEN IMAGEN (PU-544) 

IPHAE Instituto Para el Hombre, Agricultura y Ecologia (BO-495) 

MGAP Uruguay's Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fishery 

MI COMETA Movimiento Mi Cometa (EC-395)

MIDE Migración y Desarrollo (ME-473) 

ODECO Organización de Desarrollo Étnico Comunitario (HO-243) 

PACT/LIFE People's Action for Community Transformation/Local Initiative Facility for the 

Urban Environment 

(JA-109) 

ph15 Fundación ph15 para las Artes (AR-344) 

PIDECAFE Programa Integral para el Desarrollo del Café (PU-536) 

Piña Palmera Centro de Atención Infantil “Piña Palmera” (ME-485) 

PNE Pronatura Noreste (ME-469) 

PRODEHL Asociación de Pobladores por el Desarrollo a Escala Humana en el Ámbito Local (NC-260) 

PROMETA Protección del Medio Ambiente Tarija (BO-507) 

PROTEGER Fundación Proteger (AR-345) 

PROVERDES Asociación Programa Vergüense de Desarrollo Ecológico Sostenible (PN-278) 

RXIIN Asociación de Salud y Desarrollo Rxiin Tnamet (GT-274) 

Sagrada Tierra Sagrada Tierra (GT-282) 

SAO Servicios Ambientales de Oaxaca (ME-481) 

SER PAZ Corporación Ser Paz (EC-397) 

SID Strategies for International Development (PU-523) 

SIDECO Fundación Salud Integral y Desarrollo Comunitario (EC-404) 

Taigüey Fundación Taigüey (DR-336) 

TENTAPEGUA Equipo Técnico de Fortalecimiento Comunitario (BO-491) 

TERRA Terra Peninsular (ME-470) 

TUKUYPAJ TUKUYPAJ (BO-494) 

UCRHO Unión de Cooperativas de la Red de Humedales de la Costa de Oaxaca (ME-482) 

UCUS Asociación Civil "Una Casa un Sueño" (UR-179) 

UNCICH Unión Nacional de Instituciones de Ciegos de Chile 

 

*

 Entities without a grant number are not IAF grantees. 

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Selected Additional Tables 

Table A1: Beneficiaries reporting better living conditions 

Country Men % Women % Total

Argentina 396 40% 590 60% 986 

Bolivia 3,695 54% 3,095 46% 6,790 

Ecuador 280 84% 55 16% 335 

El Salvador 538 48% 594 52% 1,132 

Guatemala 27,215 46% 32,114 54% 59,329 

Haiti 20 59% 14 41% 34 

Honduras 1,043 50% 1,048 50% 2,091 

Mexico 579 42% 789 58% 1,368 

Nicaragua 251 20% 981 80% 1,232 

Panama 12,868 49% 13,243 51% 26,111 

Venezuela 29 35% 54 65% 83 

Total 46,914 47% 52,577 53% 99,491 

Table A2: Beneficiaries trained in agriculture 

Country Men % Women % Total 

Argentina 287 72% 110 28% 397

Bolivia 5,646 60% 3,740 40% 9,386

Brazil 43 51% 42 49% 85

Colombia 135 94% 8 6% 143

Dominican Republic 69 73% 25 27% 94

Ecuador 503 78% 141 22% 644

El Salvador 772 58% 563 42% 1,335

Guatemala 188 58% 135 42% 323

Haiti 11 79% 3 21% 14

Honduras 345 49% 365 51% 710

Jamaica 42 60% 28 40% 70

Mexico 119 56% 94 44% 213

Nicaragua 404 72% 156 28% 560

Panama 373 59% 255 41% 628

Peru 4,541 65% 2,397 35% 6,938

Uruguay 139 53% 124 47% 263

Venezuela 51 43% 69 58% 120

Total 13,668 62% 8,255 38% 21,923 

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Table A3: Beneficiaries trained in manufacturing 

Country Men % Women % Total 

Argentina 99 39% 157 61% 256

Bolivia 1,005 18% 4,503 82% 5,508

Brazil 12 18% 55 82% 67

Ecuador 91 38% 147 62% 238

El Salvador 4 6% 66 94% 70

Guatemala 0 0% 214 100% 214

Haiti 4 13% 27 87% 31

Honduras 20 13% 134 87% 154

Jamaica 4 8% 46 92% 50

Mexico 100 42% 140 58% 240

Nicaragua 19 95% 1 5% 20

Panama 19 12% 138 88% 157

Peru 1,155 52% 1,087 48% 2,242

Venezuela 15 50% 15 50% 30

Total 2,547 27% 6,730 73% 9,277 

Table A4: Beneficiaries trained in construction 

Country Men % Women % Total 

Bolivia 49 96% 2 4% 51

Brazil 11 73% 4 27% 15

Colombia 161 89% 20 11% 181

El Salvador 8 100% 0 0% 8

Jamaica 18 100% 0 0% 18

Mexico 20 29% 50 71% 70

Nicaragua 64 18% 293 82% 357

Panama 64 97% 2 3% 66

Peru 105 41% 152 59% 257

Uruguay 29 51% 28 49% 57

Total 529 49% 551 51% 1,080 

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Table A5: Beneficiaries trained in environmental conservation

Country Men % Women % Total 

Argentina 370 63% 222 38% 592

Bolivia 128 68% 61 32% 189

Colombia 38 95% 2 5% 40

Dominican Republic 33 72% 13 28% 46

Ecuador 463 62% 279 38% 742

El Salvador 8 50% 8 50% 16

Guatemala 842 87% 124 13% 966

Honduras 346 60% 230 40% 576

Mexico 221 43% 293 57% 514

Nicaragua 405 52% 372 48% 777

Panama 157 59% 110 41% 267

Peru 212 55% 172 45% 384

Uruguay 17 43% 23 58% 40

Venezuela 16 39% 25 61% 41

Total 3,256 63% 1,934 37% 5,190 

Table A6: Beneficiaries trained in planning and administration 

Country Men % Women % Total 

Argentina 415 46% 497 54% 912

Bolivia 148 23% 482 77% 630

Brazil 4 36% 7 64% 11

Colombia 256 69% 116 31% 372

Dominican Republic 14 16% 74 84% 88

Ecuador 329 50% 334 50% 663

El Salvador 584 41% 847 59% 1,431

Guatemala 431 25% 1,293 75% 1,724

Haiti 0 0% 2 100% 2

Honduras 136 50% 135 50% 271

Jamaica 24 28% 63 72% 87

Mexico 436 56% 336 44% 772

Nicaragua 365 43% 490 57% 855

Panama 1,012 54% 871 46% 1,883

Paraguay 65 37% 111 63% 176

Peru 1,767 50% 1,776 50% 3,543

Uruguay 66 46% 76 54% 142

Venezuela 23 47% 26 53% 49

Total 6,075 45% 7,536 55% 13,611 

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Table A7: Beneficiaries trained in marketing 

Country Men % Women % Total 

Argentina 249 45% 302 55% 551

Bolivia 264 25% 779 75% 1,043

Colombia 28 70% 12 30% 40

Dominican Republic 29 69% 13 31% 42

Ecuador 219 55% 178 45% 397

El Salvador 282 39% 436 61% 718

Guatemala 24 20% 96 80% 120

Honduras 86 53% 75 47% 161

Mexico 191 63% 113 37% 304

Nicaragua 136 19% 591 81% 727

Panama 142 46% 164 54% 306

Peru 380 45% 456 55% 836

Uruguay 20 44% 25 56% 45

Venezuela 42 42% 59 58% 101

Total 2,092 39% 3,299 61% 5,391 

Table A8: Beneficiaries trained in leadership skills 

Country Men % Women % Total 

Argentina 1,359 64% 751 36% 2,110

Bolivia 420 71% 173 29% 593

Brazil 47 25% 144 75% 191

Colombia 181 87% 27 13% 208

Ecuador 287 49% 304 51% 591

El Salvador 5 14% 31 86% 36

Guatemala 23 21% 87 79% 110

Honduras 44 44% 55 56% 99

Jamaica 9 38% 15 63% 24

Mexico 9 60% 6 40% 15

Nicaragua 28 5% 497 95% 525

Panama 1,019 50% 1,028 50% 2,047

Paraguay 144 23% 481 77% 625

Peru 135 36% 241 64% 376

Uruguay 8 50% 8 50% 16

Venezuela 73 32% 158 68% 231

Total 3,791 49% 4,006 51% 7,797 

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Table A9: Beneficiaries trained in civic participation

Country Men % Women % Total 

Argentina 2,318 28% 5,933 72% 8,251

Bolivia 602 46% 702 54% 1,304

Brazil 139 19% 580 81% 719

Colombia 154 60% 101 40% 255

Ecuador 89 46% 106 54% 195

Guatemala 738 79% 191 21% 929

Honduras 106 52% 96 48% 202

Jamaica 0 0% 2 100% 2

Mexico 29 19% 126 81% 155

Nicaragua 269 38% 448 62% 717

Panama 705 52% 653 48% 1,358

Paraguay 144 23% 481 77% 625

Peru 602 63% 353 37% 955

Uruguay 359 42% 493 58% 852

Venezuela 53 28% 134 72% 187

Total 6,307 38% 10,399 62% 16,706 

Table A10: Beneficiaries trained in the legal system

Country Men % Women % Total 

Argentina 2,654 40% 3,903 60% 6,557

Bolivia 154 96% 6 4% 160

Colombia 62 81% 15 19% 77

Ecuador 150 70% 63 30% 213

Guatemala 74 74% 26 26% 100

Honduras 101 56% 80 44% 181

Nicaragua 164 50% 165 50% 329

Panama 51 38% 84 62% 135

Paraguay 86 19% 372 81% 458

Peru 35 30% 80 70% 115

Uruguay 5 24% 16 76% 21

Venezuela 53 28% 134 72% 187

Total 3,589 42% 4,944 58% 8,533 

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Table A11: Beneficiaries trained in finance

Country Men % Women % Total 

Argentina 721 39% 1,110 61% 1,831

Colombia 16 80% 4 20% 20

Dominican Republic 54 28% 142 72% 196

Ecuador 48 71% 20 29% 68

El Salvador 228 48% 248 52% 476

Guatemala 1 5% 18 95% 19

Honduras 10 26% 29 74% 39

Mexico 25 15% 141 85% 166

Nicaragua 203 10% 1,744 90% 1,947

Panama 19 54% 16 46% 35

Peru 164 57% 123 43% 287

Venezuela 11 55% 9 45% 20

Total 1,500 29% 3,604 71% 5,104 

Table A12: Beneficiaries trained in the role of government

Country Men % Women % Total 

Argentina 41 39% 63 61% 104

Brazil 139 19% 580 81% 719

Colombia 478 78% 137 22% 615

Dominican Republic 0 0% 132 100% 132

El Salvador 44 79% 12 21% 56

Guatemala 270 87% 41 13% 311

Honduras 96 45% 119 55% 215

Nicaragua 27 77% 8 23% 35

Peru 11 41% 16 59% 27

Venezuela 46 27% 125 73% 171

Total 1,152 48% 1,233 52% 2,385 

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Table A13: Beneficiaries trained in health practices

Country Men % Women % Total 

Argentina 152 59% 107 41% 259

Bolivia 4 36% 7 64% 11

Brazil 59 24% 183 76% 242

Colombia 12 67% 6 33% 18

Ecuador 49 18% 227 82% 276

El Salvador 8 53% 7 47% 15

Guatemala 2 1% 259 99% 261

Honduras 92 50% 93 50% 185

Jamaica 0 0% 7 100% 7

Mexico 11 10% 103 90% 114

Nicaragua 112 28% 286 72% 398

Panama 100 93% 8 7% 108

Paraguay 26 22% 91 78% 117

Peru 18 45% 22 55% 40

Uruguay 9 21% 33 79% 42

Venezuela 20 37% 34 63% 54

Total 674 31% 1,473 69% 2,147 

Table A14: Beneficiaries trained in ways to address domestic violence, 

sexual abuse and drug use

Country Men % Women % Total 

Argentina 23 29% 56 71% 79

Brazil 53 25% 162 75% 215

Dominican Republic 281 42% 388 58% 669

El Salvador 4 11% 31 89% 35

Guatemala 233 34% 455 66% 688

Honduras 25 38% 41 62% 66

Panama 109 76% 34 24% 143

Paraguay 276 66% 141 34% 417

Uruguay 34 41% 49 59% 83

Venezuela 73 32% 158 68% 231

Total 1,111 42% 1,515 58% 2,626 

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Comments: We welcome your comments about how we can improve IAF’s Annual Grant 

Results Report. 

Miguel Cuevas 

Office of Evaluation 

Inter-American Foundation 

901 N. Stuart St. 10th Floor 

Arlington, VA 22203 

U.S.A. 

Telephone: (703) 306-4309 

Email: mcuevas@iaf.gov

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