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Capacity Building of Grassroots Organizations for Community Management of Water Resources & Nature As part of the Programme seeking to address issues of water contamination and scarcity in the Altoplano, the Platform for Climate Change  will aim to build the capacity of indigenous communities associated to CONAMAQ, ANARESCAPYS, CORIDUP and other grassroots and social organizations. In doing so, the Platform for Climate Change seeks to transfer tools that will improve water management practices at a local level, as well as generate solid advocacy processes that will reduce the vulnerability of the population to climate change. By identifying positive community practices that respond to contamination and climate change issues, the Climate Change Platform will foster exchanges and the sharing of lessons learned to disseminate information and promote the replica of successful experiences. This project will also foster the creation of a pilot water sub-basin management committee that will give the Platform's members a better understanding of how national legislation and advocacy can be applied in a real life situation.
Rural Development CENDA is helping impoverished communities in the Andean region of Cochabamba respond to the threats and difficulties caused by the mining, climate change, unequal land distribution and poor food security and sovereignty. 
CENDA’s project seeks to deepen understanding of and strengthen the production systems of indigenous-campesino communities which are based on local knowledge and practices to improve food security and sovereignty, the management of natural resources and protect their collective and socio-environmental rights.
The project combines action-research, communications and advocacy work, all rooted in CENDA’s philosophy of building local capacity and self-esteem to enable communities to become the architects of their own development.
Bolivia Civil Society Climate Change Platform This grant to the Bolivia Civil Society Climate Change Platform was established in 2009 by key CAFOD partners and supported by a number of international agencies with the aim of providing Bolivian grassroots communities with spaces and mechanisms to engage with issues of climate change. The remit of the Platform has widened in recent years beyond climate justice issues. This project, supported by five international agencies including CAFOD, seeks to raise awareness about climate change issues, support communities in developing proposals for alternative models of development and promote the protection of indigenous and campesino rights.
Water resource management in the Poopo region, Bolivia This project builds on previous project cycles and continues support to that are affected by contaminated water sources in the Lake Poopó region and Cochabamba. CENDA will work with communities to ensure that they are fully informed about the levels of water contamination in their region and that local people are trained to conduct water quality monitoring. CENDA will investigate remediation and restoration options and share these results with communities so that they are able to take decisions about their water resources. See the project details Word document for more information
Sustainable urban-rural policy construction in Bolivia UNITAS is an umbrella organisation of NGOs in Bolivia. It provides a forum in which groups in this sector can discuss, collaborate and lobby on development issues at national level. The new project cycle with the UNITAS Urban Programme, will ensure continuity of processes with vulnerable sectors affected by human rights abuses in urban areas. This current cycle will focus on supporting organisations representing refuse collectors, indigenous young people in cities and women suffering political harassment. The project trains members of the participant organisations in human rights and supports the development and implementation of strategies that enable these vulnerable groups to protect their rights. Participants learn to produce policy proposals to ensure that their rights are protected, as well as leadership skills so that they become confident lobbying and working with local and national authorities. The team also promote wider awareness of the the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a tool for influencing public policy and  leveraging greater support and funding for the development of vulnerable sectors.
Accountability and safeguarding support for three partners working with indigenous communities Through this project, CAFOD will support three strategic partners in Bolivia (Fundacion Nuna, CENDA and ACLO Potosi) in developing first drafts of child protection policies including codes of conduct, complaints handling mechanisms and policies covering communications and recruitment.  At the end of the training the participants will understand how to undertake their work without putting children at risk, how to recognise signs of abuse; how to manage child protection issues in a sensitive manner and how to manage a case of abuse, a complaint of abuse, suspicions or worries that abuse is occurring. Participants will have better understanding of CAFOD's requirements concerning child protection, CAFOD's own policy and standards and the support that partners can expect from CAFOD.  Participants will develop action plans for their institution during the training that set out steps to further develop their institutional policy and engage with communities and other actors.
Responses to water contamination in Poopo and peri-urban Cochabamba CENDA will continue work with communities affected by water contamination due to mining and agricultural activities around the Poopó and Maylanco-Rocha sub-basins in Bolivia. This work promote approaches that work in harmony with the environment. The project will continue previous investigations into ecological restoration as a viable alternative solution - using plants that adapt to heavy metals to restore areas affected by contamination.  It will also provide training in the model of "sembra y cosecha de agua” - sowing and harvesting water, a technique by which communities replenish natural water supplies before extracting water.
Responses to water contamination in Poopo and Cochabamba CENDA will continue work with communities affected by water contamination due to mining and agricultural activities around the Poopó and Maylanco-Rocha sub-basins in Bolivia. This work promote approaches that work in harmony with the environment. The project will continue previous investigations into ecological restoration as a viable alternative solution - using plants that adapt to heavy metals to restore areas affected by contamination.  It will also provide training in the model of "sembra y cosecha de agua” - sowing and harvesting water, a technique by which communities replenish natural water supplies before extracting water.
CLIMATE CHANGE AND SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS WITH AN INTEGRAL ECOLOGY APPROACH CENDA's project will contribute to the strengthening, through an integral ecology approach, of community life systems, resilient to the impacts of climate change, in the Sacaba municipality, to serve as a benchmark for territorial and environmental management in other communities.
CENDA will work directly a community located in a peri-urban area outside of Cochabamba city, home to indigenous campesino families. The communities in this region are surviving in a context marked by the ever-increasing impacts of climate change, increasing costs of food and goods for food production (fertilizers, pesticides and fuel) and increasing social conflict over access to water.  The project will bring together the three strands of work that CENDA supports: agroecological food production and agroforestry, water resource management and territorial management and leadership support. CENDA intend to work with the community integrating each strand of work, bringing together for the first time, their separate teams’ expertise
Improving access to justice by strengthening young Bolivian human rights lawyers' skills and action This is a small-scale project being implemented by CAFOD partner UNITAS to build a community of human rights defenders, particularly young lawyers, with increased capacity to respond to the needs of civil society. At present there are very few human rights organisations and even fewer human rights lawyers operating to uphold the rule of law in Bolivia and their capacity to respond to the changing context is limited. There is an increasing demand for the services of human rights lawyers to defend victims of violations of civil, political, economic, social and cultural and environmental rights both of individuals, communities, indigenous people and NGOs (both Bolivian and international). This project will build on the work of previous years in which young lawyers have been trained in human rights, forming a core group committed to helping social organisations in Bolivia to protect democracy and their rights. This new phase will support the group in working closely with social organisations, improving their practical legal skills and increase their capacity.
Community water contamination treatment and environmental remediation pilot A collaboration between Bolivian and British organisations and academics to implement micro algae and biochar technologies that remediate contaminated water sources, providing clean water for communities in the highlands of Bolivia. 
This approval is to cover costs for visit to Bolivia in preparation for implementing pilots of these technologies across four communities.
Sustainable Rural Development and Community Participation in the Taraco Municipality, Bolivia CIPCA is one of Bolivia’s largest and best-known NGOs, with programmes in all the main regions of the country, specialising in support and capacity building for rural communities. This programme combines sustainable rural development with community participation and organisation support to enable communities to influence local development policies.  Through technical training in agro-ecological practices, CIPCA supports communities to achieve improvements in agricultural and livestock production. They also seek to strengthen local municipal management and civic participation to promote transparency and accountability, in particular the participation and skills of women. This programme operates in the highland region of La Paz department, near Lake Titcaca in the municipality of Taraco.
Guaraní indigenous organisations strengthening capacities in respect of access to water resources The Integral Ecology team in the Caritas Bolivia national office will work with the local Caritas team in Camiri to provide support to Guaraní indigenous communities on issues concerning access to water and water resource management. This is a one-year project to support communities that have been affected by drought and dangerous fires in previous years. The team will provide leadership and rights training to local leaders with a particular emphasis on women and youth leaders. They will also undertake a pilot water-harvesting project to provide drinking water to one community and a pre-feasibility study of possible well locations to be used in advocacy work with local authorities.
Training for urban leadership UNITAS promotes organisation and participation within communities to support them to have a critical analysis of their reality and engage with actors such as the government to improve it. Through educational activities they work to raise awareness within the community of common problems and what work can be done to pressure for them to be resolved. They also support them to network and collaborate with other social movements. UNITAS is an umbrella organisation of 28 NGOs in Bolivia. It provides a forum in which groups in this sector can discuss, collaborate and lobby on development issues at national level.  This programme trains poor urban communities to intervene policy-making to secure funding for the development of deprived communities through the lens of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Promotion of human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS IDH has worked in Cochabamba since 1995, carrying out research into infection and the situation of people living with HIV/AIDS, and currently operates an integrated programme including prevention, training for health professionals, defence of the human rights of people living with HIV/AIDS (including educating them about their rights), and medical, social and psychological support for those infected. IDH carries out this work through a team of lawyers that push the government to comply with legislation passed on HIV prevention and also by raising awareness among the general public through events and workshops.
Human rights defenders Bolivia with EU support CAFOD is contributing to UNITAS' EU human rights defenders project which builds on pilot projects supported in previous years. The project aims to reduce the vulnerability of Bolivian human rights defenders, in the face of state policies and practices that affect the exercise of territorial, environmental, indigenous peoples' rights, LGBTI rights, and the rights of association, expression and peaceful assembly.
Child Protection Training for two Bolivian partners CAFOD will run with the support of a specialist consultant, a three-day workshop in Cochabamba for two partners (Fundacion Nuna and CENDA) on child protection. The training will sensitise partner staff about the protection of girls, boys, young people and vulnerable adults and their responsibilities. It will highlight the need for institutional safeguards, an institutional policy and the inclusion of this issue in other policies (gender, code of conduct etc) as well as wider discussion about vulnerability. At the end of the training the participants will understand how to undertake their work without putting children at risk, how to recognise signs of abuse; how to manage child protection issues in a sensitive manner and how to manage a case of abuse, a complaint of abuse, suspicions or worries that abuse is occurring. Participants will have better understanding of CAFOD's requirements concerning child protection, CAFOD's own policy and standards and the support that partners can expect from CAFOD. Participants will develop an action plan for their institution during the training that sets out steps to develop their institutional policy via full participation of all staff.
Improving child nutrition, children's rights and livelihood opportunities for young people In 2018, CAFOD will support a pilot project with Fundación Nuna to support work on child nutrition, children’s rights and improving livelihood opportunities for young people. We would like to enrich support to the communities in Ancoraimes and Curva by using the model successfully implemented by CIPCA of employing a nutritionist to accompany families as part of the agricultural production training and support.  Nuna is keen to link work with children on nutrition in schools with awareness raising in schools about children’s rights.  Nuna staff work in close contact with communities and are very aware of issues around gender and violence that affect children.  Nuna will begin with training on children’s rights and nutrition to build relationships with the community and lay the foundations for engaging later on these sensitive subjects.

Fundación Nuna staff have observed that in these regions, that the only future young people can see for themselves is to migrate to the cities and they frequently express a lack of interest in farming.  Simultaneously, Nuna have noted that older participants in their projects are less interested in transforming their produce into commercial products such as biscuits, bread, dried meats and diary produce (cheese, yoghurt etc).  As part of this pilot project, Nuna will work with a small group of young people to train them to transform the produce produced by their families with a view to providing future training on markets and commercialisation.  The pilot will offer young people greater economic opportunities in a situation where they have little access to land and enable them to work together with their families at a time when most young people are leaving their families and communities.
Defending the water rights of the Katari River Basin communities IIADI will work with communities affected by the contamination of the Katari River Basin in the La Paz department, Bolivia. Through a combination of investigation, training and advocacy, the project will support the generation and implementation of actions to combat the contamination at five key locations. The team will also work with a team of local youth environmental rights activists and promote the coordination between this group, the affected communities and other organisations and actors.
Families Enjoy Improved Health Through Access to Safe Water Vitichi, a rural municipality in Potosi, is considered a red area for poverty nationwide. The population of this area practices extensive animal husbandry and subsistence agriculture, yet they severely struggle due to a historic water shortage that, over the last 10 years, has been exacerbated by changes in rainfall patterns which are caused by global climate change. 

55% of the inhabitants (11,000 people) of this municipality are women whose situation and vulnerability are aggravated by high levels of illiteracy and because they have less chances of migrating than men. To these families, electricity, potable water and sewer systems are unimaginable luxuries; significantly increasing the risk of diarrhoea, skin and other diseases.  

As part of the Programme seeking to address issues of water contamination and scarcity in the Altoplano, ACLO Potosi will target 214 impoverished, indigenous households in 7 communities in 3 districts (Ara, Calcha and Vitichi), improving their health by increasing their access to drinking water and increasing their income by improving the conditions in which they raise their cattle (mainly goats and cows). 

ACLO Potosi is experienced in advocacy and leadership capacity strengthening, and therefore they will also work with grassroots organizations, community leaders and the municipal government to influence regional and national legislation and development policies.
Living well in the Amazon forests of Bolivia: an alternative model of development for the Amazon CAFOD has funded CIPCA Norte Amazónico since 2011 in its efforts to support indigenous and rural farmers (campesinos) in the sustainable management of their resources in particular water resources and forests.  The Bolivian Amazon has historically been an area of political oblivion, notable for its geographical isolation and untamed nature. This change is due to burgeoning openness to the globalized economy and groups of economic and political power pushing for regional integration with an extractivist approach. These changes carry with them great threats to the natural ecosystems of the region and with it for the rural inhabitants who still have livelihoods strongly linked to their natural environment.
The products from previous phases of the CAFOD - CIPCA NA cooperation have contributed to regional debates on the vision and potential for development in the Amazon, strengthening an alternative proposal for productive development that arises from the Bolivian Amazon itself. Public entities are identifying with these proposals and the Bolivian State has begun adopting public policies that favour this organic vision of development and its multiple economic, social and environmental benefits. Unfortunately, the communities, social leaders and authorities are frequently unaware of these policies. CIPCA will work with indigenous and campesino social organisations to overcome the limited communication and coordination between producer families, their leaders and support institutions. It will help them raise awareness across the region, publicising the proposals, issues and debates on sustainable development issues that they have prioritised. It will also provide accompaniment and support to help leaders improve their capacities and skills in advocacy work.
Supporting human rights defenders in Bolivia This project complements the work being carried out by UNITAS as part of the EU-funded project to provide training, capacity strengthening and accompaniment to Bolivan human rights defenders across Bolivia.
Financial autonomy and empowerment of women in the Cotagaita and Vitichi municipalities, Bolivia ACLO Potosi, with funding from CAFOD and Jersey Overseas Aid will support 200 rural women from 24 communities in the Cotagaita and Vitichi, municipalities of the Potosí department – an area severely affected by climate change – to engage in sustainable agricultural practices that will help to increase their earning potential and guarantee food security. Recognising that women’s economic gains will only be sustained when coupled with their political and social autonomy, the project will also strengthen women’s decision-making and leadership skills so they can engage with, influence and comply with local public bodies. The project will provide seeds, equipment and training for rural women to engage in agricultural-based income-generation activities, as well as facilitate workshops for women to learn how to access markets and protect their rights. This project will be implemented by CAFOD’s long-term partner in Bolivia, Fundación Acción Cultural Loyola (ACLO) who have been supporting communities in the region for over forty years.
CIPE - Green Schools CIPE is a small NGO that works in rural development in the north of the department of Potosí, managed from its headquarters in Llallagua. Through training in how to use environmentally friendly agricultural techniques CIPE supports farmers in increasing their production and the sustainability of the land they work on through crop diversification They encourage the farmers to spread these methods that involve worm compost and terraces. CIPE also works to contribute to the development of social policies, and to improve the standard of living of the population and support social processes through the implementation of programmes in the following areas: productive, education, health, research and training. The agricultural programme also encourages women to take more autonomous roles.

This specific project focuses on helping communities to adapt to the drier climate through the mapping and identification of new water sources and development of plans for their sustainable use; and by raising awareness in schools of the impacts of Climate Change and the building of a network of ‘Green’ schools to grow trees for reforestation.
Humanitarian response to regions affected by floods and extreme weather conditions in Bolivia Excessive rains and extreme weather conditions have caused severe flooding in the Amazon region of northern  Bolivia. CAFOD’s church partner, CEPAS Caritas is responding with the support of a number of Caritas agencies to this emergency with a three-phased project covering a six-month period. The severity of the flooding has meant that very little information about the needs of the communities is coming out of the region as travel is nearly impossible. The project will begin by focusing on provision of food and household kits. The second phase will concentrate on food security, water, hygiene and improving shelter. The final phase will focus on rehabilitation and reconstruction.
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