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JUVENTUD GUARANI CONSTRUYENDO CIUDADANIA CON IDENTIDAD CULTURAL Indigenous Guarani young people in eastern Bolivia are eager to participate in local decision-making processes. They seek to contribute to sustainable solutions to improve their quality of life and promote democracy, social inclusion, and transparency in their communities. The IAF supports community-led solutions for young people to strengthen governance in Bolivia. Our grantee partner Asociacin PROCESO Servicios Educativos (PROCESO) will provide Guarani young people in eastern Bolivia with technical skills and the capacity to develop and present an agenda to the Guarani nation's governing body on topics related to engaging youth and Indigenous communities. It will also connect Guarani youth to other Indigenous youth networks to establish a multicultural youth network to help them advocate for their common rights and priorities and promote respect for multicultural values and traditions.
Diversifying Agro- ecological Production ECOTOP and participating communities will construct nine collective seedling nurseries, organize 10 family-based modules for swine-raising, and organize 20 new modules for raising criollo chicken. ECOTOP will also provide technical assistance and specialized training to 150 farming families.
Launching a women led indigenous community enterprise Fundacin RENACE - Red Nacional de Accin Ecolgica (RENACE) will work with five indigenous women-led community enterprises in the Alto Beni region to generate income and employment, conserve biodiversity, improve food security and strengthen their ability to defend their rights under Bolivian law. The project activities will strengthen and promote the production and marketing of the community enterprises in eco-tourism, artisan crafts and culture, and agroecological value-added products. By strengthening the community enterprises to operate independently they can better provide services and products for the community, such as providing school breakfasts, providing catering services to local businesses and promote their culture, language and history through eco-tourism that helps the Moseten and the other indigenous communities improve their quality of life and advocate for their rights. Roughly 900 people will benefit directly with another 2,890 indirectly.
Community Development Through Traditional Weaving, Natural Dyes, and Expansion of Community Tourism AAA will continue to revive the local Andean weaving tradition and will undertake a program of community tourism, thereby benefiting 350 female and male Quechua and Aymara weavers from 19 communities in the department of Cochabamba. AAA will also improve and expand community tourism services it provides in Tapacari and Arque, diversify textile production, and strengthen marketing strategies.
Artisan Workshops - Potos - 2nd Phase ASUR will improve the skills, earnings, self-esteem and cultural pride of indigenous weavers, embroiderers and silversmiths from five municipalities of the Potos region. The grantee will consolidate four weaving centers and offer training and technical assistance in product development and design, quality control, research, promotion, marketing and organization. ASUR will also renovate its Munaypata artisan production center in the city of Sucre to use as a central store and museum.
Community Development Through Traditional Weaving, Natural Dyes, and Expansion of Community Tourism Asociacin de Artesanos Andinos (AAA) will continue to revive the local Andean weaving tradition and will undertake a program of community tourism, thereby benefiting 350 female and male Quechua and Aymara weavers from 19 communities in the department of Cochabamba.
Strengthening the Amazonian Fruit Value Chain during and after COVID-19. The COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia has prevented indigenous and campesino producers in Bolivia's Amazon from harvesting, processing, and storing most of their fresh fruit, and reduced the market for their frozen products. This season's losses have left producers food insecure and struggling to invest in economic recovery. With IAF support, IPHAE is providing materials, supplies, and technical assistance and training to six producer associations and Madre Tierra Amazonia, a producer-owned social enterprise, affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. IPHAE will promote the producers' recovery and resilience by increasing the production of marketable Amazonian value-added fruit products for local, national, and international markets. IPHAE will also strengthen the organizational capacity of the Amazonian Fruit Producer Platform, which will promote public policies supporting sustainable agroforestry and increasing consumer access to healthy food.
Launching a women led indigenous community enterprise Indigenous women in Latin America face significant gaps in access to higher education, health services, and employment opportunity. Fundacin RENACE Red Nacional de Accin Ecolgica (RENACE) works with women-led community enterprises in the Alto Beni region to improve production and marketing of local products and services in order to generate employment, increase incomes, and strengthen community resilience. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Bolivia. RENACE's activities promote smallholder agriculture and food production to enhance food security and ensure meaningful opportunities for communities to thrive.
Community Ecotourism in Santa Rosa, El Beni Fundacin de los Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN- Bolivia). FAN-Bolivia will work to expand ecotourism activities in Pampas de Yacumo, a municipal protected area near the town of Rurrenabaque in the Beni department. The project will improve employment opportunities, income and conservation practices as well as develop enterprises in which community residents participate. The project is expected to directly benefit 200 Bolivians.
Guaran indigenous autonomy in Charagua: increasing youth participatio n Arakuaanda will implement an educational program for 1200 Guarani youth to enable them to reinforce their Guarani cultural identity, and deepen and fortify the practice of their constitutional rights through participating in the construction of new political forms of indigenous municipal autonomy in Charagua and Gutirrez in the department of Santa Cruz. The project will create an array of regional and local organizations for youth to assert their priorities to become more dynamic actors in the new political order of the two municipalities.
Guaran indigenous autonomy in Charagua: increasing youth participation Young people in the Guaran territories of Charagua and Gutirrez have limited knowledge about their constitutional rights. Fundacion Centro Arakuaarenda (Arakuaarenda) creates local and regional organizations that reinforce community identity encourage young people to articulate their needs and promote proposals for inclusion in their communities. At the IAF we support community-led solutions to strengthen governance in Bolivia. Arakuaarenda's activities strengthen communities through education and training and build peer-to-peer learning and action networks.
Promoting economic entrepreneurship of young Indigenous migrant women in three cities of Cochabamba Rural-to-urban migration is increasing in Bolivia. This challenges rural communities that are losing their labor force and urban communities that need to absorb new people. In many cases, young Indigenous women spend most of the year in cities while staying committed to their rural hometowns and spending some time there. This represents an opportunity to connect markets in cities and rural communities. The IAF supports community-led approaches to expanding economic opportunities for historically marginalized groups. Our grantee Fundacin para el Desarrollo Integral Boliviano (FUNDEIB) is working with grassroots women's organizations to pilot an approach to strengthen community economic enterprises that these young Indigenous women manage with rural women producers. Through training, technical assistance, and seed capital for community enterprises in three provinces of Cochabama, FUNDEIB will enhance Indigenous women's economic inclusion while also raising awareness of women's rights and rural issues, promoting Indigenous cultural traditions, and enhancing both rural and urban food security.
Launching a women led indigenous community enterprise Indigenous communities in the Amazon continue to experience land, economic and food insecurity. Indigenous women in Latin America continue to face great gaps in access to higher education, health services and employment that impede their ability to promote solutions and defend their rights. Fundacin RENACE - Red Nacional de Accin Ecolgica (RENACE) will work with five indigenous women-led community enterprises in the Alto Beni region to generate income and employment, conserve biodiversity, improve food security and strengthen their ability to defend their rights under Bolivian law. The project activities will strengthen and promote the production and marketing of the community enterprises in eco-tourism, artisan crafts and culture, and agroecological value-added products. By strengthening the community enterprises to operate independently they can better provide services and products for the community, such as providing school breakfasts, providing catering services to local businesses and promote their culture, language and history through eco-tourism that helps the Moseten and the other indigenous communities improve their quality of life and advocate for their rights. Roughly 900 people will benefit directly with another 2,890 indirectly..
Participation of women to improve their income through the commercialization of dairy products The COVID-19 pandemic in Bolivia has upended traditional markets changing how small enterprises operate their businesses and consumer demand. With IAF support Asociacin de Mujeres Aymaras Lecheras de Irpa Chico (AMALIC) is adapting production and marketing strategies for its small producer-owned dairy enterprise. AMALIC is improving member pasture and storage practices to help them increase milk production generating additional income. It is also training its indigenous women members in leadership and organizational strengthening to increase its competitiveness and build up its next generation of leaders. These changes will provide consumers with access to healthy food and help AMALIC and its members recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and improve economic resilience to future crises. This grant is part of the IAF's Women INvesting in Growth and Security (WINGS) initiative to empower women as business and community leaders.
Guaran indigenous autonomy in Charagua: increasing youth participation Young people in the Guaran territories of Charagua and Gutirrez have limited knowledge about their constitutional rights. Fundacion Centro Arakuaarenda (Arakuaarenda) creates local and regional organizations that reinforce community identity, encourage young people to articulate their needs, and promote proposals for inclusion in their communities. At the IAF, we support community-led solutions to strengthen governance in Bolivia. Arakuaarenda's activities strengthen communities through education and training and build peer-to-peer learning and action networks.
Enhancing the Productive Process of Women Miners in Oruro Centro de Investigacin y Servicio Popular (CISEP) will work with women in 14 mining cooperatives in the department of Oruro to improve their productivity and income. The mine workers will receive machinery equipment tools and safety gear as well as related training and technical assistance. (BO-518)..
Improving economic, environmental and cultural outcomes for five indigenous communities ASMUDES will work to increase income for five indigenous communities that reside in a nationally recognized protected area by promoting sustainable agricultural practices and improving marketing for fruit and value-added products. The project will incorporate practices like incorporating native vegetation among crops to create more diverse productive profitable healthy ecologically sound and sustainable agroforestry systems. It will also strengthen the organizational and marketing capacity of two producer associations to promote greater access to more stable food supplies for their families. Surplus products can be sold as fresh fruit or as value added products in their communities and to consumers demanding healthy products in regional urban centers. ASMUDES' activities will strengthen leadership skills among women and young people promoting their participation as community leaders who are better able to engage and participate in decision making at the municipal level. About 1390 people will benefit directly and another 10350 indirectly.
Strengthening the autonomy, and social and political role of the women in Cochabamba IFFI will build the leadership and organizational and advocacy capacity of the Plataforma de Mujeres por la Ciudadana y la Equidad of Cochabamba (PMCE) ) a network of 100 women's organizations located in the Greater Metropolitan Area of Cochabamba in order to promote women's rights and set PMCE on a path towards institutional autonomy. Approximately 1780 women will benefit directly and 111350 people will benefit indirectly. ..
Dairy Microenterprise, Business and Gender in Irpa Chico, Phase II, Municipality of Viachan, Bolivia Asociacin de Mujeres Aymaras Lecheras de Irpa Chico's (AMALIC) 70 members, all Aymara women, from four communities in the municipality of Viacha on the Bolivian altiplano will improve their dairy enterprise to increase its output of milk and other products. These farmers will acquire technical skills related to livestock and pasture management and to processing and marketing. The expected results are more income as well as better nutrition, especially in the schools that AMALIC supplies.
NADA SOBRE ELLOS People with disabilities in Bolivia face a number of economic and social barriers to fully participating in and contributing to society. The challenges for children and youth with disabilities are even greater. The IAF supports community-led solutions to create economic opportunity and social inclusion for children and youth with disabilities in El Alto and La Paz, Bolivia. IAF grantee Jach'a Uru is an association for the parents of children and youth with disabilities that raises awareness of the rights of people with disabilities and advocates for programs and policies that incorporate a community-based rehabilitation strategy to improve their health, wellbeing, and inclusion. The grant will build people with disabilities autonomy and independence using life skills and economic development tools that Jacha Uru and other organizations can adapt and scale up. It will also strengthen Jacha Urus capacity to raise funds and engage partners to promote inclusive economic, educational, and social programs and policies that support the rights of people with disabilities in Bolivia
Diversifying Rural Development Skills and Creating Value-added Agricultural Products FNN plans to increase income from crops, livestock and fisheries in 15 communities in the municipalities of Batallas and Pucarani, on the altiplano, by improving farming skills, product quality and marketing to niche outlets in the city of La Paz. The grantee's innovative institutional arrangement should benefit 250 farmers.
Environment Grant Fundacin de los Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN-Bolivia) will work to expand ecotourism activities in Pampas de Yacumo, a municipal protected area near the town of Rurrenabaque in the Beni department. The project will improve employment opportunities, income and conservation practices as well as develop enterprises in which community residents participate. The project is expected to directly benefit 200 Bolivians.
Creating Changes in Municipal Policies and Practices for Agricultural Development TIERRA will adapt and pilot a participatory decision making model in two municipalities in Bolivia's high plains region. The model will seek ways for communities to engage with their municipal authorities in promoting public policies and programs based on their priorities. It will improve communities' access to information on land use land tenancy agricultural census and other data. TIERRA will then raise awareness on how to use the information to strengthen its members' participation in municipal economic commissions and other public forums. Rural producers that are empowered to participate in shared decision making spaces will be able to advocate more effectively for greater investment in local productive and agricultural development projects. About 800 people will benefit directly and 22000 indirectly.
Consolidating local development in rural and urban Aymara communities through tourism Aymara communities near Lake Titicaca rely on small-scale tourism enterprises to earn income but face challenges in tapping into a larger market. Centro de Investigaciones de Energia y Poblacin (CIEP) works to expand the tourism circuit and enables rural artisans farmers students and other residents to work as guides and to offer food crafts and services to increase their income. At the IAF we support community-led solutions to expand economic opportunity in Bolivia. CIEP's activities encourage small business growth local entrepreneurship and market development to ensure meaningful opportunities for communities to thrive.
Creating Viable Economic Units through Land Regularizati on and Titling Tierra will test and improve an innovative methodology based upon community participation to give greater legal protection to interests in land and
Capacity Development for Indigenous Non- Agricultural Production in Tinquipaya and Caiza Fundacin Antroplogos del Surandino (ASUR) will undertake a project to increase the skills, employment opportunities, earnings, professional development, organizational development, self- esteem and cultural pride of 270 low- income male and female youth and adults from 10 communities in the municipalities of Tinquipaya and Caiza "D" in the Potosi region of Bolivia.
Consolidating local development in rural and urban Aymara communities through tourism Centro de Investigaciones de Energa y Poblacin (CIEP) and its partner organizations will bring artisans farmers students and other residents of 10 rural Aymara communities into the tourism industry in the Batallas municipality near Lake Titicaca by developing a tour circuit that enables them to work as guides and sell food crafts and services to Bolivian and international visitors. The project should benefit 300 Bolivians directly and another 900 indirectly.
Contribute to the paradigm shift in agroecological production by facilitating local processes linked to the productive dynamics in the municipalities of Palos Blancos and Alto Beni in the department Farmers who depend on agriculture for a living in the Alto Beni region in Bolivia, near the Amazon River Basin, struggle with high rates of deforestation and soil erosion due to unsustainable agricultural practices and increasingly frequent extreme weather events. The IAF supports community-led approaches to building economic opportunities through sustainable agriculture. Fundacin Ecotop (ECOTOP) promotes a community-based sustainable agroforestry systems model that diversifies crop production and promotes environmental resilience. ECOTOP's approach also builds the organizational capacity of producer associations and the leadership of its members, and improves economic opportunities, especially for women and young people. The grant will also help producers engage with local and municipal governments to promote programs and policies that support local priorities.This grant is part of the IAF's broader COVID-19 response strategy.
Support for the management of natural resources by communities and grassroots groups in Bolivia to achieve the conservation of their territories and the sustainability of their livelihoods. Indigenous and rural communities throughout Bolivia are eager to protect important local ecosystems, which include parts of the Amazon and Gran Chaco Americano, while fostering sustainable livelihoods. They often face obstacles in engaging and mobilizing resources from public and private sector actors to address these priorities. The IAF supports community-led solutions to unlock private, public, and community resources for grassroots development in Bolivia. Fundacin Semilla will expand its social-environmental fund to support grassroots initiatives led by community-based organizations that strive to sustainably manage territories and improve livelihoods. Fundacion Semilla will strengthen its administrative, financial, programmatic, and operational capacities and its ability to engage local, national, and international partners so it can scale up its grantmaking.
Guaran indigenous autonomy in Charagua: increasing youth participation Fundacion Centro Arakuaarenda (Arakuaanda) will implement an educational program for 1200 Guarani youth to enable them to reinforce their Guarani cultural identity, and deepen and fortify the practice of their constitutional rights through participating in the construction of new political forms of indigenous municipal autonomy in Charagua and Gutirrez in the department of Santa Cruz. The project will create an array of regional and local organizations for youth to assert their priorities to become more dynamic actors in the new political order of the two municipalities.
Strengthening the Capacity of the Network of Observatories on Racism in the Americas Universidad de la Cordillera/Observatorio del Racismo en Bolivia (UNICOR), $85,675 over one year. Observatories are watchdog agencies that monitor social issues and recommend steps toward reform. UNICOR will support the consolidation and expansion of the Red de Observatorios del Racismo en las Americas [Network of Observatories Against Racism in Latin America] and will develop in its members the skills necessary to document racism and work to eliminate it in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico.
Guaran indigenous autonomy in Charagua: increasing youth participation Arakuaanda will implement an educational program for 1200 Guarani youth to enable them to reinforce their Guarani cultural identity, and deepen and fortify the practice of their constitutional rights through participating in the construction of new political forms of indigenous municipal autonomy in Charagua and Gutirrez in the department of Santa Cruz. The project will create an array of regional and local organizations for youth to assert their priorities to become more dynamic actors in the new political order of the two municipalities.
Consolidating local development in rural and urban Aymara communities through tourism Centro de Investigaciones de Energa y Poblacin (CIEP) and its partner organizations will bring artisans, farmers, students and other residents of 10 rural Aymara communities into the tourism industry in the Batallas municipality, near Lake Titicaca, by developing a tour circuit that enables them to work as guides and sell food, crafts and services to Bolivian and international visitors. The project should benefit 300 Bolivians directly and another 900 indirectly.
Dairy Microenterprise, Business and Gender in Irpa Chico, Phase II, Municipality of Viachan, Bolivia Asociacin de Mujeres Aymaras Lecheras de Irpa Chico's (AMALIC) 70 members all Aymara women from four communities in the municipality of Viacha on the Bolivian altiplano will improve their dairy enterprise to increase its output of milk and other products. These farmers will acquire technical skills related to livestock and pasture management and to processing and marketing. The expected results are more income as well as better nutrition especially in the schools that AMALIC supplies. ..